Charle F. Allen Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1443-1444 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES F. ALLEN, of Brookings, was born on March 4, 1869, at 
Chatfield, Minnesota. He attended the schools of this town until he was 
thirteen years of age, when he entered the office of the Chatfield 
Democrat, as an apprentice, working there a couple of years except for 
one summer, when he worked on a farm. He went to Rochester, Minnesota, 
in the winter of 1886, and entered the employ of Blakely & Son as 
foreman of the Record and Union office, where he remained until 
December, 1899. At that time he went to Brookings and bought the 
Brookings County Press from George W. Hopp, taking possession on the 
first of January, 1890. He is still publishing the Press, which has 
grown and developed into one of the best and strongest weekly papers in 
South Dakota, occupying what is conceded to be the finest country 
newspaper office building in the Northwest.

	Mr. Allen was married on September 25, 1888, to Miss Julia Garvey, 
at Rochester, Minnesota, and they have three children, all girls, 
namely: Norma, aged thirteen; Doris, aged ten; and Mildred, aged six. 

	Mr. Allen is a member of the South Dakota Press Association, of 
which organization he has been president. He is also a member of the 
Elks, Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. On December 19, 1903, he was appointed by President Roosevelt 
as postmaster at Brookings. He has served as alderman and city clerk at 
Brookings, and has been an enterprising citizen, doing much for the 
substantial growth of the city.