William Mitchell Allen^{[1, 2]}

1805 - 1885  (79 years)

• Name	William Mitchell Allen
  Born	16 Aug 1805	near Denville, Morris Co., New Jersey
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Mar 1885	Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co., Illinois   [3, 4]
  Person ID	P221	Robert Jackson
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	Job Allen, III,   b. 2 Jul 1780, near Denville Township, Morris Co., New Jersey ,   d. 27 Mar 1855, Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio  (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth (Betsey) Jackson,   b. 14 Feb 1782, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey ,   d. 21 Mar 1862, Jefferson, Madison Co., Ohio  (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	31 Dec 1800	Morris Co., New Jersey   [5]
  Family ID	F35	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jane S. Lyon,   b. 30 Mar 1807, Knox Co., Ohio ,   d. 13 May 1867, Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co., Illinois  (Age 60 years)
  Married	30 Oct 1828	Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio   [4, 6]
  Children	1. Edwin R. Allen,   b. 12 Sep 1829, Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio ,   d. 21 Oct 1890, Illinois  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   2. Martha E. Allen,   b. 1 Jan 1831,   d. Bef 1878  (Age < 46 years)  [natural]   3. Mary E. Allen,   b. 16 Sep 1833, Ohio ,   d. 18 Jan 1898  (Age 64 years)  [natural]   4. Emily M. Allen,   b. 16 Sep 1835, Ohio ,   d. 28 Apr 1876  (Age 40 years)  [natural]   5. Isaac N. Allen,   b. 4 Mar 1838, Knox Co., Ohio ,   d. date unknown  [natural]   6. William Henry Harrison Allen,   b. 4 Jan 1841, Logan Co., Illinois ,   d. date unknown  [natural]   7. Ellen Josephine Allen,   b. 20 Apr 1844,   d. 2 Mar 1848  (Age 3 years)  [natural]   8. Mertice (Mattie J.) Allen,   b. 21 Mar 1848, Illinois ,   d. date unknown  [natural]   9. Florence Eva Allen,   b. 30 Jul 1852,   d. date unknown  [natural]
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Orpha Wright,   b. 1 Jan 1822, Genesseo, New York ,   d. date unknown
  Married	24 Mar 1869
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Virgil Allen's unpublished papers say that William and Jane had nine children but that he knows nothing about them. William and Jane were found in the 1850 Census, Illinois, Logan District: William M. Allen 45 M Farmer 2000 NJ Jane S. 43 F OH Eamine? 20 F OH Mary E. 16 F OH Emily M. 14 F OH Isaac N. 12 M OH William H. 9 M IL Myrtis C. 2 F IL On the 1860 Census, Illinois the family was listed in Logan District, Mount Pulaski. The girls are not listed; only William and Isaac are at home with their parents. There is also a John Baxter, age 35 living with them and his two children, M. J. female, age 13; and Eva S., female age 9. I don't know what relationship the Baxters have with William and Jane. **** From Cheryl Kale: William M. Allen moved to Knox Co., Ohio at the age of nine. he lived with his first wife for some years on a part of the farm in Ohio which his father gave him from his own holdings there. In October 1839, he removed to Logan Co., Illinois wiht his family. An account in the 1878 Hist. of Logan Co. (p. 405) states that the trip was made in wagons and consumed 18 days. He bought a farm in Logan Co. of 100 acres for which he paid $6 per acre; he added to this 100 acres by land warrant at 71 per acre; later he purchased another 40 acres by land warrant sale for $70. He stated that there were just two families in Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co., Illinois when he came there. He was a Republican and Uni. William Mitchell was named for a brother of his grandmother Jackson.

  
  

• Sources

  [S347984670] Book: "History of the Jackson Family of Hempstead, Long Island", Oscar Burton Robbins, (1951, Loveland, Colorado), 49. [S347984716] Allen-Minton Family: Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Job Allen II (Revolutionary Ancestor) and wife Mary Minton, Craghead, Dorothy Allen, (1971). [S347984724] Genealogical & Biographical Memoranda of the Allen Family, Isaac Jackson Allen, (privately typed for his cousin in 1904), 15. [S347984725] Research & family notes of Cheryl Kale. [S347985090] Genealogical & Biographical Sketches of the New Jersey Branch of the Harris Family, 1888, Democrat Printing Co., Boyd, Richard C. and Mrs. Sarah J. (Harris) Keifer, (Madison, WI http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/hindex.htm). [S347984724] Genealogical & Biographical Memoranda of the Allen Family, Isaac Jackson Allen, (privately typed for his cousin in 1904).