Age 43 years.
The Meridional.
Abbeville, Louisiana
Saturday, March 1, 1890
Page 1
Sensation in Shreveport.
Mrs. Emma L. Grandville was employed in the Allen Infirmary, in Shreveport, but was recently discharged - for drunkenness the Allens say. She was to have left on Monday morning, and on Sunday asked several times for Dr. J. Walter Allen, who was absent. Some time after eight o'clock that night two pistol shots rang out from her room, followed by cries of help from Dr. Walter Allen. On entering the room his brother and a negro man found Dr. Allen on his knees trying to wrench a pistol from the woman's hand. The doctor had not been seen when the Times got its information; but his brother T. M. Allen said she was trying to blackmail the doctor out of $300. She said that after repeated approaches and repulses on the doctor's part, she had yielded to him she was begging him to provide for her until she was able to take care of herself again, and when he refused to give her more than $100 she drew the pistol, not with the intention of killing him, but herself. She is in jail, or was when this was written.
The doctor is a young man who stands very high as a physician and socially, and few perhaps will believe her story. - Bienville New Era.
From the Directory of Deceased American Physicians:
John Walter Allen
Birthdate: 1858
Death date: 27 Oct 1901
Death place: Shreveport, La
Type practice: Allopath
Licenses: La.
Practice place: Shreveport, La
Medical School: Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1881
JAMA Citation: 27:1332
Cause of Death: Nervous Prostration
The Times.
Monday, October 28, 1901
Page 5
IN MEMORIAM.
Died on October 27, 1901, at 12:20 a. m., Dr. John Walter Allen, aged 43 years and 2 months.
Funeral services at First Baptist church at 3 o'clock this (Monday) afternoon. Interment at the old cemetery. Friends and acquaintances invited.
Just after midnight on the dawn of Sunday, October the 27th, the soul of Dr. Walter Allen passed to his eternal rest. After weeks, months and even years, wrestling with disease and suffering, the end came peacefully and quietly, and like the sleep of a little child he passed from time to eternity.
The tidings of his death, while not unexpected, struck a chord of sorrow and loss in the hearts of all who knew him, for though Dr. Walter Allen was taken in the prime of his manhood he had made his impression on the community vital and felt, and the news of his death comes to the citizens of Shreveport with a sense of personal bereavement.
For, Walter Allen was not only the upright, conscientious citizen, the skilled and trusted physician and surgeon, but the loyal and sympathetic friend with a rare blending in his nature, both of sweetness and strength. In his ministering as a physician there are many grateful hearts who will recall his kindly words of cheer, his friendly grasp of sympathy and that steady, clear look from his eyes, inspiring new courage and hope. In the death of such a man there is a feeling of waste- so much of good lost to humanity, an noble and useful man gone. He fell by the way soon after passing his fortieth milestone, but few were more widely honored or more tenderly loved or lived to do more beneficent service to his fellowman.
His integrity and devotion to principle, his scorn of meanness, his kindness to the weak and suffering, his sound judgment, his truth and tenderness brought to him a host of friends. He was a Christian faith without bigotry or narrowness, a member of the Baptist church and finding comfort in the loving ministration of his Jewish friends, taking pleasure in the tender words of his dear friend the Catholic priest, and grateful for the prayers of the nuns and sisters of St. Mary and St. Vincent. Rich and poor will follow him to his grave and little children, whose friend he had been, will weep over him.
Dr. Walter Allen was born in Shreveport, August the 23rd, 1858, his father, the late Dr. T. H. Allen, prominent physician and honored citizen, his mother, Miss Katherine Cates, one of the finest and highest types of Christian womanhood. He spent his boyhood in Shreveport, finishing his collegiate education in Jackson, Tenn. He graduated in medicine at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and later took a special course on the treatment of the eye, nose and throat.
Walter Allen was by gift and temperament the born physician, and was a recognized leader in his profession occupying positions of responsibility and honor. He was at one time vice president of the State Medical Association, for years in charge of the Charity Hospital, until his large practice necessitated his resignation, and associated with his father as physician in charge of the Allen Infirmary.
