Born:
March 1, 1901: New York, New York

Died:
March 19, 1987: Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

Education:
Radcliffe, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Occupation:
Teacher

Residence:
1920: 9 Myrtle Street, White Plains, Westerchester County, New York

Obituary:
Dorothea Teulon Allen was born March 1, 1901, in New York City, the oldest child of Joseph and Annie Winsor Allen. Most of her childhood was spent in White Plains, New York. Her parents ran a tutorial school at Seal Harbor, Maine, during the summers, and it was there that she most fully enjoyed her childhood. Seal Harbor was shere her deepest sense of home remained all her life.

A 1924 graduate of Radcliffe Collere, Dorothea taught English for five years at Hampton Institute in Virginia, a private high school for Black students. There she met Clay Treadway, whom she married in 1930. She them became a full time housewife and mother to their four children. Raised a Unitarian, Dorothea joined the Society of Friends after her marriage, and was an active member as long as her health permitted. She and Clay were founding members of the Des Moines Valley Monthly Meeting. She was a lover of good music, good literature, and Nature in its tamer forms. In politics and religion she espoused traditional Liberal views. She did not change her opinions when they went out of fashion. She talked of her hopes for progress toward world peace and the need for world government in her last conversations with her family.

Dorothea had four children, thirteen grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Her children are Allen of Tecumseh, Missouri, Ann of Wayland, Massachusetts, Roy of Normal, Illinois, and Ray of Greensboro, North Carolina.