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Charles Latham
23 December 1991
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATES: 1861
PROVENANCE: Robert Hayman, Carey, Ohio, 4 April 1988
COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society
ACCESSION NUMBER: 88.296
Miron D. Allen (1825 - after 1884), farmer and stock raiser, was born in Hampden County, Massachusetts. His family moved first to Connecticut, then to Ohio. In 1838 Allen moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, and then in 1847 to Freedom, Franklin Township, Owen County. In the same year he married Abigail Bush; their union was blessed with ten issue. A Republican, Allen was a Freemason, Master of his local lodge, and served as clerk and trustee of Franklin Township.
Source: Blanchard, Counties of Clay and Owen, 1884
This collection consists of one letter, from M. D. Allen in Freedom to David E. T. Coffman in Illinois, dated 6 January 1861. Allen relates that he is teaching school, that Coffman's horse is still lame, and that Allen has gotten his house plastered but had a hard time getting lime.
MAIN ENTRY: Allen, Miron D., b. 1825
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Teachers--Indiana--Owen County
Freedom (Ind.)
Owen County (Ind.)
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