Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Allen, John R. 1841 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN R. ALLEN, a descendant from one of the pioneer families of of Greene
County, was born October 21, 1841, and is a son of Andrew and Polly Ann (Rumley)
Allen, natives respectively of Tennessee and Indiana, who settled in Greene
County in 1838. John R. assisted his father in a saw mill until 1860, and on the
breaking-out of the rebellion enlisted in Company D, Fourteenth Indiana
Volunteers, participating in the battles of Winchester, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsvilie and Antietam, being wounded at the last-named place. After
being in Germantown hospital two months, he rejoined his old regiment, and was
engaged in the battle of Cold Harbor, and on his term of service expiring,
returned to Indianapolis, remaining there one year: then came back to Greene
County, where he has since resided. For two years he was engaged in farming and
stock-raising, then embarked in the lumber and milling business. For five years,
beginning in 1876, he kept hotel and livery stable in Bloomfield, since when he
has been engaged in saw-milling in Owensburg. This mill has a capacity of 8,000
feet per day, and the greatest portion of his lumber is shipped to Eastern
markets. Mr. Allen possesses a farm of eighty acres in White River bottom near
Bloomfield, besides other valuable real estate in the county. His marriage with
Anna A. Casad was celebrated in 1865, and seven children have blessed this
union—Leonidas, Eliza, Edward, Lola. Ida, Franklin and Ethel.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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