HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern 
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
page 553
DR. A. S. ALLAN, physician and surgeon, Lexington, is the son of the late 
Hon. Chilton Allan, who, born in Albemarle County, Va., April 6, 1786, was, 
after the death of his father brought by his mother to Kentucky in 1797.
Apprenticed to a wheelwright, he devoted all his possible time to study; 
secured a years's tuition under Rev. John Lyle, a distinguished Presbyterian 
clergyman of that time; with some help from his friend Gov. James Clark, of 
Winchester, prepared himself for the bar, to which he was admitted in 1808, 
and began legal practice at Winchester, of which place he remained a 
resident during his life.
Soon attaining distinction and popularity, he was, in 1811, elected to 
represent Clark County in the Legislature, and re-elected in 1815, 1822, 
1830 and 1842.
While occupying a seat in the Lower House in 1823, he was elected without 
opposition to the State Senate, and during his four years in that body he 
became conspicuous as a leader of the "Anti-Relief: and :Old Court" party, 
one of his speeches against the constitutionality of the "New Court" being 
distributed over the State in pamphlet form.
In 1831, and twice more in succession, for six years in all, he was elected 
member of the United States Congress for Ashland district, and was Chairman 
of the Committee on Territories and a member of that on Foreign Affairs.
In 1837, he wished to quit public life, but was induced to accept the 
Presidency of the State Board of Internal Improvements, which he resigned 
the following year, and, although engaging but once more in public affairs, 
in 1842, he was greatly interested in the contest over the new State 
Constitution, writing several papers in opposition to some of its features, 
and strongly supporting an independent judiciary.
He was for a time orator of the Kentucky Grand Lodge of A., F. & A. M., 
and at his death, in 1855, he left a noble life record as an able lawyer 
and a man of rare virtues, will-defined opinions and statesmanlike views.
The subject of this sketch, Dr. Allan, was born in Winchester, Ky., in 1823, 
and entered Center College at Danville at the age of Sixteen, where he 
remained for three years, leaving in 1842.
He began the study of medicine with Drs. John and A. W. Mills, of 
Winchester, and in 1844, he entered the medical department of 
Transylvania University, from which he graduated in the spring of 1846, 
and then began the practice of his profession at his old home, remaining 
there until 1866, when he came to Lexington, and has practiced here ever 
since.
He became a member of the State Medical Society at its beginning.
He married Miss Susan Vanmeter, a daughter of Isaac Vanmeter, of Clark 
County, Ky., in 1846.
Allan Lyle Clark Mills Vanmeter
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Albemarle-VA Clark-KY

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