Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE EDWARD ALLEN
GEORGE EDWARD ALLEN.--An experienced
rancher whose repeated successes have helped to stimulate those who share with
him the great work of developing the natural resources of the Golden State, is
George Edward Allen, whose trim farm lies along the highway north of Arno. He was born in Sutter Creek, Amador
County, on October 4, 1873, the son of George
and Annie E. (Bradbury) Allen, his father having been a native of Rochester,
N.Y., while his mother came from Maine.
Mr. Allen came to California
in 1862 by way of the Panama route and
settled in Amador County,
where he embarked in the stock-raising business. In course of time, he acquired between 7,000
and 8,000 acres of land; and when he died, at the age of fifty-five, he had
completed a record of great usefulness.
Mrs. Allen lived to be sixty-five years of age, and was beloved by all
who knew her. Mr. Allen was a stanch
Republican. The worthy couple had five
children, our subject being the second in the order of birth. Flora, the eldest, is now deceased, as is
Bessie, the youngest, who died at the age of five. Those coming after George into the family are
Sophie, Mrs. Minasian, living at Berkeley, and John F., who lives at Sutter
Creek.
George Edward
Allen was sent to the Sutter Creek
Grammar school, and later attended the
university at Santa Clara; and when
a young man, he started out for himself.
He went to Carbonado, Wash., and for two years
clerked in a general merchandise store serving a mining plant; and then,
returning to San Francisco, he worked in the bay city for a year. Then he came back to the old home place at
Sutter Creek, and he remained with his folks ever since. Owing to his father’s death, the Allen Estate
Company was formed, and they control the old home place referred to, and in
addition land which the company began to acquire, about fifteen years ago, in Sacramento
County. They own 1,170 acres known as the old Hicks
estate, and also the old McConnell ranch of 1,435 acres,
and these two ranches join each other, about one-third of these 2,605 acres
being devoted to the raising of beans, while the rest is given to the raising
of grain. Much of the land is leased out
by our subject, who built a house on the ranch, and lives there although at
first he used to come here only at intervals.
At Carson
City, Nev., on July 28, 1898,
Mr. Allen was married to Miss Caroline Corotto, a native of Sutter Creek, her
parents being Bartholomew and Mary Corotto.
Her father was an Italian, and came out to California
in pioneer days, when he was a mere lad.
He died at the age of sixty-five, while his good wife passed away in her
sixtieth year. Both were highly
esteemed. Three Children have been
granted Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and they bear the names of George, Mildred and
Clarence. Mr. Allen is a Republican, and
he belongs to the Henry Clay Lodge of Masons at Sutter Creek, and also to the
royal Arch Chapter there; he is affiliated with the Placerville Commandery and
Ben Ali Temple of Sacramento.
Transcribed
by Patricia Seabolt.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 543-544. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.