FREDERICK EMERSON ALLEN

He received his early education in the schools of Massachusetts and at Effingham Academy, New Hampshire. Later he studied at night schools and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco, which granted him his medical degree in 1901. This was followed later by postgraduate work and observation studies at Johns Hopkins and the Boston Psychopathic hospital.

Dr. Allen began his professional practice in San Francisco in 1901. Shortly thereafter he accepted a position on the medical staff of the Mendocino State Hospital. For several years he was superintendent of a private sanitarium in Alameda County, California. Dr. Allen also figured as an expert witness in important criminal cases before the California courts.

On May 28, 1906, he married Miss Kathryn Estelle Bartlett at Ukiah, California.

Entering the Army as a captain at the beginning of World War I, Dr. Allen served as a neuropsychiatrist at Lettermann General Hospital in San Francisco, where he was in charge of the psychopathic wards, and at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Alcatraz Island. He took part in a conference at Washington, D.C., with the Secretary of War and leading psychiatrists regarding rehabilitation plans. In 1919 he was honorably discharged with the rank of major. In 1925 he was commissioned as Lt. Colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps, Hawaiian Department.

Dr. Allen came to Hawaii in 1920 as ship's surgeon aboard the "Matsonia". In August, 1921, he applied for and received the newly created position of intern at the Oahu Insane Asylum. In this capacity he was in charge of all the medical work at the institution, freeing Dr. William Schwallie, the Superintendent, to devote his time to executive duties. Passing his Territorial medical examinations in 1923, he went into private practice.

In May, 1926, Dr. Allen left Honolulu to accept a position as Medical Superintendent of the Veterans' Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He died in Little Rock on November 23, 1927, at the age of 59.

While in Honolulu he was a member of the Hawaiian Medical Society and of Central Union Church. He also held membership in the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the California Society for Mental Hygiene. He was a Mason, a Shriner, an Elk, and a member of the American Legion, San Francisco Post No. 1, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Union League Club of San Francisco.

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