Polk County, Missouri Biographies - C. L. ALLEN
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri 1889, published by Goodspeed, page 618,619 
Polk County Biography Section

    C. L. Allen, attorney, real estate and insurance agent at 
Bolivar, was born in Dover, Ky., December 13, 1837, and is the
son of John and Elizabeth (Lyne) Allen.  John Allen was born
in North Ireland, and raised in Philadelphia, Penn., of Scotch-
Irish parents.  His wife was a Kentuckian.  Grandfathr Lyne was
a soldier during the Revolutionary War, and in the War of 1812.
Mr. Lyne was a native of Virginia, and left with the first 
emigrants from Virginia for Kentucky, where he was a companion
of Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton.  His wife was a Duncan; the 
two families are numerous and influential, and most of them are
still in Kentucky.  Grandfather Allen was a physician in
Philadelphia.  When a yound man John Allen, father of our 
subject, moved to Kentucky, was there married to Miss Lyne, and
afterward moved to Ripley, Ohio, when C. L. was but a year old.  
John Allen was a merchant and tobacco manufacturer by occupation;
was a Whig in politics, and both he and wife were members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  In their family were six children,
three of whom died in infancy, and one, a sister, Anna Zetta, 
who was married to Mr. Warren Johnson, of Warrensburgh, Ohio,
died at that city in 1868.  One, Dr. J. C. Allen, is a dentist at 
Cincinnati, Ohio.  the father lived to be sixty-two years of age, 
and the mother sixty-four; both died at Ripley, Ohio.  C. L. Allen
is the only one now living in the West.  He received his education
in the public schools of Ripley, Ohio, and then attended, for two
years, the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.   He also
read law at Ripley.  April 23, 1861, he enlisted in Company H,
Twelfth Ohio Volunteers, U.S.A., and was in several battles in
Kanawha Valley, West Virginia.  In the second battle of Bull Run
he was made color guard for bravery.  He was associated with the 
Christian Commission that supplied the army with tracts, etc., 
and this good work he continued during his time of service.  In
the battle of South Mountain he was wounded through the left
thigh. In May, 1863, he was made chaplain of his regiment, without
solicitation, and previously had had a license to preach sent by
the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ripley, and served in that 
capacity until the regiment was mustered out in July, 1864.  In
September of the same year he married Miss Anna Letitia Crawford,
a native of Georgetown, Ohio, and to them have been born four 
children, two of whom died in infancy, the other two now being 
with them: Ada, who took first honors of her class at Southwest
Baptist College, and Bessie Lyne, who is a student at that
institution.  Mr. Allen discontinued preaching on account of
throat trouble, came to Missouri in 1865, and was admitted to
the bar at Memphis, Scotland County.  In 1868, at Macon City, Mo.,
he was nominated by acclamation for circuit attorney by the 
Conservative Democrat party, he then being a Liberal Republican,
opposed to disfranchisement.  In 1869 he came to Salem, Dent County,
where he was for four years probate judge and ex-officiao president
of the county court, and two years mayor of Salem.  He presided
at the opening of the railroad to Salem, and, in 1877, moved to
Marshfield, where he was city attorney, and was one of the 
sufferers in the terrible cyclone that swept that city.  In 1880
he came to Bolivar, and has been president of the town board.  At
present he is justice of the peace.  He is a member of the I.O.O.F.,
also the G.A.R., and is a prominent man of the county.  He is a
Republican in politics; and he and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.


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