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 554
THOMAS N. ALLEN, lawyer, Lexington, is of Virginian descent, his grandfather 
and father, James, having come to Kentucky while the latter was still a boy, 
and settled in Jessamine County.
The lad, James, learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked in Clark 
County till 1852, when he moved to Missouri, where he is now a farmer.
He married Martha G. Bryan, and our subject, who is their second surviving 
son, was born in Winchester, on October 23, 1839.
He entered Bethany College at the age of sixteen years, and in 1858 began 
the reading law in Lexington, being a student with John C. Breckinridge and 
James B. Beck; was admitted to the bar in 1861, and established himself as 
a practitioner in Lexington.
In 1867 he was elected City Attorney, and in the same year married Hattie F., 
daughter of the late Capt. Thomas S. Stamps, of Fayette County.
In 1874, he was induced to give up his practice in Lexington to enter into 
partnership with is brother in Louisville; but four years later he returned, 
was immediately chose again as City Attorney of Lexington, and from that 
time to the present he has been kept busy with the concerns of his clients.
He has a family of six children.
Allen Bryan Breckinridge Beck Stamps
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VA MO Jessamine-KY Clark-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY

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