ALLEN - At Brooklyn, N. Y.. April 2, Charles Doughty Allen, 63 years old. Mr. Allen was the grandson and son of notable New Churchmen. His grandfather, Cushing Allen, of Bath, Maine, became interested in the New Church before the beginning of the last century, and was one of the founders of the Bath Society. His father, John Allen, was one of the founders of one of the oldest and best known publishing houses in this country. It was first known as Allen & Ticknor, afterwards Ticknor & Fields, now Houghton, Miflin & Co. He was at one time publisher of the New Jerusalem Magazine, and his name appears as the publisher of the first Boston edition of the "True Christian Religion". Afterwards his bookstore New York City was the headquarters of the New Church there; and there he published several New-Church books and periodicals. His son bore the name of one of the earliest New-Church minsters, Charles Doughty, who was for many years the pastor of the New York Society. Mr. Allen lived a quiet business and family life. He has been for several years the head of a department of the U. S. Government in New York. and his untiring labors there were doubtless the chief cause of his death. He could never leave a task undone. He leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter, all active members of the Brooklyn Society. A younger daughter passed into the spirit world only two years ago, and the pleasure of rejoining her relieved the pain of separation from the others.
The New Church Messenger Jan to June 1907, page 268

From "Moffat genealogies" by R. Burnham Moffat, copyright 1909

Charles Doughty Allen (I) b Brooklyn, N. Y., 27 May, 1844; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 2 April, 1907; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 June, 1876, Mary Bennett (son of Daniel Bennett and Mary Silsbee) b Cincinnati, Ohio, 27 November, 1848; (living 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.).
- Anna Elizabeth Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 1 July, 1877; (living 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.); unm
- Charles Doughty Allen
- Daniel Vincent Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 December, 1886; (lving 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.); unm
- Mary Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 13 August, 1888; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 3 May, 1905.

SON: Charles Doughty Allen (II) b New York City, 27 February, 1879; (living 1908 Brooklyn, N. Y.); m Brooklyn, N. Y., 20 September, 1904, Margaret Virginia Lusch (dau. of Charles F. Lusch and Eva Dix) b Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 November, 1880; (living 1908).
- Virginia Silsbee Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 3 October, 1905; (living 1908)
*Note - Charles Doughty Allen II married in 1923 to Lila Hammett (dau. of Herbert D. Hammett and Rachel Mooney). They died in Sagamore, Barnstable, MA and are buried at the Sagamore Cemetery. They had children:
- Charles Doughty Allen III 1825-2008
- Rachel Cushing Allen 1930