- John Allen (soldier)
John Allen (
December 30 ,1771 cite book |editor=Kleber, John E. |others=Associate editors:Thomas D. Clark , Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter |title="The Kentucky Encyclopedia" |year=1992 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=Lexington, Kentucky |isbn=0813117720 |chapter=Allen, John] or 1772cite book |last=Lanman |first=Charles |title=The red book of Michigan; a civil, military and biographical history |origyear=1871 |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8753.0001.001 |accessdate=2007-04-14 |year=2005 |publisher=University of Michigan Library |location=Ann Arbor, Mich. |pages=p. 415 | chapter=Biographical History of Michigan |chapterurl=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;idno=bac8753.0001.001;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=431;page=root;size=s ] –January 22 ,1813 ) was an American Army officer killed in theWar of 1812 .Allen was born in
Rockbridge County, Virginia , and went with his father toKentucky in 1780. He went to school inBardstown, Kentucky and studied law inStaunton, Virginia . He returned to Kentucky to law practice in Shelbyville from 1801 to 1807. That year he went to theKentucky Senate , serving until his death.With the outbreak of the
War of 1812 , Allen raised a regiment of riflemen for service under GeneralWilliam Henry Harrison . He was commissioned a colonel and died at theBattle of Frenchtown on theRiver Raisin in southeastMichigan .Allen is the namesake of
Allen County, Kentucky ,Allen County, Ohio , andAllen County, Indiana .References
*Helen Winemiller Wood. The Naming of Allen County.
Lima, Ohio : Longmeier, 1984
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