City: Brownsville
ALLEN, John Thos., physician and surgeon; born Brownsville, Haywood Co., Tenn., Dec. 28, 1856; son of Dr. John Richard and Julia Ann (Snipes) ALLEN; English descent; graduate A. B., Southwestern Baptist University, Jackson, Tenn., in 1875, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, N. Y., 1880, in ’78 served through the epidemic of yellow fever in Tenn.; wrote upon that subject; has had an extensive hospital service, having practiced in ’87–88 in Central, London, Golden Square and Moorfields hospitals of London, Eng.; attended during his stay in Europe Kochs’ Bacteriological Works in Berlin, and Pasteur’s in Paris; also served at intervals in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and Royal Westminster Ophtalmic Hospital, Charrings Cross, London, Eng., holding the position of clinical assistant in the Opthalmological department; practiced extensively on the eye, ear, throat and nose; member Haywood County Medical Society, West Tennessee Medical and Surgical Association, Tennessee State Medical Society, American Medical Association; married Minneola MANN in 1890; K. of P.; proprietor of Allen’s Private Sanitarium, Brownsville, Tenn.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
