He appears on these two Censuses with his parents:
1870/ Minnesota/ Olmsted
D W Allen, 40y b.NY, occ: Farmer
Frances, 37y b.MA
Charles, 13y b.WI
Eddie, 8y b.MN
Willis, 4y b.MN
Frankie, 2y b.MN
plus two others

1880/ Minnesota/ Olmsted
h/ Dwight W Allen, 50y b.NY, no occupation, Paralysis
w/ Frances M, 47y b.MA
s/ Eddie, 17y b.MN, occ: R R Cook
s/ Willie, 14y b.MN
s/ Frank, 12y b.MN
residence: (no house number), Oronoco

1900/ South Dakota/ Butte
h/ F H Allen, 33y b.March 1867 MN, M/11, occ: Mining
w/ Emma, 32y b.Nov 1867 MN, mother of 3/3 living
d/ Cecil, 10y b.Apr 1890 SD
d/ Garnet, 8y b.Apr 1892 SD
d/ Sybil, 1y b.May 1899 SD

1910/ South Dakota/ Lawrence
h/ Frank H Allen, 42y b.MN, M1/20, occ: Millright/? Mill
w/ Emma, 42y b.MO, mother of 5/3 living
d/ Cecil L, 20y b.SD, occ: Dressmaker/Shop
d/ Garnet F, 18y b.SD
d/ Sybil, 9y b.SD
residence: 38 Jefferson Street

1920/ South Dakota/ Lawrence
h/ Frank H Allen, 52y b.MN, occ: Janitor/Masonic Temple
w/ Emma, 52y b.MO
s/ Junior, 3y 11m b.SD
residence: 725 Main Street

1930/ South Dakota/ Lawrence
h/ Frank H Allen, 62y b.MN, occ: Janitor/Private building, * Veteran-No *
w/ Emma, 62y b.MO
residence: 725 Main Street, Deadwood

1940/ South Dakota/ Lawrence
h/ Frank H Allen, 72y b.MN, G8, occ: Custodian/Masonic Temple
w/ Emma S, 72 b.MO, G8
residence in 1935: same house
residence: 725 [Main Street], Deadwood

Link to brother, Charles A Allen. Edit pending to link parents 12 February 2022.

middle name from reo, contributor 46840721
(10 February 2022)

Published obituary
Frank H Allen, well known Deadwood man, died at 8:40 am Saturday at St Joseph's hospital.

He was born November 13, 1867 in Orinoka, Minnesota. He came to South Dakota in 1880 and lived at Pierre, Huron and Rapid City before coming to Deadwood in 1881. A couple of years later he returned to Rapid City, and worked on some placer claims on the Bonanza Bar, which was later known as the Stratosphere bowl, during the summers of 1883 and 1884. For the next five or six years he stayed in Rapid City and drove stagecoaches on the Pierre road the last year the Northwestern stage ran on that line. He clerked in the International Hotel.

He was married to Emma Shirley, St Joseph, Missouri, in 1889, and that year started in business in Pierre but sold out and came back to the Black Hills in 1890, locating at Hot Springs where he was superintendent of the Water, Light and Power company until 1894 when he moved to Ragged Top in the northern Hills.

With his brother, Charles, he owned and operated a small cyanide mill in Ragged Top several years before the Homestake Mining company did any cyaniding in Lead. In 1906, he left Ragged Top and went to the old Carbonate camp where he built and operated a silver cyanide mill for two years.

In 1906 he moved to Deadwood where he bot (sic) the Lucky Strike property, building a 30-ton mill which he operated until 1909, when he went to work for the Homestake.

He has been at the Masonic temple in Deadwood since 1918 and he had charge of the Mogul mine and mill property from 1929 until 1940 when the property was sold to the Bald Mountain Mining compnay.

He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs Cecil Treweek, Mrs Garnet Barry, Lead; Mrs Sybil Julius, Alliance, Nebraska; eight grandchildren.

Two daughters and a son preceded him in death.

The body is at Buehler and Wells funeral home. Services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Masonic temple in Deadwood, with interment following in Mt Moriah cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be A J M Ross, Josiah Gerrans, Lead; Harry Porter, Clyde Pugh, William Grieb and Frank Merritt, Deadwood.

Honorary pallbearers will be Fred Reausaw, Bert Hedstrom, Robert Kersten, E O Lampinen, Martin Folstad, J E A Chambers, Ernest Youngberg, J Ora Horsfall, Franw (sic) Herron, George Hunter, Arthur Jobe and R T Mosley.
The Deadwood Pioneer Times (South Dakota)
02 July 1944
obituary from reo, contributor 46840721
(10 February 2022)