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- From: "History of Walworth County Wisconsin" by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912. Tr. by George Taylor
WILLIAM ALLEN KNILANS, son of Daniel and Sarah ALLEN, was born in northern Ireland, November 22, 1833; came with parents and brothers to Richmond in 1849; in 1861 enlisted in company I, Thirteenth Infantry, and was successively first sergeant, second and first lieutenant and was transferred to company G as its captain; mustered out late in 1865 at San Antonio, Texas. He served at Huntsville, Alabama, as provost-marshal and was in all ways a capable and trustworthy soldier. He married February 20, 1867. Eleanor Frances, daughter of Samuel STEWART and Margaret MITCHELL, became a farm owner and prospered steadily. In his turn he was president of the Agricultural Society, of which he was a working member. He was seven terms a member of the county board for Richmond. His clerical and business qualifications were good, and he was often appointed executor of wills or administrator of valuable estates. Like Messrs. Bell, Coon, Curtiss, Kinne, Latham, Oatman, Page, Stebbins, Treat, Willis, and others, he reckoned it honorable to be often a defeated candidate on Democratic legislative and county tickets. He was for several years a member of the county soldiers' relief committee. About 1883 he moved to Whitewater. In 1893 he went to Sligo, Ireland to administer an estate of something like twenty thousand pounds value, having been named in an aunt's will as her executor. In the second Cleveland administration he had much influence with Senators Vilas and Mitchell in the distribution of postmasterships within the county. He moved to a farm near Beloit in 1894, where he died June 25, 1909. His children were William Arthur, Alice Elizabeth, Daniel Amos.
- 1930: Bequeathed 200 pounds from aunt, Rebecca Allen (of Grange) in her Will
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Singing Our Family Song
1833 - 1909 (76 years)
