Allen, Thomas D

Allen, Thomas D.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Accomac County, Va., Dec. 26,1801. He was taught the fear of the Lord from childhood; experienced conversion about 1820; and subsequently emigrated to Ohio, where, in 1829, he united with the Ohio Conference. In 1834 he was transferred to the Baltimore Conference, in which his burning zeal overcame his constitution, and he died, June 25, 1835. Mr. Allen was a man of thorough devotion and unflagging energy. See Minutes of Annual Conf., 1836, p. 408.