T.J. Allen was the 11th of 12 children born to John Allen IV (also known as John Allen Jr.) and Frances 'Fannie' Thompson.
T.J. Allen came to Wassonville by wagon in 1851 (when he was 15) and worked breaking prairie until 1853 when he returned to Indiana. He apprenticed as a blacksmith and then returned to Wassonville in 1856 and opened up a blacksmith shop. He sold the shop in 1886.
He married a Wellman girl, Mariam Jordan Leighton, daughter of Isaac Leighton and Permelia Lancaster, on January 1, 1881 at the Leighton homestead, southwest of Wellman, Iowa.
They had 9 children: Sereptha Amelia, Clara Belle, Bertha May, Alice Annette, Ada Estella, Ernest Leighton, Georgia Cornelia, John Everett, and Glenn Thomas. Sereptha and Georgia died in infancy.
He was a member of the Masons, served as a Justice-of-the-Peace, Township Assessor, Township Clerk and Trustee, and was elected Wellman's first mayor in 1886.
T.J. Allen came to Wassonville by wagon in 1851 (when he was 15) and worked breaking prairie until 1853 when he returned to Indiana. He apprenticed as a blacksmith and then returned to Wassonville in 1856 and opened up a blacksmith shop. He sold the shop in 1886.
He married a Wellman girl, Mariam Jordan Leighton, daughter of Isaac Leighton and Permelia Lancaster, on January 1, 1881 at the Leighton homestead, southwest of Wellman, Iowa.
They had 9 children: Sereptha Amelia, Clara Belle, Bertha May, Alice Annette, Ada Estella, Ernest Leighton, Georgia Cornelia, John Everett, and Glenn Thomas. Sereptha and Georgia died in infancy.
He was a member of the Masons, served as a Justice-of-the-Peace, Township Assessor, Township Clerk and Trustee, and was elected Wellman's first mayor in 1886.
T.J. Allen was the 11th of 12 children born to John Allen IV (also known as John Allen Jr.) and Frances 'Fannie' Thompson.
T.J. Allen came to Wassonville by wagon in 1851 (when he was 15) and worked breaking prairie until 1853 when he returned to Indiana. He apprenticed as a blacksmith and then returned to Wassonville in 1856 and opened up a blacksmith shop. He sold the shop in 1886.
He married a Wellman girl, Mariam Jordan Leighton, daughter of Isaac Leighton and Permelia Lancaster, on January 1, 1881 at the Leighton homestead, southwest of Wellman, Iowa.
They had 9 children: Sereptha Amelia, Clara Belle, Bertha May, Alice Annette, Ada Estella, Ernest Leighton, Georgia Cornelia, John Everett, and Glenn Thomas. Sereptha and Georgia died in infancy.
He was a member of the Masons, served as a Justice-of-the-Peace, Township Assessor, Township Clerk and Trustee, and was elected Wellman's first mayor in 1886.
T.J. Allen came to Wassonville by wagon in 1851 (when he was 15) and worked breaking prairie until 1853 when he returned to Indiana. He apprenticed as a blacksmith and then returned to Wassonville in 1856 and opened up a blacksmith shop. He sold the shop in 1886.
He married a Wellman girl, Mariam Jordan Leighton, daughter of Isaac Leighton and Permelia Lancaster, on January 1, 1881 at the Leighton homestead, southwest of Wellman, Iowa.
They had 9 children: Sereptha Amelia, Clara Belle, Bertha May, Alice Annette, Ada Estella, Ernest Leighton, Georgia Cornelia, John Everett, and Glenn Thomas. Sereptha and Georgia died in infancy.
He was a member of the Masons, served as a Justice-of-the-Peace, Township Assessor, Township Clerk and Trustee, and was elected Wellman's first mayor in 1886.
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