Post by Eric Standridge on Oct 27, 2011 9:21:43 GMT -6
Frank P. Allen, who is junior member of Mayer and Allen, leading general merchants of Bokoshe, has been a resident of Oklahoma since 1903. He is a native of Mississippi, the ancestral home of the family being founded near Corinth, by William Allen, an emigrant from Tennessee who owned slaves and was a successful planter of the old regime. He reared a family in that locality, where he died. One of his sons, William, was killed during the 'Mexican war at the battle of Monterey, having held the state senatorship of Mississippi at the age of twenty-three years. Another son, Eugene, moved to Texas early in the settlement of that state and brought up his family there.
Richard B. Allen, father of Frank P., was born in Mississippi, and was educated for a civil engineer, but eventually became a contractor at Van Buren and Fort Smith, Arkansas. He served in the Confederate army from Mississippi. Although his course in a Virginia engineering school prepared him for work in that field, his scientific training was turned to good use in the field of architecture and contracting. The elder Mr. Allen left Mississippi in 1879, established himself at Van Buren, Arkansas, and there died in 1908. He was married, to Miss Adella Rose, of Pulaski, Tennessee, who became the mother of a large family and still resides at Van Buren, Arkansas. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Allen were: William B., a druggist of Little Rock, Arkansas; Robert P., one of the state railroad commissioners of Arkansas; Richard F., a merchant of Vian, Oklahoma: Frank P., of this review; Dan M., connected with the McElroy bank at Fayetteville, Arkansas; Earl T., who is in the book and stationery business at Van Buren, Arkansas; Mrs. T. C. Potts, of Sheffield, Alabama; and Mrs. Herbert DeLong, of Van Buren.
Frank P. Allen, of this sketch, was chiefly educated in the public schools of Van Buren, Arkansas, and at twenty years of age became a merchant's clerk in a grocery store there. He subsequently found employment in a shoe store at that place and afterward served as a commercial traveler for the Goodbar Shoe Company, of St. Louis, Missouri. Leaving the road, he became associated with Max J. Mayer in the Boston Store at Van Buren, in which business he maintained an interest for some years. His first connection with the mercantile development of Oklahoma began at Vian in 1902 when he took an interest with Allen Brothers of that place. This he subsequently sold, in the concentration of all his interests at Bokoshe, where his firm now leads in the field of general merchandise.
Mr. Allen was married at Batesville, Arkansas, on January 11, 1905. to Miss Cecil Glenn, adopted daughter of John W. Glenn. Mrs. Allen died January 13, 1907, the mother of two children—Frank Maxwell and Cecil Wilson Allen. Mr. Allen is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow; a Democrat in politics; and his church connections are with the Presbyterian church.
Richard B. Allen, father of Frank P., was born in Mississippi, and was educated for a civil engineer, but eventually became a contractor at Van Buren and Fort Smith, Arkansas. He served in the Confederate army from Mississippi. Although his course in a Virginia engineering school prepared him for work in that field, his scientific training was turned to good use in the field of architecture and contracting. The elder Mr. Allen left Mississippi in 1879, established himself at Van Buren, Arkansas, and there died in 1908. He was married, to Miss Adella Rose, of Pulaski, Tennessee, who became the mother of a large family and still resides at Van Buren, Arkansas. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Allen were: William B., a druggist of Little Rock, Arkansas; Robert P., one of the state railroad commissioners of Arkansas; Richard F., a merchant of Vian, Oklahoma: Frank P., of this review; Dan M., connected with the McElroy bank at Fayetteville, Arkansas; Earl T., who is in the book and stationery business at Van Buren, Arkansas; Mrs. T. C. Potts, of Sheffield, Alabama; and Mrs. Herbert DeLong, of Van Buren.
Frank P. Allen, of this sketch, was chiefly educated in the public schools of Van Buren, Arkansas, and at twenty years of age became a merchant's clerk in a grocery store there. He subsequently found employment in a shoe store at that place and afterward served as a commercial traveler for the Goodbar Shoe Company, of St. Louis, Missouri. Leaving the road, he became associated with Max J. Mayer in the Boston Store at Van Buren, in which business he maintained an interest for some years. His first connection with the mercantile development of Oklahoma began at Vian in 1902 when he took an interest with Allen Brothers of that place. This he subsequently sold, in the concentration of all his interests at Bokoshe, where his firm now leads in the field of general merchandise.
Mr. Allen was married at Batesville, Arkansas, on January 11, 1905. to Miss Cecil Glenn, adopted daughter of John W. Glenn. Mrs. Allen died January 13, 1907, the mother of two children—Frank Maxwell and Cecil Wilson Allen. Mr. Allen is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow; a Democrat in politics; and his church connections are with the Presbyterian church.