Show SAMUEL MUR H. H ALLEN AllU PIONEER SURGEON DIES OF f CANCER Was One of Leading Physicians Physicians Physicians Phy Phy- of State WIDELY HONORED R Had Thrilling Career in Early Days I Dr Samuel H. H Allen 64 one of the most prominent and learned physicians ever to have practiced In this city died at his home Eighth avenue Monday morning of cancer He was a pioneer i in the medical ical field of Utah an and in many ways a is contributed contribute to the health and welfare elfare of Us its people Noted physicians EVans ans and scientists of ot the world W were re le counted among his friends Dr Allen was the senior member clothe o 0 intermountain mountain clinic cUnic In the Deseret bank building a member mem- mem ber of the Utah State Medical as- as The flag of the L. L D. D S. S h hospital has been lowered to half st in his honor pin J Jn 1879 Sam Allen en was so poor that he le was twitted by his schoolfellows schoolfellows school school- fellows tor br wearing wooden shoes year an ambitious lad of drove from his home in in- Mt t. t P sant to Salt Lake a weeks week's Journey to attend school at the University of Utah He was acc accompanied ac ac- ac- ac c companied by his father and they h had d packed a load of flour bacon apples nad potatoes with which to pay the boys boy's board I His mother a convert to Mormonism Mormonism Mor- Mor monism from Derbyshire England aas as one ef f the courageous pioneers ho trudged across the prairies in Jathree months' months march marca with two children hildren Her first husband Th Thomas h mas Vest West was killed ed in an accident en route to Salt Lake H Her r second husband Dr Allens Allen's f father ther came from Liverpool to New Orleans and thence to Utah in 1853 53 where he married Dr Allens Allen's mother in n n 1855 1655 W BLACK IN-BLACK BLACK HAWK WARIn WAR Bin In the midst of all the hardships common to the life of the early settlers young oung Sam moved with paren ts from Provo to a and ad d' d from Mt l Pleasant to the Seer Se- Se ger er cc rh r country in 11 colonize these primitive tracts of land nd d under the direction of Brigham Brigam Brig- Brig ham am m Young Thrilling tales of adventure ad- ad venture with Indians and the near approach of death experienced during dur dur- ing ng the days of the Black Hawk d an ware were often re related re- re ted by the doctor In later life when in the comfort of his mode modern mod mod- e ern r n home his youth seemed ages past IpAs As s his father prospered an adobe dobe house with a slab roof sup sup- sup sup- l the first log house Sam Sams Kaw s aw w the erection of the first schoolhouse the first saloon and Bhe h he first church In m 1 l the town of his birth He established and taught the first high school in jn Sanpete I BHe He He went on an L. L D. D S. S mission England to Upon his gra graduation from the University of Utah he attended the Brigham Young acad acad- amy emy emy Later he Its went east to complete complete com com- his studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Bal Bal- where he was graduated in 1890 one ona of the four students to tor r receive a gold medal for excellent vork ork in a all branches He He was awarded In addition a years year's fre free hospital internship SUCCESS SUCCESS IN SURGERY fc I He was married in 1893 at t Mt l Pleasant He moved to Provo here he performed the first appendicitis appendicitis ap ap- ap- ap operation in Utah The patient was Titus Snow After the doctor progressed to railroad rail rall- road pad surgeon He was for a time associated with Senator Smoot in business dealings 1 Following a postgraduate course courset at t Johns Hopkins university he moved to Salt Lake and entered Into nto partnership w with l' l Dr George V. V MIddleton 1 There followed postgraduate study in Chicago and New York trips to Mexico l Europe South America and Islands in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans kIn In 1919 9 he studied at Columbia university under D Dr Leo Buerger In n 1921 he met Madame Curie at atI atthe the he White House in Washington I f p. p D. D C. C With a party of forty congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen he voyaged through the theP P If Continued on page 6 I DR S. S H H. ALLEN DIES OF OF CANCER Continued from Page 1 Panama canal in 1923 He He- came He-came came cameto cameto to enjoy the friendship and confidence con con- con of international scientists and physicians and surgeons IN FRISCO RUSH Early in his youth young Sam made an adventurous trip to San Francisco which he related with wih much amusement in later life Ute Discovery Discovery Discovery Dis Dis- covery of gold in the Cripple Creek mines of ot Colorado and luring whIspers whispers whispers whis whIs- pers of great things to be seen in Frisco caused the youth to leave his fathers father's team and bars for silver sli sliver sil- sil siver si- si ver bullion bulon obtained from the sale of field produce at a Nevada mining camp In care of or a friend Sam made hi his wa way across the desert to San Francisco FrncIsco which he e later described as a saloon ridden gambling drunken roaring wild wid West Vest mining camp of ot the tile kind one reads of today In dime novels But Buthe Buthe Buthe he gladly left lef his Ills job of ot teamster and the hectic life of the coast when his father wrote that he had I been appointed the second normal student to enter the University of ot Utah He is survived by his wife Mrs Ida Allen Alien Alen his son Dr M. M Lowry Allen Alien Alen and his daughters Mrs Ward R. R n McAllister Mrs Sayman Kerr I Mrs Joseph oseph E E. Brewster and Miss Marjorie Allen Alen I |