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Pythias lodge of Capitan, New Mexico. The doctor contemplates open- ing a ranch sanitarium for tuberculosis in the near future.
T. W. Watson, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine and sur- gery in Lincoln, is of Canadian birth, but was educated in the city of Detroit, Michigan. He is a graduate of the Detroit College of Medicine and pursued a post-graduate course there in 1904. He located for prac- tice in Alto, Michigan, and was for a short time in Toledo, Ohio, before coming to New Mexico. He arrived in Lincoln in June, 1900, and has since followed the practice of medicine and surgery in this city, his capability being attested by a favorable public opinion and a liberal patronage. He is a member of the American Medical Association and of the Territorial Medical Society. His political service has been limited to filling the position of deputy treasurer in Lincoln county, and is at present chairman of the Republican County Central Committee.
Dr. W. H. White, engaged in the practice of dental surgery in Silver City, was born and reared in Greenville, Iilinois, acquiring his early edu- cation there. His professional training was received in the Philadelphia Dental College and he also attended the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College. He practiced in Illinois and Colorado before coming to New Mexico, the year 1883 witnessing his arrival in the Territory. He reached Silver City in March and soon afterward opened an office, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of dentistry here, cover- ing a period of almost a quarter of a century. He served as a member of the board of dental examiners from the time of the passage of the law in 1893 until 1901. He is now the oldest practicing dentist in years of con- tinuous practice in Silver City and one of the oldest in the Territory. He has kept in touch with the improvement and progress made by the pro- fession and in no other walk of life has more rapid advance been made. He quickly adopts new methods that promise to be of practical benefit in professional work and his labor has been eminently satisfactory, as in- dicated by the large patronage accorded him.
Dr. White was married in Iowa and his wife and family are with him in Silver City. He is a member of Silver City Lodge No. 413, B. P. O. E. In community affairs he takes a deep interest and has served as a member of the city council, while in other ways he has contributed to the welfare and upbuilding of this part of the Territory.
O. J. Westlake, M. D., who since 1900 has followed his profession in Silver City, is a native of Kansas, having been born and reared near Seneca. His literary course was followed by four years devoted to teach- ing in the public schools of that state. He won his M. D. degree from the Kansas City Medical College, after having studied for one year in the Campbell University at Holton, Kansas. He entered upon the practice of medicine in Kansas City, where he remained for two years, and in 1900 he came to Silver City. He is surgeon for the Comanche Mining and Smelting Company and for the Burro Mountain Copper Company and is insurance examiner and has a large private practice, which indicates the confidence reposed by the public in his ability. He maintains a high standard of professional ethics and reading and investigation keep him in touch with the trend of modern thought in the line of medical and surgical practice. Dr. Westlake is married and has a pleasant home in
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Silver City. He belongs to Silver City Lodge No. 8, A. F. & A. M., and B. P. O. E. No. 413.
William Mac Lake, M. D., a physician and surgeon at Silver City and territorial health officer for Grant county, was born at Vassar, Mich- igan, May 23, 1875. He pursued his education in the public schools of Detroit and of Saginaw, that state, and was for a year student in the literary department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, after which he matriculated in the medical department, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. During the succeeding year he prac- ticed in that city and subsequently went to Pontiac, Michigan, where he became a member of the staff of the Eastern Michigan Hospital for the Insane. He acted in that capacity until September, 1903, when he came to Silver City, New Mexico, and in April, 1904, opened an office for practice, making a specialty of tuberculosis. He is a member of the American Medical Society, the Territorial Medical Association, and the Grant County Medical Society and is the present territorial health officer for Grant county. Thorough preliminary training with supplementary reading, investigation and research have well qualified him for his chosen profession. Dr. Lake was married at Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 12, 1904, to Miss Anna Joy Clapperton, of that city.
