Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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J. C. ALLEN, 

contractor, Los Angeles, was born in the city of Montreal, Canada, August 20, 1847, attended 
school there, and when seventeen years of age went to Rutland, Vermont, where he served an 
apprenticeship learning his trade. After reaching manhood he went to Chicago and worked at 
his trade, and was foreman for the contractors in the erection of the Exposition Building on the 
lake front. He went to Peoria and engaged in building, and for ten years was the leading contractor 
in that city and did the heaviest building work there, including several of the largest distilleries, the 
extensive sugar works, the Peoria Storage Warehouse, one of the largest in the country, and many 
of the largest business blocks. 
He came to Los Angeles in 1887, and since then has been successfully engaged in contracting here. 
He has the contract for constructing the large cable houses for the Street Railway Company in Los 
Angeles. He has had a large practical experience in brick and stone work, and has taken a prominent 
place in the business here. Mr. Allen married Miss Barrows, of Peoria, February 11, 1883, and they 
have two children, Olive C. and Hortense.

An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1889   
Page 700

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler