Allen D. Hurd ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Arrival: 1830, in , Lenawee, MI, USA. ¹

2. Census in 1850 in Franklin Township, Lenawee, MI, USA. ³ The 1850 census recorded Allen Hurd, farmer, 44, living with wife Hanah, 43; son Pontius, 10; daughters Augusta, 8, and Sarah, 4; and son Charles, 2. The parents were born in New York and the children in Michigan. Allen's real estate was valued at $500.

3. Arrival: 1 Jul 1852, in Lovejoy Township, Iroquois, IL, USA. ⁴

4. Book: Portrait and Biographical Record of Iroquis County, Illinois, 1893. ¹
ALBERT P. HURD is one of the worthy citizens that Michigan has furnished to Lovejoy Township. He now owns and operates a fine farm of four hundred and thirty acres, his home being on section 3. He was born near Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich., on the 19th of December, 1833. His parents, Allen D. and Hannah (Hooper) Hurd, were both natives of the Empire State, where they spent their childhood days. About 1830 they emigrated to Michigan, and in that State made their home for more than twenty years, after which they came to Illinois locating in Iroquois County, on the 1st of July, 1852. They settled on a farm four miles south of the village of Milford, in Lovejoy Township, Mr. Hurd having entered eighty acres of land. He also bought a tract of seventy acres of rich prairie and thirty acres of timber, making in all a farm of one hundred and fifty-seven acres. To its cultivation and improvement he devoted his energies.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hurd was born a family of six children: John Henry, the eldest, married Miss Amy Johns, daughter of William Johns, and they reside in Crescent Township, near Woodland. They became the parents of six children, four of whom are living. Albert P., of this sketch, is the next younger. Lydia Augusta is the wife of Joseph Pruitt, a resident farmer of Lovejoy Township, by whom she has eight children, all living. Sarah Olivia is the wife of Ezekiel Probus, a resident farmer of Mitchell County, Kan. Eight children were born unto them, of whom seven are surviving. Frances was the next younger, but her death occurred in early childhood. Charles Leslie, the youngest, married Linda Armstrong, by whom he has five children, four sons and a daughter. With his family he resides in Cloud County, Kan.

Allen married Hannah A. Hooper. (Hannah A. Hooper was born about 1807 in Balmville, Orange, NY, USA, died on 3 Oct 1853 in Milford, Iroquois, IL ⁵ and was buried in Milford: Old Milford Pioneer Cemetery, Iroquois, IL, USA ⁵.)