NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11453 JEFFERSON CO LAFON ALLEN Allen, Belknap, Barret, Attkisson, Powell, Baker 11453 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago Louisville, 1928. Jefferson Co. JUDGE LAFON ALLEN. The title which prefixes the name of Judge Lafon Allen has been well earned and his record confers distinction upon Louisville, his native city. He was born August 2, 1871, and is the second of five children of Charles James Fox and Caroline (Belknap) Allen. The mother was born at Louisville in September, 1846, and her demise occurred in 1897. His father was born August 14, 1834, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and in 1855 completed a course in Yale University. He was also a graduate of the Harvard Law School and practiced in Louisiana until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he as commissioned a captain in the paymasters department of the United States Army and assigned to duty at Louisville, where he was stationed until the close of the conflict and rose to the rank of major. He afterward embarked in the wholesale hardware business in partnership with William B. Belknap and was thus engaged until 1900, serving as vice president of the firm of W. B. Belknap & Company. He was a progressive merchant at the highest reputation and a good citizen, whose demise, June 8, 1911, was deeply regretted. Judge Allen supplemented his public school training by a course in Yale University, from which he won the A. B. degree in 1893, and in the following year the University of Louisville conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. He opened an office in his native city and practiced alone until 1910, when he became associated with Alexander G. Barret and Eugene R. Attkisson. The firm of Barret, Allen & Attkisson was intrusted with important litigated interests and gained a large clientele. Mr. Allen was called to the bench in 1921 and able presides over the chancery branch in the second division of the Jefferson circuit court. He dispenses justice with an even hand, his rulings being characterized by a comprehensive grasp of ever problem presented to him for solution. On September 21, 1911, Judge Allen married Miss Emma Hunter Powell, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents, Dr. Hunter H. and Emma (Baker) Powell, were natives of Winchester, Virginia, and both have passed away. Judge and Mrs. Allen have two daughters, Elizabeth P. and Caroline B. The Judge is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and his political support is given to the republican party. He is a member of the Kentucky and American Bar Associations and the Pendennis and Country Clubs of Louisville. He is a broadminded man who sustains the honor and dignity of his profession, and the firmness, frankness and integrity of his character have established him high in public esteem. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx