New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 47

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1262

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Mr. Goudchaux was born at Big Cave, Louisiana, the thirtieth of December, 1893, the son of Leo- pold Goudchaux, a cotton and sugar grower of that state, and Mrs. Flora Goudchaux. Mr. Goudchaux was educated in the schools of Louisiana, attending the Chamberlain-Hunt Academy at Port Gibson, Mis- sissippi, for two years, and the New Orleans College of Pharmacy, where he graduated, in 1912, for a like period. He has since engaged in the drug busi- ness at various places, owning drug stores in the oil fields of Louisiana. He came to Beaumont in 1920 and bought out the present business, and has since been active in its management.

Mr. Goudchaux was married at Elgin, Texas, in 1917, to Miss Leah Bassist, daughter of Phillip Bas- sist, an old resident of that place, having come there a half a century ago, and one of the pioneer whole- sale grocers of Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Goudchaux re- side at 1800 North Street, and have one child, Dor- othy. Mr. Goudchaux is an Elk, a Mason, and a member of the Beaumont Club. He is one of the most progressive of the younger business men, and is one of the leaders in the drug business here.

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R. R. W. KNOX, Physician and Surgeon, of Houston, has for upwards of four decades performed conspicuous service in his city, where he gives his best energy and enthu- siasm to the improvement of medical standards. Dr. Knox is Chief Surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railway, having held this position with distinction since 1902, his work along the lines of first aid winning him wide recognition. Dr. Knox's work along this line began to take definite shape with the establishment of an Emergency Hospital, located in the San Antonio shops, in December, 1915. At that time a trained nurse was appointed, and is still in charge of this institution. In August, 1919, a building for the same purpose was established on a larger scale and with better equipment, and opened at Algiers, Louisiana. In November, 1921, another first aid station, completely equipped, was estab- lished in the new general stores building that was being erected in the Texas and New Orleans Rail- road shop at Houston. January the sixteenth, 1922, saw another first aid station opened in the Southern Pacific General Office Building, this latter also completely equipped. Probably the best appointed, and the only other first aid building is the one erected in El Paso, and opened in February, 1922. Dr. Knox has personally sponsored the development of his first aid system, carefully working out each detail, with the result that it has been remarkably successful on the Southern Pacific Lines, and has attracted considerable attention from the medical and railroad fraternity.

Along the lines of his first aid work Dr.' Knox has perfected a first aid box containing dressings, sterilized in sealed envelopes, with the idea of pre- venting outside contamination in the wound until the doctors can take charge. These dressings are provided in small boxes, containing thirty-two dress- ings each, and placed in every train, passenger and freight, on the Southern Pacific Lines. The dress- ings are compressed and sterilized before being put in the paste board boxes, and are covered with wax paper and sealed, not to be opened until placed on the wound.

Another achievement of Dr. Knox is the Southern Pacific Hospital, built in 1912 at a cost of one hun- dred and seventy-five thousand dollars, used as a convalescent hospital for the entire road, and for a general hospital for the Houston territory. This hospital is completely equipped, and has one hun- dred and twenty-five beds, operating theater, and facilities for the care of the employees of this road. Dr. Knox has recently completed a fifty thousand dollar improvement to provide more fully for the care of employees, and has built a nurses home at a cost of forty thousand dollars.

Dr. Knox was born at Danville, Kentucky, son of David Abner Knox, who died in that State in 1869, and Martha Hughes Maxwell Knox, also of Ken- tucky. Dr. Knox was educated at Center College, graduating in 1880, with the degrees, A. B. and A. M. He then entered the University of Virginia, in the Medical Department, graduating in 1882 with the M. D. degree. He came to Texas the following year and began the practice of his profession at Richmond, coming to Houston in 1885 and engaging in private practice until 1902, in which year he be- came Chief Surgeon for the Southern Pacific Lines.

Dr. Knox was married at Galveston, the tenth of November, 1892, to Miss Pearl Wallace, daughter of

J. E. Wallace, of Kentucky, who came to Galveston before the war and engaged in the wholesale gro- cery business. Dr. and Mrs. Knox have three chil- dren, Mrs. Thomas E. Stark, of Kentucky, Landis M. Knox, with the Mercantile Trust Company, of San Francisco, California, and Robert W. Knox, in the cotton business at Houston. Dr. Knox is a mem- ber of the Houston Country Club, the Houston Club, the University Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and is a Mason. He is active in the work of the various medical associations and is a member of the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Associa- tion, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, and has been a Fel- low of the American College of Surgeons since 1914.

