OBIT: William Henry ALLEN, 1914, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Allen, William Henry

  "William Henry Allen" Who for many years was one of the active and 
prominent citizens of Meyersdale until incapacitated by ill health, 
died at the home of his daughter with whom he had been making his home, 
Mrs. William G. Hocking, Main Street, this place, on Monday. Mr. Allen 
was born in Philadelphia, March 12, 1836. In 1873 he came to Meyersdale 
and for 25 years he was the efficient agent of the B. & O. railroad. 
Besides Mrs. Hocking, he is survived by three other daughters: Miss 
Louisa Badger Allen of Pittsburg; Mrs. Walter H. Eisenbrandt of 
Baltimore, and Mrs. Donald G. Keeble of Pittsburg. Mrs. Allen preceded 
her husband to the grave by several years. Funeral services will be 
held today at 1 p. m. following which interment will be made in Union 
Cemetery, this place.

Meyersdale Commercial, Nov. 12, 1914