BIO: Donald C. Allen, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 179-180.
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    DONALD C. ALLEN is a dealer in flour and feed in the borough of Beaver
  Falls, Pa., and is among its most enterprising merchants. He was born near
  Prospect, Butler county, Pa., August 13, 1860, and is a son of William and
  Penelope (Lambie) Allen, and grandson of Robert and Jane (Cochran) Allen.
    
    Robert Allen was born in County Down, Ireland, and in 1832, with his wife
  and family, came to the United States; He settled on a farm in Mercer county,
  Pa., which had been purchased for him by his son William. There he continued
  to reside until overtaken by death, which was at the age of eighty-four
  years. His wife, Jane Cochran, also died at about that age. They were the
  parents of a family of six children, namely: Margaret (Montgomery); Mary
  (Stewart); William; Robert; Samuel; and Cochran. William Allen, the father of
  Donald C., was born in County Down, Ireland, in the year 1815, five years
  previous to the arrival of his parents in this country, and spent several
  years on his
    
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  father's farm in Mercer county. He then went to Pittsburg, Pa., and worked
  in a wholesale grocery store at No. 196 Liberty street, for a period of ten
  years. He then engaged in the grocery business in the village of Prospect,
  Butler county, Pa., successfully continuing thus for ten years; he then sold
  out his store, bought a saw and grist mill three miles south of that village;
  rebuilt the mills, and continued in the milling business until death claimed
  him,-which was in 1879. He was united in the bonds of wedlock with Miss
  Penelope Lambie, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a daughter of William
  Lambie; she passed from this earth, in 1897, aged seventy-four years. Their
  union was blessed by the birth of the following children: Robert, deceased;
  Agnes, who died aged seventeen years; Marion (McCandless); Jeannette R.
  (Crabbe); Penelope, the wife of James Balph, a medical missionary, and
  prominent resident of Latakia, Syria; Margaret, a school teacher; William L.,
  deceased; Donald C., the subject of this brief memoir; and John G., who is in
  the grocery business in Beaver Falls. Religiously, he was connected with the
  Reformed Presbyterian church.
    
    Donald C. Allen obtained a good schooling in his native district, and spent
  his boyhood days in helping his father in the work about the mill; in 1884 he
  began work at lumbering, but in 1889, he went into the grocery business with
  his brother, John G. Allen. He continued thus until 1897, when he sold his
  interests and bought out R. A. Bole, who was engaged in the flour and feed
  business. Mr. Alien is well deserving of the large patronage he has already
  secured, and his genial manners and straightforward business methods have
  secured for him hosts of friends.
    
    Mr. Allen formed a matrimonial alliance, in 1896, with Miss Mary E. Heiser,
  a daughter of Daniel Heiser, of Lewisburg, Pa., and their home has been
  blessed by the birth of one son, Donald C., Jr. Mr. Allen is an active member
  of the Reformed Presbyterian church; he was the prime mover in establishing
  the Mission Sunday School at Patterson Heights, and is still a leader in the
  school. He is a deacon, and a trustee, of the church. On a preceding page is
  shown the family group, of Donald C. Allen, his wife, and his son, Donald C., Jr.