San Joaquin County Biographies
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ANDERSON ALLEN
A successful and enterprising rancher of San Joaquin County, residing about nineteen miles southeast of Stockton on the French Camp Road, is Anderson Allen, who owns his home ranch and is associated with his son in farming another. He has been a resident of California for the past forty-seven years and for the past fifteen years has been actively engaged in farming pursuits in San Joaquin County. He was born in Adams County, twenty miles south of Quincy, Ill., August 24, 1848. His father, Hiram Allen, was of Scotch parentage, born in Tennessee, where his ancestors were prominent in the early history of that state. He married Miss Kisiah Perrick, of Scotch descent, who was born in Kentucky. After marriage the young couple settled in Illinois, and in 1857 they removed to central Kansas, where he homesteaded 160 acres and resided there many years; then the family removed to Council Grove, Kans., and the father passed away in 1886 at this place, the mother surviving him until 1913. They were the parents of three sons and three daughters. Anderson Allen received his education in the schools of Kansas, and in 1875 came to California and located at Visalia. For the following three years he worked at various places in the state, farming and then in the lumber camps of the Santa Cruz Mountains. In 1878 he located near Tracy, San Joaquin County, where he engaged in grain farming for three years with Mr. Geddes. In 1881 he removed to Byron, Cal., where he purchased 160 acres, and he farmed to grain and raised stock on this land for twenty-five years.
On April 28, 1886, Mr. Allen was married to Miss Anna von Glahn, a native Californian born in San Joaquin County, a daughter of Christopher andd Catherine (Boschen) von Glahn, both natives of Germany. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Allen: Alma V., Mrs. James Carter, resides at Manteca; William P. is deceased; and Arthur B. resides at home. Mr. Allen was especially interested in educational development and served as school trustee of the Excelsior district and was instrumental in organizing the Brentwood Union high school in 1905. In 1907 Mr. Allen sold his land at Byron and removed to San Joaquin County. Locating near Escalon, he purchased land and developed it, later selling it at a fair profit; thus he bought, developed and sold three different ranches. Ably assisted by their son, Mr. and Mrs. Allen are now busily engaged in improving land which Mrs. Allen inherited from her father's estate, and in making of it a model home ranch. Mr. Allen has made a close study of irrigation and is a stanch advocate of it, having demonstrated by years of experience the increased productivity of irrigated lands. Mrs. Allen attended the Western Normal School at Stockton from 1881 to 1883 and taught in the public schools of the county for four years before her marriage. She takes a prominent part in the social affairs of the community.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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