Red Willow County NeArchives Biographies.....Allen, Arthur Eurasho 1876 - 
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Arthur Eurasho Allen

Arthur Eurasho Allen, county commissioner of Red Willow County, is a native of
Brooks, Iowa, born November 13, 1876. His father, Moses Allen, born in Ireland,
April 1, 1844, and came to America with his parents in 1845. He served in the
Civil War with the 70th Ohio Infantry coming in 1880 to Fillmore County,
Nebraska, where he enaged in farming. He died at Laurel, Montana, February 5,
1912. His wife, Barbara Ellen Morris, was born in West Union, Ohio, August 22,
1845, and died at Benkleman, Nebraska, November 2, 1913. She was of German and
French descent.

Mr. Allen attended district school in Fillmore County, and was graduated from
Danbury High School in 1896. For more than twenty years he was a teacher in
rural schools, and since that time has been a farmer. He has been elected county
commissioner three times on the Republican ticket, first taking office on
January 1, 1923.

He was married to Bessie Maybel Springer at Oberlin, Kansas, May 10, 1899. She
was born at Ashland, Nebraska, November 10, 1880, her uncle, William Springer
was first sheriff of Red Willow County. They have nine children: Glen, born
March 23, 1902; Opal, born March 5, 1905; Ruth, born February 20, 1909; Harold,
born November 14, 1907; Earl, born March 12, 1912; Marjorie, born December 6,
1913; Armond, horn October 24, 1915; Evelyn, born September 6, 1917; Kathryn,
born December 10, 1919; and Zey, born February 6, 1922.

Mr. Allen is interested in boxing, football, baseball and basketball, and
devotes much time to reading. He is a member of the Nebraskana Society, and is
affiliated with the Congregational Church. Residence: Danbury. 


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

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932


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