Allen family

Joseph Allen was born on August 15, 1790, and graduated from Harvard Divinity school in 1811. In 1816, the newly ordained Allen became pastor of the Congregational Church at Northborough, Massachusetts, a position he retained until his death on February 23, 1873.

His first son, Joseph Henry Allen (b. August 21, 1820), followed his father into the clergy after his 1840 graduation from Harvard. Joseph served congregations in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (1843-1847); Washington, D. C. (1847-1850); and Bangor, Maine (1850-1857). Notably, he oversaw the funeral of former president John Quincy Adams. Joseph then entered the publishing industry, and worked as an editor for the Christian Examiner (1857-1869) and the Unitarian Review (1887-1891). From 1878-1882, he returned to Harvard as a professor of history. Joseph Henry Allen died in 1898.

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