Dr. Allen was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Buckner, daughter of Mr. Richard Buckner of New Orleans, who died in the first year of her marriage. His second wife was Miss Mary Virginia Hamilton, the only daughter of Mr. W. B. Hamilton and Mrs. Ella Hamilton, and who has three beautiful children, two sons and a daughter. Dr. Allen had been a sufferer for more than two years, nursed, watched and tended by the gentle ministerings of his devoted wife; she has soothed his pain, brightened the tedious hours, never wearying night or day in her tender devotion. It was in his long and painful sickness that the rare strength and sweetness of his nature shone brightest. Never a complaint or impatient word; never a harsh or unkind criticism, appreciative of kindness and always considerate of others. His home life, with wife and children was an ideal one and though he goes in the prime of a noble and useful manhood he leaves a rich heritage to his children, a noble legacy of an honored name, a noble life and that which enriches the soul, a moral intelligence and power, which we call character.
When the end came he had the peace which comes of faith in the abiding love of God, looking into the future without fear and with a happy trust. He leaves a host of sorrowing friends to mourn for him and deepest sympathy goes out to the stricken household, to his brother and sister, his devoted wife, her mother and the three children. May the peace of God be with and comfort them!
The Meridional.
Abbeville, Louisiana
Saturday, March 1, 1890
Page 1
Sensation in Shreveport.
Mrs. Emma L. Grandville was employed in the Allen Infirmary, in Shreveport, but was recently discharged - for drunkenness the Allens say. She was to have left on Monday morning, and on Sunday asked several times for Dr. J. Walter Allen, who was absent. Some time after eight o'clock that night two pistol shots rang out from her room, followed by cries of help from Dr. Walter Allen. On entering the room his brother and a negro man found Dr. Allen on his knees trying to wrench a pistol from the woman's hand. The doctor had not been seen when the Times got its information; but his brother T. M. Allen said she was trying to blackmail the doctor out of $300. She said that after repeated approaches and repulses on the doctor's part, she had yielded to him she was begging him to provide for her until she was able to take care of herself again, and when he refused to give her more than $100 she drew the pistol, not with the intention of killing him, but herself. She is in jail, or was when this was written.
The doctor is a young man who stands very high as a physician and socially, and few perhaps will believe her story. - Bienville New Era.
From the Directory of Deceased American Physicians:
John Walter Allen
Birthdate: 1858
Death date: 27 Oct 1901
Death place: Shreveport, La
Type practice: Allopath
Licenses: La.
Practice place: Shreveport, La
Medical School: Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1881
JAMA Citation: 27:1332
Cause of Death: Nervous Prostration
The Times.
Monday, October 28, 1901
Page 5
IN MEMORIAM.
Died on October 27, 1901, at 12:20 a. m., Dr. John Walter Allen, aged 43 years and 2 months.
Funeral services at First Baptist church at 3 o'clock this (Monday) afternoon. Interment at the old cemetery. Friends and acquaintances invited.
Just after midnight on the dawn of Sunday, October the 27th, the soul of Dr. Walter Allen passed to his eternal rest. After weeks, months and even years, wrestling with disease and suffering, the end came peacefully and quietly, and like the sleep of a little child he passed from time to eternity.
The tidings of his death, while not unexpected, struck a chord of sorrow and loss in the hearts of all who knew him, for though Dr. Walter Allen was taken in the prime of his manhood he had made his impression on the community vital and felt, and the news of his death comes to the citizens of Shreveport with a sense of personal bereavement.
For, Walter Allen was not only the upright, conscientious citizen, the skilled and trusted physician and surgeon, but the loyal and sympathetic friend with a rare blending in his nature, both of sweetness and strength. In his ministering as a physician there are many grateful hearts who will recall his kindly words of cheer, his friendly grasp of sympathy and that steady, clear look from his eyes, inspiring new courage and hope. In the death of such a man there is a feeling of waste- so much of good lost to humanity, an noble and useful man gone. He fell by the way soon after passing his fortieth milestone, but few were more widely honored or more tenderly loved or lived to do more beneficent service to his fellowman.
His integrity and devotion to principle, his scorn of meanness, his kindness to the weak and suffering, his sound judgment, his truth and tenderness brought to him a host of friends. He was a Christian faith without bigotry or narrowness, a member of the Baptist church and finding comfort in the loving ministration of his Jewish friends, taking pleasure in the tender words of his dear friend the Catholic priest, and grateful for the prayers of the nuns and sisters of St. Mary and St. Vincent. Rich and poor will follow him to his grave and little children, whose friend he had been, will weep over him.
