Father of Jonathan Allan and Leslie Ruth Allan
HERBERT J. ALAN, A TAX EXPERT, 54
Lawyer in Internal Revenue Service Dies—Had Been U. of Florida Professor
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7— Herbert A. Allan, for many years a lawyer in the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service, died here yesterday in George Washington Hospital after a short illness. He was 54 years old.
Mr. Allan, who was born in New York, graduated from Princeton University with the class of 1924 and from Columbia Law School in 1927. After several years of private practice in New York, he became a professor at the University of Florida School of Law.
In 1943, Mr. Allan joined the legal staff of the Chief Counsel’s Office and became assistant head of the legislation and regulations division. At his death, he was special assistant in the interpretive division.
An authority in the field of taxation of estates and trusts, Mr. Allan had assisted in shaping the development of the law in this field. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society, national vice chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Federal Bar Association, and was active in various bar groups. He wrote many articles on tax subjects.
Surviving are his widow, the former Helen Bloomfield; a son Jonathan, a student at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., a daughter, Leslie, and his mother, Mrs. I. H. Jacob of New York.
[New York Times, 8 Sep 1958: 29]
Father of Jonathan Allan and Leslie Ruth Allan
HERBERT J. ALAN, A TAX EXPERT, 54
Lawyer in Internal Revenue Service Dies—Had Been U. of Florida Professor
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7— Herbert A. Allan, for many years a lawyer in the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service, died here yesterday in George Washington Hospital after a short illness. He was 54 years old.
Mr. Allan, who was born in New York, graduated from Princeton University with the class of 1924 and from Columbia Law School in 1927. After several years of private practice in New York, he became a professor at the University of Florida School of Law.
In 1943, Mr. Allan joined the legal staff of the Chief Counsel’s Office and became assistant head of the legislation and regulations division. At his death, he was special assistant in the interpretive division.
An authority in the field of taxation of estates and trusts, Mr. Allan had assisted in shaping the development of the law in this field. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society, national vice chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Federal Bar Association, and was active in various bar groups. He wrote many articles on tax subjects.
Surviving are his widow, the former Helen Bloomfield; a son Jonathan, a student at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., a daughter, Leslie, and his mother, Mrs. I. H. Jacob of New York.
[New York Times, 8 Sep 1958: 29]
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