Jane "Jennie" E. Allen (b. Martin) (1851-?) was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, and died in an unknown location. In Wallingford in 1867 she married Friend C. Allen (b. Constant Friend Allen), a farmer who later became a merchant and grocer. By 1880 he was one of the directors of the Operatives' Savings Bank of New Haven. They moved to Washington, District of Columbia, by 1900, and Allen lived there until at least 1930. In 1886 Allen wrote to Mary Baker Eddy indicating that she and her daughter, Lillian M. Allen, were interested in studying Christian Science, and sometime in the 1880s she applied to take the Primary course at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, but the records do not reflect that she subsequently did so. A Wallingford newspaper reported that Allen was actively practicing "mind curing" in 1887. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1898.

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