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b. 1886 - Son of Benjamin
Casey Allin. Educated at the Univ of Chicago, he engaged in railroad
engineering work until early in 1907 when he went to the Philippine
Islands as surveyor for the U.S. government. During the subsequent four
years, he traveled extensively in Asia, Africa and Europe, twice
circumnavigating the globe. While in the Philippines he compiled and
copyrighted a dictionary of the most widely spoken dialects of those
islands. It was published in 1910 under the name of Allin's Standard
English-Visayan Dictionary. Member: Columbia Club of Manila, Masonic
fraternity, National Geographic Society, the Geographic Society of Chicago
and Sons of the American Revolution. |
