Ancestry of
William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

William Allen

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Allen 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Lee   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Jan 1784 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Jan 1784 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jul 1868 
  • Death Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • 3rd President of Bowdoin College

    American Biographer, Scholar, and Academic

    William Allen was the compiler of the first work of general biography in the United States when he published his American Biographical and Historical Dictionary in 1809.

• Marriages for William Allen

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  • Spouse:
  • Maria Malleville Wheelock
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jan 1813
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Johnson Breed
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Dec 1831

• Sources for William Allen

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Hampshire County, 1850, Northampton, Image 43 of 128.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/03/2025).
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1971, Marriage record for Rev William Allen and Maria Malleville Wheelock.
  • ⁴ Allen, Orrin Peer, The Allen Memorial, Second Series: Descendants of Edward Allen of Nantucket, Mass., 1640-1907, Palmer, Massachusetts: Press of C. B. Fiske and Co. (1907), 36, 68-69.
  • ⁵ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 2, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 967.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "William Allen (biographer)", (accessed 05/03/2025).
  • ⁷ Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1888), 55-56.