at Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1857-76 he was Chancellor and Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands, and from that time was Minister of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.
ALLEN, Elizabeth Akers (1832 — ). An American author, born at Strong, Me. Her verses, entitled "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother," became widely known, and were frequently set to music. This poem had previously appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Evenig Post, the manuscript having been sent to that paper by the authoress in 1860 while on a visit to Italy. Mrs. Allen began to write under the pen-name Florence Percy. She has produced several volumes of poetry and some prose.
ALLEN, Ethan (1737-89). An American soldier. He was born at Litchfield, Conn., and about 1760 removed to Vermont, settling first at Bennington, where he became conspicuous in the contest between New Hampshire and New- York for jurisdiction over the "New Hampshire Grants," now Vermont. He represented his fellow settlers in a suit at Albany in 1771, but their claims being disregarded, he organized a force of Green Mountain Boys for the eviction of New-York settlers. Governor Tryon, of New-York, thereupon declared him an outlaw, and offered $1.50 for his arrest. At the outbreak of the Revolution, Allen and his associates offered "their services to the patriot party, and organized an expedition against Tieonderoga (q.v. ). On the morning of May 10, 177.5, be surprised the garrison and forced its commander to surrender "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." Allen soon afterward joined General Schuyler's army, was employed in secret missions to Canada, and rendered valuable aid in Montgomery's expedition. He was taken prisoner, September 25, 1775, near Montreal, and was sent to England. Some months later he was sent back to this country and was kept as a prisoner in Halifax and New York until May 3, 1778, when he was exchanged. After his release, he returned to Vermont, was put in com- mand of the militia, and soon afterward became a lieutenant-colonel in the Continental army; though he devoted his attention chiefly to the old territorial dispute, and, incidentally, carried on a correspondence with the enemy, upon which a charge of treason was subsequently based. No satisfactory explaination has ever been given of his conduct, but the charge of treason is at least not fully substantiated. He moved to Burlington in 1787, and died there two years later. Though a blusterer, he was as full of action as he was of talk, and had very great ability as a leader both in politics and in war. He wrote a Xarrativv of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity (1779), which went into numerous editions; a Vindication of the Opposition of Vermont to the Government of Nein York (1779), and Reason. the Only Oracle of Man. or A Compendious System of Natural Religion. Consult Henry Hall, Ethan Allen (New York, ).
ALLEN, FiiEDERic DE Forest (1854-97). An American classical scholar. He was born at Obcrlin, Ohio, and graduated at Oberlin College in 1803. He was'at Leipzig in 1808-70, and took his Ph.D. with his thesis De Pinlccto Locrensium, which is still an important mono- graph. In 1885-86 he was director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In addition to numerous articles in clas>ical journals he published an edition of the Medea of Euripides ( 1876) ; Remnants of Early Latin (1880) ; a revision of Hadley's iirecl: Grammar (1884), and (heek Versifieation in Inscriptions (1888).
ALLEN, Fkei) Hovey (1845 — ). An Ameri-
can Congregational clergynuin and author. Born
at Lyme, N. H. He graduated at the Hartford
Theological Seminary, studied at Boston Univer-
sity and the Universities of Berlin. Vienna, and
Paris, and held pastorates in Boston, Wollaston,
Abington, and Rockland. He fovinded and for
some time edited the Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle,
but is best known as the inventor of the first
photogravure plates for art reproduction made
in America. His writings include Masterpieces
of Modern German Art (1884). Recent German
Art (1885), and Grand Modern Paintings (1888).
ALLEN. Granny. See Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie.
ALLEN, Harrlson (1841-97). An American
physician and anatomist. He was born in Phil-
adelphia, and graduated in me<iicine at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1861. In 18C2 he
became a surgeon in the United States army,
and served until the conclusion of the Civil War.
In 1865 he was made professor of comparative
anatomy and medical zoology at the University
of Pennsylvania, and was transferred in 1878
to the chair of physiology, which he occupied
until 1895. Dr. Allen was professor of anatomy
and surgery at the Philadelphia Dental College,
and surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital. He
was president of the American Laryngological
Society in 1880 and of the American Anatomical
Society from 1891 to 1893. In addition to many
papers contributed to medical journals, he was
the author of Outlines of Comparative A>iatomy
and Medical Zoology (1867), Studies in the
Facial Region (1874), An Analysis of the Life
Form in Art ( 1875) , and System of Human Anat-
omy (1880).
ALLEN, Henry (1748-84). An American religious enthusiast. He was born at Newport, R. I., but afterward settled in Nova Scotia, where he taught that the souls of all men are emana- tions from the same Spirit; that they were present with our first parents in Eden; that Adam and Eve in iimocency were pure spirits without material bodies: that there will be no resurrection of the body; that men are not bound to obey the ordinances of the Gospel, and that the Scriptures are not to be interpreted literally, but in a spiritual sense. He published a volume of hymns and several treatises and sermons. Though he made many converts to his religious ideas, the Allenites dwindled after his death.
ALLEN, Henry Watkins (1820-60). An American soldier and politician. He was born in Prince Edward Co., Va. ; taught school and practiced law. In 1842 he raised a company, and served in the Texan war against Mexico. He removed to Louisiana in 1850, and was subsequently a member of the State Legislature. After studying law at Harvard and traveling in Europe, he entered the Confederate service in 1861 as lieutenant-colonel. He was wounded at Baton Rouge and at Shiloh, became a brigadier- general in 1864, and in the same year was elected Governor of Louisiana, in which capacity he rendered valuable services to the Confederate government. After the war he removed to the City of Mexico, and edited the Mexican Times.
