Daughter of Zenas Allen and his first wife, Mary (Moore) Allen
"The death of Mrs. Eleanor Allen Thomas, widow of the late Prof. Calvin Thomas, a former member of the Otsego Lake summer colony, occurred Friday, April 5th, at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she had made her home for the past five years. Mrs. Thomas was born at Clayville, April 22, 1854, the daughter of Lanar and Mary (Moore) Allen. Her father as a young man was the owner of a stage coach line that operated between Utica and Oneonta. In her youth her family lived in the town of Pittsfield, this county, and later at New Berlin. In 1884 she was united in marriage with Prof. Thomas, who became head of the department of German languages in Columbia University, and who was author of a number of books, the most widely known of which is Thomas' German Grammar which was the text book used by hundreds of young people of the past generation ... Surviving is one son, Prof. Horace A. Thomas of the faculty of Carnegie School of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Another son, Paul Thomas, who died in 1930, was manager of the Text Book department of the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing company of New York City. The funeral was held at Pittsburgh Thursday evening of last week and the body was brought to Cooperstown for burial in the family plot in Lakewood cemetery ..." [The Otsego Farmer & Republican (Cooperstown, NY), Fri., Apr. 26, 1940, Page Two]
"The death of Mrs. Eleanor Allen Thomas, widow of the late Prof. Calvin Thomas, a former member of the Otsego Lake summer colony, occurred Friday, April 5th, at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she had made her home for the past five years. Mrs. Thomas was born at Clayville, April 22, 1854, the daughter of Lanar and Mary (Moore) Allen. Her father as a young man was the owner of a stage coach line that operated between Utica and Oneonta. In her youth her family lived in the town of Pittsfield, this county, and later at New Berlin. In 1884 she was united in marriage with Prof. Thomas, who became head of the department of German languages in Columbia University, and who was author of a number of books, the most widely known of which is Thomas' German Grammar which was the text book used by hundreds of young people of the past generation ... Surviving is one son, Prof. Horace A. Thomas of the faculty of Carnegie School of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Another son, Paul Thomas, who died in 1930, was manager of the Text Book department of the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing company of New York City. The funeral was held at Pittsburgh Thursday evening of last week and the body was brought to Cooperstown for burial in the family plot in Lakewood cemetery ..." [The Otsego Farmer & Republican (Cooperstown, NY), Fri., Apr. 26, 1940, Page Two]
Daughter of Zenas Allen and his first wife, Mary (Moore) Allen
"The death of Mrs. Eleanor Allen Thomas, widow of the late Prof. Calvin Thomas, a former member of the Otsego Lake summer colony, occurred Friday, April 5th, at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she had made her home for the past five years. Mrs. Thomas was born at Clayville, April 22, 1854, the daughter of Lanar and Mary (Moore) Allen. Her father as a young man was the owner of a stage coach line that operated between Utica and Oneonta. In her youth her family lived in the town of Pittsfield, this county, and later at New Berlin. In 1884 she was united in marriage with Prof. Thomas, who became head of the department of German languages in Columbia University, and who was author of a number of books, the most widely known of which is Thomas' German Grammar which was the text book used by hundreds of young people of the past generation ... Surviving is one son, Prof. Horace A. Thomas of the faculty of Carnegie School of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Another son, Paul Thomas, who died in 1930, was manager of the Text Book department of the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing company of New York City. The funeral was held at Pittsburgh Thursday evening of last week and the body was brought to Cooperstown for burial in the family plot in Lakewood cemetery ..." [The Otsego Farmer & Republican (Cooperstown, NY), Fri., Apr. 26, 1940, Page Two]
"The death of Mrs. Eleanor Allen Thomas, widow of the late Prof. Calvin Thomas, a former member of the Otsego Lake summer colony, occurred Friday, April 5th, at her home in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she had made her home for the past five years. Mrs. Thomas was born at Clayville, April 22, 1854, the daughter of Lanar and Mary (Moore) Allen. Her father as a young man was the owner of a stage coach line that operated between Utica and Oneonta. In her youth her family lived in the town of Pittsfield, this county, and later at New Berlin. In 1884 she was united in marriage with Prof. Thomas, who became head of the department of German languages in Columbia University, and who was author of a number of books, the most widely known of which is Thomas' German Grammar which was the text book used by hundreds of young people of the past generation ... Surviving is one son, Prof. Horace A. Thomas of the faculty of Carnegie School of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Another son, Paul Thomas, who died in 1930, was manager of the Text Book department of the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing company of New York City. The funeral was held at Pittsburgh Thursday evening of last week and the body was brought to Cooperstown for burial in the family plot in Lakewood cemetery ..." [The Otsego Farmer & Republican (Cooperstown, NY), Fri., Apr. 26, 1940, Page Two]
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