New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 49

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

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Dr. Greer was married at Chicago, the twenty- seventh of June, 1912, to Miss Claire Eleanor Gadde, daughter of N. Gadde, well known lumberman of Wisconsin. They have two children, Dorothy Eu- genia, and June Eleanor. Dr. Greer is a member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa, medical fraternity, Al- pha Omega Alpha, an honorary medical fraternity, the Rotary Club, and is a Thirty-Second degree Scot- tish Rite Mason, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine. He is also a member of the Houston Coun- try Club, the Houston Club, the University Club, and various organizations. Dr. Greer keeps apace of modern medical development and is a member of the different associations and societies, the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Associa- tion, the South Texas District of the American So- ciety of Tropical Medicine, the Southern Medical As- sociation, the American Medical Association, the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Greer takes an active interest in civic affairs, and gives freely of his services and means toward any activity for the development of the community.

T. DeTAR, JR., M. D., is engaged in a general practice of medicine and surgery at Victoria, Texas, where he is the junior mem- ber of the firm of DeTar and DeTar, with offices at 507-508 Welder Building. Associated with Dr. DeTar in the medical firm of DeTar and DeTar is his father, Dr. W. T. DeTar, Sr., one of the oldest and most widely known physicians and surgeons of this portion of the state. In addition to their large private home practice, Drs. DeTar and DeTar own and operate the DeTar Hospital, a private in- stitution of fourteen beds, in this city. While not as large as some private hospitals,, the DeTar Hos- pital is modern in every particular, all equipment being the best and latest in design and efficiency. The DeTar Hospital is not an institution where student nurses are employed and trained, but em- ploys only graduate nurses with established records as to their knowledge, training and efficiency. Dr. J. L. Smith, well known in the medical circles of Texas, is in charge of the X-Ray equipment of the DeTar Hospital, and this branch of the institution is also up to the standard in every respect. Dr. DeTar, Sr., is gradually retiring from active prac- tice, leaving his medical mantle on the capable shoulders of his son, Dr. W. T. DeTar, Jr., for whom the DeTar Hospital was built and equipped. The city offices of Drs. DeTar and DeTar are located at 507-508 Welder Building.

Dr. DeTar was born in Alabama on August 2nd, 1889, but was brought to Texas by his parents when one year old. He is the third generation of the DeTars to engage in the practice of medicine. His father, Dr. W. T. DeTar, Sr., who is a graduate of the Louisville University, came to Texas in 1890, and has for more than forty years been engaged in a general practice of medicine. He was for several years a leading druggist of Boone County, Alabama. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a pioneer in the medical profession, and was one of the leading physicians and surgeons of his time, in Iowa. Dr. DeTar's early education was obtained in the public schools, after which he became a stu- dent of the Southwestern University, where he re- mained for two years. He then entered Baylor University and graduated from that institution in the class of 1922, with the M. D. degree. After his graduation, Dr. DeTar served an interneship at Baylor Hospital and eight months at Fort Worth. He then came to Victoria in order to assist his father in the building of the DeTar Hospital and has remained here since that time.

Dr. DeTar was married at Palestine, Texas, on November 29th, 1923, to Miss Grace Duff, a daugh- ter of W. R. Duff, well known in the railroad circles of Texas, where for many years he has held an official position with the International and Great Northern Railroad. They have two daughters, Grace Margaret and Valeria. Dr. DeTar is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Victoria Lodge. He is also a member of the county, district, state and American Medical Associations, in which he takes an active interest. He holds membership in the college fraternity-Chi Zeta, and was master of this organization in 1922 at Baylor College. Dr. DeTar is popular in the medical, business and social circles of Victoria, where he is regarded as one of the leaders of the medical fraternity, and also one of the city's most progressive citizens.

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PHILO HOWARD, M. D., President of the Houston Clinic, is one of the best known surgeons of Southern Texas. The Hous- ton Clinic, composed of Drs. Thorning, How- ard, Stokes and Cruse, each a specialist in his par- ticular line of work, acts as chief surgeon for a number of railroads, insurance companies and other large organizations of Houston and maintains a spe- cial clinic building at the corner of Main Street and Pease Avenue. Dr. Howard, President of the Clinic, besides general surgery, specializes in bone surgery and orthopedics and has achieved a won- derful success in both these lines of work.

