Henry Allen

Henry Allen attended the US Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1911, and he later earned another degree from Harvard in 1913. He became a career military man, serving as a cavalry officer, after working for a few years as a mining engineer. He was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Tureman Allen, Sr., who was known for his military explorations of Alaska and who served as Governor-General of the Philippines in 1901. Allen, Jr. advanced to the rank of captain in Field Artillery in World War I. He took part in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. He served as an aide-de-camp to his father when he commanding the 90th Division and the Occupation Forces in Germany. Allen, Jr. received a Silver Star for his service in WWI. He spent much of his retirement at his wife’s property in the Beaujolais, near Lyon, France, where he became interested in winemaking.