Corinne M. Tuckerman
Born 12 June 1856 in Orwell, Ashtabula County, Ohio.[1] Daughter of Jacob Tuckerman and Elizabeth Ellinwood.[2] Graduated from the Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ashtabula County; attended Mount Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; and was the first student to enter Smith College, Northampton, Hampshire County, 1875–1877.[3] Married Clarence Emir Allen, 28 November 1877, in Austinburg; seven children.[4] Moved to Salt Lake City, 1882.[5] Chair of the Territorial Committee on Literature, a group possibly affiliated with the Republican Party; served with Emmeline B. Wells, 1893.[6] Helped organize and served as president of the Utah Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1893.[7] Participated in the Utah Woman’s Silk Association with Emmeline B. Wells, circa 1893–1895.[8] Executive committee member of the Republican Women’s Group, 1895.[9] President of the Ladies’ Literary Club, 1895–1896.[10] Chair of the Utah branch of the George Washington Memorial Association, circa 1898–1899.[11] Corresponding secretary and later president of the Utah Mothers’ Congress, 1898, circa 1909–1913.[12] State regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1899.[13] Served in the presidency of the local Women’s Non-Partisan Bryan’s Club.[14] Died 11 August 1931 in La Mesa, San Diego County, California; buried in Salt Lake City.[15]
[1] U.S. Passport Application for Corinne M. Allen, issued 24 Mar. 1904, no. 84593, in U.S., Passport Applications, 1795–1925, ancestry.com.
[2] National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book (Judd and Detweiler, 1926), 87:311; “Notable Utah Women,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 30 Dec. 1899, 14.
[3] “Necrology,” Smith Alumnae Quarterly 23, no. 1 (Nov. 1931): 76; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[4] Ashtabula Co., OH, Marriage Records, 1812–1951, microfilm 890266, vol. G, p. 493, 28 Nov. 1877, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; “Friends Mourn,” Salt Lake Telegram, 11 Sept. 1931, 13, 22; 1900 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City Ward 15, Salt Lake Co., UT, enumeration dist. 46, p. 215A; Joan Smyth Iversen, “Corinne Allen and Post-Manifesto Antipolygamy,” Journal of Mormon History 26, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 112n4.
[5] “Allen, Clarence Emir,” in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (United States Government Printing Office, 1950), 772; Iversen, “Corinne Allen,” 111–112; “Friends Mourn,” 13.
[6] Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 22 Mar. 1893, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.
[7] “Utah Federation Women’s Clubs,” Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Jan. 1909, 48; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[8] “Utah Woman’s Silk Association,” Salt Lake Herald, 22 Jan. 1895, 7; Wells, Diary, 17 Apr. 1893; 26 Nov. 1894; 17 Dec. 1895.
[9] Wells, Diary, 6 July 1895.
[10] “Notable Utah Women,” 14; “Friends Mourn,” 13; Wells, Diary, 29 Nov. 1895; “Ladies’ Literary Club,” Salt Lake Herald, 12 Sept. 1896, 2.
[11] “Notable Utah Women,” 14; Wells, Diary, 27 Jan. 1898 and 17 Dec. 1899.
[12] “State Mothers’ Congress,” Salt Lake Herald, 9 June 1898, 8; “Organize Mother’s Congress,” Deseret Evening News, 22 Nov. 1909, 5; “Mrs. Allen Pays Tribute to National Secretary,” Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Jan. 1911, 10; “Mothers’ Congress Told of Charities,” Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 1913, 14; Iversen, “Corinne Allen,” 132.
[13] “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[14] “Notable Utah Women,” 14.
[15] “Corinne M. Allen,” 11 Aug. 1931, 85, California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939, ancestry.com; “Necrology,” 76; “Friends Mourn,” 13; “Funeral Services Held for Former Salt Lake Couple,” Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 1933, 5.