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Jerome Allen (author)

American educator and author (1830-1894)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ6182547 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jerome Allen (1830–1894) was an American educator and author, born in Westminster, Vermont.

He graduated from Amherst College in 1851, then presided over several institutions in the Western United States from 1851 to 1885.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jerome Allen (author)” as american educator and author (1830-1894). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1830, 1894, 1851, 1885—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1830-01-01, 1830-07-17—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Jerome, Allen and author can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american educator and author (1830-1894). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6182547. VIAF identifies the subject as 58084269. The Library of Congress control number is n85808724. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1830, 1894, 1851 and 1885.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jerome Allen (author)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.