BIO: Paul Pomeroy ALLEN, M.D., Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 107
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PAUL POMEROY ALLEN, M. D.

1885 - 1915

  Dr. P. P. Allen was born in 1885 in Chambersburg, Pa., a son of Thomas Allen, 
a prominent merchant of the town.  He received his education in the public 
schools and at the Chambersburg Academy.  He studied Pharmacy with the  
Greenawalt Pharmacy and was graduated Ph. G. before beginning the study of 
medicine.  He then attended the Medico Chirurgical College in Philadelphia, Pa., 
and was graduated M. D. in 1909 from this institution.

  He located at once in Chambersburg, Pa., and continued in practice here until 
the time of his death in 1915.  Dr. Allen was a member of the Medical Society 
and of the Staff of the Chambersburg Hospital.  He died after a short illness 
with pneumonia, at the opening of a career that was most promising.

  Dr. Allen was the pioneer in Chambersburg of X-Ray work, and had become well 
known in Franklin and Cumberland Counties as a competent Roengtenologist and his 
practice in this line of work was rapidly growing.

  His wife was Gertrude Wheeler of Germantown, who with a son survive.