NOTES
REMINISCENCES OF
ISAAC J. ALLEN
1. The assistance of Mrs. Alfred
Heuston, Forest Hills, New York; Mrs. James G.
Dartt, Brookville, Long Island; and
Charles Allen Smart, Chillicothe, Ohio, is grate-
fully acknowledged. Some years ago the
late Mrs. George Smart of Forest Hills made
a typescript of the original manuscript,
then in the possession of the late Alfred Heu-
ston. The manuscript cannot be found
now, but it is quite clear that Mrs. Smart made
an excellent transcription. Copies of
the typescript, including the "Note" omitted here,
are now in the Library of Congress, the
Ohio Historical Society, and the Ross County
Historical Society in Chillicothe. I am
also indebted to E. B. Long of Oak Park, Illinois,
who first told me about Isaac Allen.
2. Published at Hudson, Ohio, 1851.
3. The Columbian (Columbus,
Ohio), August 25, September 8, 22, 1853.
4. Ibid., September 22, 1853.
Allen's early interest in temperance is also indicated by
a letter to Governor Mordecai Bartley,
December 12, 1844, inviting him to a temperance
meeting. The letter was indexed in the
W.P.A. Calendar of Governors' Papers in the
Ohio Historical Society, but cannot now
be found. Allen's interest in the antislavery
cause is shown by his role as unpaid
prosecuting attorney in 1845 in a case involving
three men who had attempted to disrupt
an abolitionist meeting. A. A. Graham, History
of Richland County, Ohio (Mansfield, Ohio, 1880), 587.
5. Ohio Statesman (Columbus),
September 26, 1853.
6. Ibid., September 29, 1853.
7. Ibid., October 5, 1853. See
also issues of October 1, 7, 8, 10.
8. Ohio State Journal (Columbus),
October 5, 7, 10, 1853.
9. A. B. Huston, Historical Sketch of
Farmers' College (n.p., n.d.), 4, 25, 54-55. See
also Carl M. Becker, "Freeman Cary
and Farmers' College: An Ohio Educator and an
Experiment in Nineteenth Century
'Practical' Education," Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, Bulletin, XXI
(1963), 151-175; Murat Halstead, "The Story of the
Farmers' College," Cosmopolitan,
XXII (1897), 280-288.
10. Huston, Farmers' College, 56;
Becker, "Freeman Cary and Farmers' College,"
166. Allen had shown an interest in
scientific agriculture in an address at the Licking
County Fair in 1852. Proceedings of
the Fifth Annual Fair of the Licking County Agri-
cultural Society (Newark, Ohio, 1852), 4-28.
11. Annual Catalogue of the Officers
and Students of Farmers' College, 1855-56
(Cincinnati, 1856), [4].
12. Address of President Isaac J.
Allen of the Farmers' College, Delivered September
27th, 1855, During the Exhibition of
the Cincinnati Horticultural Society (Cincinnati,
1855), 11-28; I. J. Allen, The
American Merchant: An Address at the Opening of
Granger's Commercial College . . . (Columbus, Ohio, 1855); An Oration Delivered at
Urbana, Ohio, July 4, 1856, by Isaac
J. Allen, President of Farmers' College, Cincinnati,
Ohio (Urbana, Ohio, n.d.).
13. Huston, Farmers' College, 66-67.
14. Eleutheros Cooke to Jay Cooke, March
25, 1861, quoted in Henrietta M. Larson,
Jay Cooke, Private Banker (Cambridge, Mass., 1936), 103. See Henry D. Cooke to
John
Sherman, March 8, 1861; John Sherman to
Jay Cooke, October 22, 1861. John Sherman
Papers, Library of Congress.
15. Ohio State Journal, July 4,
1861; testimony of W. H. Foster, business manager
of the Journal, in Letter from
the Secretary of War Relative to the Case of Captain
Hurtt, House Executive Documents, 43
cong., 1 sess., No. 255, p. 191. Hereafter cited as
"Hurtt Case."
16. Isaac J. Allen testimony, ibid., 203-204.
17. F. W. Hurtt to Henry D. Cooke, July
20, 1863, ibid., 318-319.
18. Joseph P. Smith, ed., History of
the Republican Party in Ohio (Chicago, 1898),
I, 139, 149, 158.
19. Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the
Press (New York, 1951), 276-281.
20. Cincinnati Daily Gazette, March
7, 17, 1874.
21. June 13, 1864, in "Hurtt
Case," 264. See also Lincoln to Stanton, June 4, 1864, in
Roy P. Basler and others, eds., The
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Bruns-
wick, N. J., 1953-55), VII, 375.