Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

JOSEPH D. ALLEN, retired merchant, was born at Barre, Mass., May 1, 
1821, is a son of Samuel and Martha (Dinnis) Allen, and is of English-
Irish extraction.  The father was born in Barre, Mass., in 1794; and the 
mother in the same city in 1799.  The former died in 1829, and the 
latter now resides with her son in Bowling Green.  The paternal 
grandfather was Samuel Allen, also a native of Massachusetts.  Joseph D. 
Allen was educated at the public schools of his native town.  From seven 
until fourteen years of age he was a bound boy, and then for two years 
he worked on the farm for wages.  Subsequently he learned the carriage-
maker's trade.  In 1847 he came to Bowling Green, and for five years 
worked in a foundry.  About 1852 he engaged in the stove and tin 
business in Bowling Green; sometime afterward changed to agricultural 
implements.  He introduced and sold the first reaper and sewing machine 
in southern Kentucky. The marriage of Mr. Allen occurred in 1846, with 
Louisa W. Stowe, a native of Princeton, Mass., born in 1823, daughter of 
Freeman and Pesit (Wilson) Stowe.  They have two children, viz.:  
Charlie S. and Cora.  Mr. Allen is a Republican, and a member of the 
Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Allen is also a member.  He became a 
member of the I. O. O. F. at Barre, Mass., in 1842.  He is an earnest 
temperance advocate and a true Christian gentleman.

Allen Dinnis Stowe Wilson
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