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ALLEN Jackson Hylton (1862-1946) was a reform school director and a physician in Indiana, Montana and Colorado. 

==Early life==
Allen J. Hylton was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, in the year 1862, and is a son of Abraham and Minerva (Powers) Hylton, the former of whom was born in North Carolina, and the latter of whom was a daughter of Allen Powers, who came from North Carolina and became a pioneer farmer in Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. Abraham Hylton became a stationary engineer by vocation, and both he and his wife were still young at the time of their death.

Doctor Hylton was an infant at the time of the death of his parents, and was taken into the home of William Conn, a substantial farmer near Danville, Hendricks County, where he was reared to the age of fifteen years, he having assisted in the work of the farm during the summer seasons and having attended the local schools during the winter terms. His ambition for higher education was not to be denied, and in obtaining the same he depended mainly upon his own resources. At the age of twenty-one years he was graduated in the Indiana State Normal School at Danville.

==Reform schools==

===Indiana Reform School for Boys===
Hylton worked as an officer for the Indiana Reform School for Boys, Plainfield, Indiana for 9.5 years, the last seven years as the Assistant Superintendent. While there his projects included having boys make bricks, and he was favorably reported by the director in his report to the state.

===Montana State Reform School===
In 1893, the newly formed state of Montana awarded Miles City the state's institution for troublesome youths, the [[State Reform School]]. Hylton was hired in 1894 to be the director and to build the facility (with the help of a three person board). For four years, he and his wife engaged in the endevour, but ran over budget most of the time. Late in 1896, a committee of the state legislature investigated complaints of abuse towards some inmates and in March 1897, he resigned.

==Physician==
Hylton returned to Indiana and in its capital city completed a course in the Medical College of Indiana. From this institution he received in 1901 his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and he then engaged in the practice of his profession at Mooresville. In 1905 he went to Colorado, where he served fourteen months as superintendent of the Telluride Hospital, and he then resumed his residence at Mooresville, Indiana, where he has since continued in the active general practice of medicine with an office at 43 West Main Street, and his home at 63 West Main Street.

Doctor Hylton had membership in the Morgan County Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Society and American Medical Association, his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, and he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America.

==Family life==




In the year 1907 Doctor Hylton was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Mills, who was born and reared at Mooresville and who was a daughter of Amos and Eliza (Bowman) Mills, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of North Carolina. The death of Mrs. Hylton occurred in the year 1927, and she is survived by one child, William Madison, who was born in 1909.

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=78313883
White Lick Cemetery, Mooresville (Morgan County), Indiana, USA

Mabel Mills Hylton
Birth: 	unknown (abt 1884, cuz she was class of 1902 @ Mooresville High School.
Death: 	Nov., 1927
"First wife of Dr. Allen J Hylton, mother of William Madison Hylton. "
 
Dr Allen Jackson Hylton
Birth: 	1862
Death: 	1946
Same stone as Frances C Hylton
Spouse: 1) Mabel Mills; 2) Frances Ringo Clark
Survived By: Wife, Frances; son, William M. Hylton
  
Frances Ringo Clark Hylton 
Birth: 	1897
Death: 	1973

Frances' son by a previous marriage:
Charles B. Clark, age 90, Logansport, passed away Saturday, September 19, 2009 at Logansport Memorial Hospital. Mr. Clark was born May 5, 1919 at Friendswood, IN, to Charles Augusta Clark and Frances Ingles Ringo Clark Hylton. They both preceded him in death. A half brother, John Clark, also preceded him in death. 
 
Frances Hylton in the 1940 Census
Age 	45, born abt 1895
Birthplace 	Kentucky
Gender 	Female
Race 	White
Home in 1940 	
39 East Main Street
Mooresville,
Morgan, Indiana
Household Members 	  	Age
Head 	Allen D Hylton 	77
Wife 	Frances Hylton 	45
Son-in-law 	Charles B Clark 	20
Daughter-in-law 	Erma Dean Clark 	18

In the 1930 census, 3 yrs after Mabel Mills Hylton died:
 	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Head	Allen Hylton	M	67	 Indiana
Son	 William M Hylton	M	21	 Indiana
Mother-in-law	Eliza Mills	F	68	 North Carolina

In the 1940 census:
 	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Head	 Allen Hylton	M	77	 Indiana
Wife	Frances Hylton	F	43	 Kentucky
Son-in-law	Charles B Clark	M	20	 Indiana
Daughter-in-law	Erma Dean Clark	F	18	 Indiana




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In 1894, the Montana State College, Agricultural Experiment Station reported:
Director A. J. Hylton, of the State Reform School at 
Miles City, considers a sandy loam, plowed eight inches 
deep in the spring, and pulverized as deeply as plowed, best 
for a good yield. He plants two seed pieces of one or two 
eyes per hill, twenty inches apart, and covers them six 
inches deep. For most of the cultivation he uses a double- 
shovel plow, giving final hilling just before they begin to 
bloom, with a turning plow. All irrigating is also done 
before the bloom appears. Earh' Rose and Beauty of 
Hebron are the kinds grown, and these have not been affected by scab, nor has the seed rotted in the ground after 
planting. 




Saturday, March 27, 1897
Supt Hylton Resigns v TRIBUNE Helena March Smith was officially notified today that Super intendent A J Hylton of the Milea City Reform school who was accused by of a committee of the last Legislature of various abuses had re The board elected to succeed Mr Hylton B C White of Ubet Fer gus county who now a stockman and lawyer but who was formerly em in a high capacity in the re 4 Elmira N Y

Supt Hylton Resigns. v , [TRIBUNE SPECIAL.] Helena, Mont., March 2G.~Gov'. Smith was officially notified today that Superintendent A. J. Hylton of the Milea City 'Reform school, who was accused by the-report of a committee of the last Legislature ! of various abuses, had re- slfrneu; The board elected to succeed Mr Hylton, B: C. White of Ubet, Fergus county, who i» now a stockman and lawyer, but who was formerly employed in a high capacity in the re- 4 >*t Elmira, N. Y.

4 / 10 	Montana State Reform School (re investigation of Superintendent Hylton for alleged cruelty to inmates) 
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