Myron Winslow Allen

Born in Middlebury Twp, Addison Co, Vermont to Ira and Martha "Patty" Eddy (Hemenway) Allen

Married Catherine Brown on 18 Oct 1855 in San Francisco.

They were some of the early settlers of Oakland and he set up the first carriage "manufactory" in Oakland.

The obituary notice said the internment was "private"

    ***     ***     *** ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, DEATHS: COUNTY RECORDS, 1889-1895

Seq #66; Rec #3572; Date of Death: 12-May-1893; Surname: ALLEN; First Name: Myron; Middle Name: W; Age Yrs 68, Mos 1, Days 38; Race: WHTE; Sex: M; Marital Status: M; Calculated Birth Date: 4-Mar-1825; Nativity: Vt.

    ***     ***     *** From pg 69 of  "A Genealogical Record of One Branch of the Hemenway Family, from 1634 to 1880" by Rev Asa Hemenway of Manchester, Vermont, published 1880, 

ALLEN FAMILY

7. Patty Eddy (Hemenway), b. Shoreham, Aug. 12. 1793, m. Ira Allen, of Middlebury, Vt., (formerly of Lebanon, N. H.,) Feb. 12, 1815. They settled at Middlebury, where she d. Sept. 22, 1847. He m. 2d, June 28, 1848, Sophia Sargeant, widow of George A. Allen, of Burlington, Vt. He d. at Middlebury, Nov. 10, 1874, aged 83 years, having been for 60 years a resident there, and his widow d. Oct. 18, 1876...

4. Myron W., b. March 15, 1825, m. Catherine Brown, of San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 18, 1855, and resides in Oakland, Cal.

Their children:

1. Mary B., b. San Francisco, Feb. 10, 1857, m. George Whidden, of Pleasanton, Cal., Dec. 26, 1877, and have Ray Allen, b. Oct. 14, 1878.

2. Harriet D., b. San Francisco, April 25, 1859, d. Sept. 12, 1873.

3. Julia W., b. Newark, N. J., Oct. 16, 1861.

4. George Henry, b. Philadelphia, Jan. 21, 1864

• ** *** *** 20 April 2015 - In contact California Genealogical Society and Library to ascertain actual burial place.

The death notice from the 14 May 1893 San Francisco Chronicle reads as follows:

ALLEN -- In Oakland, May 12, Myron Winslow Allen, a native of Vermont, aged 68 years.

Funeral services will be held to-morrow (Monday), at 10 o'clock, at residence, 1961 Alice street. Interment private.

Additionally, on the 14th, the paper published:

Death of a Pioneer.

Myron W Allen, an old pioneer, died at his home, 1061 Alice street, yesterday of paralysis. Mr Allen was one of the early settlers in Oakland. He opened the first carriage manufactory here and did a thriving business. The old man is well known throughout the county. The funeral will take place from his late home to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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