Allen Jr. lived with his maternal grandmother in Alburtis, Lehigh County, PA after his father died in 1890. He graduated from Keystone Normal School in Kutztown, PA 1896. He was a veteran of Spanish American War. Studied law in Allentown, Ran for DA in 1911, and for judge in 1913 but lost. A prominent lawyer….Page 679, Vol II, History of Lehigh County, PA
1900 census has him living in a boarding house, 136 Broad St., Phila with mother, brother and sister.