Elisabeth Severance Prentiss

Elisabeth Severance, Mrs. Francis Fleury Prentiss (1865–1944) was an American philanthropist and art collector.

[citation needed] In 1892, she married the surgeon Dudley Peter Allen.

[1] She built a large English manor styled home commissioned from another of his architect favorites, Charles F. Schweinfurth that she named after him, "Glenallen".

[3] The couple continued to be trustees of the hospital, and she took over his president's position when he died.

[4] She was awarded with a public service medal by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in 1928.