Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Van Allen, Edward G. June 24, 1853 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Van Allen, Edward G., Little Falls, was born in Little Falls June 24, 1853. He 
received a good common school education, after which for years he was engaged 
on a farm. During the next three years he was brakeman on the Central 
Railroad, after which he was promoted to the position of conductor. This he 
held for eleven years. When the great strike occurred, about two years ago, he 
with others, lost his position, since which time he has been engaged in the 
grocery and bottling business in the old stand at Lock thirty-eight (the Van 
Allen lock), and which his father conducted before him. His goods go all over 
the country, with perhaps the exception of the town of Herkimer. He married 
Maggie Ward, and they have six children, five sons and two daughters.   Mr. 
Van Allen's father and two of his uncles participated in the late war.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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