Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . 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 Mr. Burnham married Catharine Lydia, seconddaugliter of Hon. Francis Hilliard of Roxbury,Massachusetts. They have one child, Anna Wash-burn, now Mrs. Samuel T. Carter, Jr., of New YorkCity. ALLEN, William Henry Harvard 1835,Born in New Bedford, Mass., 1814; prepared forColle
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . 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 Mr. Burnham married Catharine Lydia, seconddaugliter of Hon. Francis Hilliard of Roxbury,Massachusetts. They have one child, Anna Wash-burn, now Mrs. Samuel T. Carter, Jr., of New YorkCity. ALLEN, William Henry Harvard 1835,Born in New Bedford, Mass., 1814; prepared forCollege at the Friends Academy, 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 1898. ILLIAM 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- w. WILLIAM IT. ALLEN chusetts families, and on liis 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 JND THEIR SONS 61 tioii 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 Club, andwas graduated with the Class of 1835, receiving hisMasters degree in course. After leaving College,Mr. Allen engaged in mercantile business in Phil-adelphia for several years, going West in 1840 and,in 1S41, settling definitely in Clrafton, 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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