Dr. George Mantell Allen
Dr. George Mantell Allen, whose residence and office are at No. 2404 Auburn Avenue, is a native son of the Buckeye State and has for over thirty years made this city his home. He was born at Oberlin, November 23, 1848. His father was Professor George N. Allen, for many years occupant of the chair of geology and natural history at Oberlin College and widely noted for his scholarship. He died in 1880. A brother of our subject, Professor Fred D. Allen, who died in 1906, was one of the Greek scholars of America. He was a graduate of Oberlin College and of the University of Leipsic, Germany. He served for many years as professor of Greek at Harvard University.
Dr Allen was reared under the favoring influences of a college town. He attended the local schools and was also a student of Oberlin College. After leaving college he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and for four years was in the employ of Strong-Cobb & Company, wholesale druggists. At the end of this time he came to Cincinnati and entered Miami Medical College, in which he pursued the regular course, graduating in 1881 with the degree of M. D. He served for one year as interne in the Cincinnati Hospital and then began practice, which he has since uninterruptedly continued. He is one of the most favorably known physicians and medical teachers of Cincinnati. Since 1886 he has filled the office of obstetrician to the Cincinnati Hospital. He served for many years as instructor in chemistry at the Miami Medical College and was a member of the board of directors of that college until its merger with the Medical College of Ohio. Since the merger he has filled the important office of clinician in the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. He is also obstetrician to Christ Hospital and a member of the staff of the Episcopal Hospital for Children.
In 1883, at Cincinnati, Dr. Allen was married to Miss Helen Hudson, a daughter of Rev. Horace Hudson, who died when she was a child. She is also a granddaughter of the beloved old blind missionary, Rev. Horace Bushnell, one of Cincinnati's pioneer ministers, long since deceased. They have three children; Carolyn, who is the wife of Currier Lang, of Detroit, Michigan; Catharine DeForest; and Jeannette.
Professionally Dr. Allen holds membership in the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Obstetrical Society of Cincinnati. By many years of earnest and conscientious effort, in the course of which he has fully demonstrated his ability, he has gained a place in the front rank among the physicians of this city. He is honored by his associates and acquaintances and his brother practitioners place in him their complete confidence. Genial and social in nature, he is welcome wherever he appears and his upright life guarantees the respect and esteem of the entire community.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912