SAMUEL R. ALLEN, M. D.,
Grove City, is a son of Samuel and Mary (Gilmore) Allen. The father was
born in Ireland, and immigrated to America with his father, Robert
Allen, when he was eight years old. Robert Allen settled on a farm in
Springfield Township, this county, where the father of our subject was
reared and educated at the schools of that period, and where he has
since lived. His wife, Mary Gilmore, bore him seven children, five of
whom still live: Rev. R. C., now located in Canada; Dr. S. R., Ann
Jane, died at the age of twenty-two years, a promising young woman;
infant daughter, died at the age of two weeks; Julia Mary, Mrs. Robert
Wilson, of Nebraska; William J. C., at home, and Ambrose M., D. D. S.,
of Philadelphia. Our subject, who is the second, was born on the
homestead December 5, 1850. Mrs. Allen died in 1874, and the father of
our subject was again married, to his present wife, Mary Porter. By
this union he has one child, Lillian, living at home. Our subject
received his education at the schools of Grove City and Wilmington,
Lawrence County, and graduated from the medical department of the
Western Reserve University, of Cleveland, in 1881, and soon afterward
located at Grove City, where he has since practiced. He married, in
1882, Harriet, daughter of J. C. and Harriet (Heydrick) Shaw, of this
county. They have three children: Mary Jane, Newton Rutherford and
Samuel James. Our subject and family are members of the Covenanter
Church of Findley Township, of which he is an elder.
Source: (History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1025)
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