George Griffith Allen and his brother Robert Cochran Allen opened a hardware store in Skagway in 1897. George was a widower, but Robert was married to Ida May and had 4 daughters: Dorothy and Hazel the twins, Irene, and Permelia. The Allens moved back to Snohomish or Portland around the turn of the century and Robert died in 1905 there.
George G. Allen died on April 15, 1936 in Los Angeles.
Another George Allen died on the Princess Sophia in 1918, but he was George M. Allen, an editor who ran the Daily Klondike Nugget in Dawson.
Believe it or not there were even two more George Allens, one was the son of a U.S. Senator from Washington who got into some trouble in Skagway and then went to Nome where he was in an armed robbery. The last George A. Allen was a NWMP Mountie in 1897 stationed at Log Cabin.
Seen above is the G.G. Allen hardware store in Skagway in 1897 or ’98.
Hunt, NPS p.39; 1880 Portland census; 1900 Skagway census; familysearch; Washington records; Klondike Stampeder Reg by Pennington; Cohen.
I have just discovered this site. I am Robert Cochran Allen’s great grandaughter. My Grandmother was Hazel Allen. Robert also has another descendent who is still living, Pumelea’s son, Roberts Allen Lippner and his son and daughter. My brother Jeff Parker has the family records and you can reach him at eveninghatch@earthlink.net or email me at hazel_a@comcast.net. Thank you for keeping out family alive on the net.
Jennifer