Ira Allen, 1824, and Julia Powell Allen, 1826
Ira Allen was born
February 19, 1824 in Willsboro, New York, the son of Andrew and Eunice
Allen. The Allen family moved to
Parma, Ohio and Ira
probably accompanied them, because he married Julia Powell in Cuyahoga
County, Ohio in 1846. Julia was
born in Columbia,
Lorain, Ohio in 1826. They remained in northeast Ohio after Ira's parents
moved west to Iowa. Ira and Julia
had nine children
together: John Powell Allen, 1849, William Allen, 1850, Albert Allen,
1852, Lafitte Allen, 1854, Charles Allen,
1856, Caroline
Allen, 1857, Fred B Allen, 1858, George Allen, 1862, and Mary Allen, 1872.
Ira Allen was a second lieutenant in
the Union Army
during the Civil War, enlisted in 1864, and mustered out in 1865. Ira died
in Columbia, Ohio in 1906 at the age
of 82. Julia died
years earlier in 1892.