Background
Anthony Benezet Allen was born on June 24, 1802 in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Ruth Falley and Samuel Allen.
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Anthony Benezet Allen
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Education
Allen received his education in the schools of New York.
Career
In 1833 Allen took up his residence in Buffalo, where he devoted himself to farming and the breeding of livestock. On a visit to England in 1841 he was impressed with the superiority of English livestock and at once resolved to import some of the best blood to start herds of pure blood stock in the United States and to begin a campaign of education in better breeding methods. To carry on such a campaign it was necessary to have a more effective means of reaching the public eye and ear. He therefore founded the American Agriculturist in 1842 in connection with his brother, Richard L. Allen, and with contributions from his other brother, Lewis F. Allen. For fourteen years he was editor and owner of this paper, moving to New York City at the close of the first year.
In 1856 he sold his paper to Orange Judd and devoted himself to the business of manufacturing and selling farm machinery. A warehouse for this purpose had been opened at 189 Water St. , New York, in 1847. Farm machinery when he began business had been largely limited to crude cast-iron plows, a rough sort of harrow, hoes, and shovels.
In 1867 he made another trip to England and also toured the continent of Europe studying farm methods to be used in improving American agriculture. All this time he supplied a constant stream of articles on a great variety of agricultural topics from plows to pigeons and from county fairs to rural schools.
In 1870 he bought a farm on Toms River in Ocean County, New Jersey, where he passed his summers for the rest of his life, spending the winters at Flushing, Long Island. But this Toms River adventure was by no means a retirement. Between 1840 and 1892 his pen was seldom at rest, warning others of his mistakes, telling them about his successes, and always suggesting the possibility of still better crops, better livestock, better farm homes and more rural happiness. In fact, he never laid down his hoe or his pen till pneumonia, the arch enemy of old age, seized upon him in his ninetieth year.
Achievements
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Allen took out many patents, chiefly for improvements in mowers, reapers, and plows. His trade rapidly extended all over the United States and even to the West Indies and South America. Perhaps the first impetus to the use of polled cattle was given by Allen and he was also instrumental in introducing the improved Berkshire swine and pointing out their value and importance.
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Stable Economy: A Treatise On the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering, and Working
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The Stable Book: Being a Treatise On the Management of Horses in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering and Working. Construction of ... Management of Diseased and Defective Horses
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The American agriculturist's almanac, for ... Volume 1844
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Stable Economy: A Treatise On the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering, and Working
Personality
Allen was of large stature, with hazel eyes, fair, slightly florid complexion and expansive forehead. A friend who visited him in his eighty-second year speaks of his tall, erect, elastic figure and of the numerous experiments he had in progress on his farm. He knew the history of every tree on his place and kept on planting more as if he should live forever to enjoy them.
Connections
In 1852 Allen was married to Mary E. Butterworth.
