American Medical Biographies/Allen, Jonathan Moses
Allen, Jonathan Moses (1815–1867)
Jonathan Moses Allen was born at Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, April 30, 1815, the son of Moses Allen, a farmer, and Mehitable Oliver. Receiving a common school education in his native place, he went on to Amherst Academy and in 1884 entered Yale but did not graduate. In 1838 he went to Philadelphia, entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduated M.D. in 1840, and immediately became a teacher and lecturer in a private institution.
Later, for several years, he was demonstrator of anatomy, then passed to professor of anatomy and physiology, at the Pennsylvania Medical College, a post held for about eight years. During this time he wrote "The Practical Anatomist; or, The Student's Guide in the Dissecting-Room," 631 pp. (1856).
He married Louisa Kedsly, of Wilmington, Delaware; they had no children. His health broke down from excessive application, a long illness followed and he never fully recovered. He went to Lowell, Massachusetts, to visit his brother, Nathan Allen, and died there of pneumonia, April 7, 1867.