ALLEN, Alvin Thomas, Avoylles Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** A. T. Allen-Bunkie A. T. Allen is the efficient depot agent at Bunkie, La, and like so many of the energetic and enterprising residents of this section, he is a native born resident of the State, his birth having occurred August 24, 1852, in the Parish of Plaquemine, to A. D. and Mary A. (Neal) Allen, the former a native of Buffalo, N. Y., and the latter of Louisiana. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch were Germans, and the maternal grandparents were born in Liverpool, England. A. D. Allen was reared to manhood in York State, and for many years was an ocean sailor, but at the time of his death, July 4, 1859, he was a branch pilot at the port of New Orleans. His demise occurred in Liverpool, England, where he had gone for his health. His widow survives him, and is a resident of the city of New Orleans. A. T. Allen was reared in the Pelican State, and received his early knowledge of books in the public schools of New Orleans, in which city he afterward learned telegraphy. He was an operator in the Western Union office for a number of years, and then accepted his present position in Bunkie, receiving an earnest petition so to do from the people of this location. He has acted in capacity of depot agent since 1882, and at the present day there is not a business man in this section who stands higher in the estimation of the people, or is more highly esteemed than Mr. Allen. He is a man possessing many sterling characteristics, and is a leader in many matters pertaining to the public good. Socially he is past high priest of Evergreen Chapter No. 41 of Evergreen, La., and a member of Evergreen Lodge No. 189, of the A. F. & A. M. His marriage, which took place in the month of June, 1883, was to Miss Lily E. Pearce, a daughter of A. G. Pearce, by whom he is the father of three bright and interesting little daughters.