Pg 350

         WILLIAM STONE ALLEN, M.D., deceased, was born at Perryopolis, Fayette Co., Pa., on the 27th of August, 1849, receiving a liberal education in his native State. The early inclinations of our subject were toward the study of medicine, and accordingly he entered the office of Dr. R. M. Walker, at Uniontown, Pa., where he became a diligent student in the line which he made his life work, and in which he so nobly acquitted himself. He afterward attended lectures at Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1875 found his way beyond the Mississippi, becoming a citizen of Iowa. In October of the same year he located at Cairo, where he began the practice of his profession, and afterward took advantage of a course at the St. Louis Medical College, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1882. A year later he located in Morning Sun, where he resided until his death, which occurred Aug. 2, 1886.

On the 6th of March, 1879, Dr. Allen was united in marriage with Miss Melissa Green, of Cairo, and three children were born of their union, two of whom are living. Dr. Allen was a man of more than ordinary ability, and was always recognized as a well-informed and able physician, and many of our readers will not hesitate to say that to-day they owe their lives and health to his medical skill and knowledge. The practice of medicine was with him not alone a means of making his own way through life, but was to relieve the distress of suffering humanity, and to put the bloom of health upon the cheeks of the unfortunate sickly ones. His own body eventually received the blight of disease, contracted by his generous and faithful watching over those who had put themselves under his care. To them he was generous in the extreme, even at the sacrifice of his own health, and it mattered not though he himself should have been under professional care, the midnight hour would find him speeding away to where some patient needed his presence. It mattered not though the elements were terribly raging, though clouds were sending their volumes of water to earth, or a stinging north wind was bringing with it a terrible blizzard, Dr. Allen was always at his post. He was a man who took a broad and noble view of life and humanity, and all his acquaintances were his friends. He was public-spirited and generous to all alike, was deeply attached to his family, and was a friend to all people. By the death of Dr. Allen the citizens of Morning Sun and its vicinity lost a good physician, a kind and noble gentleman.