Allen, Mary Wood
physician, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 19, 1841, in Delta, Ohio. After graduating she taught music, French, and German in a collegiate institute in Battle Ground, Ind., until her marriage to Mr. Chillon B. Allen, now a noted lawyer. In 1875 she graduated in medicine from Ann Arbor, Mich., subsequently practiced medicine in Newark, N. J.; and is now a successful lecturer of Toledo, Ohio. She is the author of Man Wonderful and the House Beautiful, an allegorical physiology; and her poem, entitled Motherhood, won for itself immediate fame.