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Title	Oral history interview with Joseph Francis Allman, Jr. : June 6, 1984.
Subject	Allman, Joseph Francis, 1918-1996--Interviews.
Description	CONTENT SHEET: Doctor. Interview: Parents and grandparents -- Globe Theatre -- Schooling -- Depression and farm foreclosures -- Childhood friends and chores -- World War II in the Navy -- Wife and children -- Doctors in Monticello -- Changes in medicine -- Quarantines -- House calls -- Entertainment -- President Roosevelt -- Catholic Church. FURTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Son of Joseph and Ruth Gunning Allman -- Graduated from Monticello High School (1936) -- Graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana and the University's Medical School in Chicago, M.D. (1942) -- Began service with the United States Navy (1943) at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, California; assigned to the U.S. Marine Parachute Regiment and then the First Marine Aviation Battalion; served 22 months in the South and Central Pacific combat; was discharged from the U.S. Navy (1946) as a Lieutenant -- Member of the Illinois State and Piatt County Medical Societies; staff member of the John and Mary E. Kirby Hospital; member and president of the hospital's board -- Served as a Monticello School Board member and trustee of St. Philomena Catholic Church -- Named Outstanding Citizen of Monticello (1982).
Contributors	Sue Gortner, interviewer ; Jack Brighton, Digital Conversion Project Coordinator.
Date	1984 ; produced, 2005.
Format	1 sound disc (ca. 1 hr.) : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in + photograph ; interview.
Relation to original	Reproduction. Originally recorded: Monticello, Ill., 1984 (1 audiocassette ; analog ; 1/4 in.)
Publisher	Urbana, Ill. : WILL Radio/Televison Station.