Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Allman, Amos 1825 - 1897
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

AMOS ALLMAN.

    Amos Allman is numbered among the honored dead of Lake county, whose memory
is yet enshrined in the hearts of many of those who enjoyed his friendship. His
life was so straightforward, his conduct so manly and his actions so sincere and
unaffected that he won the warm regard of all with whom he was associated and he
left behind him an untarnished name.

    Mr. Allman was born at Atwick, in Yorkshire, England, February 17, 1825. His
parents were Major and Margaret (Haxby) Allman, who were also natives of
England, and there the mother spent her entire life. She passed away in 1826.
leaving six children, of whom Amos was the youngest. Four years later, in 1830,
the father bade adieu to friends and native country and with his children sailed
for the new world, at first settling in Canada. In 1843 he became a resident of
Crown Point.

    Amos Allman accompanied his father on the emigration to the new world when
but five years of age and lived in Toronto and Whitby, Canada, residing with his
eldest sister. In 1842 when about seventeen years of age he entered upon an
apprenticeship to the tailor's trade in Sturgis, Michigan, and the following
year he removed to Crown Point, where he worked at his trade, but was soon
obliged to abandon this vocation because of the partial failure of his eyesight.
Several years later he returned to Sturgis, Michigan, and there embarked in
merchandising, continuing in business at that place until 1855. In the latter
year he once more came to Lake county to look after his father's business and
with the exception of one year spent in Niles, Michigan, he remained
continuously a resident of Crown Point from 1855 until his death. His father had
served as county recorder up to the time of his death in 1856 and in that year
Amos Allman was elected to the position, which he filled for eight consecutive
years, having been re-elected. He was also for eighteen months, beginning in
1856, deputy revenue collector at this pert. After his retirement from office
Mr. Allman turned his attention to the abstract and real estate business, in
which he continued for a long period, becoming widely known in that way. He
handled much valuable property, negotiated many important real estate transfers
and did a large abstract business, so that his clientage in both departments
brought to him a good financial return and as he carefully husbanded his
resources he was eventually enabled to retire from active business life and
spend his remaining days in the enjoyment of a well-earned rest. He erected a
number of buildings in Crown Point, including his own beautiful home, and thus
he contributed in substantial measure to the improvement of the city.

    Mr. Allman was twice married. On the 26th of November, 1857, he was joined
in wedlock to Miss Olive Wilcox, who died on the 1st of June, 1859. On the 22d
of March, i860, he was again married, his second union being with Miss Mary A.
Luther, and they became the parents of five children, who survive the father,
whose death occurred at his home in Crown Point January 14, 1897, when he was
nearly seventy-three years of age. Mr. Allman held membership with no church,
but lived a most upright, honorable life, was always temperate in his habits and
generous in his support of religious and benevolent enterprises. Indeed his
career was in many respects most exemplary. He was always deeply interested in
the growth and progress of the city and his co-operation could always be counted
upon to aid in the advancement of any movement which promised to be of lasting
benefit to Crown Point. He possessed a strong love of nature and was never
happier than when he could find time to get away from his office and spend some
hours nearer to nature. He was a man whom to know was to respect and honor.
Numbred [sic] among Crown Point's pioneers his entire life to his fellow
townsmen was as an open book which all might read. He possessed strongly
domestic tastes and while he accomplished much in the business world and
ratified his friendships by kindly sympathy and thoughtful consideration for
others, his greatest depth of love was reserved for his family.


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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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