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Allen L. Pryor, an agriculturist of the Tenth District, was born in White County, Tenn., in 1816. He is one of seven children of John and Massey (Taylor) Pryor. The father was of English descent, a native of Virginia. He located in White County about 1815, and remained there until 1828 or 1829, when he moved to Sumner County and purchased a 100-acre farm nine miles north of Gallatin, near South Railroad Tunnel. A year later he went to Overton County where he died about 1850. The mother was of French-English origin, a native of Virginia, and died about 1863. The subject of our sketch was educated in the common schools of Sumner County. At the age of eighteen he became an apprentice to the spinning-machine trade, under Squire Wm. Matthews. After four years he began working for himself at his trade, in Sumner County. In 1854 he bought a farm of 105 acres, upon which he now resides. He has since added to the place until it now contains 320 acres. In 1845 he married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Anna Tally, of Sumner County. Mrs. Pryor was born in 1825, in Virginia, and died in 1863, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and mother of six sons and five daughters: Wm. T. (a resident of Collin County, Tex.), Lycurgus, John E., Ann Eliza, Lucy, Elizabeth and Alice; those deceased: Dewitt, Katherine and two infant boys. December 25, 1871, our subject wedded Margaret, daughter of Isaac and Adeline McWhirter, of Sumner County. Mrs. Pryor was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., in 1835. Subject is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren. With the exception of two children, the entire family belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Lycurgus is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.