Daniel Allman (1818 - 1893)

Born 25 Aug 1818 in Stark County, Ohio, United States

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Burial in New York Cemetery, Millerton, Wayne County, Iowa.

Son of George and Phoebe (Otis) Allman.

Transcribed from The Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties Iowa Originally published 1886

Daniel ALLMAN, farmer, section 14, Union Township, postoffice New York, Iowa, was born in Stark County, Ohio, August 25, 1818, son of George and Phoebe (Otis) Allman. George Allman was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and when a young man went to Ohio, and in the war of 1812 was in an Ohio battalion. The mother was a native of Massachusetts.

Daniel Allman came to Iowa in 1841, with his brother William, and lived in Van Buren County two years. Returning to Ohio he was married April 5, 1843, to Deborah Williamson, who was born in Bethlehem, Stark County, December 3, 1823, a daughter of James and Margaret L. (Robinson) Williamson, natives of Pennsylvania. The following month they located in Keosauqua, Iowa. Mr. Allman paid $150 for 320 acres of land, and a rude log cabin, sixteen feet square.

They started in life poor, financially, but rich in energy and ambition, and by combining their forces they were successful. The next year, 1844, they moved to Marion County, and paid $400 for 160 acres of land, where they lived three years, when they sold out and spent two years in Portage County, Ohio.

In 1850 they returned to Iowa, and settled in Wayne County, again starting on new land. Mr. Allman cut the logs for his cabin one day, hauled them to the site chosen the next day, raised his cabin the third day, and the fourth day moved into it. It was fourteen feet square, with a puncheon roof and floor, but was comfortable, and served them until a better one could be built. He made a good farm of his land and erected good buildings, living there until the spring of 1864, when he moved to Union Township, Wayne County, and bought the farm where he now lives, of John Steck.

In politics Mr. Allman is a Democrat, voting now with the Greenback party. He and his wife are members of the Christian church. They have seven children -- Eliza, wife of W. H. Brown, of Pottawattomie County, Iowa; Emeline M., wife of L. Croxile, of Holt County, Nebraska; Lucinda M., wife of Jacob S. Morrett, of Union Township; Winfield Scott, a farmer in Cowley County, Kansas; George W., at home; Olney B., wife of W. H. Davis, of Cowley County, Kansas, and Ella J., wife of J. O. Snell, of Union Township. One daughter -- Elizabeth A., married Oliver Barker, of Corydon, and died January 8, 1872, leaving three children -- Eva, Albert and Edward.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63291970/daniel-allman