Dr. Walter Allen was born in Shreveport, August the 23rd, 1858, his father, the late Dr. T. H. Allen, prominent physician and honored citizen, his mother, Miss Katherine Cates, one of the finest and highest types of Christian womanhood. He spent his boyhood in Shreveport, finishing his collegiate education in Jackson, Tenn. He graduated in medicine at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and later took a special course on the treatment of the eye, nose and throat.
Walter Allen was by gift and temperament the born physician, and was a recognized leader in his profession occupying positions of responsibility and honor. He was at one time vice president of the State Medical Association, for years in charge of the Charity Hospital, until his large practice necessitated his resignation, and associated with his father as physician in charge of the Allen Infirmary.
Dr. Allen was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Buckner, daughter of Mr. Richard Buckner of New Orleans, who died in the first year of her marriage. His second wife was Miss Mary Virginia Hamilton, the only daughter of Mr. W. B. Hamilton and Mrs. Ella Hamilton, and who has three beautiful children, two sons and a daughter. Dr. Allen had been a sufferer for more than two years, nursed, watched and tended by the gentle ministerings of his devoted wife; she has soothed his pain, brightened the tedious hours, never wearying night or day in her tender devotion. It was in his long and painful sickness that the rare strength and sweetness of his nature shone brightest. Never a complaint or impatient word; never a harsh or unkind criticism, appreciative of kindness and always considerate of others. His home life, with wife and children was an ideal one and though he goes in the prime of a noble and useful manhood he leaves a rich heritage to his children, a noble legacy of an honored name, a noble life and that which enriches the soul, a moral intelligence and power, which we call character.
When the end came he had the peace which comes of faith in the abiding love of God, looking into the future without fear and with a happy trust. He leaves a host of sorrowing friends to mourn for him and deepest sympathy goes out to the stricken household, to his brother and sister, his devoted wife, her mother and the three children. May the peace of God be with and comfort them!
Age 43 years.
The Meridional.
Abbeville, Louisiana
Saturday, March 1, 1890
Page 1
Sensation in Shreveport.
Mrs. Emma L. Grandville was employed in the Allen Infirmary, in Shreveport, but was recently discharged - for drunkenness the Allens say. She was to have left on Monday morning, and on Sunday asked several times for Dr. J. Walter Allen, who was absent. Some time after eight o'clock that night two pistol shots rang out from her room, followed by cries of help from Dr. Walter Allen. On entering the room his brother and a negro man found Dr. Allen on his knees trying to wrench a pistol from the woman's hand. The doctor had not been seen when the Times got its information; but his brother T. M. Allen said she was trying to blackmail the doctor out of $300. She said that after repeated approaches and repulses on the doctor's part, she had yielded to him she was begging him to provide for her until she was able to take care of herself again, and when he refused to give her more than $100 she drew the pistol, not with the intention of killing him, but herself. She is in jail, or was when this was written.
The doctor is a young man who stands very high as a physician and socially, and few perhaps will believe her story. - Bienville New Era.
From the Directory of Deceased American Physicians:
John Walter Allen
Birthdate: 1858
Death date: 27 Oct 1901
Death place: Shreveport, La
Type practice: Allopath
Licenses: La.
Practice place: Shreveport, La
Medical School: Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1881
JAMA Citation: 27:1332
Cause of Death: Nervous Prostration
The Times.
Monday, October 28, 1901
Page 5
IN MEMORIAM.
Died on October 27, 1901, at 12:20 a. m., Dr. John Walter Allen, aged 43 years and 2 months.
Funeral services at First Baptist church at 3 o'clock this (Monday) afternoon. Interment at the old cemetery. Friends and acquaintances invited.
Just after midnight on the dawn of Sunday, October the 27th, the soul of Dr. Walter Allen passed to his eternal rest. After weeks, months and even years, wrestling with disease and suffering, the end came peacefully and quietly, and like the sleep of a little child he passed from time to eternity.
