VT BIO - ALLEN, Charles Edwin - Windham Co

Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical 
Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other 
States. Dodge. Burlington: Ullery, 1912, Part II, p 98

Charles Edwin ALLEN, florist and seedman, Brattleboro [Windham County, 
Vermont], was born 02 February 1851, in Westminster Township, Windham County, 
Vermont, son of George Green and Almira (CARPENTER) ALLEN. He was educated 
at Brattleboro High School. Mr. ALLEN began business in 1868 as a market 
gardener, building his first greenhouses in 1872, and increasing to about 
12,000 feet of glass from 1875-1880. He cultivated strawberries extensively, 
and did a large catalogue trade, later supplying the wholesale and retail 
trade in cut flowers and plants. Since 1906 he has been a successful 
contractor, builder, and manufacturer of cement blocks.

In 1872 Charles Edwin ALLEN married Emma Maria HODGE of Groton [Middlesex 
County], Massachusetts. They have four children: (1) Florence Cragin; (2) 
Carroll Everett; (3) Ralph George; and (4) Louis Isaiah. Mr. ALLEN is a 
Republican and a Congregationalist.

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