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J. M. Allen
James M. Allen was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, July 1st, 1827. Father's name, Simeon
B. Allen; mother's maiden name, Mary Stamps Shackleford, both of Fayette county, Kentucky.
Their parents moved from Virginia to Kentucky.
He was educated at home, in country and village schools, until sixteen years of age. Then attended Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, under Methodist supervision, H. B. Bascom, president, and afterward Bacon College, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, James Shannon, president. Studied medicine with Dr. David Clinton Higbee, Lexington, Kentucky. Attended course of lectures in Medical department of Transylvania University. Following year continued study of medicine with Dr. Shackleford of Maysville, Kentucky, and Dr. Flamming, of Elizaville, Kentucky.
Year following this took course of lectures in Ohio Medical School, Cincinnati, and received diploma from this school.
Practiced two years in Mayslick, Kentucky, and moved to Illinois in fall of the year 1853. |
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Entered the ministry and was ordained at Eureka in 1856. Began teaching in Eureka College 1857. July 31, 1860, married Sarah E. Watkins, Eureka, Illinois. Connected with Eureka College as professor, president, financial agent, etc., from 1857 to summer of 1891, when he moved to Sprague, Washington, where he preached for the church a year and then took charge of the church at Spokane, Washington.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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