Leighton P. Allen, M. D., a prominent and successful physician of Oshkosh, Wis., was horn in New York On July 11, 1866.  His parents, Samuel F. and Caroline (Pine) Allen, both natives of New York, removed thence with their family in 1876, South Bend, Ind., where they now (1908) reside.

Our subject had fine educational advantages in his boyhood in the common and high schools of South Bend, and afterwards attended the University of Michigan, where he was graduated from the medical department with the class of 1899.  During the year of his graduation, he settled in Oshkosh, and for two years was associated as a partner with Dr. Charles W. Oviatt, in the practice of his profession.  He then opened an office of his own and since 1891 has conducted a successful and constantly growing practice, making a specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and now ranks among the leading physicians of his adopted city. Dr. Allen is careful and conscientious practitioner thoroughly in love with his profession, wide awake and up-to-date and in close touch with the progress and advancement of modern medical science.  He is a member of the Winnebago County and Fox River Valley Medical Societies, the State Medical Society, and the Oshkosh Medical Club and American Medical Association.

Dr. Allen, since beginning his medical practice, has taken post-graduate courses as at the Chicago Polyclinic, the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear infirmary, the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and New York Polyclinic, pursuing these studies between the years of 1896 and 1901. He is also a charter member of Oshkosh Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, No. 292.

In 1903, Dr. Allen married Miss Frances Ideson, a daughter of Mr. Francis Shea Ideson, of Oshkosh, a woman esteemed for her superior qualities of mind and heart. They have one child--John Ideson Allen.