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Born 1824
From History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881)
LEVI ALLEN, Jr., farmer; P. O. Aki'on; was born July 28, 1824, on the farm where he now lives; his education was sufficient to enable him to teach. He I'remained with his father until the spring of 1850, when he started from Aki'on to Sacramento City, Cal., going most of the way on foot in company with Edwin Allen, Isaac Spicer, Sterns SpaiTowhawk and Ephraim Bellows; they endm'ed a great deal of hai-ship and suffering on account of lack of provision and water; he lived in the principal cities, and engaged in mining in the mountains. The latter years of his stay there were spent on a ranch in the stock business and the raising of grain. At one time while retm-ning on horseback to Sacramento City from his mining interests in the mountains, he was chased by two desperadoes (there being a great number in that country), for eighteen miles, and only escaped by the superiority of his steel and the approach upon civilization; many more incidents of the experience of about sixteen years of frontier life might be related, but space will not permit. On the 24th day of December, 1856, he was married to Mary E. Ware, a native of Amherst Co., Va., by whom he has had tlu-ee chikh-en — a pair of twin boys who were buried there with their mother, and Mary E. P., born Aug. 16, 18-58. His second marriage occurred in
As printed in History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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