VT BIO - Lamoille Co - ALLEN, George Bassett

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. P. 
C. Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 99

George Bassett ALLEN, farmer, lumber dealer, and insurance, Hyde Park 
[Lamoille County, Vermont], was born 13 May 1864, at Johnson [Lamoille 
County, Vermont], son of Leonard and Cynthia (BASSETT) ALLEN. He was 
educated at Lamoille Central Academy, Hyde Park; Johnson Normal School; and 
University of Vermont. He taught school three years; was a traveling 
salesman for C. E. Webb & Company, wholesale druggists, Jackson [Jackson 
County], Michigan, two years, and since then has been engaged as farmer, 
lumber dealer, and insurance agent. Mr. ALLEN is a Republican. He 
represented Hyde Park in the [Vermont] Legislature in 1898; was one of the 
committee on claims; has held the offices of selectman, lister, school 
director, school superintendent, constable, town grand juror, and justice of 
the peace; is president of the Gihon Valley School Union, embracing the towns 
of Eden, Hyde Park, and Johnson. He is a Congregationalist; Master of Gihon 
Valley Grange; Councilor, Junior Order of United American Mechanics; member 
of Waterman Lodge No. 83, Free & Accepted Masons, of Johnson; Tucker Chapter 
No. 15, Royal Arch Masons, of Morrisville; Bliss Lodge No. 44, Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, of Hardwick; and Modern Woodmen of America. In 1890 
he [George Bassett ALLEN] married Lona MOWER of Eden [Lamoille County, 
Vermont]. They have two sons, Leo M. and Nathan L. 

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