ARTHUR W. ALLEN One of the young and prosperous ranchmen of the county is Arthur W. Allen, the viticulturist. Mr. Allen is a stepson of Jacob Hinsberger, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was born at Chico. in Butte County, on February 16. 1879, the son of William and Sadie Allen ; another son, still younger, is Herbert Allen, who is with the Sugar Pine Lumber Company of Madera, where he is an expert master mechanic in the mills. When two years of age, Arthur Allen came to Fresno Flats with his parents, and in 1887 to Fresno, where they settled in the Scandinavian Colony. He worked on his father's ranch and attended the district public school ; and while thus assisting his parents, he learned the ins and outs of vineyarding. On 'March 26, 1908, Mr. Allen took possession of his present place, a fine tract of about forty acres that was purchased about fifteen years ago by Mr. Hinsberger, whom he assisted from the beginning to improve the land. It was stubble and hog-wallow, located in the Wolters Colony, some four and a half miles north of Fresno, on the Virginia Way; but it was soon made to bear in luxuriance both muscats and wine grapes. He sunk a well and installed an eight horse-power gasoline pumping plant, with a four-inch pump, which provided perfect irrigation, and he also had service from the Gould ditch. He built a residence and the usual out-houses : and to his vineyarding he added the raising of alfalfa. On the same date that he entered into the proprietorship of his present home. Mr. Allen was married to Miss Ida Anderson, a native of the Scandinavian Colony and the daughter of Fred Anderson, who was born in Sweden. He was a cabinet-maker and carpenter who came to San Francisco and there followed his trade ; and he was one of the first of the Scandinavians who formed their colony in Fresno County. He improved his vineyard and had a fine place, and both he and his wife died there. Mrs. Allen was educated at the excellent public school, and has had two children, Blanche Bernice, whose untimely death, on January 12, 1918, when she was only eighteen months old, fell as the heaviest of blows on the devoted parents, and the baby born on February 6, 1919. Mr. Allen is an active member of the California Associated Raisin Company, and in connection with that live organization advances all the interests allied to his field of work. Mrs. Allen joins her husband in participating in all that makes for the upbuilding of the community.