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Dr. Milliken was married October 3, 1894 in Dallas to Miss Sallie Gibbs of Dallas, daughter of former Lieutenant Governor Gibbs now deceased. They have three children, Samuel Gibbs, a medical student at the University of Texas, Miss Catherine and Miss Dorothy Milliken.
Dr. Milliken is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Medical Association, State and County Medical Societies, the Dallas Country Club and Chamber of Commerce. He is a firm believer in the future of Dallas and says that now it is the best city of its size in the United States.
R. GARFIELD M. HACKLER, M. D., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, pro- fessor of principles of surgery in the medi- cal department of Baylor University, with offices at 303 Southwestern Life Insurance Building, has been an active figure in medical circles of Dallas for seventeen years, having removed to Dallas from Waco in 1904. Dr. Hackler specializes in surgery, devoting almost his entire time to this branch of the profession. Besides his work as professor of prin- ciples of surgery at Baylor, Dr. Hackler also is one of the teachers of general surgery in the medical school. He is a member of the staff of the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and of Parkland Hospital.
Dr. Hackler is a native of Grayson County, Vir-
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ginia and is a son of Rev. Garfield and Delphine (Holsey) Hackler. His father was a well known Baptist minister and for many years prominent in the work of the church in Virginia and North Caro- lina.
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Dr. Hackler received his preliminary academic education in the public schools of Virginia and North Carolina and then entered the medical department of the University of Maryland for his medical train- ing. He graduated with the class of 1891, receiving his degree of doctor of medicine. He is also a gradu- ate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Beginning active practise at Mars Hill, North Carolina, Dr. Hackler remained there for two years and in 1894 removed to Waco, practising there until his removal to Dallas in 1904. He has been con- nected in various capacities with the medical de- partment of Baylor University ever since coming to Dallas. From 1904 until 1907 he was professor of medicine and taught the principles and practise of medicine and from 1907 until 1911 was professor of surgical technique and clinical surgery, Since 1911 he has been professor of the principles of surgery and clinical surgery.
Dr. Hackler was married at Waco to Miss Hor- tense Alexander, daughter of Judge L. C. Alexander, prominent jurist and one of the founders of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. They have one son, Kenneth Adair.
Besides being a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Hackler is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association, Texas Medical Society, North Texas, Central Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Dallas Coun- try Club,
Dr. Hackler has traveled and studied extensively in the medical centers of the old world. In 1907 he spent four months in the hospitals of London and in 1914 had several months work in the best clinics of Paris, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Holland and England. He also has attended ex- tensively the clinics in the leading cities of the United States.
Dr. Hackler is deeply interested in the progress of Dallas along medical lines and believes it will become the leading medical center of the South,
R. CHAS. M. ROSSER, senior member of the medical and surgical partnership of Rosser, Rosser and Carter, came to Dallas in 1889 from East Texas and today is one of the best known men of his profession in the Southwest. He is senior surgeon at the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and was the founder of the Good Samaritan Hospital on the grounds of which the Baptist Sanitarium now stands. Dr. Rosser also established the first medical school in Dallas and this school later became the Baylor University Col- lege of Medicine. For eighteen years Dr. Rosser has been professor of surgery in this college, and many prominent surgeons today had their first training under him. .
Dr. Rosser was born near Cuthbert, Georgia, December 22, 1862, a son of Rev. M. F. and Amelia. (Smith) Rosser. His father was a well known Methodist minister and during the Civil War served as chaplain of the 41st Georgia regiment. He came to Texas following the close of the war in 1866 and located in Camp County.
Dr. Rosser received his preliminary education at
the East Texas Academic Institute under the noted Professor John M. Richardson and studied medicine at the University of Louisville, graduating there with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1888.
Before taking up the study of medicine Dr. Rosser taught school in East Texas from 1881 to 1884 and following his graduation began practicing at Waxa- hachie, removing to Dallas one year later. In 1891 he was elected city health officer, serving one term, and from 1895 to 1897 was superintendent of the North Texas Hospital for Insane at Terrell, having been appointed by Governor (now United States Senator) Chas. A. Culberson. He returned to his private practice at Dallas in 1897.
