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On the 22d of February, 1877, Dr. Cruickshank was united in mar- riage to Miss Ida Demaris Westcott, a native of Wayne county, New York, and to them was born a son, Bruce Westcott, now of Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Cruickshank is a lineal descendant of Stukely Westcott, who, in 1636, came to Salem, Massachusetts, from England. He was a friend of Roger Williams and removed from Massachusetts to Providence, Rhode Island. He once owned the site of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and a famous stone tower at Newport was willed by him to his daughter, Demaris, whose husband, an Arnold, became governor of Masachusetts. Benjamin Arnold and Stephen A. Douglas were descendants of the same family.
Dr. Cruickshank was in early life a Democrat, and subsequently be-
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came a Republican. In 1900 he was elected to the territorial council and served for' one term. He belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and on the day prior to his death was made past grand master of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows. He owned a cattle ranch in Socorro county which he managed in addition to his extensive private practice, which, however, made heavy demands upon his time and attention. He was a man of strong and forceful char- acter, of liberal tendencies and broad views, and commanded the respect and confidence of all with whom he was associated.
D. H. Carns, M. D., who has been located in Albuquerque in the prac- tice of medicine since 1899, is a native of Pennsylvania. After being grad- uated in the classical course from Western University of Pennsylvania as an alumnus of 1889, he entered the medical department of the same insti- tution, which conferred upon him the degree of M. D. in 1894. For five years he filled the post of chief surgeon for the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania Railroad with headquarters at Homestead, Pennsylvania, but his health failing, he was compelled to abandon a successful and lucra- tive practice there in 1899 and remove to the southwest, hoping to be benefited by the climatic conditions. He took up his abode in Albuquerque and his professional labors in New Mexico have been attended with a suc- cess commensurate with his admirable qualifications. He has returned east each year to take advantage of the better clinical facilities there afforded, thereby being enabled to keep fully abreast of the most advanced thought of the day in medical and surgical science. His practice is con- fined principally to surgery. Dr. Carns is a member of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the New Mexico Medical Society, of which he is vice-president; the Bernalillo County Medical Society, of which he has been president, and the American Medical Association. He is now city physician of Albuqerque.
W. S. Harroun, M. D., physician and surgeon of Santa Fé, was born in Michigan in November, 1836, and completed his more specifically lit- erary education in Michigan State University, , from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1863. He was graduated from the medical department of Georgetown College at Washington, D. C., March 2, 1865, and the following day was assigned to duty in the United States General Hospital at Washington as acting assistant surgeon of the United States army. He continued in that capacity from the 4th of March until the middle of August, 1865, and at the latter date went to Chicago, practicing in that city and vicinity until 1881, when he came to New Mexico. At the time of his removal here he was assistant to the chair of diseases of the chest in Rush Medical College, and for nine years he was a member of the Rush Medical College dispensary, under Dr. Joseph P. Ross. He is one of the oldest practitioners of Santa Fé, having been actively con- nected with the medical fraternity here for a quarter of a century. A prominent Mason, he was made a member of the craft in Cook county, Illinois, in the '6os, and for many years he was master of Montezuma Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and has been grand master of the Territory. He attained the Knight Templar degree and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine.
George S. McLandress, M. D., successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Albuquerque, was born in Ontario, Canada,
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and when two years of age was taken to Saginaw, Michigan. He com- pleted his literary education in the high school of that place, and afterward attended the Saginaw Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1899, while later he took post-graduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic. He first located for practice in Bay City, Michigan, and since the fall of 1903 has practiced continuously in Albuquerque. He belongs to the New Mexico Medical Society, the Bernalillo County Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is referee for the New Mexico board of health for Bernalillo county. He is likewise vice-president of the County Society. He was, in 1905, associate editor of the Journal, of the New Mexico Medical Association, which was established in that year, and in the spring of 1906 was elected its editor.
