- A. O. ALLEN, druggist and pharmacist, Milton Junction; born
in Milton, Wis., March 1, 1854;
- son of Dr. O. and Mrs. A. E. ALLEN, who came to Rock Co.
in 1830; he was taken by his parents at the age of 2 years, to
Minnesota; in 1867, he returned to Milton to obtain and education
at the college; when through the classical studies at that institution,
he went to the Alfred University, Allegany Co., N.Y., and there
graduated; returned to Milton in 1877; he went to the Rocky Mountains
to see the country, combining business with pleasure, worked
in the mines, herded cattle and clerked in a drug store at Black
Hawk, Gilpin Co., Colo.; if published, his sight-seeing and experience
would fill a large volume; in the fall of 1878, returned home
and bought his father's drug store at Milton Junction.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 813.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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