A native of Texas, Dr. Howard was born at Pales- tine, in Anderson County, on October 25, 1878. He is a son of A. R. and Georgia (Granger) Howard. His father was for many years Treasurer of the International and Great Northern Railway Com- pany and was a pioneer in the cotton mill industry in this State, owning one of the first mills ever built in Texas in Anderson County. Dr. Howard's mother is a member of one of the pioneer families of East Texas, the Granger's having come to Texas in 1834 and played an important part in the early history of the Republic of Texas.

The literary education of Dr. Howard was re- ceived in the schools of Palestine, Houston and Saint Louis and at Staunton College, Virginia, where he completed his preparatory work prior to entering the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania. He graduated with the class of 1901, re- ceiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and served an interneship at the Missouri Baptist Hospital at Saint Louis. He then returned to Palestine and was appointed house surgeon at the International and Great Northern Railway Hospital. From 1902 to 1906 he was demonstrator of anatomy and os- teology at Saint Louis University and during the same time served as Assistant in the Department of Gynecology.

Dr. Howard came to Houston in 1907 as Chief Surgeon of the Frisco and Rock Island System and still is Chief Surgeon for the Gulf Coast Lines and the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroads. The Hous- ton Clinic acts as Chief Surgeon for the Oil Men's Reciprocal and Lumbermen's Reciprocal Insurance Associations, two organizations headed by former Governor William P. Hobby.

On November 30, 1908, Dr. Howard was married at Houston to Miss Nancy Flewellen, native of Houston, and a daughter of John D. Flewellen, large Brazos Valley land owner. Dr. and Mrs. Howard are the parents of four interesting children, Eugenia, fourteen; Alfred Ryland, Jr., ten; Georgia, four, and A. Philo, Jr., two years of age.

Dr. Howard is a Thirty-Second degree Mason and a life member of Arabia Temple Shrine. His medi- cal college fraternity is Nu Sigma Nu and he is a member of the American Medical Association, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, mem- ber of the Texas Surgical Society, Harris County and Southern Medical Societies and the American Railway Surgeon's Association. He is a Director of the Public National Bank, and President of the Hous- ton Board of Health.

During the World War Dr. Howard was a member of the Medical Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces and was stationed at General Hospital Four- teen and Evacuation Hospital Forty. After the

close of the war he returned to the United States and was in charge of ortopedic surgery at Camp Logan Hospital until receiving his discharge on March 15, 1919.

Dr. Howard, while one of the busiest surgeons in Houston, takes an active interest in civic affairs and is ever ready to give aid and encouragement to any movement for the betterment of the city as a whole.

HARLES C. GREEN, M. D., F. A. C. S., 414 Second National Bank Building, began the practice of medicine in Houston May 28, 1910, and has limited his work to surgery and obstetrics since 1922. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Green is Assistant Chief Surgeon of the Southern Pacific Lines in Louisiana and Texas, on the staff of both St. Joseph's Infirmary and the Municipal Hospital, and is President of the staff of the Methodist Hospital. During the World War Dr. Green was commissioned as Captain in the Medical Corps, U. S. A., in March, 1918, and was assigned to special instruction at New Orleans, where he re- mained for one month. He was then made Assistant Chief Surgeon at Camp Gordon. Dr. Green went overseas as a member of Surgical Group No. 4 and remained with them until after the signing of the armistice, when he was placed in charge of the Surgi- cal Section of Camp Hospital No. 48. Dr. Green was discharged on May 24, 1919, when he returned to Houston.

Dr. Green was born in Alabama, March 22, 1882, and came to Texas as a boy. His father, John E. Green, Sr., has been for many years a well known minister of the Lone Star State, where he has built many churches, five of them being in Houston. Rev. Green is now pastor of the Methodist Church in the Denver Addition, Houston, at the age of sixty-eight years. The preliminary academic education of Dr. Green was received in the public schools of Houston, after which he attended preparatory school here. He then entered Vanderbilt University and grad- uated from this institution with the B. S. degree, after which he became a student at Tulane Univer- sity, New Orleans, graduating in 1910, with the M. D. degree. Dr. Green then served an interneship of two years at the Charity Hospital at New Orleans.

