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Allen, Charles Edwin, 1838-1915
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1838-1915
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Charles Edwin Allen was born on November 28, 1838, in Burlington, Vermont.
In 1859, he graduated from the University of Vermont and then studied law at the Albany Law School. After practicing for a few years in New York City, he moved back to Burlington, where he worked as a city clerk from 1886 to 1903, a school Commissioner from 1883 to 1906, and an alderman from 1878 to 1882. He was an authority on the city’s history.
In 1868, he married Ellen Cordelia Lyman. He died on May 23, 1915, in Burlington, Vermont.
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