ALLEN, Albert C., St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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ALBERT C. ALLEN, FRANKLIN.--Albert C. Allen was born in Franklin, Louisiana,
1847.  His father, Wm. P. Allen, was a native of Tennessee, born in Gallatin,
in 1806.  He removed to St. Mary parish early in life and became an extensive
contractor and builder.  Many of the extensive sugar houses of St. Mary parish
are his architecture.  He died in 1889.  Our subject's mother, Caroline P.
Nixon, was a native of Arkansas, born in Helena, 1808.  She died December,
1879.

Albert C. is the eighth of a family of nine children.  He spent the years of
his minority in Tennessee, and at the age of nineteen he entered the
profession of teacher in the common schools.  He subsequently attended the law
department of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. ,graduating there-
from in 1871.  He practised [sic] as an attorney in the Nineteenth Judicial
District till he was elected judge in 1886.  He was re‰lected in 1888, and now
fills that position.  He was married in 1874 to Miss Katie E. Johnson, of
Franklin, Louisiana.  There have been born to their marriage six children,
four sons and two daughters .

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 357.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.