Edwin Swisher, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine in Mag- dalena, came to New Mexico in 1895, at which time he settled in Socorro. He is a native of Staunton. Augusta county, Virginia, and he pursued his professional education in New York University, from which he won his degree, and in Bellevue Medical College of New York city. He located for practice in Joliet, Illinois, where he conducted an office and had a good business until 1895, when for the benefit of his wife's health he came to New Mexico and opened an office in Socorro. There he practiced con- tinuously until May, 1905, when he removed to Magdalena, where he is now successfully following his profession. He is physician for the Graphic, Key and numerous other mining companies and while in Joliet, Illinois, he was president of the United States pension examining board. His practice has reached large proportions and the consensus of opinion regarding his ability is altogether favorable.
Dr. Swisher was married in Peoria, Illinois, to Miss Marie Monahan, who died in 1900, leaving three children: Will, who went to the Philip- pines with the United States army in the Spanish-American war and is now studying medicine in Chattanooga. Tennessee; Marie, who is a stu- dent in the convent at Socorro; and Edwin, who is attending school at Mesilla Park, New Mexico. Dr. Swisher belongs to Rio Grande Lodge No. 3, K. P.
Robert Edwin McBride, M. D., physician and surgeon at Las Cruces and secretary of the New Mexico Medical Society, is a native of Thibo- daux, Louisiana, which place was named in honor of his great-grandfather, at one time acting-governor of the state. Dr. McBride acquired his pre- liminary education in the private schools of New Orleans and, deter- mining upon the practice of medicine as a life work, became a student in the medical department of Tulane University in the Crescent city, from which he was graduated in 1896. He practiced in southern Louisiana until 1904, since which time he has been in Las Cruces, and as a general practitioner has shown comprehensive knowledge of various departments
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of the medical science together with a correctness in diagnosis and in the administration of remedial agencies that has won him high and well merited reputation as a member of the medical fraternity. He is proprietor of the Las Cruces Sanatorium, located on the old Alameda ranch, and his standing in the regard of his professional brethren is indicated by the fact that he has been chosen to the office of secretary of the New Mexico and also of the Doña Ana County Medical Societies.
Samuel Columbus Clarke, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Bernalillo, was born December 15, 1873, and was educated in the public and high schools of Oskaloosa, Kansas, his native city, and in Kansas City Medical College of Kansas City, Missouri, a school that is now a part of the medical department of the State University of Kansas. He received his medical degree in 1895 and located for practice in New Mexico in 1901, at Madrid Santa Fé county, where he was surgeon for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. He left that place in 1905, removing to Bernalillo, where he has continued in the active practice of medicine and surgery to the present time. He is registered to practice medicine in the states of Kansas and Colorado, the Territory of New Mexico and the republic of Mexico, and professionally is a member of the American Medical Association and the New Mexico Medical Association. He is also surgeon for the New Mexico Fuel & Iron Company, for the Indian depart- ment for the United States government and for the Plazas of Cochiti and San Domingo in the county of Sandoval.
Dr. Clarke was made a Mason in Carbondale, Colorado, in Carbon- dale Lodge No. 82, A. F. & A. M., in 1901, and attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Colorado Consistory in 1903. He is also a member of Ballut Abyad Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Albuquerque since 1903, and was raised by the supreme council, thirty-third degree, in October, 1905, to the degree of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor. He became a member of Oskaloosa Lodge No. 52, K. P., in 1893, of Santa Fé Lodge No. 460, B. P. O. E., in 1904, Walsenburg Lodge No. 187, Woodmen of the World, in 1900, Ozawkie Lodge No. 87, A. O. U. W., in 1895, and Ozawkie Camp No. 1487, M. W. A., in 1895.
Adelard E. Bessette, a physician and surgeon of San Marcial, was born in Canada about sixty miles from Montreal on the 20th of January, 1874. His common school advantages were supplemented by study in the normal school at Quebec, from which he was graduated in June, 1898, and the liberal education served as an excellent foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning. Entering Rush Medical College at Chicago, Illinois, he was graduated therefrom in the class of 1902 with the degree of M. D. and added to his theoretical training the broad practical experience of six months' service as interne in the Cook County Hospital. He practiced for one year at Blue Island, Illinois, and then on account of impaired health sought the benefit of a change of climate, locating in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1903. On the 20th of June of the same year he went to San Marcial as railroad surgeon and has since acted in that capacity in addition to performing the duties of a growing private practice, which has already assumed very extensive pro- portions. His superior ability has won ready and deserved recognition in his success. Fraternally Dr. Bessette is connected with the Knights of
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Columbus and Foresters. He is a member of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé R. R. Medical Society, also the New Mexico Medical Society.
