John Alpheus Allen

Background

Allen, John Alpheus was born on October 19, 1863 in Hebron, Maine, United States. Son of Professor Oscar Dana and Fidelia Roberts (Totman) Allen.

Education

Graduate Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1883.

Career

Assistant to curator metallurgy, United States National. Assistant in herbarium Harvard University, 1892. Made a published collection of mosses of the Cascade Mountains, 1898.

Chemist to Nungesser Electric Battery Company, of Cleveland from 1903.

Achievements

• John Alpheus Allen has been listed as a noteworthy chemist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Father:

Professor Oscar Dana Allen

Mother:

Fidelia Roberts (Totman) Allen