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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, Illinois,
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,
Kansas 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, California,
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 and 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 staunch 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.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1191-1192. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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