Background
Allen, Kenneth was born on April 6, 1857 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Augustus Holyoke and Eugenia Sophia (Teuton) Allen.
Allen, Kenneth was born on April 6, 1857 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Augustus Holyoke and Eugenia Sophia (Teuton) Allen.
Graduate West Newton (Massachusetts) English and Classical School, 1874. Civil Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1879.
In railway engineering work in the West, 1879-1883. Assistant engineer, water department, Philadelphia, 1883-1886. Member Breithaupt & Allen, consultant engineers, and later superintendent of construction for City of Kansas City, Missoury, 1886-1890.
Engineer in charge topographical survey of Connellsville coke region for H. C. Frick Coke Company, 1890-1893.
Assistant engineer in charge public work, Yonkers, 1893-1895. Principal assistant engineer, Baltimore Sewerage Commission, 1895-1899.
Member Hill, Quick & Allen, engineers, Baltimore, 1899-1902. Engineer and superintendent water department, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1902-1906.
Division engineer, Baltimore Sewerage Commission, 1906-1908.
Engineer Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, New York, 1908-1914. Engineer bureau of Sewer Plan, New York, 1915-1916. Engineer sewage disposal, and then sanitary engineer Board Estimate and Apportionment of New York, 1916-1930.
Sanitary engineer Sanitation Commission, New York, since 1930.
District engineer United States Housing Corporation, Washington, until armistice. President New York State Sewage Works Association.
Member Breithaupt & Allen, consultant engineers, and later superintendent of construction for City of Kansas City, Missoury, 1886-1890. Member Hill, Quick & Allen, engineers, Baltimore, 1899-1902.
Married Rose Whitmore Switzer, September 11, 1886. Children: Edward Switzer, Harold Ames, Russell (deceased), Frances Eleanor.