The son of Celia Elizabeth and Samuel Bevel Allen, he was born September 19, 1880, at May, in Brown County, Texas. He attended Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station, and completed his medical education at the Texas Christian University Medical School in Fort Worth in 1915. After practicing three years in Ranger, Dr. Allen moved to Rotan, where he continued his practice from 1918-1938. From there he went to Brownwood, where he remained until 1942, when he began his practice in Rising Star. He was city health officer for several years, and was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations consecutively through the Eastland, Fisher-Stonewall, Nolan-Fisher-Mitchell, and Brown-Comanche-Mills-San Saba Counties Medical Societies.
Dr. Allen was a past president of the Fisher-Stonewall Counties Society, and a member of Phi Chi medical fraternity. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Delta Chi social fraternity. He owned several pecan orchards and was a member of the Pecan Growers Association. He married Miss Lydia Evatt on June 10, 1910, at May. Mrs. Allen survives, as do two children, Tyrus Allen and Mrs. Jimmy Maddox of Sweetwater. He is also survived by three brothers; Dr. H.B. Allen of Brownwood, E. Otis Allen of Norten, and O.C. Allen of Sydney, and two sisters; Mrs. Maggie Wagnon of Temple and Mrs. V. Earl Earp of Monahans.
=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or Dr. Allen's career.
