Sonoma-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Allen, W. T. 1818 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 28, 2006, 9:38 am Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Allen, W. T. Was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin county, Illinois, June 21, 1818. When about ten months old his father died, and the remainder of the family, comprising W. T., his mother and a sister, soon moved to Kentucky, where his mother married. In the Fall of 1831, the subject of this sketch took up his abode in La Fayette county, Missouri, where he remained until August, 1849, when he started for California across the plains with a mule train. On arriving he engaged in mining in Nevada county, where he sojourned about eight months. He then came to this county and lived on a farm about six miles south of Healdsburg, with his uncle, Joseph Gordon, and engaged in farming one year. He then engaged in farming with Lindsay Carson, (a brother to the noted Kit Carson,) and made a kiln of fifty thousand bricks, probably the first bricks made in Sonoma county. He left Mr. Carson in January, 1853. He was a soldier in Colonel Doniphan's regiment in the Mexican war, and was present at the battles of Brazeto and Sacramento. Was Justice of the Peace in Mendocino township in 1855, and a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma county in 1856-57, when he located on his present ranch, comprising one hundred and fifty-eight acres} situated on Dry creek. He married, April 26, 1853, Miss Jane Capell; she was born February 18, 1824, and died February 17, 1873. By this union they have had four children, three of whom are living: Joseph B., born February 27, 1854, and died June 5, 1855; Elizabeth M., born March 22. 1855; Mary J., born January 7,1857; George B,., born April 6,1860. For his second wife he married Mrs. Lucinda Rackliff, September 19, 1878. She was born April 21, 1832. Additional Comments: Mendocino Township Extracted from: HISTORY —OF- SONOMA COUNTY, -INCLUDING ITS— Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams; —TOGETHER WITH— A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County; Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain Growing Interests, and Pisciculture; ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN; —AND OF ITS— Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc. ILLUSTRATED. SAN FRANCISCO: ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1880. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/allen684bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb