- EDWARD ALLEN, son of Gabriel ALLEN, of the parish of Green's
Farms, in Fairfield,
- Connecticut, was baptized on August 18, 1793, and entered
college in the fall of 1811.
- He remained in New Haven in 1814-15 as a graduate student,
and then devoted himself to the
- law, and after his admission to the bar settled in practice
in 1819 in Vernon, Oneida County, New York.
- On becomming a Christian about 1834 or 5, he relinquished
his profession and studied for the
- ministry. He was ordained as an evangelist in 1836 by the
Oneida Presbytery, and served several churches in Paris and vicinity
in that county for ten years.
- His health having failed, he removed in 1846 with his family
to Fulton, Rock County, in southern
- Wisconsin, hoping to be able to undertake the pastorate of
a church there; but after having preached for one Sunday, he
fell ill, and died there on October 5, in his 54th year.
-
- [Taken from "Biographical Sketches of the Graduates
of Yale College, Vol. VI" by Franklin Bowditch Dexter; (c)1912
Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut; pp. 620-621]
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