Dr. Green was married at New Orleans, January 24, 1911, to Miss Lucretia Barrow Gore, deceased, a member of a well known New Orleans family. They had two children, Nellie Katherine and Charles C. Green, Jr. Dr. Green resides at 3420 Roseland Avenue, in the Montrose Addition of Houston. Dr. Green is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Holland Lodge No. 1, of Houston, and is a member of both the York and Scottish Rite bodlies of this order and of Arabia Temple Shrine. He is also a member of the Harris County Medical Society, the South Texas District Medical Associa- tion, Texas State Medical Association, Texas Sur- gical Society, the American Medical Association, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, to which body he was elected in 1917. He served the Harris County Medical Society as President during 1924, and was Vice-President of the South Texas District Medical Association in 1916. The Houston Country Club, the River Oaks Country Club, and the University Club are the social organizations in which Dr. Green holds membership. Dr. Green never loses an opportunity to speak a good word for Hous- ton.

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R. ARTHUR H. FLICKWIR, for a decade has performed conspicuous service in the field of public health at Houston, and has attained a place of acknowledged leader- ship in the medical fraternity. Dr. Flickwir was made city health officer of Houston in 1920, after a number of years practice in this city, during which time he took a deep interest in all civic affairs, par- ticularly those which had to do with public health. Since entering upon the duties of this office Dr. Flickwir has built up one of the best organized Health Departments in the Southwest, and has attained a prominence more than local for his activi- ties incident to the dispatch of these duties. He has studied all phases of community health measures, especially those concerning industrial problems, oc- cupational diseases, communicable diseases, malaria surveys and mosquito control work, and the results of his activities in these important fields has been far reaching. Dr. Flickwir has three able assistants and a large medical staff, with more than fifty em- ployees in his department.

Dr. Arthur H. Flickwir was born at Beardstown, Illinois, the twenty-eighth of April 1879. His father, D. Henry Flickwir, a native of Pennsylvania, and a resident of Illinois for many years was a druggist in that state until his death. His mother, whose maiden name was Miss Rebecca Catherine Norbury, was a native of Illinois and lived in that state until her death. Dr. Flickwir attended the public schools of his native state and after graduating from the High School there entered the University of Illinois, where he took his premedical work, later entering the University of Pennsylvania, in the medical de- partment, taking his medical degree from that insti- tution in 1901. He then spent some time traveling in Europe and studying at the various medical cen- ters abroad. Returning to Philadelphia he spent some time in a hospital there. He then went to Maplewood Hospital at Jacksonville, Illinois, where he specialized in mental and nervous diseases, re- maining there one year. The following year he was medical examiner for the Burlington Railway, in charge of medical work over the entire system. This was followed by a period of private practice in Illinois, and five years general practice in the Valley in Texas, with a short period spent at Blessing. Dr. Flickwir came to Houston in 1912 and opened his of- fice here, building up a large practice. Under Mayor Campbell he was appointed to the board of health, where his work at once attracted attention. He con- tinued his private practice and his interest in public health measures until 1917, when he entered military service as Navy Surgeon, U. S. N., serving at differ- ent stations, and making eight round trips as sur- geon on transports. He was discharged the third of January, 1920, and returned to Houston, receiving his appointment as city health officer a little later.

Dr. Flickwir was married at Chicago, Illinois, the second of November, 1903, to Miss Nettie Frances Ginn, a native of Missouri, and the daughter of Dr. John Ginn, a physician of St. Louis for many years. Dr. and Mrs. Flickwir live at 4316 Dallas Avenue, and have two children, Kathryn Elizabeth, and Elva Jane. Dr. Flickwir is a member of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, of the American Legion, and fraternally is a Knight of Pythias and Mason. He belongs to the various medical societies and asso- ciations, such as the Harris County Medical Society

and the Texas Medical Society. He is a fellow of the American Medical Association, and a fellow of the American Public Health Association. During his college days he was a great athlete, and was on the rowing crew of the University of Pennsylvania that broke the world's record in 1898. He also cap- tained the American crew that rowed at Henley, England, in 1901. He belongs to the Phi Sigma Kap- pa college fraternity and the Alpha Kappa Medical fraternity. Dr. Flickwir is one of the leaders in public health work in the state, and through his efforts work along these lines is assuming an im- portance never before attached to it. He is now president of the Texas Association of Sanitarians and has written a number of pamphlets relating to the public health office and the scope of his work, and takes an active part in forwarding all move- ments directed toward this end.

