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Title:  History of Livingston County, New York: with illustrations and
        biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
Authors:  Smith, James H.
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,
Publication Date:  1881

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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Page 388 (facing)

ALLEN, Samuel P:
The earliest known ancestor of Samuel Percival Allen is Edward Allen, who,
according to tradition in the family, was a soldier under Cromwell, and
came to this country upon the Restoration.  He was of Ipswich, Mass.,
1670, and died Nov. 22, 1696.  The subject of this notice is of the
seventh generation, and is the grandson of Apollos Allen, who came from
Gill, Mass., to Smyrna, N.Y., in 1797.  His father, Marsena Allen, was
then but eight years old, and died in Mt. Morris, June 18, 1861.  His
mother was Hannah G. Percival, sister of James Percival, a newspaper
editor in Moscow and Geneseo, from 1821 until 1832.  Her father served in
the Revolutionary war from Lee, Massachusetts.

Samuel P. Allen was born in Smyrna, October 21, 1814, and came to Geneseo
in 1830, where he became an apprentice at the printing business in the law
office of the "Livingston Register."  Between 1832 and 1836 he went to
school, worked upon a farm and in a printing office, and in September,
1837, commenced the publication of the "Livingston Republican."  Disposing
of it in 1846, he purchased an interest in the "Rochester Daily Democrat"
and as assistant and chief editor continued until 1864.  In 1870 and for
four years thereafter, he was half owner of the "Chenango Telegraph."
Returning to Geneseo in 1874, he repurchased the "Livingston Republican,"
with which he is still (1881) connected.  Mr. Allen was elected Clerk of
Livingston county in 1840; Clerk of the State Senate in 1856, and
reelected in 1858; was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Monroe
and Orleans counties in 1863; by President Lincoln, and continued in that
office six years; was appointed Assistant Clerk of the Assembly for seven
years, ending with the session of 1879, and many times served upon the
Whig and Republican State Committees and as a delegate to State
Conventions.

Mr. Allen was married in 1838 to Harriet C. Stanley, daughter of Luman
Stanley, of Mr. Morris, an early pioneer of that town.  Three of their six
children are living; a daughter who was teaching in Detroit, died in 1872,
and two others who were teaching in the Normal School at Geneseo, died in
1876.

Mr. Allen and his wife visited California in 1878, passing several weeks
at Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Big Trees, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, etc.

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