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Updated: 05-30-2019 21:05:74.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Mary E. Allen: Birth: 1852. Death: ?

  2. Martha Frances Allen: Birth: 25 JUN 1853 in Presque Isle, Aroostook, ME. Death: 21 JAN 1932 in Franklin, NH

  3. Josephine Allen: Birth: 1855. Death: 1938

  4. John P. Allen: Birth: 1857. Death: ?

  5. Anna Margrett Allen: Birth: 1859 in Fort Kent, Aroostook, ME. Death: AFT 1920 in Haverhill, Essex, MA

  6. Caleb Harper Allen: Birth: JAN 1861 in Fort Kent, Aroostook, ME. Death: 3 DEC 1937 in Marblehead, Essex, MA

  7. George Henry Allen: Birth: 12 MAY 1863 in Fort Kent, Aroostook, ME. Death: 19 FEB 1929 in Ashland, Aroostook, ME


Family
Marriage:
Sources
1. Title:   Marriage Certificate - Caleb H. Allen
Publication:   1880
2. Title:   Probate Record - Harper Allen
3. Title:   1850 Census - Hancock Plantation, Aroostook Cty., ME, Page: p. 124A, 123 (Ellen Kelly)
4. Title:   1860 Census - Township 18, Range 7, Aroostook Cty., ME (Fort Kent), Page: 38
5. Title:   1870 Census - Dalton, Aroostook Cty. ME, Page: p.46
6. Title:   Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers. St. John, New Brunswick
Page:   13:74 (New Brunswick Courier)
Author:   D. F. Johnson
Publication:   1986
7. Title:   Record of Marriages of Aroostook Cty ME (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah)
Page:   Vol. 2, p. 16 (performed by J. Nowland, Justice of the Peace)
Publication:   1954

Notes
a. Note:   N42 Harper and Helen sold lot #20 to Henry West (over time Helen and several daughters lived in Henry's home) and Silas Niles. He stated that John Sweezy had deeded the land to him (the same John that he lived with in 1850.) on 29 November 1851.
  The probate records after the death of Helen/Ellen show that Harper sold land and used the money for the education of each of his children - something not always done at that time.
  Interesting info found in the obituary of his brother, Charles - haven’t been able to corroborate it: He was an expert woodsman and well known in Ashland. He went to Minnesota when much of that region was a wilderness and while there engaged in exploring for lumber operations on the river above St. Paul. He was killed by a shot from the shore supposed to come from Indians.
  According to the letter from his mother, he found homes for his younger children and left for Minnesota in 1865, after Helen/Ellen died. There was a gold rush that year. “The discovery of gold in northern Minnesota led to the Vermilion Lake gold rush of 1865-66. However, hardly any gold was found. Tiny amounts of gold were found embedded in quartz. Mining the gold out of this hard rock was not profitable. The gold prospectors abandoned the area by 1867.” Only Caleb came back to live with Harper when he returned.
  A biological sketch after the death of Harper's son, George, states that they moved to Ashland five years after his birth and the death of Helen. (published in the Presque Isle Star Herald)
  When his will was probated, the children (and Maria S.) requested that John G. Mosher of Buchannan ME be guardian rather then Maria.
  (One interesting note: a Harper Allen Bragdon, son of Horace Bragdon, was born in Ashland in 1874.)
  History he live through: In 1839 Governor Fairfield declares war on England over a boundary dispute between New Brunswick and northern Maine. This is the first and only time a state has declared war on a foreign power. The dispute was settled, however, before any blood was shed.
  In 1843 coastal Maine received 204 inches of snow during that winter. One snow storm that year produced snow from Maine all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
b. Note:   (His father, Moses, was in Fairfield until 1827.) Census records for 1830 and 1840 list a boy Harper's age - not listed with the family in 1850.
c. Note:   Will probated February 1871.
d. Note:   at St. Luke's Church
e. Note:   Harper was listed as "from Fort Kent" while Maria was from Ashland.

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