1891 Biography - Albert C. Allen

ALBERT C. ALLEN, FRANKLIN. -- Albert C. Allen was born in Franklin, Louisiana, 1847. His father, Wm. P. Allen, was a native of Tennessee, born in Gallatin, in 1806. He removed to St. Mary parish early in life and became an extensive contractor and builder. Many of the extensive sugar houses of St. Mary parish are his architecture. He died in 1889. Our subject's mother, Caroline P. Nixon, was a native of Arkansas, born in Helena, 1808. She died December, 1879.

Albert C. is the eighth of a family of nine children. He spent the years of his minority in Tennessee, and at the age of nineteen he entered the profession of teacher in the common schools. He subsequently attended the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, graduating there- from in 1871. He practised [sic] as an attorney in the Nineteenth Judicial District till he was elected judge in 1886. He was re-elected in 1888, and now fills that position. He was married in 1874 to Miss Katie E. Johnson, of Franklin, Louisiana. There have been born to their marriage six children, four sons and two daughters.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 357.