ILLIAM BURTON THORNING, M. D., F. A. C. S., since coming to Houston in 1910 has contributed materially to the advance- ment of organized medicine in this city. Dr. Thorning, in association with a group of Houston physicians, established the Houston clinic in 1916. The Houston Clinic is composed of men of high standing in the medical profession, and has special- ists in every field, including dental surgery. They have their own laboratories and other equipment in their own building, located at the corner of Main Street and Pease Avenue where they have over eighteen thousand feet of floor space. There are fifteen physicians in the clinic, representing all spe- cial fields. The group does a great deal of industrial work, Drs. Howard and Thorning being chief sur- geons for two railroads.

Dr. Thorning is actively identified with the Har- ris County Medical Society, the Texas State Med- ical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Texas Sur- gical Society, of which he is a charter member and ex-president, the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons, to which he was elected in 1914. He is counsellor for the Ninth Dis- trict of the State Medical Society, and chairman of this board.

Dr. William Burton Thorning was born at Sulli- van, New Hampshire, the second of July, 1872, son of William H. Thorning, whose family came to America in the sixteen-thirties, and Elizabeth (Knight) Thorning, also of an old New England family. Dr. Thorning was educated in the public schools of his native state, graduating from the high school at Keene, New Hampshire, after which he entered the University of Vermont as a medical student, receiving the M. D. degree in 1899. He then went to Winchendon, Massachusetts, where he en- gaged in practice from 1899 until 1909. He then spent a year doing post graduate work in Europe and on his return to the United States came to Houston in December, 1910, where he has since be- come one of the leading physicians and surgeons.

Dr. Thorning was married at Keene, New Hamp- shire, the first of June, 1905, to Miss Gertrude M. Goodnow, daughter of an old New England family, whose ancestors came to America from France dur- ing the Huguenot persecution. Dr. and Mrs. Thorn- ing have one son, William Burton, Jr. Fraternally, Dr. Thorning is a Mason, being a member of Artisan Lodge of Winchendon, Massachusetts, a member of Galveston Consistory and of Arabia Temple Shrine. He is a member of the Houston Club, the Glenbrook Country Club and the University Club.

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R. GAVIN HAMILTON, an acknowledged leader in the fields of medicine and sur- gery at Houston, has for two decades de- voted his talents to the service of humanity along the lines that promote the best development of his life's vocation. Dr. Hamilton came to Hous- ton in 1903, from East Texas, after a decade of actual practice and post graduate work, and has since been prominently identified with the med- ical and surgical fraternity in the city. He special- izes in abdominal and pelvic surgery, in which field he has had exceptional training. Dr. Hamilton has an extensive private practice and maintains well ap- pointed offices in the Scanlan Building, where he has a complete X-ray and clinical pathological labora- tory. Dr. Hamilton is on the staff of the Baptist Sanitarium, the oldest man in point of service on the staff, and for six months of each year is in charge of the work in abdominal and pelvic surgery. Dr. Hamilton organized the nurses training school, oper- ated in connection with the sanitarium, and has taken an active interest in this school and other movements resulting advantageously for the sani- tarium. He is a member of the staff of the Muni- cipal Hospital of Houston. He also taught and demonstrated anatomy at the Texas Dental College, at Houston, for five years.

Dr. Hamilton has done much to promote Houston as a medical center and sees a future in this field for the city. He has for many years advocated post graduate schools in each state where medical men could each year take special courses and review basic subjects of medicine. His plans include a grad- uate course in anatomy and allied subjects. If intro- duced in Rice Institute and Hermann Hospital, they would be of recognized value to the medical frat- ernity throughout the state.

