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Dr. Carter is a member of the American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, .State. County and North Texas Medieal Societies and the University Club of Dallas.
R. ROBERT S. YANCEY, F. A. C. S. Optho- mologist and Otologist, Medical Arts Build- ing, Dallas, one of the leading Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists of the South- west, has for nearly a score of years been identified with the medical fraternity of Dallas. His long and successful career as a Practitioner has brought to him an enviable position in the world of medi- cine.
Dr. Yancey was admitted to practice in 1897 when he received his degree of M. D. at the Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri. He immediately aceepted a position with the M. K. &T. Hospital at Sedalia, Missouri where he remained for four years. In 1901 he first came to Texas and became Division Surgeon for the M. K. & T. and H. & T. C. Railroads at Denison Texas. This position he retained for eighteen months. In 1902 Dr. Yancey took a vaca- tion from his practice and went to New York City, where he spent one year in the New York Eye and Ear Hospital. The following year he came west again and located at Kansas City where he was Assistant to Dr. F. B. Tiffany, head of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Department of the University Hospital, where he remained for another year. In 1904 Dr. Yancey came to the city of Dallas and opened up his office and has continued his practice here since that date. For many years he has been the Chief Oeulist for the M. K. & T. Railroad and Division Oculist for the St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad and has an extensive private practice.
Dr. Yancey was born in Armstrong, Missouri, July 21, 1877. His parents were Charles S. Yancey, a native Virginian and Anna Roselle (Bedford) Yancey, who was from Kentucky. His publie and high school education was received at Armstrong. He later attended the Missouri Valley College at Marshall, Missouri, after which he took a four year course in the Medical Department of the Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, graduating with the class of 1897 and entered immediately in the practice as stated above.
Dr. Yancey was married in 1906 at Denison, Texas. to Miss Martha Foster, . daughter of Col. R. C.
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Foster, a pioneer Denison Lawyer, who is general attorney for the M. K. & T. Railroad. \Mr. and Mrs. Yancey have two sons, Charles Stephens and Robert Foster. The family residence is at 3616 Beverly Drive. Dr. Yancey holds a fellowship in the Ameri- van College of Surgeons and in the Sigma Nu, a College Fraternity. He is a member of all the Medi- val Societies, The Dallas Country Club, Dallas Athletic Club, University Club, City Club, Idlewild ('lub and the Chamber of Commerce.
D R. JOHN GANO MeLAURIN, member of the teaching staff of the medical department of Baylor University and a member of the staff of the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium, partner in the medical firm of McLaurin. MeLaurin and Walker, Southwestern Life Building, is a native of Dallas and with the exception of the time spent in school and in the army has lived here all his life. Dr. McLaurin specializes in diagnosis and the treatment of medical cases. He formerly did surgery but after his appointment to the teaching staff of Baylor Medical College gave up surgery and devoted his time to the subjects on which he lectures at the College. He was appointed to the teaching staff at Baylor in 1916 and is one of the youngest men ever appointed to such a position at this school.
Dr. McLaurin is a son of the late Dr. Hugh L. and Kate (Gano) McLaurin and was born in Dallas December 8, 1891. His father was one of the leading physicians of Dallas and one of the best known men in medical circles in the state. He was a member of the State Board of Health when he died and had been twice appointed to this position. He held various offices in different medical societies of the state and at one time was secretary of the State Society. His mother was a daughter of General R. M. Gano, noted Confederate soldier.
After attending the public schools and graduating in the Dallas High School in 1910, Dr. McLaurin took a pre-medical course of two years in the Southwest- ern University. He then entered the medical depart- ment of Tulane University and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1914.
Out of 78 applicants, Dr. McLaurin was one of fourteen assigned to interneships in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans but on account of the illness of his father was unable to complete his service there. He returned to Dallas and began active prac- tise of his profession.
On December 31, 1917, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and ordered to re- port for duty on March 6, 1918, being assigned to the base hospital at Camp Bowie. Here he received his promotion to a captaincy and after five months joined base hospital No. 84 and went overseas, land- ing September 18, 1918. He was assigned to duty at Perigueux, France, and after four months there was made chief of the medical section in Camp Hospital No. 78 at Razae, France. After six weeks there he returned to Base Hospital No. 84 and then was sent to Camp Hospital No. 91 at La Baul and given com- mand of a detachment of nurses from Base Hospital No. 2. After the detachment of nurses left for the United States he was transferred to the 115th Sani- tary Train of the 40th Division and placed in com- mand of the company which he brought back, to the United States, landing April 16, 1919. Just before
leaving France he was notified that a Major's com- mission had been issued for him at General Head- quarters, but he declined to accept the promotion as it would have involved remaining in France for a longer period.
On July 30, 1918, he was married at Dallas to Miss Lucy Coke, daughter of Henry C. Coke, one of the best known lawyers in the South. They reside at 5004 Worth Street, Munger Place.
Dr. MeLaurin is a member of the American Medi- cal Association, Southern Medical Association, State, County and North Texas Medical Societies, the Dallas Country Club and University Club. He is a great believer in Dallas and says that already this city is second only to New Orleans in importance as a medical center. He believes that Dallas will soon rank with the six leading medical centers of the United States.
