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Mary Wood-Allen
Born in Delta, Ohio, Wood-Allen trained as a physician at the University of Michigan and became a national leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's purity and health education work. She wrote books on hygiene and child-rearing and published a magazine for parents.
At a glance
- Born
- 1841-10-19
- Died
- 1908-01-21
- Education
- Ohio Wesleyan Female College, Delaware, OH, to 1862, graduate
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, to 1875, M.D.
- Known as
- Physician, Reformer, Women, Writer
- Organizations
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Life story
Mary Wood-Allen was born in Delta, Ohio, in 1841 and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Female College in 1862. She married lawyer Chillon Allen in 1863; they were separated by 1880.
After three years of study in Vienna she earned a medical degree at the University of Michigan in 1875 and practiced in Newark, New Jersey. In 1883 the national WCTU named her lecturer on heredity and hygiene.
She became the WCTU's national superintendent of purity in 1892 and world superintendent in 1897. Through the family's Wood-Allen Publishing Company in Ann Arbor she issued a monthly paper that became American Motherhood, which ran until 1919, and wrote many books on health and raising children. She died in Washington, D.C., in 1908.
Timeline
- 1841-10-19: Born (Delta, OH) source
- 1862: Graduates from Ohio Wesleyan Female College (Delaware, OH) source
- 1863-04-15: Marries Chillon Brown Allen source
- 1875: Medical degree, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) source
- 1883: WCTU lecturer on heredity and hygiene source
- 1892: National WCTU superintendent of purity source
- 1897: World WCTU Superintendent of Purity source
- 1908-01-21: Dies (Washington, DC) source
What Mary is known for
- World WCTU Superintendent of Purity, 1897
- Published American Motherhood magazine
- American Motherhood magazine (to 1919)
- Books on health and child-rearing
Family
- husband: Chillon Brown Allen
- daughter: Rose
- son: Mario
Ohio places
Where Mary Wood-Allen was born, lived, worked and is remembered, with the ZIP code, town and county pages for each.
- Born: Delta, Fulton County ZIP 43515 · Delta · Fulton County
Further reading
Sources
Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.
- Wikipedia: Mary Wood-Allen dates, education, career, family