Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Allen, Jno. 1811 - 1873
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Jno. Allen (deceased), one of Covington's earliest dealers in furniture, was
born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 1811. He had very limited opportunities of
getting an education. His people removed to Warren county, Ohio, in 1826. He
there learned the trade of cabinet-making with his brother-in-law, Wm. F.
DeBois, and afterward went into partnership with him. They were engaged in
business in the town of Springboiler. Mr. Allen removed to Franklin and engaged
in business for a time with a Mr. Nipple, and afterward on his own account. In
the fall of 1836 he was married to Miss Sarah Presly, and in 1838 came west, and
located at Covington, where he began at once in the furniture trade. He was a
member of the I. O. O. F., and an industrious and economical business man. He
died in 1873, possessed of a good property, and leaving a wife and five children
to mourn his loss.

Additional Comments:
Troy Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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