L. COX, M. D., for more than two decades has held a place of recognized leadership in the fields of medicine and surgery at Houston, and during this time has estab- lished the reputation of a careful practitioner, com- tent in all branches of his calling, and well worthy the honors of his profession. Dr. Cox came to Hous- ton in 1902, and began his practice in this city, as a general practitioner. He has since continued his practice along the broad and general lines on which. it was established, keeping pace with the advance- ments made in modern medicine, and has been espe- cially successful in surgery. Dr. Cox is on the staff of the Baptist Hospital, and has his offices in the Scanlan Building, being associated with Dr. Bren- ner.

Dr. Cox was born at Gonzales, Texas, the twenty- second of August, 1875. His father, Dr. J. M. Cox, came to Texas as a young man and was for many years one of the best loved physicians of his com- munity. His mother, prior to her marriage was Miss Lizzie B. Carroll. Dr. Cox early formed the ambition to follow his father as a physician, and after completing his pre-medical education entered Tulane University, where he took his M. D. Degree in 1899. He spent the two following years at the Charity Hospital in New York City, and also took a post graduate course in that city, returning to Texas in 1902, and coming to Houston, where he established his practice.

Dr. Cox was married at Houston, in 1905, to Miss Margaret Anderson, a member of a prominent Hous- ton family. Dr. and Mrs. Cox make their home at 1116 Jefferson Street, and have one child, Lavoy Cox. Mrs. Cox is a woman of accomplished intelli- gence, and a musician of distinctive and interpreta- tive talent, equally at home in the drawing room, or in her home. Dr. Cox is a Mason, Holland Blue Lodge, York Rite, Scottish Rite and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine. He is a member of the Ki- wanis Club, and affiliated with the various medical societies, belonging to the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Dr. Cox takes a deep interest in the development of Houston, and particularly in the advancement of the medical cen- ter here, and has done much to make this city one of the leading cities of the Southwest from a medi- cal standpoint. He is also interested in all welfare. work, and throughout his career has demonstrated. his devotion to the best interests of his city.

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R. BENJAMINE H. VAUGHAN, who is well known at Port Arthur for his interest in the medical advancement of the city, is a leader in the field of otology, ophthal- mology, rinology and larynology, and is one of the foremost professional men of his community. Dr. Vaughan came to Port Arthur the first of January, 1918, and became associated with his brother, Dr. E. W. Vaughan, practicing with him for one year, since when he has practiced alone. Dr. Vaughan has his offices in the Deutser Building, and has demonstrated a professional ability that has placed him at the head of the eye, ear, nose and throat specialists of the city. Dr. Vaughan has a very large practice, and has at his command every me- chanical facility of his profession.

Dr. Vaughan was born at Russell, Kentucky, the fourteenth of September, 1890, the son of C. N. and Elizabeth Melvin Vaughan, both natives of the Blue Grass state. Mr. Vaughan has been for many years a farmer at Russell, Kentucky, and is prominent in agricultural and civic circles there. Dr. Vaughan received his elementary education in the public schools of his native state, and after two years in high school went to Valparaiso University for two years. He then entered the Chicago College of Med- icine, taking his medical degree the thirty-first of May, 1917. He then went to New York City, where he entered New York Post Graduate Hospital for ten months in eye, ear, nose and throat operative and treatment graduate work. His record in the hospi- tal there of more operations to his credit than any other doctor of his specialty for his six months work, is significant of the enthusiasm that has marked his career. Leaving New York Dr. Vaughan came to Port Arthur, entering upon his profession in this city.

Dr. Vaughan was married to Miss Pearl Walter, a native of Kentucky, and the daughter of Luther M. Walter, one of the prominent men of that state. Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan reside at 2121 Lake Shore Drive, and have one child, Mildred. Dr. Vaughan is a member of the Country Club, the Elks Club, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Young Men's Business League. Fraternally he is a Mason, Cosmopolitan Blue Lodge. Dr. Vaughan gives his interest not alone to his private practice, but to the highest development of his vocation, and is interested in all civic and welfare work. He foresees a great future for Port Arthur, and is active in all movements that are directed toward this end, and is in every way one of the sterling residents of the community.

