Harvey D. Allen was one of the most successful dairymen and retail milk dealers in Mission Valley. He was among the men who directed and controlled the business development of Mission Valley.
He was born in Doniphan County, Kansas, August 25, 1876, a son of Sereno D. and Phemie (Williams) Allen. In this family were eight children : Ernest J. ; Edna L., who married Eugene Schmitt, a city engineer in San Diego; Gertrude, a teacher in the San Diego high school; Harvey D., of this review; Benjamin D., of Doniphan county, Kansas, who is engaged in farming on an extensive scale, employing in the conduct of his enterprise more men than any other agriculturist in that county; Eric R., a resident of Liberty, New York ; Fred J. ; and Myrtle, the wife of James R. Young, formerly a teacher in the State Normal School in San Diego but now a resident of Chicago, Illinois.
Harvey D. Allen began his education in the public schools of Doniphan County and when eight years of age came with his father, S. D. Allen, to California, where the latter settled in Mission Valley, near San Diego, and purchased land. Harvey D. Allen began his career peddling milk on horseback from house to house in San Diego. From that small beginning grew a large and increasing business. For fifteen years he drove to town every morning with his team, selling his dairy products in the city of San Diego. Every year his business expanded and he and his father operated one of the largest dairies in this part of the state. On their ranch of one hundred and sixty acres they kept one hundred and forty Holstein cows and the enterprise was conducted strictly as a dairy farm. In 191 1 Mr. Allen added a ranch of ninety-two acres near the old mission where he kept thirty head of fine Jersey cows and grew alfalfa, grain and hay. He cut from three hundred to four hundred tons of alfalfa and averaged two hundred tons of hay yearly. He had over four hundred chickens of a fancy breed, his poultry raising formed a profitable branch of his work. On the smaller farm he installed a fine irrigating plant and everything else necessary for modern farm operation. His dairy was kept clean and sanitary in every particular and every variety of new equipment was installed, including a patent separator which divided the cream from the milk. Five wagons delivered cream and milk to all parts of San Diego every morning, fifteen men were employed in the various departments of the concern.
Mr. Allen was a member of San Diego Lodge, No. 153, IOOF, and gave his political support to the republican party.
Source: SAN DIEGO COUNTY CALIFORNIA A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
He was born in Doniphan County, Kansas, August 25, 1876, a son of Sereno D. and Phemie (Williams) Allen. In this family were eight children : Ernest J. ; Edna L., who married Eugene Schmitt, a city engineer in San Diego; Gertrude, a teacher in the San Diego high school; Harvey D., of this review; Benjamin D., of Doniphan county, Kansas, who is engaged in farming on an extensive scale, employing in the conduct of his enterprise more men than any other agriculturist in that county; Eric R., a resident of Liberty, New York ; Fred J. ; and Myrtle, the wife of James R. Young, formerly a teacher in the State Normal School in San Diego but now a resident of Chicago, Illinois.
Harvey D. Allen began his education in the public schools of Doniphan County and when eight years of age came with his father, S. D. Allen, to California, where the latter settled in Mission Valley, near San Diego, and purchased land. Harvey D. Allen began his career peddling milk on horseback from house to house in San Diego. From that small beginning grew a large and increasing business. For fifteen years he drove to town every morning with his team, selling his dairy products in the city of San Diego. Every year his business expanded and he and his father operated one of the largest dairies in this part of the state. On their ranch of one hundred and sixty acres they kept one hundred and forty Holstein cows and the enterprise was conducted strictly as a dairy farm. In 191 1 Mr. Allen added a ranch of ninety-two acres near the old mission where he kept thirty head of fine Jersey cows and grew alfalfa, grain and hay. He cut from three hundred to four hundred tons of alfalfa and averaged two hundred tons of hay yearly. He had over four hundred chickens of a fancy breed, his poultry raising formed a profitable branch of his work. On the smaller farm he installed a fine irrigating plant and everything else necessary for modern farm operation. His dairy was kept clean and sanitary in every particular and every variety of new equipment was installed, including a patent separator which divided the cream from the milk. Five wagons delivered cream and milk to all parts of San Diego every morning, fifteen men were employed in the various departments of the concern.
Mr. Allen was a member of San Diego Lodge, No. 153, IOOF, and gave his political support to the republican party.
