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Source:
The County of Fulton
A History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ.: Madison, Wis. Northwestern Historical Association
1905
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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JOSEPH O.
ALLEN, M. D., long numbered among the
representative physicians and business men of Fulton
county, has maintained his home in Fayette for more
than half a century and is one of the most honored
citizens of the town. He was born in Clarkson,
Monroe county, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1830, and is a son
of Isaac and Mary (Terry) Allen, both of whom
were born in Connecticut. Dr. Allen
passed his boyhood days in his native town, where he
was afforded the advantages of the Clarkson Academy,
later attending a seminary at Lima, N. Y., after
which he took up the study of medicine under private
preceptorship, in Clarkson, and finally entered the
medical department of the Buffalo University, being
graduated in February, 1851, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he came
to Fulton county and located in what is now the town
of Fayette, though at that time there was no vestige
of a town on the site. Here, under the
disadvantages which attended the lot of the average
pioneer physician, he labored with all of zeal and
self-abnegation, ministering to those in affliction
and devoting his entire attention to his
professional work for fifteen years, in the
meanwhile erecting the mill which he still owns and
operates, the same being equipped for the
manufacture of both flour and lumber. In the
conducting of this enterprise the Doctor was
associated with Renselaer S. Humphrey until the time
of the latter's death. He continued in active
practice of his profession until 1870, when he was
employed as a representative by the Chicago and
Canadian Southern Railroad Company to secure the
right of way for their proposed line between this
section and the city of Chicago. He devoted
two years to this important work, and then took
charge of the timber interests of the same road.
When the company went into liquidation he resumed
his active connection with his milling business and
also with the practice of his profession. He
is now practically retired, but gives his general
supervision to his two fine farms and to his milling
and other interests, and he has the affectionate
regard of the people of this community, where he has
labored so long and faithfully as a true friend of
humanity. In politics Dr. Allen is a
stanch adherent of the Democratic party, he has held
various local offices, including those of township
trustee and treasurer, and he has also been a
candidate of his party for sheriff and for
representative in the State Legislature. He
has twice served as Postmaster of Fayette, O.
He is a member of various medical societies and is
identified with the Masonic fraternity. In
1856, in Columbiana county, Dr. Allen was
united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. McLean,
and they became the parents of five children,
namely: Rosa, who is deceased; Lillie,
who is the wife of Edward Crittenden, of
Fayette; Donald A., who is a successful
dentist in Toledo; Viola, who is deceased;
and Earl, deceased, who was a drug salesman,
residing in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Source 4: The County of Fulton - A History of
Fulton County, Ohio - Publ.: Madison, Wis.
Northwestern Historical Association - 1905 - Page
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