Born 12 June 1869 at Aurora, probably Kane County, Illinois.[1] Son of Stephen Thompson Allen and Sarah Elizabeth Martin.[2] Surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1888, in Murray, Shoshone County, Idaho Territory.[3] Met Emmeline B. Wells when he sang with her granddaughter Daisie Dean Dunford Woods, 9 September 1889.[4] Moved to Wallace, Shoshone County, by 1890.[5] Financed and managed various mining operations in Idaho, Washington, and California, 1890–1930.[6] Married Daisie Dean Dunford Woods, 12 December 1892, at Wallace.[7] Sent letters and a gift to Emmeline B. Wells, 1894–1898.[8] Emmeline B. Wells visited with his family, 1896, 1899, 1902, 1908, 1916.[9] Moved to Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, 1900.[10] Moved back to Wallace, 1911.[11] With other defendants was sued by Mathilda Cardoner over her interest in the Hercules Mine, March 1917; complaint dismissed and rehearing denied, 1 December 1919.[12] Moved to Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, California, 1921.[13] Died 19 November 1940 at Sierra Madre.[14]
[1] 1870 U.S. Census, 5th Ward, Aurora, Kane Co., IL, p. 69; Los Angeles Co., Death Records, 1889–1960, microfilm 2281257, file no. 11092, 19 Nov. 1940, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).
[2] Los Angeles Co., Death Records, 1889–1960, microfilm 2281257, file no. 11092, 19 Nov. 1940, FSL; 1870 U.S. Census, 5th Ward, Aurora, Kane Co., IL, p. 69; “Half Century in West Ends,” Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), 24 Nov. 1940, 16.
[3] “Half Century in West Ends,” 16.
[4] Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 9 Sept. 1889, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.
[5] “Half Century in West Ends,” 16.
[6] “General Mining News,” Engineering and Mining Journal 56, no. 17 (21 Oct. 1893): 430; 1900 U.S. Census, Wallace Precinct 1, Shoshone Co., ID, enumeration dist. 107, p. 113A; “Comment on Timely Topics,” Stone 23, no. 6 (Dec. 1901): 558; “In Nearby States,” Salt Lake Mining Review 20, no. 8 (30 July 1918): 41; “Industrial,” Pacific Builder and Engineer 24, no. 46 (15 Nov. 1918): 1; 1930 U.S. Census, Sierra Madre, Pasadena Township, Los Angeles Co., CA, enumeration dist. 19-1261, p. 89B; “Half Century in West Ends,” 16.
[7] Shoshone Co., ID, Marriage Records, 1875–1927, microfilm 1548797, item 3, vol. 1, p. 42, 12 Dec. 1892, FSL; Henry Richmond Allen and Daisie Woods, 12 Dec. 1892, vol. 1, pp. 102–103, Washington, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of Spokane Church Records, 1870–1970, ancestry.com.
[8] Wells, Diary, 7 Jan. 1894; 26 Jan. 1896; 23 Dec. 1898.
[9] Wells, Diary, 11–12 and 16–17 Sept. 1896; 11 and 18 Nov. 1899; 19 Dec. 1902; 15 Dec. 1908; 17–18 Sept. 1916.
[10] “Half Century in West Ends,” 16; “General Mining News,” Engineering and Mining Journal 72, no. 25 (21 Dec. 1901): 834.
[11] “Half Century in West Ends,” 16.
[12] “Mrs. Damian Cardoner, Widow of Pioneer Merchant of Burke, Says She Sold Her Interest in Hercules Mine through Fraudulent Representation and Demands Restoration of Property,” Wallace (ID) Miner, 22 Mar. 1917, 6–7; “Cardoner—Day,” Wallace Miner, 6 Dec. 1917, 5; “Editorial Correspondence,” Engineering and Mining Journal 103, no. 13 (31 Mar. 1917): 551; “Mrs. Cardoner Loses Mine Suit,” Spokesman-Review, 26 Jan. 1918, 3; United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports . . . (West Publishing, 1920), 171:514–526.
[13] “Half Century in West Ends,” 16; 1930 U.S. Census, Sierra Madre, Pasadena Township, Los Angeles Co., CA, enumeration dist. 19-1261, p. 89B.
[14] Los Angeles Co., Death Records, 1889–1960, microfilm 2281257, file no. 11092, 19 Nov. 1940, FSL.