W. C. Kluttz, M. D., removing to Tucumcari in 1902 for the benefit of his own health, has since engaged in the practice of medicine here, and has found that the climatic conditions are entirely favorable. He won his professional degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and supplemented his theoretical training by practical experience of a year and a half's hospital work in Philadelphia, following his graduation from
college. He then practiced for two years in North Carolina, but his health became impaired and, seeking a change of climate, he came to New Mexico. Choosing the new town of Tucumcari as a favorable loca- tion, he opened an office here and has been very successful in his prac- tice. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Terri- torial Medical Association and the American Association of Railway Sur- geons, and through these avenues keeps in touch with the most advanced thought of the profession. He is quick to adopt new methods, and at the same time is slow to discard the old and time-tried methods of prac- tice whose value has been proven. He practices along scientific lines and excellent results, professional and financial. have followed his labors.
Meldrum Keplinger Wylder, M. D., engaged in the practice of med- icine and surgery along scientific lines in Albuquerque, was born in Car- linville, Illinois. in 1877. After acquiring a public-school education he engaged in teaching, and subsequently pursued a scientific course in Marion Normal College at Marion, Indiana, from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in the class of 1897. He subsequently matriculated in the medical department of the Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, which conferred upon him the M. D. degree in 1901. He was interne in the St. Louis Female Hospital for one vear, and for one year practiced as assistant to Dr. Brokaw. On account of impaired health he came to New Mexico in 1903, and has since practiced with constantly growing success in Albuquerque. He belongs to the American Medical and the New Mexico Medical Associations, and is now first vice-president of the latter. He was made a Mason in Illinois and an Elk in Albuquerque, and is now identified with the Masonic lodge in this city.
E. M. Clayton, M. D., a practitioner at Albuquerque, was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, and is a graduate of the Barnes Medical School, at St. Louis, of the class of 1899. He began practice in Albu- querque and was afterward located at Gallup for six years, and during a few months of that period was physician for the Caledonian Coal Com- pany. Since November, 1905, he has been in practice at Albuquerque, where a liberal patronage has been accorded him in recognition of his excellent qualifications and the ability which he has manifested in the restoration of health. He belongs to the New Mexico Medical Society and to the Bernalillo County Medical Society.
Jesse R. Gilbert, M. D., engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery in Alamogordo, is a native of Kentucky and was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree from Central College at Sulphur Springs, Texas. His literary education was supplemented by professional training in the medical department of the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, of which he is an alumnus of 1894. He located for practice
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in Ranger, Texas, where he remained until in October, 1900, he removed to Alamogordo, where he has since lived. His professional service is of a high order of proficiency and excellence, and has won for him a large and constantly growing patronage. He was one of the founders of the Otero County Medical Society, of which he has served as vice-president, and he has likewise been a delegate to the New Mexico Medical Council. Since 1901 he has belonged to the New Mexico Medical Society, and is a member of the American Medical Association, keeping in touch, through these various relations, with the progress that is constantly being made by the medical fraternity along the lines of scientific research, investigation and practice.
J. M. Diaz, M. D., of Santa Fé, was born in Monterey, Mexico, in 1868, pursued his professional education in the Monterey medical school, and on the completion of a six years' course was graduated in 1891. He has practiced in Santa Fé since 1892, and is railway surgeon for the A., T. & S. F., and Santa Fé Central Railroad Companies. In the fall of 1906 he erected a private hospital, having accommodation for thirty patients. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the New Mexico Med- ical Society and the Association of Railway Surgeons, and is medical examiner for several insurance companies.
