By strict adherence to principle and attention to business he has gained a liberal competency, and has few cares. Allen was formerly a whig, and since 1856 has voted the republican ticket, but has uniformly declined to hold office even in the municipality of the city. This firm has the largest mercantile store in Chippewa Falls. Pound and Co., lessees of the Union Lumbering Company's saw-mill and river works. In the lumber department of his business he has usually been connected with other parties, and is now a member of the firm of A. He also owns a flouring mill, and has been manufacturing flour as well as lumber during most of the time since he became a resident of Chippewa Falls. For thirty years he has been one of the leading lumbermen in the Chippewa valley, and has operated more or less in real estate. There he purchased, of Street and Lockwood, the first sawmill erected on that stream, and engaged in the lumber trade and operated the Menomonee Mills until 1846, when he removed to Chippewa Falls.
He spent one year near Springfield, Illinois, another in the mines near Galena, and in 1834 plunged into the wilderness among the Chippewas, on the Red Cedar or Menomonee River, an affluent of the Chippewa River. Hiram worked on the farm and operated a small saw-mill until he was twenty-six years of age, enjoying but very limited advantages in the common school during his boyhood. In early life he was a tanner and currier, and later, a farmer and miller. His father, who was old enough to enter the military service before the close of the revolutionary war, was a distant relative of Gen.
He is the son of Sluman and Hannah (Storrs) Allen. He was born in Chelsea, Orange County, New Hampshire, September 18, 1806, and has recently rounded up his threescore years and ten. The first permanent settler in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, and now one of the most venerable and venerated citizens of Chippewa Falls, is Hiram Storrs Allen, a native of the Green Mountain State. Biographies in Chippewa County, Wisconsin
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