History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, / by Paul Leake ... [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF DETROIT

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of his life begin to stretch far our toward the golden west, where the
sunset gates are opened wide, his lines are, indeed, cast in pleasant
places.
CAPTAIN ALLAN B. WALLOWER, one of the representative younger
members of the bar of the city of Detroit, is bringing to bear in his
professional practice the same determined purpose and enthusiasm
that have signally conserved his success in other fields of endeavor. In
view of the fact that his father -was a soldier of the Union in the Civil
war and thereafter continued to serve with distinction and honor in
the United States Regular Army, it is specially pleasing to note that
Captain Wallower himself has well upheld the military prestige of the
name he bears. He enjoys marked popularity in the business, professional and social circles of the Michigan metropolis, where he has
maintained his home since the year 1903.
Captain Wallower claims the fine old Keystone state as the place
of his nativity and is a scion of one of its oldest and ltost honored
families. He was born at Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, on
the 15th of August, 1875, and is a son of Benjamin F. Wallower. The
latter was a son of John Wallower, who was one of the representative
agriculturists of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, where he was born
and reared and where his father, Leonard Wallower, had settled in the
early pioneer days of that region. On July 25, 1844, Benjamin Wallower was born at the old homestead which was the abode of the family
for three generations. He was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
farm and was afforded the advantages of the common schools of the
locality and period. He was about seventeen years of age at the outbreak of the Civil war and promptly gave evidence of his youthful
loyalty and patriotism by tendering his services in defense of the
Union. He responded to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers
and later enlisted in the Twentieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry,
with which he continued in active service until it was mustered out,
meanwhile participating in a number of the important engagements
which marked the progress of the conflict between the north and the
south. On the 9th of February, 1864, he became a member of Battery
F, Third United States Artillery, and with this he served during the
remainder of the war, continuing his connection with it until February
9, 1867, when he received his honorable discharge. On the twentieth
of the following May he re-enlisted in Company G, Twenty-third United
States Infantry, with which he continued in active service in the far
west, taking part in many conflicts with the Indians. With this company he remained until the close of his term of enlistment, when, on
May 20, 1870, at Fort Colville, Washington, he was mustered out with
the rank of sergeant, an office to which he had been promoted and in
which he had served two and one half years. His discharge contained
the following significant words: "A good soldier and an excellent
sergeant." After the close of his military career, Sergeant Wallower
turned his attention to railroad activities and with this line of enterprise he continued to be identified until his death, which occurred at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh of July, 1883.
Benjamin Wallower married Margaret Herron, who was born in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of June, 1851, a daughter of Levi Herron, a representative of a family founded in that state.
They were the parents of four children: Estella E., who died at Philadelphia in December, 1900; Allan B., the facts of whose life are given
in detail below; Roland C., borni July 16, 1879, who holds a responsible