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William Allen Full Name: William Allen Date of birth: March 18, 1832 Date of death: August 12, 1908 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 17 Jan 11, 1887 - Jan 13, 1891 20th (3) (4)   21st (1) (2)   Unaffiliated Rock Hill / Collin   Collin, Denton (1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives. (2) List of Senators of the 21st Legislature, "The State Senate: Members-Elect in the Different Districts - Austin Local Notes," Galveston Daily News, 11/20/1888, p. 6, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "There are two independents in the list. The rest are democratic nominees." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). (3) Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). (4) 20th Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/11/1887, p. 1. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches Poem, pp. 25-26; photo and biographical sketch, p. 47, birth date 3/18/1834, death date 8/12/1908; election results, p. 365. History and Reminiscences of Denton County, 1918. Biographical sketch, William Allen, pp. 62-63. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature, 1887. Portrait and biographical sketch, William Allen, pp. 155-156. Born 3/18/1835 in Barren County, Kentucky. "A Jeffersonian Democrat of the real old kind." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889. Biographical sketch, Rev. William Allen, pp. 365-367. Birth date 3/18/1834, "died recently at Frisco, Collin County, Texas" (book published 10/27/1908). Sixty Years in Texas, 1908. Military Service Notes Confederate States Army, military chaplain. Sixty Years in Texas, 1908. Other Resources Rev. Wm. Allen, birth date 3/18/1832, death date 8/12/1908 on grave marker, portrait, burial in Pecan Springs Cemetery, Collin County. Find a Grave. "Mortuary, William Allen Dead," 8/13/1908, p. 3. Denton, Texas, 8/12/1908. Died at home in Collin County "this morning . . . aged nearly 88 years." "Although a staunch Democrat, he made the race as an independent for the State Senate . . ." Galveston Daily News. Photographs Photograph. Wm. Allen, 21st Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Wm. Allen, 20th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 20th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber vestibule, west wall. 2E.V1). State Preservation Board. 21st session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 21st R.S. - 1889 Commerce and Manufacture   Constitutional Amendments   Education   Federal Relations (Chair)  Finance   Internal Improvements   Penitentiaries   Retrenchment and Reform   Road Legislation   Roads and Bridges   State Asylums   Stock and Stockraising   20th R.S. - 1887 Agricultural Affairs (Chair)  Constitutional Amendments   Education   Finance   Internal Improvements   Penitentiaries   Public Debt   Roads and Bridges   State Asylum   Stock and Stock Raising

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