[2] Daisy Emery applied to and was initially refused admission to the medical college of Fort Worth University, but was admitted when she pointed out that no rules specifically excluded women from the school.

[1] Dr. Daisy Emery returned to Texas in 1901 to care for her mother, who was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, and accepted a teaching position at Dallas Medical College.

[1][2] On November 30, 1903, Frances Daisy Emery married James Walter Allen, a classmate from Fort Worth Medical College with whom she had remained a relationship.

From 1904 to 1910, the couple shared a medical practice in the town of Content, in Runnels County, Texas, where they had an office with a small pharmacy adjoining their house.

The rural setting required most of their practice to consist of house calls, first by horse and buggy, then bicycle, then motorcycle, and finally a small automobile.

[1] In December 1913, the Allens were planning to move to China as missionaries when Walter died unexpectedly during surgery to remove kidney stones.

[2][1] Finding herself a widow at the age of 37, Dr. Daisy Emery Allen packed up her two young children and returned to Fort Worth.