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Corinne M. Tuckerman

Corinne Allen

12 June 1856—11 August 1931

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

Footnotes

  1. 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. 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. 3 “Necrology,” Smith Alumnae Quarterly 23, no. 1 (Nov. 1931): 76; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  4. 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. 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. 6 Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 22 Mar. 1893, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.

  7. 7 “Utah Federation Women’s Clubs,” Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Jan. 1909, 48; “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  8. 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. 9 Wells, Diary, 6 July 1895.

  10. 10 “Notable Utah Women,” 14; “Friends Mourn,” 13; Wells, Diary, 29 Nov. 1895; “Ladies’ Literary Club,” Salt Lake Herald, 12 Sept. 1896, 2.

  11. 11 “Notable Utah Women,” 14; Wells, Diary, 27 Jan. 1898 and 17 Dec. 1899.

  12. 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. 13 “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  14. 14 “Notable Utah Women,” 14.

  15. 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.