November 19, 1854, St. Louis, Missouri.

Son of George Otis and Julia Olds Whit­ney All­en, Whit­ney grad­ua­ted from Washing­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty, St. Lou­is (BA & MA); con­duct­ed postgrad­u­ate stu­dies in phil­o­sophy at Prince­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty; and at­tend­ed Prince­ton The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­ary. The Un­i­ver­si­ty of Woos­ter lat­er award­ed him a DD de­gree.

The Pres­by­te­ry of St. Louis or­dained Al­len in 1882, and he served sev­er­al years as pas­tor of the Ca­ron­de­let Pres­by­ter­i­an Church. In 1889, he moved to the South Park Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Newark, New Jers­ey, serv­ing there 27 years. In Oc­tober 1916, he re­signed to work full time in the lit­er­ary field. At one time, he served on the Pres­by­ter­i­an Board of Home Mis­sions in New York. His works in­clude:

• A Par­a­ble of the Rose, and Other Po­ems (New York and Lon­don: G. P. Put­nam’'s Sons, 1908)

1. Coming of His Feet, The