Allen married Rosa Ellen Heathcote. They had five children, Herschel H., Wendell D., Edward Russell, Mrs. R. M. Wegner and Sarah Ruth (married Joseph Colvine Ocker). His son Wendell D. was a lawyer, assistant attorney general and served as president of the Maryland state school board. Allen died on February 3, 1927, at the age of 69, at his home on West Joppa Road in
Towson, Maryland. He was buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Towson. ==References==