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Born 1872
From Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908)
W. G. ALLEN, general manager of the Niagara Fire Extinguisher Company, with offices in the Hamilton Building, Akron, is one of the city's capable business men, and has been a resident here since 1900. He was born at Dundee, Michigan, in 1872, and was reared and educated in his native state. During almost the whole of his business life, he has been in his present line of business. For fourteen years he was connected with the Automatic Sprinkler Company, of Chicago, as department manager, leaving there in 1900, in order to become general manager of the Niagara Fire Extinguisher Company, at Akron, where the company has a factory for the manufacture of automatic sprinkling appliances. The output of this factory is of standard excellence and the sale of the company's goods, under Mr. VUen's progressive business methods, is constantly increasing.
In 1897 Mr. Allen was married to Jessie D. Bryden, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they have one child, Jeanette M. Mr. Allen is a man of social tastes and belongs to all of Akron's exclusive clubs.
As printed in Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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