Dr. Allen served in the Army Medical Corp as a First Lieutenant during WWI. He was the physician for the B & O Railroad and for the Prudential Western and Southern Insurance Co. He took care of employees at the Round House in Sharonville where accidents were many and frequent. He also provided services to the Maple Knoll Hospital and Home.

In 1939 Dr. Bob bought a farm in Kentucky and moved there to begin what he thought would be his retirement. World War II was here and he was needed back in Glendale. He then stayed and continued to practice for another 18 years. He died on August 6, 1967.

Dr. Allen’s death was the close of an era – one of the last of the horse and buggy doctors in this area. He was well regarded for his competence, great heart, and his uncanny ability as a diagnostician. One of Cincinnati’s most prominent doctors and surgeons, Dr. Walter Griess, was said to have issued this general order, “If Dr. Allen sends a patient here, get that patient to surgery at once. Dr. Allen makes no mistakes.”

(Source: Monday Class Paper, “Robert Clarke Allen M.D.”, 1968, updated in 2000 by Sylvia Allen)