B. F. Allen, was born in White County, Illinois in 1833, and was one of the Kansas pioneers.
Reared in Illinois, and taking up the vocation of farmer there he first came out to Kansas in 1859, when it was still a territory.
He spent some time near Augusta in Butler County, being there when the population was almost completely composed of Indians and before the homestead act was passed.
He after wards returned to Illinois, and served as a soldier in the Civil war, but after four months was incapacitated being taken ill with cholera and his life was despaired of for some time.
After the war he followed farming in Logan County, Illinois, but in 1871 emigrated across the country in a prairie schooner and established his home and family at Elk City, where he bought his farm of 240 acres.
He retired from farming about 1896, and after wards sold the old place.
His death occurred in Elk City in 1912.
He was a republican and active in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
B. F. Allen married Elizabeth Kello, who was born in White County, Illinois, in 1836, and is now living in Elk City.
Their children were: Annie, deceased; George N., a merchant at Elk City; William and John F., both deceased; James, who follows the oil fields and lives at Boynton, Oklahoma; Frank, deceased; Richard; Minnie, deceased; Thomas, who lives at Independence; Jacob, Fred and Benjamin, all deceased; and Lewis, the thirteenth child, who is in the advertising business at Chicago.
(A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans - 1918)
Reared in Illinois, and taking up the vocation of farmer there he first came out to Kansas in 1859, when it was still a territory.
He spent some time near Augusta in Butler County, being there when the population was almost completely composed of Indians and before the homestead act was passed.
He after wards returned to Illinois, and served as a soldier in the Civil war, but after four months was incapacitated being taken ill with cholera and his life was despaired of for some time.
After the war he followed farming in Logan County, Illinois, but in 1871 emigrated across the country in a prairie schooner and established his home and family at Elk City, where he bought his farm of 240 acres.
He retired from farming about 1896, and after wards sold the old place.
His death occurred in Elk City in 1912.
He was a republican and active in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
B. F. Allen married Elizabeth Kello, who was born in White County, Illinois, in 1836, and is now living in Elk City.
Their children were: Annie, deceased; George N., a merchant at Elk City; William and John F., both deceased; James, who follows the oil fields and lives at Boynton, Oklahoma; Frank, deceased; Richard; Minnie, deceased; Thomas, who lives at Independence; Jacob, Fred and Benjamin, all deceased; and Lewis, the thirteenth child, who is in the advertising business at Chicago.
(A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans - 1918)
B. F. Allen, was born in White County, Illinois in 1833, and was one of the Kansas pioneers.
Reared in Illinois, and taking up the vocation of farmer there he first came out to Kansas in 1859, when it was still a territory.
He spent some time near Augusta in Butler County, being there when the population was almost completely composed of Indians and before the homestead act was passed.
He after wards returned to Illinois, and served as a soldier in the Civil war, but after four months was incapacitated being taken ill with cholera and his life was despaired of for some time.
After the war he followed farming in Logan County, Illinois, but in 1871 emigrated across the country in a prairie schooner and established his home and family at Elk City, where he bought his farm of 240 acres.
He retired from farming about 1896, and after wards sold the old place.
His death occurred in Elk City in 1912.
He was a republican and active in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
B. F. Allen married Elizabeth Kello, who was born in White County, Illinois, in 1836, and is now living in Elk City.
Their children were: Annie, deceased; George N., a merchant at Elk City; William and John F., both deceased; James, who follows the oil fields and lives at Boynton, Oklahoma; Frank, deceased; Richard; Minnie, deceased; Thomas, who lives at Independence; Jacob, Fred and Benjamin, all deceased; and Lewis, the thirteenth child, who is in the advertising business at Chicago.
(A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans - 1918)
Reared in Illinois, and taking up the vocation of farmer there he first came out to Kansas in 1859, when it was still a territory.
He spent some time near Augusta in Butler County, being there when the population was almost completely composed of Indians and before the homestead act was passed.
He after wards returned to Illinois, and served as a soldier in the Civil war, but after four months was incapacitated being taken ill with cholera and his life was despaired of for some time.
After the war he followed farming in Logan County, Illinois, but in 1871 emigrated across the country in a prairie schooner and established his home and family at Elk City, where he bought his farm of 240 acres.
He retired from farming about 1896, and after wards sold the old place.
His death occurred in Elk City in 1912.
He was a republican and active in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
B. F. Allen married Elizabeth Kello, who was born in White County, Illinois, in 1836, and is now living in Elk City.
Their children were: Annie, deceased; George N., a merchant at Elk City; William and John F., both deceased; James, who follows the oil fields and lives at Boynton, Oklahoma; Frank, deceased; Richard; Minnie, deceased; Thomas, who lives at Independence; Jacob, Fred and Benjamin, all deceased; and Lewis, the thirteenth child, who is in the advertising business at Chicago.
(A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans - 1918)
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