ALLEN, HENRY C. – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

LLEN, HENRY C., M. D., Chicago, Illinois, one of the founders of Hering Medical College, its professor
of materia medica since that institution was organized, editor of the “Medical Advance,” is a native of Canada, born October 2, 1836 ;
son of Hugh Allen and Martha Billings, his wife, and a descendant on the paternal side of that distinguished family of Vermonters that produced Gem. Ira
Allen and his patriot brother, Ethan Allen, both of revolutionary fame. On the maternal side the Billingses were among the colonial families of
Massachusetts Bay, and one of its representatives, great-grandfather of Dr. Allen, owned the farm lands on which the present city of Salem is built up.
After’ selling the land there the family removed to the them frontier settlement of Deerfield in the Connecticut valley, and was there when the Indians
ravaged the region with the tomahawk and with fire. Dr. Allen acquired his early education in the common and grammar schools of London, Ontario, and his
medical education in Cleveland Homœopathic College and also in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, having graduated from the former
institution in 1861. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of medicine, and during much of that long period of almost forty-five years he
has been in some prominent manner identified with the cause of medical education ; first as professor of anatomy in his alma mater, and afterward
incumbent of the same chair in Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. In the latter institution in 1868 he was offered the chair of surgery, to succeed
Beebe, but was unable to accept. From 1880 to 1885 he was professor of materia medica and” clinical medicine in the homœopathic department of the
University, of Michigan, and in 1892 was one of the founders of Hering Medical College, incumbent of its chair of materia medica since that time, one of
the guiding spirits of its policy, and president of its governing board. Dr. Allen is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, the
International Hahnemannian Association, honorary member of the New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan State Homœopathic Medical societies, and
member of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Illinois and of the Englewood Homœopathic Medical Society. He married, December 24, 1867,
Selina Louise Goold, and has children : Franklin Lyman Allen and Helen Marian Allen.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King