Middlesex County Biographies   Charles Herbert Allen (1848-1934) Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present ALLEN, Charles Herbert, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; attended public and private schools; was graduated from Amherst College, Mass., in 1869; engaged in the manufacture of wooden boxes and in the lumber business with his father; held various local offices; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1881 and 1882; served in the Massachusetts senate in 1883; colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Robinson in 1884; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1888; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1890; served as Massachusetts Prison Commissioner in 1897 and 1898; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1898-1900; served as first civil Governor of Puerto Rico 1900-1902; returned to Lowell, Mass., in 1902 and became financially interested in banking and other enterprises, serving as vice president of the Morton Trust Co. and of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York and as president of the American Sugar Refining Co.; died in Lowell, Mass., April 20, 1934; interment in Lowell Cemetery. Contributed by Anna Newell James Atwater Barrett Eldora Adelaide (Lewis) Hart (1845-1927) The picture is an "Orphan Portrait" from an album in the possession of Betty Patterson. (Charles, Samuel, Daniel, Daniel, Thomas, Adam, Isaac) Eldora was born 22 Oct 1845 in Townsend, Middlesex, MA USA to Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Lamson) Lewis. Eldora married Charles Brooks Hart, 12 May 1871, in Townsend, Middlesex, MA USA Eldora was the second born in the family of an older sister, Abbie Elizabeth, a younger sister, Nancy Jane, and the youngest child, a boy, Charles Francis. There is no evidence of Eldora and Charles ever having children. At the time of Charles's death in 1923, Eldora was still living. Both Charles and Eldora were buried in the Townsend, MA cemetery. Cheryl Fitzgerald found their graves and took pictures of the gravestones. Sources: Census, Ancestry.com, and "the Genealogical History of Hart" by James M. Hart 0. LOWELL, MA. PROUD OF OLDFASHIONED THE BOSTON HEARLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1919 Lowell Proud of Old-Fashioned Family of Nine Healthy Children By William Preble Jones  LOWELL, Nov. 6. 1919. Here is a family worth having. One of the kind that our great-grandparents used to have: the kind the President Roosevelt was wont to admire. And one of which the city of Lowell is proud. The father, Arthur E. Mellen was born in Lowell, married in Lowell, and all of his nine children were born in that city.  A son of a civil war veteran and patriotic to the core, Mr. Mellen was 52 years old last Christmas day, and his wife frankly acknowledges that she was 52 last June. She was born in York County, N.B. The Rev. George N. Howard, pastor of the Page Street Baptist Church, Lowell, married them in 1891. Of the nine children that have been born to them, all are living, healthy, happy hearty and as wholesome a family as any one would care to see.  Two of the children served in the war. Myrtle, a graduate of the Lowell Hospital, was a Red Cross nurse from August, 1918 to May, 1919. She served at Forts Hamilton and Jay. Raymond had already completed one year at Colby College Waterville, ME, when he went to the Plattsburg camp in the summer of 1918. After he received his second lieutenant’s commission he spent nearly a year at Camp Grant, Illinois, receiving his discharge at Camp Devens about Sept. 1 of that year. Earl, the eldest son, was graduated in 1917 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now engaged in electrical engineering at Newark, N.J. Hazel, the second daughter is attending the Gordon Bible School in Boston. Theodore, 14 years old, is a patriotic and energetic youngster, in keeping with his name. Soon after his advent he was given some sort of middle name beginning with the letter R. But with his first name such as it was, there was only one appropriate middle name, and when he got old enough to know anything, of his own initiative, and with characteristic strenuosity, he discarded the gift of his parents and inserted the name to Roosevelt, and so it remains to this day.  The family lives in a large and comfortable house at 1131 Bridge Street, in the suburbs of Lowell, out near Dracut, where they cultivate a garden and help “Dad” to meet the high cost of living.  Mr. Mellen is a printer by trade. He is foreman of the job department of Lowell Courier-Citizen, by which concern he has been employed for 35 years.   Both Mr. and Mrs. Mellen and several of the children are members of the First Baptist Church, and when, as frequently happens, the whole family is present, two pews are crowded and part of a third are required to seat them. [The Boston Herald, Nov 13, 1919 - submitted by Mrs. Carole Dick www.myhartt.com] The Merry Family The Saltmarsh Family