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The History of Jackson County, Iowa
pub. Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1879

         [p. 621]
         
         Dr. J. H. ALLEN, physician and surgeon; is a native of Coos Co.,
       N.H.; was born June 13, 1818; his family removed to Albany, N.Y.,
       when he was very young; after reaching manhood, he studied medi-
       cine with James F. Sargent, M.D., of Lowell, Mass.; he attended
       lectures four terms, and graduated at Hanover, N.H.; he practiced
       medicine in New Hampshire ten or twelve years. While there he
       married Miss JUDITH SARGENT, of Concord; she died in 1852, leaving
       three children - KATE, JAMES H. and SARAH J.; in 1856, DR. ALLEN
       determined to come West; he took passage on the steamer Niagara,
       which was burned off Sheboygan, in September, 1856, when there
       were 200 lives lost; he was among the few saved, but he lost all
       he had; he came to Iowa and located in Maquoketa in the following
       November; he practiced his profession here until 1862, when he
       was appointed surgeon of the 18th I. V. I. - served two years,
       and was discharged for disability; after his return from the ser-
       vice, he held the office of Assessor for three years, and also
       the office of Postmaster and Mayor of the town. On the 24th of
       September, 1857, he married Mrs. NANCY R. LYON, formerly Miss
       NANCY R. HALL, daughter of ASAHEL HALL, one of the early settlers.
       MRS. ALLEN is a graduate of Miss Field's Seminary, at Erie, Penn.
       She married P. A. R. BRACE of Prarie du Chien, Wis; he died,
       leaving one daughter, MRS. WILLIAM STEPHENS, of Maquoketa. In
       1853, MRS. ALLEN married G. D. LYON, who died in 1855, leaving
       one son, GEORGE B., now practicing dentistry in Philadelphia.
       Dr. and Mrs. ALLEN have one son, ETHAN ALLEN, who graduated in
       the Law Department of Michigan Univeristy, in March, 1879. MRS.
       ALLEN is an active worker in the reform movements of the day;
       she was the first Secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance
       Union, of Iowa; she was a delegate to the National Temerpance
       Convention, at Cleveland, in 1875, and is Secretary of the
       State Woman's Suffrage Association.
       
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