Dr. Hamilton began his practice in 1894, at Cas- cade, Michigan, where he remained for four years, coming to East Texas in 1898 and engaging in prac- tice for two years. In 1900, he went to Europe and spent two years in study, his work taking him to the great medical centers of Vienna, Berlin, Edinburgh and London. His work here was in the field of abdominal and pelvic surgery, with the exception of six months in general surgery. In 1902 he returned to East Texas and practiced at Pollock until 1903, in that year coming to Houston. During the recent war, he devoted his services to his country, serving as major in the United States Medical Corps, at Camp Greenleaf, Camp Custer, Camp Johnson and Fort McHenry, spending eight months at the last named as chief of general surgery, and four months as chief of the surgical service. During this period his work was wholly confined to the surgery of gun-shot injuries in bones, and he originated a new method of bone grafting which has been accepted by some of the foremost bone surgeons in this country; also an original operation for lengthening bones.

Dr. Hamilton was born at Bright, Ontario, Canada, the eighth of July, 1872, son of James Hamilton, a contractor who came to Canada from Scotland, and Margaret Laird Hamilton, native of Scotland. He was educated in the public schools of Canada, and attended the Collegiate Institute at Woodstock and St. Catherines. He entered the University of Mc- Gill, at Montreal, where he took his medical course, graduating in 1894 with the degree M. D. C. M. Fol- lowing his graduation he entered upon his career as

a physician and surgeon.

Dr. Hamilton is a member of the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is also a fel- low of the American College of Surgeons, to which he was elected in 1914. He is a member of the Hous- ton Club, the Houston Country Club, and River Oaks Country Club. Fraternally he is a Mason and Knight of Pythias.

OHN W. THOMASON, M. D., F. A. C. S., physician and surgeon of Huntsville, whose prestige in the medical profession is in proportion to his years of practice, was born in Walker County, one and one-half miles west of Huntsville, the twenty-first of August, 1864, the son of Dr. J. A. Thomason and Emily (Fisher) Thomason. Dr. J. A. Thomason, a native of Ala- bama, came to Walker County in 1854, at which time he bought a large plantation and was one of the leading planters of this section, owning a number of slaves. Mrs. Thomason was also a native of Ala- bama, her marriage to Dr. Thomason occurring in that state. Completing his work in the schools of Walker County, Dr. J. W. Thomason entered Texas A. and M. College, taking academic and literary work there and at the University of Virginia. When later he entered the medical department and took his medical degree in 1885. Dr. Thomason then went to New York City, entering the New York Poly- clinic where he spent one year, after which he came to Huntsville and established his private practice. Since that time Dr. Thomason has taken post-gradu- ate work at several important clinics in the United States, including those at Johns Hopkins and the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospitals, and has kept in close touch with all progress made in his chosen field of medicine and surgery.

Dr. Thomason was married at Rusk, Texas, the twenty-fourth of February, 1892, to Miss Sue Goree, a daughter of T. J. Goree, prominent Texas citizen and for fifteen years superintendent of the peniten- tiary at Huntsville. Dr. and Mrs. Thomason have one of the most beautiful old homes of Texas, where they have resided for many years. They are the parents of a family of nine children, Captain J. W. Thomason of the United States Marine Corps and a veteran of the World War; Dr. T. H. Thomason, a graduate of the University of Texas with the A. B. Degree, and of Johns Hopkins, with the M. D. Degree and now engaged in private practice at Fort Worth, Texas; Miss Sue Goree Thomason, a gradu- ate of Sam Houston Teachers College, and the Uni- versity of Texas, A. D. Degree; James Thomason, University of Texas, LL.B. Degree; Miss Emily Thomason, graduate of Peabody Conservatory at Baltimore, Maryland; Miss Mary Thomason, Col- lege of Industrial Arts, with the B. S. Degree; Robert H. Thomason, a student at Texas A. and M. College, and Elizabeth and Margaret Thomason, stu- dents in the Huntsville schools. Dr. Thomason is a member of the Walker County Medical Society, the South Texas District Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Associa- tion, and is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Well equipped professionally for any demands Dr. Thomason has been a leader in medical advancement in Walker County, and has always stood for things highest and best in his profession and in the life of his community and state.

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R. E. W. BERTNER, specialist in surgery. gynecology and female urology, came to Houston from New York in 1913. Dr. Bert- ner gives his time not only to his private practice but to the broader interests of his profes- sion as well. He is House Surgeon of the Rice Hotel, on the Surgical Staff of the Baptist Sani- tarium, President of the Staff of the Municipal Hospital and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Houston Academy of Medicine. His offices are located at 410-11-12 and 13, Second National Bank Building, where he has a complete clinical and X-Ray Laboratory.