On September 11, 1889, Dr. Rosser was married to Miss Elma Curtice of Eminence, Kentucky, a member of a well known Kentucky family. They have two children, Dr. Curtice Rosser who is asso- ciated with his father, and Mrs. George McBlair of New York.
Dr. Rosser is a forceful writer and an eloquent speaker. His addresses before medical bodies have attracted wide attention and his papers have re- ceived prominent places in magazines and other pub- lications devoted to the profession. During the late war he spoke for five months in the interest of gov- ernment war work and occupied 65 pulpits, preach- ing the doctrines of loyalty and of thrift and savings. In this work Dr. Rosser was personally invited to take part by Wm. G. McAdoo.
For three years Dr. Rosser has been chairman of the committee to secure for the medical profession a building which is about to be erected and will prob- ably be 18 stories. He was appointed to this work by Dallas County Medical Society.
A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of all the recognized medical bodies, Dr. Rosser has been honored several times by election to offices in different organizations. He is a mem- ber of the Dallas Country Club and University Club.
R. ANDREW B. SMALL, Wilson Building, specialist in surgery, came to Dallas fifteen years ago from Waxahachie where he had been engaged in general practise. Three years after coming to Dallas he turned his attention exclusively to surgery.
A native of Alabama, Dr. Small was born near Collingsville, in DeKalb County, July 15th, 1863. His parents were Wm. A. and Harriett (Nicholson) Small, members of two of the oldest families of the state. Dr. Small's mother was a graduate of the East Alabama Masonic Female University, holding an A. B. degree, and her love of knowledge was early imparted to her son. After two years of college work he went to the medical department of the Uni- versity of Alabama, having won a scholarship in a competitive examination. He graduated at the Uni- versity of Tennessee with the degree of M. D. in 1888,
. After his graduation Dr. Small began general practise at Waxahachie. In 1900 was married to Miss Mary Watson, daughter of Dr. S. H. Watson of Waxahachie, one of the best known physicians of Central Texas. They have three children, Keith Louise, educated at Wellesley College, Andrew B. Jr., and Frances Nicholson.
Dr. Small is professor of surgical pathology at Baylor Medical School and is also a member of the executive staff of the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium. He has received many honors at the hands of his
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fellow physicians. and surgeons and at present is a member of the Board of Counselors of the State Medical Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was formerly vice-president of the Texas State Medical Society and president of the Central Texas Medical Society. Dr. Small is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite and Hella Temple at Dallas and a member of the Dallas Country and City Clubs.
A wonderful future is predicted for Dallas by Dr. Small who believes it will become a city of half a million people at no distant day. Texas, he says, is just getting started toward attracting the atten- tion of the world and he expects Dallas to profit largely by the interest now being centered on the Lone Star State.
R. DERO E. SEAY, Dallas County State Bank Building, associate of Dr. Jno. O. Mc- Reynolds in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, began his medical career in Dallas twenty-one years ago and during this entire time has devoted his attention to his specialty. Dr. Seay began practising with Dr. Mc- Reynolds early in 1897 and during this period has occupied the same office until the completion of the new Dallas County State Bank Building in 1920 when their offices were removed there from the Trust Building on the opposite corner of Main Street. Dr. Seay is vice-president of the Down Town Develop- ment Association, owners of the new building, and was vice-president of the company which owned and operated the Trust building. Besides his general office practise, Dr. Seay is local oculist for the Santa Fe and Texas and Pacific railroads.
A native of Tennessee, Dr. Seay was born at Gal- latin, November 7, 1874. He is a son of George E. and Mary Jane (Lauderdale) Seay, both natives of Tennessee. His father was a well known lawyer in his native state and is now retired and living in Dallas.
After attending the public schools and the Gallatin High School where he graduated in 1888, Dr. Seay studied in the Gallatin Male Seminary, graduating there in 1892. He then entered the medical depart- ment of Vanderbilt University, graduating in 1896 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Seay had taken up his residence in Dallas in 1893 before completing his medical studies and upon his gradua- tion at Vanderbilt returned here and began active practise with Dr. McReynolds. He has been a mem- ber of the staff of Saint Paul's Sanitarium for several years and from 1905 until 1914 was profes- sor of diseases of the nose and throat in the medical department of Southern Methodist University.
