Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Spencer Co.

JOSEPH N. ALLEN, M.D., was born in Shelby County, Ky., June 20, 1815. His
father, John Allen, was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent. He
was a farmer by vocation.  In religion he was an Episcopalian.  He came
to Kentucky in 1794, and died here during the cholera epidemic of 1835.
His wife, Margaret Hornsby, was also a native of Virginia, and of English
ancestry.  Joseph M. Allen was reared on a farm, but educated for a
physician at Lexington, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio.  After graduating, about
1845, he resided in Platte City, Wis., for about ten months, and then went
to New Orleans.  In the latter part of 1846 he entered the quartermaster's
department in the army destined for Mexico, in which war he served until
the close.  For a while he resided in Paducah, Ky.  In 1849 he went to
California, over the plains on horse-back, spent some time in Valparaiso,
and in 1852 returned to Spencer County, Ky.  In 1863 he married Mrs.
Elizabeth (Thomas) Beard, widow of Stephen M. Beard, and daughter of A. W.
Thomas, who was born in Virginia, March 24, 1797.  He came to Kentucky,
engaged in farming, represented Spencer County in the State Legislature
several terms, and died April 3, 1883.  Mrs. Allen was born March 15, 1828,
and is the mother of two children by her first husband: Emma T. (Schofield)
and Bell M.  Her mother, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Col. William and
Ruth (Corn) Boyd.  The Doctor is a member of the Presbyterian Church, is
a Free Mason, and with his wife resides on a farm of 325 acres on the
Louisville and Taylorsville Turnpike.

Allen Hornsby Thomas Beard Schofield Corn Boyd
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Lexington-Fayette-KY Shelby-KY Paducah-McCracken-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH
Valparaiso-Porter-IN WI VA

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