The New International Encyclopædia/Allen, David Oliver

ALLEN, David Oliver (1800-63). An American missionary, boin at Barre, Mass. He graduated in 1823 at Amherst College, studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1827 went to Bombay as a missionary. He traveled widely in western India, established schools, directed a new translation of the Bible into Mahratta, and in 1853 returned, much broken in health, to America. His History of India was published at Boston in 1856.