John H. Sloan, M. D., is one of the oldest practitioners in Santa Fé, in point of years of professional service, and has been engaged in practice there continuously since October 20, 1883. He attended the common and high schools and a preparatory school in Springfield, Illinois, being gradu- ated from the high school before he had reached the age of fourteen. En- tering the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, he was graduated therefrom in March, 1881, after which he practiced in Cincinnati until his removal to Santa Fé. He has since enjoyed post-graduate privileges in Chicago. For fifteen years he has been a member of the New Mexico board of health, and for four years was its president. He has taken an active interest in public affairs. During the administration of Governor Thornton he was attached to his staff with the rank of colonel, and three times has been mayor of Santa Fé, enjoying the distinction of being the only man ever elected to succeed himself in that office. He also served one termi as chairman of the board of county commissioners.
Dr. Sloan is now president of the board of trustees of the New Mexico Reform School, at El Rito, and under appointment by Governor Hager- man, January 7, 1906, is insurance commissioner of the Territory. Pro- fessionally he is identified with the American Medical Association and the New Mexico Medical Society, of which he was one of the organizers.
Joseph Kornitzer, M. D., who died June 14, 1906, was a physician at Socorro, New Mexico, where he has resided since 1882. He was born October 27, 1824, in Vagh-Ujhely, Hungary, and was a son of Philip Korn- itzer, who removed to that place from Moravia. For six years Dr. Korn- itzer was a student in the gymnasium at Trenclieny and at Budapest, Hun- gary, while later he pursued a two years' course in philosophy at the univer- sity of Vienna, Austria. He then entered upon his medical studies in the Josephinum, an institution for the education of army surgeons in Vienna. When the Hungarian revolution of 1848 was inaugurated he became a private in the Hungarian army, which surrendered at Vilagos, August 13, 1849, to Russian auxiliaries sent to the rescue of Austria's throne. Dr. Kornitzer fled and after visiting his old father he spent several years in teaching school at different places in Hungary, giving his leisure time to the study of anatomy and physiology. When a general amnesty was granted to the rebels by the emperor so that it was safe for him to return to Vienna he resumed his medical studies in the university and was graduated in 1866.
In July of that year Dr. Kornitzer was commissioned surgeon in chief to a hospital ward established at Klosterneuburg near Vienna for the re-
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ception of the soldiers wounded in battle in the Austro-Prussian war. When a cholera epidemic broke out in Moravia, where the Prussian army was stationed, he proceeded thither and tried, as far as is known, the first ex- periment of hypodermic treatment in this disease. In 1868 he came to America and opened an office in New York city. Subsequently he removed to Topeka, Kansas, and while residing there went in February, 1880, to Cincinnati, Ohio, with the intention of publishing a work on the pathology and abortive treatment of zymotic diseases. Lectures and papers which he has prepared on that subject have awakened widespread attention and commendation. While engaged in the compilation of his work in Cincin- nati, he was recalled to his home in Kansas by the serious illness of his wife and for the benefit of her health removed to Socorro, New Mexico, in February, 1882. Since 1880 he made a close study of tuberculosis and prepared several articles upon this subject which have been published in medical journals. He intended opening a sanitarium for tubercular patients in Socorro, but was led to change his plans and for nine years thereafter he engaged in the dairy business. He retired from that line of activity, however, in 1890, and established a drug store in order to educate his two daughters in pharmacy and one, Mrs. E. K. Hilton, is now a licensed pharmacist and owns a drug store. Dr. Kornitzer resumed professional service in Socorro, but gave his attention only to office practice. He was a member of the New Mexico Medical Society and aside from the articles already mentioned he was the author of a number of valuable contribu- tions to medical literature. He was a student of various economic and sociological questions as well and he published the "Proclamation of the Redemption of the Soil as the Final Redemption of Society" (1872), and had in manuscript awaiting publication, "Wealth and Progress, a Rhap- sody, Revealing the Divine Mission of Money." Dr. Kornitzer was the first to apply hypodermic treatment in Asiatic cholera (1866), the first to apply topically antiseptics in eruption diseases (1878), and the first to apply electrolysis in tuberculosis and other disorders of the respiratory organs (1880).
Dr. Kornitzer was married in 1868 in New York to Miss Dorothy Hernych, of Bohemia, and they have two daughters: Emily K., the wife of J. H. Hilton; and Anna Maria, the wife of C. T. Brown.
