"E. N. Allen was born in Kentucky and was married in Marion, Ohio. He was for some time postmaster at New Salisbury, Columbiana County, Ohio, where he and his brother owned some coal mines, which they disposed of about 1845. Mr. Allen then moved to Bastrop, Texas, where he lived several years. He served as a soldier in the Mexican War and then removed to Kentucky, where he remained for some time, after which he returned to Columbiana County, Ohio, locating at Wellsville, where he lived until his death. he had two brothers: R. T. P. Allen, who was a colonel in the Mexican War and later the founder and principal for many years of the Kentucky Military Institute at Frankfort; and Richard Allen, who was a major in the Mexican War, later a resident of Kentucky, from which State he finally moved to Missouri."
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