For other people named John Allen, see John Allen (disambiguation).
John Kirby Allen
Member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives from Nacogdoches County
In office October 3, 1836 – June 13, 1837
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Personal details
Born
1810 Sullivan, New York, US
Died
August 15, 1838 (1838-08-16) (aged 28) Houston, Republic of Texas
Resting place
Founders Memorial Cemetery
Nationality
Texian
Relations
Augustus Chapman Allen (brother)
Occupation
Businessman, entrepreneur
Marker in Downtown Houston commemorating the foundation of Houston by the Allen Brothers - An excerpt from the Telegraph & Texas Register dated August 30, 1836 is visible.
John Kirby Allen (1810 – August 15, 1838), was a co-founder of the city of Houston and a former member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives. He was born in Canaseraga Village, New York (the present day hamlet of Sullivan in the Town of Sullivan, New York).[1] He never married. He died of congestive fever on August 15, 1838, and was buried at Founders Memorial Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
^"Historical Marker Detail for Allen, John Kirby, (1810 - 1838) Co-Founder of Houston". Houston, Texas: Harris County Historical Commission. Retrieved 2012-08-31. Per the research of Allen descendant, Ralph Dittman, John Kirby Allen was born in Canaseraga Village, Madison County, New York. This is not the same location as the contemporary Canaseraga in Allegany County, New York. The Village of Canaseraga in now Sullivan Village. Canasareaugh, ending with "areaugh", is a misspelling of the village name. In an interview given to the Houston Daily Post in 1895 Charlotte Baldwin Allen refers to his birthplace as Orrville. Charlotte Allen was 90 years of age at the time of the Houston Daily Post interview, and died the following month. Dittman's research indicates that John Kirby moved to Orrville at the age of seven to live with an uncle. Orrville was renamed DeWitt in 1825.
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founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders—JohnKirbyAllen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called...
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citizens of the Republic of Texas including co-founder of Houston JohnKirbyAllen and veterans of the Texas Revolution. Consequently, the cemetery contains...
first time to make a competing claim. In 1836, Augustus Chapman Allen and JohnKirbyAllen approached the Harrises to make a bid on the Harrisburg site,...
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department in Texas. Houston was founded by brothers Augustus and JohnKirbyAllen in 1836 and incorporated as a city the next year, 1837. As the capital...
United States Senate in 1857. Rusk was born in Pendleton, South Carolina, to John Rusk, a stonemason, and Sterritt Rusk. After being admitted to the bar in...
founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and JohnKirbyAllen. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces...
the eastern half of the John Austin Survey to the Allen brothers. August 30, 1836 - Augustus Chapman Allen and JohnKirbyAllen place their first advertisement...
only performed with Ambrose's orchestra, but also with Nat Allen and his band. In 1959, Kirby joined vocalists Tony Mansell and Rikki Henderson in the Denny...
real estate promoters who had arrived in Texas in 1832, JohnKirbyAllen and Augustus Chapman Allen, were seeking a new town site within the Galveston Bay...
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