Malcolm M. Crocker, M. D., who since 1895 has engaged in the prac- tice of medicine and surgery in Lordsburg, is making a specialty of the treatment of tuberculosis. A native of Washington, D. C., he acquired his early education in army forts in different parts of the country and in Min- nesota. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work he ma- triculated in Rush Medical College, of Chicago, from which he was grad- uated with the M. D. degree, and later he pursued a post-graduate course on the treatment of tuberculosis. He came to Lordsburg in 1895 and opened an office, since which time he has followed his chosen profession here with excellent success, resulting in a comprehensive and accurate knowledge of the principles of the medical science. He is very careful in the diagnosis of a case, rarely if ever at fault in a matter of judgment con- cerning the outcome of disease and added to his love of scientific research is a broad humanitarian spirit which promotes a sincere interest in the successful outcome of the individual case. He is district surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and also for the Arizona and New
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Mexico Railroad Company and in addition to his private practice he is interested in mining on a small scale. In his fraternal relations he is con- nected with Deming Lodge No. 12, A. F. & A. M., and Lordsburg Lodge No. 23, K. P. Interested in matters of public progress, he has served for two years as county commissioner and gives earnest and loyal co-operation to many movements that have been of direct and permanent good in the development and upbuilding of the Territory.
William Curtiss Bailey, A. M., M. D., of Las Vegas, was born in Schenectady, N. Y., February 2, 1852. His father, the Rev. Lansing Bailey, was a Baptist clergyman of New York. His mother, nee Louisa Jones, was a native of Schenectady. His grandfather, Joel Curtiss Bailey, was founder of a large stove and furnace manufactory in Utica. His grandmother Bailey was a Stuyvesant, a lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant.
In Utica William C. Bailey was educated, preparing for college at Union Academy in that city. He did not complete his collegiate educa- tion, but afterward received the degree of Master of Arts. The next three years he spent in the study of medicine, finishing with a post-grad- uate course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and six months in the hospitals in London. From that time until 1891 he prac- ticed his profession in Albion, Orleans county, New York, after which for a year and a half he was in Germany, studying under Professors Koch, Leyden, and others, devoting his attention especially to diseases of the chest. During his residence in Albion, he married Miss Florie Porter, a native of that town. Upon his return to New York from Ger- many he took charge of the tubercular wards in the Post Graduate Med- ical School and Hospital, where he was also clinical instructor. He was president of the Central New York Medical Society, and later professor of theory. and practice in the Tennessee Medical College.
Dr. Bailey came to Las Vegas, October 8, 1897, to take medical charge at Hot Springs, New Mexico, and was at the head of that insti- tution for a little more than three years. Since 1901 he has continued his work, especially with tubercular cases, at the Plaza Sanitarium, the only institution of its kind in New Mexico, where he treats patients coming from various parts of the country. He has forty-five rooms in the sanitarium, and five rooms in each of two cottages adjoining. In addition to his other work, Dr. Bailey has charge of the Weather Bureau Station, located in that city.
He is a member of the Las Vegas and New Mexico and various other Medical Societies, and has contributed largely to the medical literature of the day.
O. C. McEwen, M. D., of Farmington, was born in Norris City, Illi- nois, in 1875, and is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He won his medical degree at the St. Louis College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1897 and subsequently practiced in Mound Valley, Kansas, in old Mexico and in Philadelphia for two years, subsequent to which time he came to Farmington in 1899. He is a nephew of Dr. Joseph W. McEwen, a leading surgeon of Philadelphia. In 1900 Dr. O. C. McEwen became county superintendent of schools, in which capacity he served for four years and in 1902 was chosen for a four years' term to the position of county health officer. He is also company surgeon for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
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C. M. Yater, M. D., who, practicing along modern scientific lines, is recognized as one of the capable physicians and surgeons of the southern part of the Territory, is located at Roswell, having come to Chaves county from Johnson county, Texas. He was born in Tennessee about forty-nine years ago and traces his ancestry back to Henry Yater, his great-great- grandfather, who came from Germany to the new world and as one of the soldiers fought with the English against the colonists in the Revolutionary war and after being taken prisoner by the colonists and made to under- stand what they were fighting for, enlisted with the colonists and fought with them for four years to the close of the war. William M. Yater, father of Dr. Yater, was born in Kentucky and married Fannie B. Mills, a sister of Senator Roger D. Mills of Texas. They became residents of Tennessee in 1856 and there Mr. Yater was born. They reared a large family, the father devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits. He died in 1891 and Mrs. Yater is still living in Texas.
