He became the central character in John Eugene Cay Jr.'s 1958 non-fiction book Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter.

[2] He studied at the University of Oxford, but after returning to the United States, he decided he did not want to follow his father into the legal world; instead, he formed a duck-hunting business in Savannah's marshland with Christmas Moultrie, a former slave born on Mulberry Grove Plantation on December 25, 1857.

Stubbs, the daughter of an affluent Savannahian family, was over twenty years younger than Allen.

[2] The Allens endured a stillborn child, which resulted in Lucy's fall into a deep and long-lasting postpartum depression.

Concerned about the future of Savannah's marshes, due to the increasing number of factories in the city, he regularly wrote articles in the local press.

[6] In 2019, Allen's collection of duck decoys and shotguns were donated to the Georgia Historical Society.