W. P. Allen

ALLEN, BAIRD, HAYWARD

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/18/2015 at 21:19:28

W.P. ALLEN, wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicine, paints and oils, 256 Main street, Dubuque; is a native of Mason Co., Ky, and was born Sept. 18, 1824; in 1837, his father went to St. Louis when he was 12 years of age; he grew up to manhood there and learned the printing business; in 1844, he came to Dubuque and engaged in mining; in the winter of 1845-46 he went to St. Louis, on the 9th of December he crossed the river here in the stage on the ice, and when he got to St. Louis, the river was frozen there, and he crossed on the ice; in the fall of 1847, he returned to Dubuque and located permanently; in the spring of 1848, he entered the store of Dr. Mason as clerk, and was with him until the spring of 1851, when he engaged in the drug business for himself, and has continued that business since then in the same block in which he is now located; he has carried on the business over twenty-eight years, a longer time than any druggist in Dubuque. In 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary H. Baird, a native of Kentucky; they have one daughter- Mary Louise, now Mrs. Morris A. Hayward, living in Springfield, Ohio.

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