Background
He was the son of Amos H. Allen and Emily J. (Maxon) Allen.
politician member of the New York State Senate
He was the son of Amos H. Allen and Emily J. (Maxon) Allen.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1892, and then engaged in the book-publishing business with the Macmillan Company.
He was President of the Taconic Valley Bank, of Berlin, New New York He died on September 25, 1916, in Saranac Lake, New New York And was buried at the Meadowlawn Cemetery in Petersburgh.
Allen was Sheriff of Rensselaer County, New York from 1904 to 1906. A member of the New York State Senate (29th Doctorate) from 1909 to 1912, sitting in the 132nd, 133rd, 134th and 135th New York State Legislatures. And a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1915.