BIOGRAPHIES:  Cyrus A. ALLEN, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Cyrus A. Allen, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born in Lincoln, Vt., August
27, 1841, and is the only son of Benjamin Allen, whose biography
appears in this work.  He attended a select school at Madison, Wis.,
and Platteville academy.  At eighteen years of age he engaged in
mercantile business at Pepin.  In June, 1861, he received a recruiting
commission and spent considerable time and money in trying to organize
a company of volunteers.  About eighty men in all enlisted, but before
the company was completed some of the men wandered off and either
engaged in business or entered other companies of soldiers, and in
October he disbanded the balance and entered Company G, Sixteenth
Wisconsin, and served about two years, participating in the siege and
battle of Corinth, battle of Shiloh and several minor engagements.  He
became second lieutenant and afterward (September 3, 1862), first
lieutenant of his company.  While home on a furlough in the fall of
1862 he recruited sixteen men.  He resigned on account of disability,
but in 1864 enlisted for the navy, but was not accepted.  After the war
he was again engaged in mercantile business from 1866 to 1868; from
1869 to 1872 he ran on the river with timber.  Since 1873 he has been
engaged in farming in this and St. Croix counties.  He purchased his
present farm in 1886, and has resided upon it since that time.  IN
June, 1869, he married Miss Margaret J. Guthrie, and they have three
sons:  Cyrus O., Alex. G. and Rupert B.  Mr. Allen is independent in
politics, having formerly sustained the democratic, but in later years
the republican party.  He took the census of Pepin township in 1890. 
He is a member of Benj. Allen Post, G. A. R., of Arkansaw, Wis.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 775.


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