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Walter Allen
1840–1907
Best known for concise, readable history, this American journalist and author wrote short books on major public figures and political life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work includes a 1901 biography of Ulysses S. Grant and an earlier study of Reconstruction-era South Carolina.
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Ulysses S. Grant
by Walter Allen
About the author
Walter Allen was an American journalist and author born in 1840 and died in 1907. Records connected with the Weston-Allen family papers at Smith College show that he served as a paymaster in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, and that his correspondence from those years survived alongside letters exchanged with Grace Weston, whom he married in 1866.
His published books show a strong interest in public life and American history. In 1888 he published Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of Reconstruction in the Southern States, and in 1901 he published Ulysses S. Grant, a brief biography issued by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
Some biographical directories also describe him as a journalist and note later work connected with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Clear, well-sourced portrait images of this Walter Allen were not readily available from the pages found, so no profile image is included here.