Brother of Augustus C. and John Kirby Allen, founders of Houston, Texas.
Texas Historical Marker.
George Allen, fourth son of Roland and Sarah Allen, was born in New York and was reared in his native State, enjoying but slender educational advantages, his boyhood and youth being taken up with industrial and mercantile pursuits. He came to Texas in the spring or early summer of 1836 and located at Nacogdoches, where he engaged in merchandising in partnership with John S. Roberts. He married Miss Harriet E. Fenly, of Nacogdoches, June 16, 1837, and in the fall of the next year moved to Houston, where he continued in the mercantile business up to the time of his death, in 1854. He suffered heavy financial losses, chiefly by becoming surety for others, but he discharged his obligations of every nature whatever, and died with untarnished reputation. He left a widow and three sons, the sons being John K., Sam and George. The widow subsequently married again, and died in Houston in 1873, leaving one child, a daughter, by the second marriage. Of the sons of John K. resides at Asia, Polk county; Sam at Houston; and George in McCulloch county,--all in this State. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Texas Historical Marker.
George Allen, fourth son of Roland and Sarah Allen, was born in New York and was reared in his native State, enjoying but slender educational advantages, his boyhood and youth being taken up with industrial and mercantile pursuits. He came to Texas in the spring or early summer of 1836 and located at Nacogdoches, where he engaged in merchandising in partnership with John S. Roberts. He married Miss Harriet E. Fenly, of Nacogdoches, June 16, 1837, and in the fall of the next year moved to Houston, where he continued in the mercantile business up to the time of his death, in 1854. He suffered heavy financial losses, chiefly by becoming surety for others, but he discharged his obligations of every nature whatever, and died with untarnished reputation. He left a widow and three sons, the sons being John K., Sam and George. The widow subsequently married again, and died in Houston in 1873, leaving one child, a daughter, by the second marriage. Of the sons of John K. resides at Asia, Polk county; Sam at Houston; and George in McCulloch county,--all in this State. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Brother of Augustus C. and John Kirby Allen, founders of Houston, Texas.
Texas Historical Marker.
George Allen, fourth son of Roland and Sarah Allen, was born in New York and was reared in his native State, enjoying but slender educational advantages, his boyhood and youth being taken up with industrial and mercantile pursuits. He came to Texas in the spring or early summer of 1836 and located at Nacogdoches, where he engaged in merchandising in partnership with John S. Roberts. He married Miss Harriet E. Fenly, of Nacogdoches, June 16, 1837, and in the fall of the next year moved to Houston, where he continued in the mercantile business up to the time of his death, in 1854. He suffered heavy financial losses, chiefly by becoming surety for others, but he discharged his obligations of every nature whatever, and died with untarnished reputation. He left a widow and three sons, the sons being John K., Sam and George. The widow subsequently married again, and died in Houston in 1873, leaving one child, a daughter, by the second marriage. Of the sons of John K. resides at Asia, Polk county; Sam at Houston; and George in McCulloch county,--all in this State. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Texas Historical Marker.
George Allen, fourth son of Roland and Sarah Allen, was born in New York and was reared in his native State, enjoying but slender educational advantages, his boyhood and youth being taken up with industrial and mercantile pursuits. He came to Texas in the spring or early summer of 1836 and located at Nacogdoches, where he engaged in merchandising in partnership with John S. Roberts. He married Miss Harriet E. Fenly, of Nacogdoches, June 16, 1837, and in the fall of the next year moved to Houston, where he continued in the mercantile business up to the time of his death, in 1854. He suffered heavy financial losses, chiefly by becoming surety for others, but he discharged his obligations of every nature whatever, and died with untarnished reputation. He left a widow and three sons, the sons being John K., Sam and George. The widow subsequently married again, and died in Houston in 1873, leaving one child, a daughter, by the second marriage. Of the sons of John K. resides at Asia, Polk county; Sam at Houston; and George in McCulloch county,--all in this State. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
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