Draft:William Allen (Massachusetts judge)

William Allen (1822 – June 4, 1891) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1881 to 1891. He was appointed by Governor John Davis Long.

Born in Brunswick, Maine, "at the age of sixteen he entered Bowdoin College, of which his father was then President, but completed his course at Amherst, graduating there in 1842".

He gained admission to the bar in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1845, "and there he practised law for twenty-seven years".