ALLEN-Jonathan - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana

Chicago: HH Hill, 1881 p 134

Jno. Allen (deceased), one of Covington's earliest dealers in furniture, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 1811. He had very limited opportunities of getting an education. His people removed to Warren county, Ohio, in 1826. He there learned the trade of cabinet-making with his brother-in-law, Wm. F. DeBois, and afterward went into partnership with him. They were engaged in business in the town of Springboiler. Mr. Allen removed to Franklin and engaged in business for a time with a Mr. Nipple, and afterward on his own account. In the fall of 1886 he was married to Miss Sarah Presly, and in 1838 came west, and located at Covington, where he began at once in the furniture trade. He was a member of the I.O.O.F., and an industrious and economical business man. He died in 1873, possessed of a good property, and leaving a wife and five children to mourn his loss.