David Knapp, M. D., who has been engaged in practice in Santa Fé since 1894. is a graduate of the Detroit College of Medicine of the class of 1891. He located first for practice in Detroit, and was afterward in Los Angeles, California, for a short time, pursued post-graduate work in the University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Munich, and in Paris and London, thus acquainting himself with the most advanced methods of practice of the renowned physicians and sur- geons of the Old World. He is a member of the New Mexico Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and represented the Ter- ritory in the Pan-American Medical Congress in the City of Mexico in 1897, where he read a paper on tuberculosis of the bone. He was ap- pointed physician to the penitentiary in 1900 and served for six years. He was a captain and surgeon of the Cavalry of the National Guard dur- ing Governor Thornton's administration. He is a member of the Elks lodge and has been chief examining surgeon for the Equitable Life In- surance Company for several years, and also for other standard com- panies.
Charles D. Smith, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine at La Plata, was born in Indiana in 1871 and pursued his professional education in the University of Nashville, where he won his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1899. He afterward practiced in Logansport, Indiana, until 1902, when he located in La Plata, San Juan county, New Mexico. Since 1905 he has been county superintendent of schools, and he is president of the San Juan County Teachers' Association. He also has a good practice as a physician and surgeon. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow, having been made a member of Logansport Lodge in Indiana.
Elmer P. Blinn, M. D., physician and surgeon of Kelly, New Mexico. was born in Sparta. Ohio, January 12, 1850, and pursued a public school education there. His professional training was received in the Detroit Medical College and in the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated. Later he pursued post-graduate work in
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the New York Homeopathic Medical School. He practiced in Marysville, Ohio, from 1875 until 1882, when he came to New Mexico on account of his wife's health.
In Ohio; in December, 1880, Dr. Blinn had married Miss Alice Fer- guson. They have two children, John and Merle, the daughter. In 1882,. because of the ill-health of Mrs. Blinn, they removerd to Chloride, New Mexico, where Dr. Blinn entered upon the general practice of his pro- fession, and also became interested in mining as a side issue. He resided at intervals in Chloride and also at Kelly until 1905, when he took up his brother's practice in the latter place and is now well known as a physi- cian and surgeon here. He was contract surgeon during the Apache war and was with the troops on the campaign for six months. He has also been interested in mining throughout the period of his residence in the Territory, and has made some profitable investments in this direction. Dr. Blinn is a Knight Templar Mason and is a past master of Western Star Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., at Chloride, New Mexico.
C. M. Mayes, M. D., removed from Sherman, Texas, to Boswell on the Ist of June, 1903, and has since engaged in the practice of medicine in the latter city. He had been a practitioner at Sherman, Texas, for seven years. His literary education was acquired in the public schools of Texas and he prepared for the profession in the Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885. He practiced for eleven years in Archer City, Texas, and took post-graduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic in 1893. He afterward practiced in Sher- man, Texas, and thence came to Roswell, where his ability has gained him recognition as an able representative of the medical fraternity. He is a member of the Texas State, the Northern Texas and the Grayson County Medical societies, of Texas, also thig Chaves County Medical Society, the Territorial Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
Charles H. Waldschmidt, M. D., a general practitioner of medicine and surgery in Alamogordo, was born in Iowa. His professional train- ing was received in Rush Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, from which he was graduated in the class of 1886, subsequent to which time he practiced successively in Chicago and Elgin, Illinois, in Nebraska and in Iowa. In 1893 he came to New Mexico, opening an office for practice- at Eddy, now Carlsbad, where he remained until Alamogordo was founded, when he removed to this place. He is a member, was one of the organ- izers and the first president of the Otero County Medical Society, which was established in the winter of 1904-5. He also belongs to the New Mexico Medical Society and is one of the best known and most successful practitioners in the Territory. He is a high-minded and public-spirited' man, deeply interested in the welfare of New Mexico, and particularly in Otero county, his devotion to the general good finding tangible evidence in the hearty co-operation which he gives to all measures that are based upon the needs and possibilities of the county for development and im- provement.
