Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Allen, Richard L.

ALLEN, Richard L., agricultural writer, b. in Hampton co., Mass., in October, 1803; d. in Stockholm, Sweden, 22 Sept., 1869. He abandoned mercantile business in New York and followed literary pursuits, then studied law in Baltimore, but was obliged to seek a more active life on account of his health, and settled on a farm on Niagara river in 1832. In 1842 he started, in partnership with his brother, the “American Agriculturist.” In 1856 the brothers opened a warehouse for supplying improved agricultural implements. He published “History and Description of Domestic Animals” (New York, 1848); “The American Farm Book” (1849); a valuable treatise on “The Diseases of Domestic Animals” (1848); “American Agriculture”; and “American Farmer's Muck-Book.”