On March 3, 1908, Dr. Seay was married in Dallas to Miss Pauline Bolanz, daughter of Chas. L. Bolanz, pioneer Dallas citizen and one of the founders of the Murphy-Bolanz Company, prominent real estate and investment brokers. Dr. and Mrs. Seay have two children, George Edward, 11 years of age, and Chas. Eugene, five.
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Besides the American Medical Association and the Southern, State, North Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies, Dr. Seay is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto- larynology.
Dr. Seay is a member of the Dallas Country Club, City Club, Idlewild Club and the Dallas Athletic Club. He is also a Thirty-Second Degree Mason, a
member of the Scottish Rite bodies and of Hella Temple Shrine.
R. ALBERT WARE NASH, physician and surgeon, president of the staff of Saint Paul's Sanitarium and a member of the Parkland Hospital staff, is a native of Dal- las County and was born at Garland, April 27, 1883. Although one of the younger members of the profession in Dallas, Dr. Nash is highly respected by older physicians and is recognized as one of the coming medical men of this section.
He was city health officer for four years, from 1911 to 1915, and rendered valiant and efficient serv- ice during the epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis in 1911 and 1912, directing the fight against the dis- ease. During 1912 and 1913 Dr. Nash was president of the Dallas County Medical Society and from 1909 to 1912 was professor of therapeutics at the medical department of Baylor University. In 1913 he be- came professor of fractures at Southwestern Uni- versity and continued with that institution until 1916.
Dr. Nash received his preliminary education in the public schools of Dallas and graduated from the high school here in 1902. He then attended Vander- bilt University and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1906. He entered the active practice of his profession in Dallas immediately fol- lowing his graduation and was an interne at Park- land Hospital in 1906 and 1907.
On September 16, 1913, Dr. Nash was married at Fort Worth to Miss Rose E. Nielsen, daughter of the late Peter Nielsen, for many years a prominent mer- chant at Galveston. They have two children, Mary Helen and Albert Ware, Jr.
Dr. Nash enlisted in the medical corps of the United States Army in 1918 and was commissioned first lieutenant. He was stationed at Camp Mc- Arthur at Waco until discharged in January, 1919. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite and of Hella Temple Shrine at Dallas.
R. WILLIAM M. YOUNG, Wilson Building, for the past twenty-two years identified with the medical fraternity of Dallas and president of the Dallas County Medical Society, is one of the best known physicians in the city and enjoys a large practice, specializing in in- ternal medicine. He is a member of the Parkland Hospital staff of physicians and St. Paul Sanitarium staff, during the war was an examiner for Dallas Draft Board No. 3. During the score of years he has lived in Dallas he has seen many changes wrought. and has always been identified with the work of making Dallas a larger and greater city.
Graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1894, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he began the practice of his profession at Itasca, Texas, where he resided until 1899, when he came to Dallas. In 1896 and 1898 he took post graduate courses at the New York Polyclinic and the Chicago Polyclinic, and has always kept in thorough touch with the advances made in modern medicine and surgery.
Dr. Young is a native of Armory, Monroe county, Miss., born January 25, 1871, but most of his life has been spent in Texas, his parents, W. D. and Sara Jane (Davis) Young, moving to the State from Mississippi, where his father was a planter, many years ago. His father's brother, Dr. J. H. Young, is a practicing physician at Itasca, Texas.
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Dr. Young attended the public and high schools at Itasca, Texas, graduating from the high school in 1889, and on November 17, 1902, he was married in Dallas to Miss Florence Adele Mackenzie, member of a California family. Their home is located at 5007 Crutcher Street, Munger Place. The doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Society, the North Texas Medical Society and the State and County Medical Societies, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Episco- pal Church.
He is a booster for Dallas and believes it the logical location for a great medical center. There is great need for more hospital room and better teaching facilities he says, but he is confident these will be provided along with the other advantages that are being added to Dallas day after day.
