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FELIX C. ALLEN, of Murray, was born in Calloway County, July 10, 1848, the second of nine children born to Matthew and Elizabeth J. (Alexander) Allen, natives respectively of Kentucky and Tennessee. The father has devoted his time to mercantile and agricultural pursuits, and has served a term of four years as jailer of Calloway County. Our subject was able to secure a good education in the schools of his time, which was augmented by home study. He worked on the farm and in his father’s store, and at twenty years of age engaged in the tobacco business as wholesale salesman, continuing in this capacity for a period of six years. Coming to Murray he opened a grocery and hardware store on a small scale; his business rapidly grew, till now he is a partner in the dry goods firm of Allen & Ryan, aside from his own extensive grocery establishment. He is a live business man, and by personal industry and business talent has made his own property. January 24, 1877, he married Miss Mary S. Sledd, of Murray. They have one child— Lura. Mr. Allen favors temperance, and is a member of the K. of H.