1836-1911 

Adoniram Judson Allen

Editor/Journalist   NJ/IA

Adoniram Judson Allen was born on 15 July 1836 (maybe 1837), in Newark, New Jersey to James Madison Allen, who was 26 and, Harriet Brown, who was 21. Allen was the fourth of 12 children born to this couple. At age 26, he married Amanda Ball on 25 September 1862, in Stark, Ohio, but she had an untimely death. Mr. Allen then moved to Iowa where he married Helen Laffer in 1866 and they had 8 children before her passing in 1891.

His obituary reports in the Davenport Democrat,

Mr. Allen had been a resident of Scott county for 57 years, and was not only favorably known here, but also in Muscatine county. For a number of years he devoted his time to newspaper work, having been publisher and editor of three papers, namely, the “Scott County Blade”(1882-89), “The Friendly Farmer” (1889-1895) and “Advance.” Mr. Allen lived in Buffalo for a long number of years…[1]

Adoniram Judson Allen died on 25 April 1911, in Davenport, Iowa, at the age of 73 after having a meal in an unnamed Davenport restaurant. He is buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilton, Muscatine County, Iowa.

[Compiler’s Note: See another Adoniram Judson Allen at 1832-????.]

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[1] “A. J. Allen Victim of Heart Attack,” Davenport Democrat and Leader, April 25, 1911, p. 13.

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