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Allen, Ethan (3), D.D.,

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of Maryland. and historiographer of the diocese, was rector in Dover, Md., in 1853; in 1857 was assistant minister in Baltimore; and in 1859 was agent for diocesan missions, and rector of St. Thomas's Church, Homestead, Baltimore Co.,Md., which offices he continued to hold until 1862, when, retaining the agency, he officiated in Ellicott Chapel, Baltimore. In 1864 he resumed his rectorship in Homestead; in 1867 he became rector of the Church of the Messiah, as well as of St. Thomas's; in 1870 was rector of St. Thomas's only; in 1873 was appointed historiographer, and subsequently was associate rector of St. Thomas's. In 1878 he removed to Newport, Ky., where he died Nov. 28, 1879, aged eighty-two years. See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1881, p. 172.