Clarence Gilman Allyn 1844-1911

AALYN, GIBBS, WILLIAMS, FOTTERALL

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Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph-Herald on January 12, 1911.

CLARENCE ALLYN
ANSWERS SUMMONS

WELL KNOWN DUBUQUER
PASSES AWAY AFTER A
LONG ILLNESS

Survived By His Wife, Mrs. Eunice
Gibbs-Allyn of This City

Clarence Gilman Allyn was born at Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York December 3rd, 1844. He was the oldest son of T. F. and Fidelia N. Allyn. In the early fifties he came to Dubuque with his parents. His father engaged in land business and became the President of the “Iowa Land Co.” and secretary of the “Northwestern Land Co.” in the prosperous days of that period. He moved to Dyersville and there built one of the finest houses in that part of the state. All of the then modern improvements were introduced and skilled labor from the east imported for the occasion. The house almost remains in as good of condition as when built. The depression in western properties came in 1857 and 1861. Mr. T. F. Allyn became interested in railway equipment, moved east to Canandaigua, New York, where his son Clarence attended the academy. Later the family moved to Nyack on the Hudson where Mr. T. F. Allyn invented the “Allyn Car Spring.” The factory in Jersey City the father and son being likewise interested in the business. In 1870, Mr. Clarence G. Allyn came west and remained the greater part of the year returning to the family home in Nyack in 1871. In 1873 he returned to Dubuque and was united in marriage to Miss Eunice E. Gibbs, at St. John’s Episcopal Church at high noon, November 13.

Mr. and Mrs. Allyn lived in Nyack until the spring of 1874 when they took a home on the Thames River near New London within speaking distance of the ancestral home, built in the 17th century, at Allyn’s Point.

When the fort at Groton Heights in the war of the revolution was taken by the British many of the wounded soldiers were conveyed by boats to Allyn’s home, filling the rooms with the suffers and staining the floor with their blood, marks which are to be seen at the present day. Two of the Clarence Allyn ancestors, a Lester and an Allyn were among the number.

Mr. T. F. Allyn died in 1874 and Mrs. T. F. Allyn in 1876, and in 1877 Mr. Clarence G. Allyn came to East Dubuque, occupying the old Gibbs house in that city. When Mrs. E. L. Gibbs, Mrs. Allyn’s mother passed away in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Allyn moved to Dubuque where they have since resided.

Since coming west Mr. Allyn has been a commercial traveler having been connected for the greater number of years with the Pritchard Buggy Top Co. and the Torbert Paint and Drug House. Mr. Allyn was a member of the Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association and the Apollo-Orient Lodge Knights of Pythias

He leaves to mourn his wife in this city, one sister, Mr. F. A. Williams, New York City, and an aunt, Mrs. B. F. Fotterall of Lafayette, Ind., a younger brother, Frank N. having passed away at the beginning of the year.