It seems like Almost Yesterday that Allen Laws Oliver of Cape Girardeau , Missouri, became the national president of the Sons of the American Revolution. Born in 1886 when his parents, R. B. and Marie Oliver, lived in Jackson, Missouri, young Allen Oliver was educated in the local schools, at Southeast Missouri Normal School, and then, in the family tradition, received a law degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia. In 1909 Allen Oliver joined his father's law firm in Cape Girardeau