The tidings of his death, while not unexpected, struck a chord of sorrow and loss in the hearts of all who knew him, for though Dr. Walter Allen was taken in the prime of his manhood he had made his impression on the community vital and felt, and the news of his death comes to the citizens of Shreveport with a sense of personal bereavement.
For, Walter Allen was not only the upright, conscientious citizen, the skilled and trusted physician and surgeon, but the loyal and sympathetic friend with a rare blending in his nature, both of sweetness and strength. In his ministering as a physician there are many grateful hearts who will recall his kindly words of cheer, his friendly grasp of sympathy and that steady, clear look from his eyes, inspiring new courage and hope. In the death of such a man there is a feeling of waste- so much of good lost to humanity, an noble and useful man gone. He fell by the way soon after passing his fortieth milestone, but few were more widely honored or more tenderly loved or lived to do more beneficent service to his fellowman.
His integrity and devotion to principle, his scorn of meanness, his kindness to the weak and suffering, his sound judgment, his truth and tenderness brought to him a host of friends. He was a Christian faith without bigotry or narrowness, a member of the Baptist church and finding comfort in the loving ministration of his Jewish friends, taking pleasure in the tender words of his dear friend the Catholic priest, and grateful for the prayers of the nuns and sisters of St. Mary and St. Vincent. Rich and poor will follow him to his grave and little children, whose friend he had been, will weep over him.
Dr. Walter Allen was born in Shreveport, August the 23rd, 1858, his father, the late Dr. T. H. Allen, prominent physician and honored citizen, his mother, Miss Katherine Cates, one of the finest and highest types of Christian womanhood. He spent his boyhood in Shreveport, finishing his collegiate education in Jackson, Tenn. He graduated in medicine at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and later took a special course on the treatment of the eye, nose and throat.
Walter Allen was by gift and temperament the born physician, and was a recognized leader in his profession occupying positions of responsibility and honor. He was at one time vice president of the State Medical Association, for years in charge of the Charity Hospital, until his large practice necessitated his resignation, and associated with his father as physician in charge of the Allen Infirmary.
Dr. Allen was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Buckner, daughter of Mr. Richard Buckner of New Orleans, who died in the first year of her marriage. His second wife was Miss Mary Virginia Hamilton, the only daughter of Mr. W. B. Hamilton and Mrs. Ella Hamilton, and who has three beautiful children, two sons and a daughter. Dr. Allen had been a sufferer for more than two years, nursed, watched and tended by the gentle ministerings of his devoted wife; she has soothed his pain, brightened the tedious hours, never wearying night or day in her tender devotion. It was in his long and painful sickness that the rare strength and sweetness of his nature shone brightest. Never a complaint or impatient word; never a harsh or unkind criticism, appreciative of kindness and always considerate of others. His home life, with wife and children was an ideal one and though he goes in the prime of a noble and useful manhood he leaves a rich heritage to his children, a noble legacy of an honored name, a noble life and that which enriches the soul, a moral intelligence and power, which we call character.
When the end came he had the peace which comes of faith in the abiding love of God, looking into the future without fear and with a happy trust. He leaves a host of sorrowing friends to mourn for him and deepest sympathy goes out to the stricken household, to his brother and sister, his devoted wife, her mother and the three children. May the peace of God be with and comfort them!
The Meridional.
Abbeville, Louisiana
Saturday, March 1, 1890
Page 1
Sensation in Shreveport.
Mrs. Emma L. Grandville was employed in the Allen Infirmary, in Shreveport, but was recently discharged - for drunkenness the Allens say. She was to have left on Monday morning, and on Sunday asked several times for Dr. J. Walter Allen, who was absent. Some time after eight o'clock that night two pistol shots rang out from her room, followed by cries of help from Dr. Walter Allen. On entering the room his brother and a negro man found Dr. Allen on his knees trying to wrench a pistol from the woman's hand. The doctor had not been seen when the Times got its information; but his brother T. M. Allen said she was trying to blackmail the doctor out of $300. She said that after repeated approaches and repulses on the doctor's part, she had yielded to him she was begging him to provide for her until she was able to take care of herself again, and when he refused to give her more than $100 she drew the pistol, not with the intention of killing him, but herself. She is in jail, or was when this was written.
The doctor is a young man who stands very high as a physician and socially, and few perhaps will believe her story. - Bienville New Era.
