Allin, Benjamin Casey, 1886-1960

Benjamin Casey Allin, III, Port engineer, U.S. Army Colonel who served in both world wars, and Chicago native. Married Dorothy May Newell in 1913; authored an autobiography, Reaching for the sea (Boston: Meador Publishing Co., (c. 1956)), and several other works; and died at Berkeley, California, where he had resided for 14 years.

From the guide to the Benjamin Casey Allin, III, Papers, 1911, 1929-1971, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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