Dr. Bertner received his medical training in the Medical Department of the University of Texas at Galveston, graduating in 1911 with the M. D. degree. He served his interneship at the John Sealy Hospital during his senior year and the year following his graduation did hospital work at the Willard Parker Hospital, Saint Vincent's Hospital and the Manhat- tan Maternity Hospital, all in New York City. He came to Houston in July, 1913, engaging in practice until May, 1917, when he enlisted in the American Army, receiving a commission as First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. He was assigned to the Brit- ish Army, and went overseas in June, 1917.

He remained with the British forces until March, 1918, when he was transferred to the American Army, and assigned to the Headquarters Medical and Surgical Consultants, at Neufchateau, France. While at this post he was promoted to the rank of Captain and in January, 1919, he went to Tours, France, as Personal Officer in the Chief Surgeon's office. In May he was returned to the United States and was discharged one month later at Camp Dix, New Jersey. The following month he resumed his practice in Houston. In May, 1921, he went to Baltimore, Maryland, for a year's post graduate work at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and at this time was assistant to Dr. J. M. T. Finney, Dr. Thomas F. Cullen and Dr. Hugh H. Young. He returned to Houston in May, 1922, and has since limited his practice to surgery, gynecology and female urology.

Dr. Bertner was born at Colorado City, Mitchell County, Texas, the eighteenth of August, 1889, the son of Gustave Bertner, an insurance man of Little Rock, who came to Texas in 1880, and Anna (Miller) Bertner, daughter of a well known Ohio family who came to Texas in 1882. Dr. Bertner began his edu- cation in the public schools of Colorado City, later attending New Mexico Military Institute, where he graduated in 1905, after which he went to Galveston for his medical training.

Dr. Bertner was married at St. Louis, November 30, 1922, to Miss Julia Williams, daughter of W. E. Williams, formerly general manager of the M. K. & T. Railroad in Texas, and now in St. Louis as mana- ger of the Personnel Department of the M. K. & T. System. Dr. and Mrs. Bertner make their home at the Rice Hotel. Dr. Bertner is a member of the Alpha Kappa Medical Fraternity, the University Club, the Lumberman's Club, the Houston Club, the Houston Country Club, the Glenbrook Country Club, and the Kiwanis Club. Fraternally he is a Mason, being affiliated with Holland Lodge No. 1, San An- tonio Consistory, Ruthven Commandery No. 2 and Arabia Temple Shrine. He belongs to the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Associa- tion, the Texas Surgical Society, the Southern Medi- cal Association, the American Medical Association,

the American Urological Association, the American Gynecological Society, and is a Fellow of the Ameri- can College of Surgeons, to which body he was elected in October, 1921. Dr. Bertner sees in Hous- ton a medical center for the Southwest and is ready at all times to do anything to advance his profes- sion and assist his adopted city in its development.

AROLD L. D. KIRKHAM, Physician and Surgeon, with office at 422-4 Keystone Building, came to Houston in 1914 from Brownsville, where for four years he had practiced his profession, devoting the greater part of his time to surgery. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Kirkham is Local Surgeon for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, and Professor of Anatomy and Oral Surgery at the Texas Dental College. He is on the Surgical Staff of St. Joseph's Infirmary and is Oral and Plastic Surgeon to the Municipal Hospital.

Dr. Kirkham was born in Norfolk, England, March 24, 1887. His father, Dr. F. W. Kirkham, was one of the most prominent and successful physicians and surgeons of both England and America. He came to the United States in 1900 and died in Brownsville in 1910. His splendid surgical skill has been cited by leading medical writers. His mother was Miss Delphine Laurens, a native of the Island of Jersey. Dr. Kirkham has had unusual edu- cational advantages. He attended Bedford Modern School of England, which was founded in 1566. He received his Junior Oxford Local from this honored institution in 1903. Dr. Kirkham came to the United States in 1904 and in 1905 entered the University of Texas and graduated from the Medical Depart- ment in 1909 with the M. D. degree. During the remainder of 1909 and in 1910 he served as an in- terne at St. Joseph's Infirmary, Houston, Texas. In 1910 he went to Brownsville, Texas, where he was local surgeon for the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad, and continued his practice there until 1914, when he came to Houston and has grad- ually devoted more and more time to surgery, and expects soon to limit his practice to this field of medical science. In 1918 Dr. Kirkham entered the World War, and was with the Naval Reserve Forces in Houston, where for six months he was in the Marine Recruiting office. He then went to Hamp- ton Roads, Virginia, at the Base Hospital, where he was Chief of the Surgical Division from February, 1919, to August, 1919, when placed on inactive duty. He had the rank of Lieutenant, senior grade, which compares with Captain in the army.