J. L. Norris, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Estancia, came to the Estancia valley in 1901 and located in the town in 1903. He is a native of Washington, D. C., and won his professional degree from the National University at Washington in 1897, on the com- pletion of the regular course. He afterward obtained broad practical ex-
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perience in the health office at Washington in the department of conta- gious diseases and he served as acting assistant surgeon of the United States in the Philippines for some time during the insular war. Later returning to Washington, he re-entered the health service in the capital city, whence he came to the Estancia valley, and since 1903 has success- fully practiced his profession in the town where he now resides. He is also agent of the townsite company.
T. B. Lyon, M. D., seeking a change of climate for the benefit of his health, came to Raton in 1898 and has since engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery here. He is also the owner and manager of the Alta Vista ranch, a resort established in the spring of 1904, six miles northeast of Raton, for tubercular patients-an institution of much value to the community. Dr. Lyon is a native of Ypsilanti, Michigan. He com- pleted his more specifically literary education at the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, from which he won the Master of Arts degree. His professional training was pursued in the Rush Medical Col- lege, of Chicago, from which he won the degree of M. D., and he prac- ticed both in Chicago and South Bend, Indiana, before coming to New Mexico. He left the latter city on account of his health in 1898 and made his way to Raton, where he has since resided. He has, however, pursued post-graduate work since that time, entering the Chicago Polyclinic in 1902. He has been a close and earnest student of his profession and has a wide and comprehensive knowledge of modern methods, which have proven of direct and immediate serviceableness in practice. He has a large private practice, and the excellence of the climate and country as a cure for tuber- cular troubles has led to the establishment by Dr. Lyon of the Alta Vista ranch resort, which is pleasantly located about six miles northeast of Raton. It is a thoroughly modern and up-to-date sanitarium, with splen- did equipment, and affords every facility for the cure of tubercular troubles. The doctor sold this ranch May I, 1905. Dr. Lyon is also sec- retary of the board of pension examiners. On the Ist of June, 1892, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Lyon and Miss Addie L. Snyder, of Bristol, Wisconsin.
Captain B. Ruppe, who came to Albuquerque in 1879, was for a year employed as a clerk by F. H. Kent in his drug store in Old Albuquerque.
In 1883, however, Mr. Ruppe embarked in business on his own ac- count in the old town, and in 1892 removed to the new town. The follow- ing year Governor Thornton appointed him a member of the territorial board of pharmacy, which office he has since held, having been twice reap- pointed by Governor Otero. Since 1899 he has continually been president of that board.
Captain Ruppe, in connection with others, established a school of pharmacy at the University of New Mexico a few years ago, and during its existence, covering about a year, he lectured there on pharmacy and materia medica. His interests have touched many lines of activity and enterprise having direct bearing upon the welfare and progress of his city and Territory. In 1893 he entered the Albuquerque volunteer fire department and served as chief from 1896 until 1900, and again from the fall of 1900 until 1902. When he retired from the department in 1900 the members of the organization united in presenting to him a handsome silver service of nine pieces as a testimonial to the efficiency of his labor
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in behalf of the department and as proof of the high personal regard in which he was held. He was chiefly instrumental in the reorganization of the department to a full pay system, as it is maintained today.
On the 30th of March, 1904, Captain Ruppe was commissioned cap- tain of Company G of the New Mexico National Guard, which had become badly demoralized. He has worked diligently to place the organization upon a better footing and has accomplished excellent results in that direc- tion. Captain Ruppe was also the chief organizer of the local lodge of Elks and his membership card is the first that was issued. He was the first exalted ruler of the lodge, and for three years filled the office of dis- trict deputy. He is likewise the oldest officer of Albuquerque Tent of the Maccabees, which he organized. He was the first presiding officer of the Woodmen of the World, of which he was an organizer, and is past chan- cellor of the Knights of Pythias and assisted in the organization of many lodges in that order. He was also past chief ranger in the defunct lodge of Foresters. He is president of the Fraternal Brotherhood, which has a membership of 220.
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