Perry N. Allin bio

from “The History of Montgomery County,” 1903
PERRY N. ALLIN - Prominently and successfully identified with the grain business in Coffeyville, is Perry N. Allin, whose name initiates this personal review. He is a son of the well-known farmer, William H. Allin, of Fawn Creek township and was born, April 16, 1866, in Cedar county, Iowa. He accompanied his parents to Montgomery county, Kansas, when a youth of fourteen, and his primary and higher education were obtained in the country and in the Coffeyville schools.
Assuming his station in life, at twenty years of age, he took up clerical work, in the First National Bank of Coffeyville, spending four years there. The two years succeeding, he passed in the employ of the Adams Grain Company, of Coffeyville, and, the next year, he spent as an assistant in the Caney Valley Bank. Returning to Coffeyville, he engaged in the grain business, as an employee and partner, in the Adams Grain Company. In July, 1901, he found matters in the company working somewhat to his own disadvantage and, in July, 1901, organized the Perry N. Allin Grain Company, operating twenty-five grain stations, with general office at Coffeyville, Kansas.
Aside from his personal and individual business, Mr. Allin is connected with some of the prominent institutions of his town. He has served eight years as secretary of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Coffeyville, of which board he is a member; and he is a stockholder in the Peoples' Gas Company. He is a Republican, in politics, and a Mason - Keystone Blue Lodge and Chapter, of Independence, St. Bernard Commandery, Wichita Consistory - Scottish Rite.
June 10, 1891, Mr. Allin married Anna McCoy, daughter of William McCoy of Coffeyville. Grace and William Perry are the children of this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Allin are members of the Methodist church. He is a Knight of Pythias, an A.O.U.W, an Elk and a Woodman of the World. He is a member of Keystone Lodge, No. 102, Coffeyville; of the Keystone Chapter, No. 22, Independence; St. Bernard Commandery, No. 10, Independence, Wichita Consistory, No. 10, Wichita, and Abdallah Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Leavenworth. Mrs. Allin is a Worthy Matron of the Coffeyville chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.