SAMUEL ALLEN
NEW HARTFORD: Justice of the Peace
Mr. Allen is a native of Barkhamsted, where he was born March 15, 1823. He was the third son of Joel and Rosanna Case Allen, whose children were eight in number. He received his education in the district schools of his native town, finishing with a few terms at the North Canton academy. At the age of twenty-one he removed to Pine Meadow - which has since been his home - and worked for six years in the rule shop of H. Chapin. In 1850 he formed a partnership with his brother, Philemon Allen, in a brass foundry, and two years later he bought out his brother’s interest. In 1867 he sold his foundry business, and associated himself with another brother, Anson J. Allen, in mercantile business in Pine Meadow. For twenty-one years Mr. Allen retained an interest in this store as senior partner. In 1887 he retired from business on a handsome competency, gained partly from his successful and upright mercantile course, and partly from a large interest in Iowa lands, of which, in 1855, he purchased some nine hundred acres.
Mr. Allen is a republican, having joined that party in 1856. He was in earlier years a democrat, but joined the American party in 1855, and was by them sent to the general assembly of that year. He was again elected to the legislature in 1889, by the republicans, and served on the appropriations committee. He has held various offices of trust in New Hartford, has been grand juror, is now and has been for twelve years a justice of the peace, and is a member of the board of relief. He was the last captain in his native town in the old state militia, holding his commission until the disbanding of the organization, about 1844. He has the esteem and respect of all parties in the town, with whose interests he has been identified for nearly fifty years. In May, 1846, Mr Allen married Miss Eveline U. Case of North Canton. They have no children.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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