Dr. Kirkham was married in February, 1911, at Cuero, Texas, to Miss Frida Buchel, a native of Cuero and a daughter of Otto Buchel (deceased since 1909), Banker, Merchant, and prominent citizen of Cuero, Texas, and a member of an old Texas family, whose members served in the Civil War. They have two children, Harold Buchel and Doris Buchel. Dr. and Mrs. Kirkham reside at 3711 Mount Vernon Street. Dr. Kirkham is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, to which he was elected in 1918, the Texas Surgical Society, having been Sec- retary of this organization since 1921, and is also a member of the following: American Medical As- sociation, State and County Medical Societies, South- ern Medical Associaiton, Houston Country Club and the University Club. Dr. Kirkham believes that Houston is fast becoming one of the leading cities of the Southwest in medical lines.

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R. F. W. AVES, during the decade of his residence at Galveston, has occupied a high place in public esteem as one of the leading members of the medical fraternity here, and has been a factor in forwarding public health measures and has also contributed to make Galves- ton one of the leading medical centers of the South. Dr. Aves came to Galveston in 1913, as instructor in surgery in the medical department of the Uni- versity of Texas here, and was on the faculty until 1918, when he resigned due to the pressure of his large private practice. Dr. Aves is familiar with the entire scope of modern medicine, and while his practice is along broad and general lines, he gives special attention to surgery, in which field his work has attracted favorable notice, and for which he is particularly well equipped. He is on the staff of St. Mary's Infirmary, and does his hospital work there. Dr. Aves is a man of fine mental talents and attainments and has demonstrated a profes- sional ability which has placed him at the head of the local fraternity, and marked him as a physician who has far to go in his profession. His record as a private practitioner has been creditable along all lines, and he has found favor with the public, establishing a large practice. Dr. Aves has his offices on the second floor of the modern building at the corner of Avenue D and Twenty-first Street, at Galveston, but on the completion of the new Medical Building, a fine structure of Spanish archi- tecture, at the corner of Twenty-second Street and Avenue I he will have his office there. This build- ing, exclusively for medical men, and with offices for eight physicians, providing a clinical laboratory and prescription pharmacy, has been built largely through the influence of Dr. Aves, who is president of the corporation erecting the structure.

Dr. F. W. Aves was born at Norwalk, Ohio, the eleventh of August, 1886, and spent his boyhood in his native city, attending the public schools there. Later he entered Ball High School, in Galveston, and after graduating here entered Kenyon College, in Ohio, where he took his pre-medical work, and where he spent three years. He then entered the medical department of the University of Texas, tak- ing the M. D. degree in 1911, spending the following year at Kansas City, as interne in the General Hos- pital there. The next year he spent at Kensington Hospital for Women, and following this went to the University of Pennsylvania where he took a three months post graduate course. In 1913 he returned to Galveston as instructor in surgery at the Uni- versity of Texas, in the medical department here, and held this post for the ensuing six years, resign- ing in 1919, since which time he has devoted his time to his private practice.

Dr. Aves was married in Ohio, in September, 1913, to Miss Florence Houston, whose family is distantly related to General Sam Houston, whose name is one of the most prominent in Texas history. Dr. and Mrs. Aves have three children-Frederick, Arch and Florence, and reside at 2311 Thirty-first Street. Dr. Aves is a member of the Galveston Country Club and takes a prominent part in social activities. He belongs to the Galveston County Medical Society, the Texas State Medical Association, the South Texas Medical Association, American Medical Asso- ciation, and is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow in the Texas College of Sur- geons. Dr. Aves has for a number of years past been

interested in developing a small farm on Galveston Island, where he is growing a number of fruits not ordinarily grown in this section, and has found re- laxation from his exacting professional life in this hobby.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 47

Author: Davis, Ellis A. Publication date: 1926 Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?] Number of Pages: 1262

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1262