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WILLIAM S. ALLEN, who is engaged in a mercantile business at Glenora, Pennsylvania, is a prominent citizen of Parker Township, in which he is serving in his second term as collector. He was born in Parker Township,
Butler County, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1856, and is a son of John N. and Mary J. (Moore) Allen.
The Allen family came among the earliest settlers to Parker Township, its founder being John Allen, who came from Eastern Pennsylvania into the wilderness, and was accompanied by his son, Thomas Allen, who was the grandfather of William S. Allen. John Allen was a Revolutionary soldier.
John N. Allen, father of William S., was born in Parker Township, where he died in 1871. He married Mary J. Moore, who was born in Washington Township, Butler County, where she now resides, still enjoying all her faculties, although she has reached her seventy-sixth year.
She is a daughter of Samuel Moore, who was an early settler in Washington Township. The surviving children of John N. and Mary J. Allen are: William S.; Mary A. H., who is the wife of J. N. Gibson, of Greeley, Kansas; Aseneth M., who is the wife of James Buchanan, of Texas;
and James C, who lives in Colorado.
William S. Allen was reared to man's estate in Parker Township and attended the local schools throughout boyhood, later enjoying more advanced opportunities in academies at West Sunbury and North Washington. He assisted on the home farm and also taught school for a time,
but after his marriage engaged in cultivating his farm of sixty acres, which is situated in Parker Township. In 1897 he started his general store at Glenora, which he has conducted ever since, and he has been postmaster and his wife has been postmistress of this village.
In politics he is a stanch Republican and has taken an active part in public matters in his community. With the efficiency of a broadminded man and earnest citizen, he has served his community in a number of offices, for two years being overseer of the poor, for several terms
supervisor and is now collector.
On December 20, 1884, Mr. Allen was married to Rebecca A. Allen, who is a daughter of the late William D. Allen, formerly one of the leading men of Parker Township. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have one daughter, Callie M., an accomplished young lady, who is a successful teacher in
Parker Township. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the New Salem Presbyterian Church, at Annisville, in which he is an elder. Thomas Allen, grandfather of William S., was a soldier in the War of 1812; he died in 1875 in his eighty-seventh year.
Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 656-659.
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