| editor, The Biographical Dictionary of America… (1906)
“ ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, author, was born at Otis, Mass., May 4, 1841. He was graduated at Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, in 1862, and at Andover theological seminary in 1865. He was a resident licentiate of Andover, Mass., 1865-'67. ”
