From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 482
 
DWIGHT SIDNEY ALLEN, son of George ALLEN and Harriet A. BUELL, was born at 
Lebanon, Madison county, New York, February 12, 1843; lived in Linn until a few 
years before his death, when he moved to Lake Geneva where he died May 5, 
1908.  In 1862 he enlisted for three years service in Company C, Twenty-second 
Infantry, serving as corporal; September 4, 1867, he married Delia A. SHERMAN, 
at Eagle.  He served his town as treasurer, justice, and from 1877 to 1890 as 
member of the county board, of which body he was eight times chairman.  He was 
a member of the Assembly at its session of 1889, elected over Edward Decatur 
PAGE and Huron Irving HAWKS.  From 1888 to 1908, he was a member of the 
Soldier's Relief Committee.  Mrs. ALLEN was born in 1846, and has seven 
children.

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