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ALLEN, S. A. (Page 347 and 348)Samuel A. Allen, a native of Salem County, was born in 1813. He prepared for the bar in the office of Richard P. Thompson, and was licensed as an attorney in 1841, and as a counselor in 1844. He settled in his native town, and although never regarded as a well-read lawyer, he managed through well-directed energy and a knack for obtaining business, to secure a comparatively large and profitable practice. Perhaps one of the most noted circumstances of his life in Salem, and one by which he is best remembered, is the fact of his having written a book, entitled "My Own Home and Fireside," in which a number of the leading society people living in Salem at that time were held up to ridicule. The book, which came out anonymously, created quite a stir in the social circles of the town. The demand for it was so great that the first edition was soon exhausted, and it was necessary to publish a second. Subsequently, Mr. Allen removed from Salem to Trenton, N. J. While there, however, he did not engage actively in practice. From Trenton he went to Burlington for a short time, and finally settled near Germantown, Pa. He married late in life, Miss Mary, a daughter of Charles Hornblower and a granddaughter of Chief Justice Hornblower. He died in Germantown, December 8, 1879, in his sixty-sixth year.
