Mary Wood-Allen

Mary Augusta Wood-Allen (October 19, 1841 – January 21, 1908) was an American doctor, social reformer, lecturer, and writer of books on health and self-improvement for women and children.

[3] After teaching for a time at the Battleground Collegiate Institute in Battle Ground, Indiana, she married Chillon Brown Allen, a lawyer, and took the surname Wood-Allen.

[3] After three years studying in Vienna, Austria,[4] Wood-Allen earned a medical degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1875.

[5] It later became a monthly magazine titled The New Crusade and was edited by Wood-Allen alone with her daughter as assistant editor.

Wood-Allen and Chillon Brown Allen married on April 15, 1863, and had separated by 1880.