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   Citation: 151.832.4 (Full image size: 223Kb)

Belle Selby Allen, wife of Frank Allen, photographed at their home on what would become north Duff Avenue. Frank and Belle were married in 1895. Belle Selby had been the first woman clerk on Main Street when she was hired by Lou Tilden to clerk in the Tilden Store in about 1894. She and Frank operated the Grand View Dairy at their farm home located on what is now the residential area east of Duff and south of Twentieth Street.

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ALLEN, BELLE SELBY
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