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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
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Major-General William Wirt Allen was born in Montgomery, Ala, in 1835.
His father, Wade Allen, went from South Carolina to Alabama in 1818 and became a planter near Montgomery.
His mother was a Miss Sayre, sister of Daniel Sayre, a prominent citizen of Montgomery county.
With a preparatory education in the schools of his own city, young Allen entered Princeton college, New Jersey.
After graduation he studied law, but with no view of practicing.
He preferred the life of a because of his learning and ability, President Harrison appointed him one of the two American members of the Bering sea arbitration tribunal that met in Paris in 1893.
Brigadier-General Edward Asbury O'Neal was born in Madison county, Ala., in 1818.
His father, Edward O'Neal, was a native of Ireland, and his mother was Miss Rebecca Wheat, a member of one of the Huguenot families of South Carolina.
They moved to Alabama and settled in Madison county soon after their marriage.
When Edward A