From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

p. 505

G. R. C. ALLEN is one of the most successful lawyers of Wheeling, 
West Virginia, and is a member of the well-known firm of White & 
Allen.  He was born at Morgantown, Monongalia county, West Virginia, 
in 1854, and is a son of G. R. C. Allen, Sr.
	G. R. C. Allen, Sr., was born in Wood county, West Virginia, 
and was also a member of the legal profession.  He removed to 
Morgantown, West Virginia, where he lived until his death in 1856, at 
the age of fifty-three years.  He married Delia M. Lowry, who was 
born and reared at Morgantown and died in 1876, at the age of sixty-
five years.  Three daughters and one son born to them lived to reach 
maturity, namely:  Mary M., wife of John Wagner, who is cashier of 
the National Bank of West Virginia at Wheeling; Mrs. William P. 
Willey, whose husband is a professor in the law department of the 
West Virginia University; Delia, wife of Thomas R. Evans, of 
Morgantown, West Virginia; and G. R. C. Allen, the subject of this 
biographical record.
	G. R. C. Allen was reared and primarily educated at Morgantown, 
and upon leaving school taught for one term.  He then entered the law 
department of the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated 
in 1878.  He was examined for admission to the bar by the circuit 
judge of Wheeling and the judges of the Supreme Court of West 
Virginia, and admitted in the fall of 1878.  He immediately 
thereafter began to practice and continued alone until 1888, when he 
formed a partnership with Colonel White, a very strong and prominent 
legal combination which has since continued.  Mr. Allen possesses all 
the qualifications of a good lawyer, and his career has been one of 
unbroken success.  He has never been a candidate for office or sought 
political honors.
	Mr. Allen was joined in marriage with Annie V. Glass, a 
daughter of Andrew Glass.  She was reared in Wheeling, and her mother 
now resides with her and her husband.  The family home is at No. 42 
Fifteenth street.  Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Fourth 
Street Methodist Episcopal church.