William H. Allen

W H Allen

William H. Allen (Coahoma County)

State House: 1884, 1886

Born: 1851 in Jackson, MS

Bio as given in the State Ledger: “educated in the High Schools of Vicksburg; has held the positions of Magistrate and Representative heretofore, and has taken great interest in the education of his race; is a planter, Republican, Methodist and married.” Listed on the 1880 census in Friars Point with wife Francis.

Daily Mississippian, February 4, 1884
State Ledger, March 14, 1884
State Ledger, March 14, 1884
Grenada Sentinel, April 26, 1884
Saint Paul Globe, June 2, 1884
Weekly Democrat-Times, Aug 15, 1885
Weekly Commercial Herald, Sep 25, 1885
State Ledger, January 8, 1886
State Ledger, January 23, 1886
State Ledger, March 2, 1886
Clarion Ledger, March 17, 1886
State Ledger, March 18, 1886
State Ledger, March 18, 1886
Weekly Democrat-Times, Oct 1, 1887
Clarion Ledger, August 22, 1889
Daily Commercial Herald, July 19, 1890
Daily Commercial Herald, July 19, 1890
Daily Commercial Herald, June 18, 1891
Clarion Ledger, December 18, 1896
Clarksdale Press Register, Feb 12, 1983