P. POYNOR, M. D., pioneer physician of the Lone Star State, and for the past de- cade one of the most honored members of the medical fraternity of Harrisburg, be- gan the practice of medicine some three and a half decades ago, and has continued to follow his vo- cation to the present time, advancing to a position among the foremost physicians of the State. Dr. Poynor came to Harrisburg in 1904, and has a large general practice, both in Harrisburg and in Hous- ton, and in the smaller towns around Houston. Dr. Poynor is well worthy the honors and obligations of his profession, and has devoted himself not only to his private practice, but to the broader interests of his profession in city and state, and as a physi- cian occupies a high place in the hearts of the people.

Dr. Poynor was born in the village of Dallas, in 1869, when that now great city was in its infancy. His birth occurred the twenty-seventh of October. His father, Captain W. S. Poynor, a Civil War Vet- eran, came to Texas as a boy, and was a rancher and physician of the early days. He was the typi- cal pioneer medical man, specializing in hard work and mud, riding his horse many miles, often in the dark and cold, to alleviate the suffering of some pioneer family. Loved, as only the old family phy- sician can be loved, he was known throughout a broad area, and his death in 1898 was sincerely mourned. Dr. Poynor's mother, before her mar- riage Miss Sarah Oliver, was also a member of a pioneer Texas family. Dr. Poynor attended the schools of Dallas as a boy, later taking his pre- medical work at Add-Ran College, at Thorpe Springs, in Hood County, Texas. He then went to Nashville, where he took his medical work at Nash- ville and Vanderbilt Universities, taking his degree in 1889. Later he went to Tulane University, at New Orleans, and took the M. D. Degree there, in 1904, and, in 1905 and 1906, did post-graduate work at that institution. Dr. Poynor has been engaged in general practice since 1889, and was, for many years, a physician at Palestine, before he came to Houston.

Dr. Poynor was married, at Palestine, the twenty- eighth of March, 1913, to Miss Martha Stewart, daughter of Top Stewart, a typical frontiersman, and one of the pioneer settlers of the Lone Star State. Dr. and Mrs. Poynor reside at 7901 Har- risburg Boulevard. Dr. Poynor is ex-president of the American State Bank of Harrisburg. He served during the Spanish American War as First Lieu- tenant, Medical Corps, United States Army, serv- ing during the Porto Rico campaign. Fraternally Dr. Poynor is a Knight of Pythias, belonging to the East Gate Blue Lodge. He is a member of the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Dr. Poynor is a man of high intellectual attainments and splendid discrimination, and his work is the ripened result of many years' experience and en- thusiasm in his profession. He has hosts of friends, both in and out of his profession, and is one of the sterling residents of Harrisburg.

LVA A. WRIGHT, M. D., has for a decade and upwards, performed conspicuous serv- ice in her community, giving her best en- thusiasm to public health work, and has attained the reputation as an authority in the field of obstetrics and medical gynecology. Dr. Wright has her office in the Kress Building, and as a physi- cian has held a high place in the hearts of the peo- ple. She has demonstrated a professional ability that has placed her among the leaders in her special field, and her work in medical gynecology and ob- stetrics has won the approval of her associates. Dr. Wright has also been particularly active in tuber- culosis work, and organized and is president of the Houston Anti-Tuberculosis League, an organization that has accomplished much in this field and has been the means of placing many a tubercular patient on the road to regained health, as well as stamp- ing out the disease through educational work along preventive lines. This movement was started by Dr. Wright, and she has vigorously pushed the move-

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ment, interesting others in it, and working inde- fatigably in behalf of the tuberculars of the city, and their improvement. Dr. Wright is on the active staff of the Tuberculosis Hospital, a sanitarium for tubercular patients that is supported by the city and county. Another phase of welfare work that has made special appeal to Dr. Wright is among the girls and young women of the city, and she is physician of the Harris County School for Girls, and the Juvenile Court.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 49

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