Dr. Yater was reared in Tennessee, spending his boyhood days upon his father's farm, while his more advanced literary education was ac- quired in the Masonic Institute at Hartsville, Tennessee. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work he began preparation for that calling and pursued his collegiate course in Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, from which he was graduated with the class of 1892. He had practiced, however, for eight years on a state certificate as an undergraduate in Texas and for ten years thereafter he continued a representative of the medical fraternity of the Lone Star state.
On the 7th of March, 1902, Dr. Yater came to New Mexico, locating in Roswell, where he has since remained and in the interim he has built up a large and gratifying practice. He is a member of the Medical As- sociations, County (Chaves) and Territorial, of New Mexico. He is local surgeon of the Pecos Valley Railroad system and in addition is president of the Chaves County Medical Society. He has a large and growing pri- vate practice, indicative of the confidence of the public in his professional skill and ability. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows at Roswell and for thirty-seven years has been a member of the Christian church, his life being in harmony with his professions.
Eligio Osuna, M. D., physician and surgeon of Albuquerque, was born December 1, 1864, in Monterey, Mexico, of Mexican parentage, and was educated in the schools of his native city and in a medical college at Monterey, which institution has since become a part of the National Uni- versity at Mexico City. He was graduated on the 30th of October, 1891, as professor of medicine and surgery and practiced in Monterey for two years. He afterward spent three years in Parras in the state of Coahuila, and in 1896 located in Albuquerque, where he has since remained. In Parras he was city physician and also had a large private practice. He has taken post-graduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic, which he attended in 1893. He belongs to the American Medical Association and the New Mexico Medical Society and is a man of broad professional learning and superior skill in practice.
Dr. Osuna was married July 5, 1897, to Miss Aurelia Martinez, of Monterey, and they have six children : Pedro, Maria-Ana, Aurelia, Felipe, Margarita and Benjamin.
Felipe B. Romero, M. D., a physician and surgeon at Albuquerque,
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was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico, February 5, 1875, a son of Benigno Romero. His classical education was acquired in his native city and his early professional training was received in the St. Louis Medical College, a department of Washington University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897. He did post-graduate work in Philadelphia Poly- clinic in 1899 and has ever been a close and discriminating student of his profession, being now successfully engaged in the general practice of med- icine and surgery. He has comprehensive knowledge of the broad scien- tific principles which underlie his work, while in their adaptation he is usually correct. In politics he is a strong Republican, active in his sup- port of the party but without political aspiration for himself.
The Romero Drug Company was organized at Las Vegas in 1898 and established a business at Albuquerque in October, 1905, under the imme- diate direction of Benigno Romero, who was educated in St. Louis Uni- versity and Jones Commercial College. He was born in Santa Fé, New Mexico, in 1850, a son of Don Miguel Romero, who was born in New Mexico. The father in early days shipped goods from Las Vegas to California and was a prominent factor in the pioneer life of the south- west. He was an acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln and aided in estab- lishing the Republican party in New Mexico in 1860. He was the first American judge of the Territory and in early days he freed his three slaves.
Benigno Romero, having acquired a liberal education and becoming connected with mercantile life, established a general store at Las Vegas fifteen years ago. The Romero Drug Company was then formed in 1898 and opened a wholesale and retail drug house in Las Vegas. The com- pany now owns two stores, the one in Albuquerque having formerly been located in El Paso, Texas. The company manufactures and sells drugs and the business is constantly growing. The firm is composed of Benigno Romero and his two sons, Dr. F. B. and M. A. Romero.