R. JOHN O. McREYNOLDS, sixth floor of the Trust Building, colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps during the world war, for 28 years specialist in dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and one of the foremost surgeons in this line in the Southwest, came to Dallas from Kentucky and established his medical practice here in 1892. He established at Saint Paul's Sanitarium during the war a research laboratory which was of great value to the govern- ment medical corps.
Dr. McReynolds was born at Elkton, Kentucky, in 1865, and was a son of Richard B. and Victoria Camp- bell (Boone) McReynolds. He was married No- vember 27, 1895, to Miss Katherine Seay, of Gal- latin, Tennessee. They have one daughter, Miss Mary Victoria McReynolds.
The early education of Dr. McReynolds was along scientific lines and at the age of 22 he came to Dallas as instructor in mathematics and astronomy in the Dallas high school. Returning east he studied medicine in the best schools of New York and Balti- more and obtained the highest honors at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in the class of 1891-92. He was for a time resident physi- cian at the Baltimore City Hospital and located at Dallas in 1892, taking up immediately his specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. At various times during his residence in Dallas Dr. McReynolds has visited the clinics of Paris, Berlin and Vienna for the purpose of special study and pro- fessional observation.
In August, 1918, Dr. McReyonlds entered the serv- ice of his country and was commissioned a major in the medical corps, being promoted to colonel on March 19, 1919. He was stationed for a time at Mineola, Long Island, and later was transferred to Camp Dick at Dallas. He is still a member of the medical reserve corps of the army. He was the first president of the Air Service Medical Association of the United States.
Dr. McReynolds is opthalmologist, oculist and aurist for Saint Paul's Sanitarium, for the Texas & Pacific and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroads and is a member of the Oxford Opthalmo- logical Congress. He was formerly vice-president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society and also of the American Acad- emy of Opthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. He is a member of the various recognized medical asso- ciations and societies of the nation, state and county and holds membership in the Sleepy Hollow Club of New York City, the Author's Club of London, Dallas
County and City and Lakewood Country Clubs and is president of the Officers' Club of Dallas. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite and of Hella Temple Shrine at Dallas.
· Dr. McReynolds has been interested in various commercial enterprises in Dallas and was president of the Trust Company which erected the eight-story office building adjoining Sanger Brothers and which was recently sold to that firni, but is now devoting his entire time, thought and energy to his pro- fession. He is a member of the Downtown Develop- ment Association which erected the Dallas County State Bank Building and is keenly interested in the opening of Lamar Street, improvement of the Trinity River and other projects that affect the de- velopment of the city on a large scare.
R. SAM WEBB, JR., surgeon and specialist in orthopedic surgery, professor of ortho- pedic surgery in the medical department of Baylor University and chief surgeon for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and affiliated lines of Texas, came to Dallas from Waco in 1911 and today is known as one of the ablest surgeons in Texas. He is a member of the staff of the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and of Parkland Hospital. Dr. Webb is an intensive student of medical and surgical topics and his papers on surgery are given the closest interest and attention at meetings of the surgical sections of various medical societies.
A native Texan, Dr. Webb was born at Waco, August 9, 1882, a son of Samuel Webb, Sr., promi- nent banker, lawyer and rancher of Albany and Houston. For many years his father was cashier of the First National Bank of Houston. His mother was formerly Miss Ella Downs, also a native Texan and member of a prominent family at Waco.
The pre-medical education of Dr. Debb was re- ceived in the public schools of Waco and Albany and at Reynolds Presbyterian Academy. He then entered the University of Texas, graduating in 1899 and completed his medical studies at the University of Nashville, being given the degree of Doctor of Medicine by that institution in 1905. Shortly after his graduation Dr. Webb began practice at Call, Texas, where he was physician and surgeon for the Kirby Lumber Company. In 1906 he went to Al- bany where he remained eight months and then accepted the position of chief surgeon for the Texas Central Railroad. When this road was purchased by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas in 1907, he con- tinued his position, removing to Walnut Springs. In 1910 he was transferred to Waco and in 1911 to Dallas where he has remained since.
