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AMASA I.
ALLEN, who is engaged A\ in farming in Willoughby township,
Lake county, Ohio, was born in Warren, Worcester county, Massachusetts,
April 4, 1818, a descendant of an old Massachusetts family, both his
father and grandfather, Pardon and Abner Allen, being
natives of that State. Abner Allen was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war. He was engaged in farming all his life and died at a
ripe old age. Pardon Allen, also a farmer by occupation,
died at the age of sixty-three years. His wife, and the mother of our
subject, was also a native of Massachusetts, her maiden name being
Ruth Tyler. She died in 1889, at the age of ninety-six years,
her mother having reached the advanced age of ninety-seven. Her father,
Abner Tyler, was a wealthy and influential farmer and at
one time a slave owner. Amasa I. Allen was the fourth born in a family of seven children, four of whom are still living. He was reared on his father's farm, attending the district schools in his youth, and at the age of twenty-one started out in life on his own responsibility, beginning as a farm hand, working by the month. In the fall of 1839, concluding that the opportunities for a young man to prosper were better in the West than East, he directed his course toward Ohio. He rode from Warren to Springfield, Massachusetts, on the first train that ran over the Boston & Albany Railroad, from Springfield to Albany traveled by stage, thence to Buffalo by canal-boat, and from there to Cleveland by lake steamer. Upon his arrival here, he selected Chagrin Falls as a place of settlement and bought land and engaged in farming; but before he could cultivate the soil he had to clear the land. For some time he lived in a log house, the forest all around him abounding in deer and other game. In 1847, Mr. Allen went to Michigan and erected a sawmill in the northern part of the State on the lake shore, and after being engaged in business there eighteen months sold out and came back to Ohio. He purchased his present farm, 100 acres in extent, in the fall of 1872, and on it he has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has a five-acre vineyard among other improvements on his farm. Mr. Allen was married in 1851, to Wealthy H. Holmes, a native of Kirtland, this county, and a daughter of Leroy and Betsey Holmes, who emigrated from Herkimer county. New York, to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1815. Some years after their settlement here, her father sold his farm to the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, but subsequently had to take it back. Her parents are both, deceased, her father having passed away in his sixty-third year. Seven of their twelve children are still living. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have three children: Charles S., George and Lucy. Miss Lucy has taught one term of school. Mr. Allen affiliates with the Republican party. He was personally acquainted with James A. Garfield, and on one occasion bought two yoke of steers from the general. |
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