Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Allman, Walter L. 1861 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WALTER L. ALLMAN.

    Walter L. Allman, vice-president of the Commercial Bank and senior partner
of the abstract firm of Allman Brothers, figures prominently in business circles
in Crown Point, and while his life history contains no exciting chapters it yet
demonstrates the force of consecutive endeavor, guided by sound business
principles and supplemented by laudable ambition.

    Mr. Allman is a native son of Crown Point, where his birth occurred on the
6th of October, 1861. He is the eldest son of Amos and Mary A. (Luther) Allman,
and is of English lineage. His grandfather, Major Allman, was the first
Methodist minister at Crown Point and was closely identified with the early
development and moral advancement of the county. The name of Allman has since
been closely associated with the history of Lake county, and its various
representatives have been worthy and valuable citizens. Amos Allman was but an
infant when brought to the county and he spent almost his entire life here. For
a long period he was engaged in the abstract business.

    In taking up the personal history of Walter L. Allman we present to our
readers the life record of one who is widely and favorably known in Lake county,
where his business activity has led to success and prominence. He has always
lived in Lake county with the exception of about a year spent with his parents
in Niles, Michigan. The greater part of his education was obtained in the select
school taught by the Misses Knight. At the age of eleven years he began to learn
the trade of typesetting in the office of the Crown Point Herald, and devoted
about two years to that occupation. When about fifteen years of age he entered
his father's abstract business, and when twenty-one years of age he was admitted
to a partnership. Upon his father's death he became the senior partner in the
business, in which he is associated with his brother, and they have a good
clientage in this regard. Walter L. Allman also became cashier of the Commercial
Bank of Crown Point upon its organization in 1895 and served in that capacity
until 1904, when he was elected vice-president of said bank. He is therefore
well known in financial circles, and his business ability and executive force
have contributed in large measure to the successful conduct of the bank, which
has become recognized as one of the strong, safe and reliable financial
institutions of the county.

    Mr. Allman has been married twice. In 1892 he wedded Miss Arvilla E. Sings,
who died in 1894, and in 1900 he was again married, his second union being with
Miss Eva Dyer, a daughter of Thomas Henry and Alta (Smith) Dyer, of Kankakee,
Illinois. Mrs. Allman was born in Kankakee county, Illinois, but acquired her
preliminary education in the public schools of Crown Point and was graduated in
the Chicago Female College, at Morgan Park, Illinois. She afterward engaged in
teaching school for several years, and is a lady of superior culture and
refinement, presiding with gracious hospitality over her pleasant home, which
has been blessed with one son, Amos Dyer, born April 8, 1901.

    In his fraternal relations Mr. Allman is a Knight of Pythias, and
politically is a Republican who keeps well informed on the questions and issues
of the day and gives earnest support to the principles and candidates of the
party. His life history is as an open book to his fellow-townsmen, who have had
intimate knowledge of his career from his early boyhood. His has been an
honorable career, in which he has been active in business, loyal in citizenship,
faithful in friendship, and as a representative of one of the most prominent
pioneer families of the county and as a business man whose record will bear the
closest investigation, he well deserves mention in this volume.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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