. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. tendencies, and is a member of the Associ-ation of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the Amer-ican Revolution. He is also a member of TheState Board of Childrens Guardians for New Jer-sey, a State Board appointed by the Governor totake charge of all children who become the wards ofthat State. In politics Mr. Burnh m has been a ALLEN, William Henry Harvard in New Bedford, Mass., 1814; prepared forColl
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. tendencies, and is a member of the Associ-ation of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the Amer-ican Revolution. He is also a member of TheState Board of Childrens Guardians for New Jer-sey, a State Board appointed by the Governor totake charge of all children who become the wards ofthat State. In politics Mr. Burnh m has been a ALLEN, William Henry Harvard in New Bedford, Mass., 1814; prepared forCollege at the Friends Acadeiny, New Bedford;graduated Harvard, 1835: in mercantile business inPhiladelphia, 1835-40; removed to Grafton, 111., 1841;member of the first Board of County Commissioners,Jersey Co., Illinois; delegate to Illinois ConstitutionalConvention, 1861; County Judge, 1865-69; State Sena-tor, 1872; removed to Pasadena, Cal., 1892, where hedied i8g8. WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN, Business Man,was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,October 12, 1814, the son of William Howland andRuth (Parker) Allen. Through his father he couldclaim an ancestry of the most respected Massa-. \\ILLI.\M H. ALLEN chusetts families, ami on his mothers side he stoodin the eighth generation from Captain Miles boyhood was passed in his fathers home inNew Bedford, and his early education and prepara- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 6i tion for College were received at the FriendsAcademy in that city. He entered Harvard in1829, made an honorable record as a student, be-came a member of the noted Porcellian Chib, andwas graduated with the Class of 1835, receiving hisMasters degree in course, .^fter leaving College,Mr. Allen engaged in mercantile business in Phil-adelphia for several years, going West in 1840 and,in 1841, settling definitely in Grafton, Jersey county,Illinois, where business interests called him. Therefor more than half a century he was identified withthe growth and prosperity
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