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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  SAMUEL ALLEN, contractor and builder, has resided in Worthington since 1876,

and has erected many of the finest public and private buildings of the city.

Among others, he built the first brick building of the town-Masonic temple-the

city hall, Carnegie library, Worthington National Bank building, Peterson &

Stitser block, the Morland and Lewis block, German Evangelical church, Wilson

store building and the Chaney & Mackay store building.



  Mr. Allen was born in Worcester, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1832, the son of Justin and

Margaret (Russ) Allen, natives of New York state and members of one of the old

families of that state. In the place of his nativity Mr. Allen learned the

carpenter's trade. In 1856 he came west and located at Ripon, Wis., where he

worked at his trade twenty years. In the spring of 1876 he came to Worthington,

where he has ever since resided, following the occupation of carpenter and

contractor.



  Mr. Allen was married at Ripon Oct. 10, 1860, to Mary E. Clifford, daughter of

William Clifford. Mrs. Allen was born in Weare, N. H., Nov. 30, 1839. To this

union were born eight children, of whom seven are now living, as follows:

Romaett (Mrs. C. H. Saulpaugh), Mankato, born Oct. 3, 1863; Ina Belle (Mrs. W.

W. Loveless), Worthington, born Nov. 2, 1864; Josephine Estella (Mrs. Stanley

Moore), Worthington, born Jan. 31, 1867; Gay Grant, Worthington contractor, born

July 28, 1868; Myron Reed, an electrician of Watertown, S. D., born July 13,

1872; Harry E., Worthington, born June 22, 1874; Carrie Ivanette, teacher of

shorthand at Minneapolis, born April 29, 1876.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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