| Title |
Allen, Christopher |
| Alternate title |
Allen, Christian |
| Date |
b. ca. 1832-1911 |
| Description |
Christopher Allen, born about 1832 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia from 1857 to about 1881.
He started his career in the late 1850s with P. S. Duval & Son at 8, later 22 South Fifth Street.
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Allen relocated to New York by the Civil War and enrolled in Company F of the 4th New York Calvary Regiment on September 9,
1861. He served as a full corporal and was discharged in 1864 at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Though he survived the war,
Allen lost his right arm.
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Allen returned to Philadelphia after the war, and from about 1867 to the mid 1870s, Herline & Co. employed him at their 620
Chestnut Street establishment.
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Allen resided with his wife, Ellen, also a native of Ireland, and three children in Ward 2 of Philadelphia in 1860. Ten years
later they lived in Ward 9, most likely at 9 South Seventeenth Street, with four additional children. By 1880, Allen was incarcerated
in the House of Correction, Employment and Reformation, finishing a two-year sentence for being a "habitual drunkard." During
that time, his family lived at 1134 Guirey (i.e. Wilder) Street (Ward 1).
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In 1893, Allen signed over his pension and entered the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, Maine. He died
on June 28, 1911.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Herline & Co. and P. S. Duval & Son. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860, 1870 and 1880 |
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Philadelphia City Directories, 1857-1880 (intermittently) |
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North American, October 10, 1873 |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 1878 |
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U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 |
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U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 |
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WWWAA, 84 |
