Gardner Weld Allen
Gardner Weld Allen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1856 |
| Died | 1944 |
| Occupation(s) | Naval historian, author |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of the United States Navy |
Gardner Weld Allen (1856–1944) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the United States Navy.
Biography
He was born in Bangor, Maine on January 19, 1856. He was the son of Joseph H. Allen and Anna Minot (Weld) Allen. He died on July 12, 1944 in Brookline, Massachusetts.[1][2]
Education
He graduated from Harvard College in 1877.[2] He completed his M.D. degree at the Harvard Medical School. After brief stints of interneships completed at Boston and Providence, he moved to Germany for further higher studies.[2]
Career
He began practicing medicine in Boston in October 1884.[2] He was professor at Tufts Medical School from 1897 to 1906, then served as surgeon five months aboard the USS Prairie during the Spanish–American War.[2]
He served as a member of the American Antiquarian Society from April 1923 until 1925.[3][2]
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books:[4][1][2]
- Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. 1905.
- Our Naval War with France. 1909.
- A Naval History of the American Revolution. 1913.
- Naval Songs and Ballads (PDF). 1923.
- Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution. 1927.
- Our Navy and the West Indian Pirates. 1929.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gardner Weld Allen (Allen, Gardner Weld, 1856-1944) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ a b c d e f g C. K. S. (October 1944). "Obituaries - Gardner Weld Allen". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. pp. 121–123.
- ^ "Gardner Weld Allen | American Antiquarian Society". www.americanantiquarian.org.
- ^ "Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine". archive.org.