Early Life and Career
William W. Allen was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a prominent planter, Wade Hampton Allen, who had moved to the state from South Carolina in 1818. His mother, Eliza Sayre, was a native of Franklin County, Ohio. Young Allen was educated in the city's schools before entering Princeton College in New Jersey. After graduation in 1854, he studied law, but chose instead to return to plantation life. On August 13, 1857, in Montgomery, he married Susan P. Ball (1840–1915), and they raised eleven children.
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