Gardner Weld Allen
American classicist
Gardner Weld Allen (1856–1944) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the United States Navy.
Biography
He was born in Bangor, Maine on January 19, 1856. He was the son of Joseph H. Allen and Anna Minot (Weld) Allen. He died on July 12, 1944, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Education
He graduated from Harvard College in 1877. He completed his M.D. degree at the Harvard Medical School. After brief stints of interneships completed at Boston and Providence, he moved to Germany for further higher studies.
Career
He began practicing medicine in Boston in October 1884. He was professor at Tufts Medical School from 1897 to 1906, then served as surgeon five months aboard the USS Prairie during the Spanish–American War.
He served as a member of the American Antiquarian Society from April 1923 until 1925.
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