LONG, ALLEN, farmer, section seven, post-office Memory, born in Hancock county, Indiana, October 31, 1832. His father was a farmer and our subject remained at home until twenty-one years of age, aiding on the farm and attending the common schools. In 1852 his parents moved to Page county, Iowa, locating on a farm. Four years later his father visited the gold fields of California, and engaged in mining several years. He then returned to Page county, and followed farming for a half decade. In 1863 he again crossed the plains, stopped in Montana fifteen months employed in mining, then returned a second time to Page county. Came to Taylor county in 1865 and settled in Mason township on section seven, where he purchased forty acres of land and set to work to improve the same. Has now seventy-five acres of a farm, all in good cultivation, comfortable buildings and moderately well stocked. Mr. L. was married November 18, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth Cunning, a native of Indiana. From this union there were four children: Arlando V., born October 26, 1861, now attending school at Kirkville, Missouri, Erastus, born March 9, 1866, now deceased; Minora, born December 26, 1868, and Alice J., born August 16, 1871. Mr. Long is one of the model farmers of Mason township. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian Church.