On February 15, 1914, Mr. Webb was married to Miss Alline DeMaret, daughter of A. M. DeMaret and a native of Mineral Wells. They have one son, Sam Nail Webb.
Dr. Webb is a member of the Association of Chief Surgeons of the United States, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the various recognized national, state and local medical associations and societies. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fel- lows and Woodmen of the World. He is also a member of the Dallas Country Club and Chamber of Commerce.
Declaring that Dallas is today already the medical center of Texas, Dr. Webb believes the city has a great outlook and that its future in every respect is very bright.
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HOMAS JOSEPH CROWE, physician, 607, 620 Trust Building, doing a general medi- cal practise, is exceptionally well identified with the medical profession both in the state and in Dallas, having been a member of the examining board of the state for the past twenty years and now serving as secretary of the board. He has been an important factor in fixing the stand- ards for practise in the state and says that Texas has the best law governing the admission of men to practise medicine of any state in the United States. During his connection with the state ex- amining board he has been.instrumental in securing much legislation improving the medical situation in the state. He is also chairman of the city hospital board in Dallas, president and secretary of the Texas Homeopathic Society and an officer of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was at one time a member of the state water commission, appointed by the governor of the state.
Dr. Crowe began the practice of medicine in Dal- las in 1895. Prior to that time he had had an extensive experience in the hospitals of the North and East. He graduated from the St. Louis Homeo- pathic Medical College with the degree of M. D. in 1887, and after that did special work in the following polyclinics and hospitals: Philadelphia Homeo- pathic Polyclinic, 1893-94; Philadelphia Polyclinic, 1894-95; Lying In Charity Hospital, Philadelphia, 1894-95; Johns Hopkins Hospital and Mercy Hos- pital (Chicago), 1905; Flower and Hahneman Hos- pitals, New York. He is a native of Newark, N. Y., born June 18, 1864, and was educated in the public schools of that city and Rochester and in private schools. He was married at Palestine, Texas, Sep- tember 28, 1886, to Miss Julia Eleanor Potts, a native of Tennessee, whose father, J. G. Potts, was interested in the Southern Express Company and prominent in its development. They have two sons, T. J., Jr., and Hugh Harris. The Crowe home is located at 908 Browder Street. Dr. Crowe is a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias and the Dallas Athletic Club, and in the past has been connected with many of the civic, social and fraternal organizations of the city.
Speaking of the future of Dallas he says there are many plans on foot that will greatly help the city to become the leading medical center of the South- west, and that they will all be worked out success- fully within a few years.
R. BEN E. HUDGINS, general practitioner, 417 Wilson Building, preparing at the time this is written to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics, has been a resident of Dallas since 1918 yet he is one of the best known physi- cians in the city, thoroughly posted in materia medica and generally recognized as a skillful physi- cian. For about ten years before coming to Dallas he practised at Mesquite, Texas, only a short dis- tance from the city, and was, therefore, familiar with the city's' hospitals and sanitariums and local physicians. During the war he was identified with the Baptist Sanitarium and the Parkland Hospital, and also connected with local draft boards. Favor- able action on his application for service in the army was not taken until just before the armistice was signed, otherwise he would have been among the large army of physicians and surgeons who served their country during the great conflict with the House of Hohenzollern.
Dr. Hudgins is a graduate of the Memphis Hos- pital Medical College, taking his M. D. degree there in 1901, and beginning the practice of medicine at Crandall, Texas, the same year. After six years at Crandall he moved to Mesquite in 1907. In 1902 he took his first post-graduate course at New Or- leans, and every summer he attends clinics at lead- ing medical centers in the country. He is a native of Jackson County, Alabama, born at Scotsboro, March 25, 1873. He graduated from the high school at Henrietta, Texas, in 1899, and then took up the study of medicine, attending the Fort Worth Medi- cal College one year before entering the Memphis Medical College from which he graduated.
While practising at Crandall, Texas, Dr. Hudgins met and married Miss Lela Roberts, daughter of Dr. W. B. Roberts of that town, the marriage taking place in 1902, and they have three children, Grace, David and Violet. The family lives at 5805 Belmont Avenue.
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