Festus Allen    

FESTUS ALLEN, retired, Beaver Falls, was born in county Galway, Ireland, March 7, 1832, and is a son of Richard and Fanny (Kelly) Allen. He was reared in his native county, where he began the trade of shoemaker. He came to America in 1850 and worked at his trade as a journeyman in New York and New Jersey cities three years. In 1853 he located in Pittsburgh and followed his trade there and in Allegheny City up to 1864, when he settled in New Brighton, this county. In 1867 he located in Beaver Falls, where he has since resided, working at his trade until 1885. In the latter year he erected one of the finest brick stores on Seventh Avenue. He married, in 1862, Keziah Goodwin, of Somerset, Jefferson county, Ohio, daughter of Jesse Goodwin, a soldier of the Mexican war. By this union there are five children living: Thomas R., Festus W., Clara, Lizzie and Albert. Mr. Allen is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the K. of L. Politically he is a Democrat.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com