Frederick S. Allman was born in Navarre, Stark County, Ohio, on January 31, 1840. He was the eldest son and fourth of eight children of Barney and Eva (or Eve) Stump Allman. He served during the Civil War in Co. I, 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war, in 1866, he married Minerva Pearson at Navarre, settled in Huntington, Indiana, and later moved to Mapleton, Ohio, where they had three children – Bertha F. (born 1867), Carrie E. (born 1869), and Edgar Lee (born 1874). Moving to Kansas in 1879, Allman entered the ministry, joining with the Kansas Conference of the M. E. Church in 1880. He served a number of charges, including Morganville, Millford, Abilene Circuit, North Dickinison, St. Marys, Green, Axtell, Oketo, Irving, Wesley, and Exeter. In 1903, Rev. Allman retired to Abilene, Kansas. After the death of his wife in 1905, he lived with his daughter Carrie who kept house for him until her death in 1927. Rev. Allman died at age 89 on February 23, 1929, in Abilene. His memoir can be found in the Kansas Conference Journal for 1929, page 85.

Note written by Sarah St. John