From the Directory of Deceased American Physicians:
John Walter Allen
Birthdate: 1858
Death date: 27 Oct 1901
Death place: Shreveport, La
Type practice: Allopath
Licenses: La.
Practice place: Shreveport, La
Medical School: Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1881
JAMA Citation: 27:1332
Cause of Death: Nervous Prostration
The Times.
Monday, October 28, 1901
Page 5
IN MEMORIAM.
Died on October 27, 1901, at 12:20 a. m., Dr. John Walter Allen, aged 43 years and 2 months.
Funeral services at First Baptist church at 3 o'clock this (Monday) afternoon. Interment at the old cemetery. Friends and acquaintances invited.
Just after midnight on the dawn of Sunday, October the 27th, the soul of Dr. Walter Allen passed to his eternal rest. After weeks, months and even years, wrestling with disease and suffering, the end came peacefully and quietly, and like the sleep of a little child he passed from time to eternity.
The tidings of his death, while not unexpected, struck a chord of sorrow and loss in the hearts of all who knew him, for though Dr. Walter Allen was taken in the prime of his manhood he had made his impression on the community vital and felt, and the news of his death comes to the citizens of Shreveport with a sense of personal bereavement.
For, Walter Allen was not only the upright, conscientious citizen, the skilled and trusted physician and surgeon, but the loyal and sympathetic friend with a rare blending in his nature, both of sweetness and strength. In his ministering as a physician there are many grateful hearts who will recall his kindly words of cheer, his friendly grasp of sympathy and that steady, clear look from his eyes, inspiring new courage and hope. In the death of such a man there is a feeling of waste- so much of good lost to humanity, an noble and useful man gone. He fell by the way soon after passing his fortieth milestone, but few were more widely honored or more tenderly loved or lived to do more beneficent service to his fellowman.
His integrity and devotion to principle, his scorn of meanness, his kindness to the weak and suffering, his sound judgment, his truth and tenderness brought to him a host of friends. He was a Christian faith without bigotry or narrowness, a member of the Baptist church and finding comfort in the loving ministration of his Jewish friends, taking pleasure in the tender words of his dear friend the Catholic priest, and grateful for the prayers of the nuns and sisters of St. Mary and St. Vincent. Rich and poor will follow him to his grave and little children, whose friend he had been, will weep over him.
Dr. Walter Allen was born in Shreveport, August the 23rd, 1858, his father, the late Dr. T. H. Allen, prominent physician and honored citizen, his mother, Miss Katherine Cates, one of the finest and highest types of Christian womanhood. He spent his boyhood in Shreveport, finishing his collegiate education in Jackson, Tenn. He graduated in medicine at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and later took a special course on the treatment of the eye, nose and throat.
Walter Allen was by gift and temperament the born physician, and was a recognized leader in his profession occupying positions of responsibility and honor. He was at one time vice president of the State Medical Association, for years in charge of the Charity Hospital, until his large practice necessitated his resignation, and associated with his father as physician in charge of the Allen Infirmary.
Dr. Allen was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Buckner, daughter of Mr. Richard Buckner of New Orleans, who died in the first year of her marriage. His second wife was Miss Mary Virginia Hamilton, the only daughter of Mr. W. B. Hamilton and Mrs. Ella Hamilton, and who has three beautiful children, two sons and a daughter. Dr. Allen had been a sufferer for more than two years, nursed, watched and tended by the gentle ministerings of his devoted wife; she has soothed his pain, brightened the tedious hours, never wearying night or day in her tender devotion. It was in his long and painful sickness that the rare strength and sweetness of his nature shone brightest. Never a complaint or impatient word; never a harsh or unkind criticism, appreciative of kindness and always considerate of others. His home life, with wife and children was an ideal one and though he goes in the prime of a noble and useful manhood he leaves a rich heritage to his children, a noble legacy of an honored name, a noble life and that which enriches the soul, a moral intelligence and power, which we call character.
When the end came he had the peace which comes of faith in the abiding love of God, looking into the future without fear and with a happy trust. He leaves a host of sorrowing friends to mourn for him and deepest sympathy goes out to the stricken household, to his brother and sister, his devoted wife, her mother and the three children. May the peace of God be with and comfort them!
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