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Allen French (November 28, 1870 – October 6, 1946) was an American historian and fiction author. He wrote several books on the history of the American Revolution, including The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775 (1928), General Gage's Informers (1932), The First Year of the American Revolution (1934), and Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval (1955), as well as children's stories and historical fiction. He also edited the diary A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston (1926).
Early life and education
Allen French was born on November 28, 1870, in Boston. His parents were Frances Maria (née Stratton) and wholesale paint salesman John James French. He attended grade school in Boston, going to Rice Primary and Grammar Schools and the Boston Latin School, before graduating from The English High School.
French obtained a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892. After two summers studying abroad at the University of Berlin in 1892 and 1893, he attended Harvard University for his undergraduate education, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree. Invested in learning grammar, he would often use a dictionary or encyclopedia even during meals.
Academic and writing career
French wrote several books on the history of the American Revolution, particularly such events in his native Massachusetts. These include The Siege of Boston (1911), Old Concord (1915), The Day of Concord and Lexington (1925), and The First Year of the American Revolution (1934). In 1926, he published A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston, an edited volume showing the diary of Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie (the pre-1775 portion of which is nearly lost). One of his visits included heading to the United Kingdom to access the documents of Massachusetts colonial governor Thomas Gage, as well as obtaining photocopies of 1770s documents within the Earl of Dartmouth's family papers. In a 1946 Concord Journal article, T. Morris Longstreth called French "a born source-seeker and prospector for original documents". He produced a guidebook named Historic Concord (1924).
