Lucius Allen, son of Dr. Daniel and wife Olive English, was born at Hamburg, New York, February 13. 1816; came in 1838 from Geauga County, Ohio, to section 31, East Troy (his parents to section 6, Spring Prairie; moved to latter town and served as town officer and as assemblyman in 1864, elected over William R. Berry; came about 1870 to Elkhorn as building contractor and furniture dealer; member of county board in 1877: died January 12, 1895.
His first wife, Mary A., a sister of Adolphus Spoor, married May 27- 1837- died November 15, 1838. Left a son Augustus Carlton, who was a soldier of the Eighth Illinois Infantry. July 10, 1842, he married Sarah Ann, daughter of Hosea Barnes, who died July 10, 1842, leaving two children. Her son, Fayette Lucius, died in service at Little Rock in 1865.
Mr. Allen married Juliet Barnes, his sister-in-law, in August 1848. She died March 11, 1878, leaving five children. September 4, 1890, he married Mrs. Hephsibah (Tomlinson), widow of Charles Babcock. Three of these marriages were at Auburn, Ohio, and the last at Elkhorn. Mr. Allen was a clear-headed man. and stood firmly by his political and moral convictions, which in his later life led him to Prohibitionism.
From: Beckwith, A.C. (1912). History of Walworth County Wisconsin