Freestone County, Texas
Biographies
 

Biography of John A. Allen
 (1848 - ?; buried at ? Cemetery )

Book - Biographical Sketches from Limestone, Freestone, and Leon Counties,
Texas.  Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893.  p. 744-745.


p. 744
  DR. J. A. ALLEN, of Wortham, Texas, is one of the leading physicians of this 
place. He was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1848 and was the son of Sterling 
R. and Eleanor (Younger) Allen, natives of Missouri and Tennessee. Sterling B. 
Allen was one of the first merchants of Springfield, Missouri, and was a partner 
with Colonel Dansey Berry. He was a prominent Mason and died when quite a young 
man. The mother of our subject soon after re-married, removed to this State and 
settled in Navarro county, where she resided for several years. Her second 
husband was Major A. Barry, of Tehuacana, of this county, where she now lives. 
To the parents of Dr. Allen only two children were born, — our subject and J. B. 
of Cleburne. The sketch of Mayor Barry gives facts relating to the history of the 
family.
 Dr. Allen received his literary education, at Richland Academy in the neighborhood 
of Dresden. Leaving school at the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine, 
and in his nineteenth year he entered the State Medical School at Galveston, from 
which he graduated in the class of 1878 and 1879. He then entered and graduated 
from Tulane Medical School of Louisiana and also from the medical department of 
Vanderbilt University. He then engaged in the

p. 745
  practice of his profession. At the age of twenty-four he opened up an office at 
Dresden. In the summer of 1886 he was in Corsicana and 1892 he removed to this place.
  The Doctor was President of the County Medical Association for four years, a 
member of the District Examining Board, a member of the Texas State Medical 
Association and one of the Medical Judicial Council of the State Legislative 
Committee on behalf of the State Medical Association.
  The Doctor was married, in 1890, to Miss Mary St. Clair, of Missouri, a daughter 
of J. R. and Julia (Childress) St. Clair, both prominent families of Tennessee. 
To the Doctor and wife one child has been born, but it is deceased. He is a 
prominent member of the A. F. & A. M., Corsicana Lodge, Ho. 174, in which he has 
been Worthy Master for several terms and District Grand Master for a number of 
years. He is a prominent Democrat and one who has always stood by his party.