Hull, Lindley M., compiler and editor. "A History of Central Washington, Including the Famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys." Spokane: Press of Shaw & Borden Co., 1929. p. 182. EPHRIAM ALLYN and son, ED These men, father and son, who bore the foregoing names will always have a warm place in the memory of old settlers as well as many who knew them later. The elder Allyn was born in Western Illinois, and in 1853, when 17 years of age, he, with his parents, crossed the plains by means of a wagon train. His first location was in what is now the state of Oregon. Several years after reaching that country he was married to Miss Mary E. Wilson. It is not known what state Mrs. Allyn hailed from. Beside the son Ed, there was one daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Allyn, Alice by name. Mr. Allyn served in the great Indian war of the Northwest, which began in 1855. A mute and eloquent testimony to this service may be round in the old musket that he carried during the war, and which is now in the possession of George J. Miller, of Wenatchee. As near as can be learned Mr. Allyn came to Washington Territory in the early fifties. He devoted a number of years to mining, operating for some time in the Swauk country. By reason of considerable travel in the Cascades he had an intelligent knowledge of the resources of Washington, and was a great booster for his adopted state. In 1887 he homesteaded a tract on the Columbia River about one miles east of what is now Appleyard. This place may be identified by the walnut grove, the trees of which he planted. He applied himself with great industry to orchard development in which he was very successful. During the later years of his life he spent much time in the town of Leavenworth. He died in the Stemilt Hill country, January 22, 1902. Ed Allyn, the son, came to the Wenatchee country about the year 1888. In kindness of heart and manly disposition he was a pronounced copy of the elder Allyn. He for some time had a valuable tract of forty acres of land in the Stemilt Hill country. He was born in Oregon in 1858, and passed away December 27, 1919. He had never married. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in April 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.