Zachariah Allen

1795 - 1882  (86 years)

• Name	Zachariah Allen  [1, 2]
  Birth	15 Sep 1795	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Mar 1882	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [3, 5]
  Burial	North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [3]
  Person ID	I15922	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Zachariah Allen,   b. 21 Mar 1739   d. 4 Apr 1801 (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Anne Crawford,   b. 25 Jun 1757   d. 3 Sep 1808 (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	3 Jan 1778  [7]
  Family ID	F10173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eliza Harriet Arnold,   b. 5 Oct 1796, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 30 Aug 1873 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	1 May 1817  [6, 8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Arnold Allen,   b. 9 Sep 1819, of Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 25 Jul 1903, Islesboro, Maine (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F9944	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  From Wikipedia: Zachariah Allen (September 15, 1795 – March 17, 1882) was an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Providence, Rhode Island. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown University where he graduated in 1813. Allen became a textile manufacturer and in 1822 constructed a woolen mill in which he incorporated innovative fire-safety features and his own mechanical improvements. He also built the first hot-air furnace system for the heating of homes. In 1833 he patented his best-known device, the automatic cut-off valve for steam engines. He founded the Manufacturers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1835, the forerunner of the present day insurance company FM Global. Allen was also a prolific writer of scientific texts and wrote numerous books and articles during his lifetime. [...] His older brother Philip Allen served Rhode Island as governor [1851-1853) and later as a United States senator (1853-1859).

  
  

• Sources

  [S1533] An Historical and Genealogical Account of Andrew Robeson: Of Scotland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and of His Descendants from 1653 to 1916, by Susan Stroud Robeson and Caroline Franciscus Stroud. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, 1916. [S1536] The Livezey Family: A Genealogical and Historical Record by Charles Harper Smith. Philadelphia: The Livezey Association, 1934. [S160] Wikipedia. [S1532] The Rotches by John M. Bullard. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1947., place only. [S1662] North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold by Charles Hoffman and Tess Hoffman. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1988., year only. [S1615] The Greenes of Rhode Island, with Historical Records of English Ancestry by Francis Vinton Greene and Louise Brownell Clarke, based on the work of George Sears Greene. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1903. [S1712] Obituary memoir of Philip Allen (d. 1951), The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 106:149, April 1952. [S160] Wikipedia., year only. [S1662] North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold by Charles Hoffman and Tess Hoffman. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1988., month and year only.