Source: SAN DIEGO COUNTY CALIFORNIA A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
Harvey D. Allen was one of the most successful dairymen and retail milk dealers in Mission Valley. He was among the men who directed and controlled the business development of Mission Valley.
He was born in Doniphan County, Kansas, August 25, 1876, a son of Sereno D. and Phemie (Williams) Allen. In this family were eight children : Ernest J. ; Edna L., who married Eugene Schmitt, a city engineer in San Diego; Gertrude, a teacher in the San Diego high school; Harvey D., of this review; Benjamin D., of Doniphan county, Kansas, who is engaged in farming on an extensive scale, employing in the conduct of his enterprise more men than any other agriculturist in that county; Eric R., a resident of Liberty, New York ; Fred J. ; and Myrtle, the wife of James R. Young, formerly a teacher in the State Normal School in San Diego but now a resident of Chicago, Illinois.
Harvey D. Allen began his education in the public schools of Doniphan County and when eight years of age came with his father, S. D. Allen, to California, where the latter settled in Mission Valley, near San Diego, and purchased land. Harvey D. Allen began his career peddling milk on horseback from house to house in San Diego. From that small beginning grew a large and increasing business. For fifteen years he drove to town every morning with his team, selling his dairy products in the city of San Diego. Every year his business expanded and he and his father operated one of the largest dairies in this part of the state. On their ranch of one hundred and sixty acres they kept one hundred and forty Holstein cows and the enterprise was conducted strictly as a dairy farm. In 191 1 Mr. Allen added a ranch of ninety-two acres near the old mission where he kept thirty head of fine Jersey cows and grew alfalfa, grain and hay. He cut from three hundred to four hundred tons of alfalfa and averaged two hundred tons of hay yearly. He had over four hundred chickens of a fancy breed, his poultry raising formed a profitable branch of his work. On the smaller farm he installed a fine irrigating plant and everything else necessary for modern farm operation. His dairy was kept clean and sanitary in every particular and every variety of new equipment was installed, including a patent separator which divided the cream from the milk. Five wagons delivered cream and milk to all parts of San Diego every morning, fifteen men were employed in the various departments of the concern.
Mr. Allen was a member of San Diego Lodge, No. 153, IOOF, and gave his political support to the republican party.
Source: SAN DIEGO COUNTY CALIFORNIA A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
He was born in Doniphan County, Kansas, August 25, 1876, a son of Sereno D. and Phemie (Williams) Allen. In this family were eight children : Ernest J. ; Edna L., who married Eugene Schmitt, a city engineer in San Diego; Gertrude, a teacher in the San Diego high school; Harvey D., of this review; Benjamin D., of Doniphan county, Kansas, who is engaged in farming on an extensive scale, employing in the conduct of his enterprise more men than any other agriculturist in that county; Eric R., a resident of Liberty, New York ; Fred J. ; and Myrtle, the wife of James R. Young, formerly a teacher in the State Normal School in San Diego but now a resident of Chicago, Illinois.
Harvey D. Allen began his education in the public schools of Doniphan County and when eight years of age came with his father, S. D. Allen, to California, where the latter settled in Mission Valley, near San Diego, and purchased land. Harvey D. Allen began his career peddling milk on horseback from house to house in San Diego. From that small beginning grew a large and increasing business. For fifteen years he drove to town every morning with his team, selling his dairy products in the city of San Diego. Every year his business expanded and he and his father operated one of the largest dairies in this part of the state. On their ranch of one hundred and sixty acres they kept one hundred and forty Holstein cows and the enterprise was conducted strictly as a dairy farm. In 191 1 Mr. Allen added a ranch of ninety-two acres near the old mission where he kept thirty head of fine Jersey cows and grew alfalfa, grain and hay. He cut from three hundred to four hundred tons of alfalfa and averaged two hundred tons of hay yearly. He had over four hundred chickens of a fancy breed, his poultry raising formed a profitable branch of his work. On the smaller farm he installed a fine irrigating plant and everything else necessary for modern farm operation. His dairy was kept clean and sanitary in every particular and every variety of new equipment was installed, including a patent separator which divided the cream from the milk. Five wagons delivered cream and milk to all parts of San Diego every morning, fifteen men were employed in the various departments of the concern.
Mr. Allen was a member of San Diego Lodge, No. 153, IOOF, and gave his political support to the republican party.
Source: SAN DIEGO COUNTY CALIFORNIA A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
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