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Allen, James, a prominent Elder in the Lehi Ward, Utah county, Utah, is the son of Thomas Allen, and Margaret Williams, and was born Feb. 18 1840, in Liverpool, England. He was baptized in 1848 by Elder Ross and ordained a Deacon and a Teacher while yet a young man. He became an Elder about 1858, and was sent out as a local missionary and hook agent in Birkenhead, under President George Q. Cannon. After laboring thus for a number of years, he emigrated to Utah in 1862 and remained in Salt Lake City till 1870, when he removed to Lehi, Utah county, where he resides at present. He took an active part in the Blackhawk war in 1866. He labored as a guard at the president's office in 1863. He has been a Ward teacher for about twenty years.
Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. Salt Lake City 1:508 |
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