Douglas County NeArchives Biographies.....Allen, Katherine Fay 1876 - 
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Katherine Fay Allen

One of Nebraska’s foremost women is Katherine Fay Allen, who resides at Cozad.
She was born near Rock Bluffs, Nebraska, October 12, 1876, daughter of George
Washington and Rachel Matilda (Chalfant) Worley. Her father, born near
Springfield, Illinois, November 23, 1835, served in the Civil War with Company
K, 16th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. He also was a member of the 6th Missouri State
Militia, government escort to wagon trains across Nebraska following the war His
maternal ancestors were German, and came to America from Edenkoben, on the Snow
Ketty in 1752. On the paternal side his ancestry was English. Both families were
deeply religious, and there were several clergymen on the paternal side.

Rachel Matilda Worley was born at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1843.
Her were in the education and rearing of her family. On the paternal side she
was descended from James Madison Chalfant member of the territorial legislature
of 1861, representing Cass and Lancaster Counties. He was a native of
Morgantown, Virginia.

Katherine Allen received her education in the public and high school of Elmwood,
Nebraska. Her vocation has been newspaper work, and as early as the 1890's she
was associate editor of Weeks Review published at Elmwood at that time. She has
done special work on several newspapere and was in charge of the Omaha Bureau of
Press Clippings in connection with the Thompson Adverting Agency from 1901 to
1908. In May of that year she established the Universal Press Clipping Bureau,
which is continuing under her ownership and management.

A Republican in politics, she served three years as member of the State Board of
Control, (1920-23), two years of which she served as chairman, the first woman
to serve as chairman of such a board in the United States.

She is the compiler of several memorial books of newspaper clippings of deceased
persons of prominence for families. A leader in civic, welfare and club work,
she has done much for the Woman’s Club. She was first chairman of
Americanization work in the Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs, and of the
Omaha Woman’s Club. She was one of the promoters and organizers of the first
Americanization and foreign night schools in Omaha. During the World War she
acted as state chairman of publicity for Liberty Loan drives, and assisted in
organizing the first Red Cross work in the state during the war. She was first
chairman of the Red Cross committee of the Omaha Woman’s Club, and has the first
sample bandages brought to Nebraska for war work.

She is a member of the Woman’s Relief Corps, and the Daughters of Union Veterans
of the Civil War. She is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Omaha, and of the Omaha Altrusa Club. She is known for her volunteer social
service work in Omaha and the state. Residence: Omaha. 


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932


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