R. L. Bradley, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine and sur- gery in Roswell, came from Texas to the Territory in March, 1899. He is a native of Texas, and having acquired a common-school education he continued his studies in the University of Louisville at Louisville, Ken- tucky, completing a course in the medical department by graduation in . the class of 1890. He also did post-graduate work in New Orleans Poly- clinic in 1895 and in the New York Polyclinic in 1902, so that broad and comprehensive study has well qualified him for the responsibility which de- volves upon him in connection with this profession, which is one of the most important to which man gives his attention. He entered upon prac- tice at Tioga. Grayson county, Texas, in 1890, and during the past seven years has been a member of the medical fraternity in Roswell. He be- longs to the Chaves County Medical Society, to the Texas State Med- ical Society, the North Texas Medical Society and the Territorial Medical Society, and is also affiliated with the Odd Fellows Lodge in Roswell.
W. C. Field, M. D., a representative of the medical fraternity at Las Cruces, enjoying a patronage which is indicative of the confidence re- posed in his skill and ability, was born and reared in Merced county, California, and after acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools attended the Stockton Business College and Heald's Business Col- lege of San Francisco. His professional training was received in the Cal-
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ifornia Medical College, from which he won the M. D. degree upon his graduation with the class of 1893. He practiced for three years in Cali- fornia and then came to New Mexico as physician for the mines at Mogol- lon, where he remained for seven years. He also became interested in the cattle business, in which he has since continued, running about five hundred head of cattle there. In 1902 he went to Oklahoma and afterward to Chicago, where he did post-graduate work in the Chicago Clinical Col- lege and in April, 1905, he located at Las Cruces, where he has since practiced. Already he has gained recognition here as one of the able physicians, for he always keeps in touch with the most advanced ideas and methods of the profession.
Dr. Field was married in 1895; in Mogollon, to Miss Lida May Mc- Intosh and they have two children. Fraternally he is connected with Foss Lodge, K. P., of Oklahoma, Foss Lodge No. 85, A. F. & A. M., also of Oklahoma, and Willow Lodge No. 121, I. O. O. F., of Snelling, Califor- nia, but his attention is chiefly directed to his professional duties and ranching interests.
Clarence Robertson Bass, B. S., M. D., an up-to-date young physician of Elizabethtown, Colfax county, is a representative of an old Kentucky family. He was born in Campbellsville, Taylor county, Kentucky, April 20, 1877, son of Dr. Samuel Robertson Bass and wife, nec Mary Drane. The elder Doctor Bass graduated at the medical department of the Uni- versity of Louisville in 1866, had a long and successful career as a practi- tioner of medicine in Campbellsville, and is still living there, now prac- tically retired. Clarence R. was educated in his native state, receiving the degree of B. S. from the Centre College at Danville and his M. D. degree four years later from the medical department of Kentucky University at Louisville. Immediately after medical graduation, in 1902, he settled in Campbellsville, where, however, he remained only one year. August 5, 1903, he landed in Elizabethtown, New Mexico, which he has found a de- sirable location, and where he has built up a successful practice. He is regular medical examiner for the following insurance companies: The New York Life, the Mutual Life, the Pacific Mutual, the Manhattan Life, and is deputy county health officer. September 20, 1905, Dr. Bass married Miss Jane Matilda Lowrey, daughter of Joseph Lowrey of Eliza- bethtown. He is a Phi Chi and a Knight of Pythias.
James W. Laws, M. D., a practicing physician and surgeon of Lin- coln, is a native of Mississippi, his birth having occurred near Holly Springs, where his childhood and youth were passed. Having completed his literary education, he determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and was graduated with the M. D. degree from the Memphis Hospital Medical College. He served as interne in the Memphis city hospital and also as acting assistant surgeon in the United States marine service at Memphis. He went to Fort Stanton, New Mexico, in Febru- ary. 1902, as acting assistant surgeon and there remained for two and a half years and from Fort Stanton he went to Lincoln, taking up his per- manent abode in this town in July, 1905. During the years of his resi- dence in New Mexico he has engaged actively and successfully in the practice of medicine and surgery and is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Memphis, Tennessee, and to the Knights of
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