R. FRANKLIN A. PIERCE, 608-609 Wilson Building, specialist in gynecology and ob- stetrics, came to Dallas from Ferris, Texas, in 1909 and has built a splendid practise in his specialties and in general medicine and sur- gery. He is a member of the staff of both Parkland Hospital and Saint Paul's Sanitarium and was formerly professor of histology and gynecology at Southern Methodist University.
A native Texan, Dr. Pierce was born in Ellis County, October 7, 1882. He is the son of J. E. and Elizabeth Conger Pierce and numbers among his maternal ancestors a prominent surgeon of the Civil War. The early education of Dr. Pierce was received in the public schools of Ellis County and at the Ferris high school where he graduated in 1900. He attended the medical department of Tulane University and graduated there in 1904.
Dr. Pierce was married January 20, 1904, to Miss Eva May Carpenter, daughter of J. A. Carpenter, president of the First National Bank of Ferris.
During a portion of the year 1903 Dr. Pierce was an interne at Saint Paul's Sanitarium and following his graduation at Tulane in 1904 began active prac- tise at Ferris. He was city health officer of Ferris for several years until he came to Dallas in 1909.
Dr. Pierce is a man of wonderfully pleasing per- sonality, broad vision and is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of helpfulness to humanity. He believes that Dallas is the logical location for a great medical center and expects it to become this at no distant date. With its splendid hospital facili- ties, which are being constantly added to. Dr. Pierce can see no reason why Dallas should not take front rank with the great medical centers of the North and East.
Among the organizations with which Dr. Pierce is affiliated are the American Medical Association. Southern Medical Society, Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies and the Rotary Club. In church affiliation he is a Presbyterian.
R UFUS WHITIS, general medical practi- tioner, 405 Sumpter Building, formerly demonstrator of surgical anatomy and surgical anaesthesia at the Southwestern Medical College, and considered an expert on anestheties, has long been identified with the medi- cal profession in Dallas, and is about the oldest practising physician in the city in the point of time, locating here in July, 1885, after graduating from the Jefferson Medical College in 1884 with the
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degree of M. D. Prior to becoming a physician he was engaged in the mercantile business in 1877 and 1879. Dr.' Whitis has always occupied a prominent place in the councils of his profession in Dallas and has contributed largely to its advancement and present high standard. He belongs to the "old school" of physicians who have developed the science of medicine to its present high position, and has always kept pace with the development of the science.
Dr. Whitis is a native of Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas, born December 26, 1859. His parents .were Chas. W. and Florence (Rogan) Whitis, and both were natives of Tennessee. His father, who is a banker at Austin, Texas, came to the state in 1855, and is well known. Dr. Whitis was educated in the public schools of Austin, graduating from the high school in 1877. He was married in Dallas, Feb- ruary 3, 1892. to Miss Frances E. Weichsel, daugh- ter of Francis Weichsel and a sister of C. Weichsel, a prominent Dallas business man. He is identified with the State and County Medical Societies and is prominently connected with the Second Presbyterian Church, being an elder in the congregation.
When he came to Dallas it was a city of about thirty or thirty-five thousand people, and was an important distributing point even at that time, and was the leading saddlery and leather products mar- ket of the state. It has always been a great city, he says, and at the present time has a brighter future than at any time in its past history. He is confident that it will be the greatest medical center in the Southwest.
R. JOHN H. DEAN, 528-29 Wilson building, specialist in genito-urinary diseases and one of the best known men in this line in the Southwest, came to Dallas from Waco in 1906 and for fourteen years has been professor of Urology and Venerology in the medical department of Baylor University. Several years he was a mem- ber of the executive staff of the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and on the visiting staff of the Parkland Hospital.
Dr. Dean is a native Texan and was born at Waco July 23, 1879, a son of Dr. J. L. and Anna Augusta (Ferguson) Dean. His father was one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of Central Texas for many years and during the Civil war was at- tached to the medical department of General Lee's Division of the Confederate Army. His parents were residents of South Carolina and came to Texas following the close of the Civil War.
The early education of Dr. Dean was received in the public schools and at the Waco High School where he graduated in 1897 after which he had two years of pre-medical study at Baylor University. He then had two years work in the medical depart- ment of Tulane University and graduated at Jeffer- son Medical College at Philadelphia in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began active practice at Waco in June, 1904 and continued there until October 1906, when he removed to Dallas.
On November 1, 1905, Dr. Dean was married to Miss Carrie Rebecca Slaughter, daughter of the late C. C. Slaughter, pioneer cattle man and philanthro- pist of Dallas and who aided largely in the building of the Great Baptist Memorial Sanitarium. Dr. and Mrs. Dean have one son, John Henry, Jr. They re- side at 411 North Fitzhugh Avenue.
Dr. Dean is a member of the American Urological Association, the American Medical Association, the State, County, North Texas and Southern Medical Societies. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, .. member of Hella Temple Shrine, the City Club and Lakewood Country Club.
In the opinion of Dr. Dean there is absolutely no doubt that Dallas will become the great medical cen- ter of Texas by reason of the vast territory tribu- tary to Dallas and the facilities provided here for medical research work.
R. ELISHA S. GORDON, M. D., physician and surgeon, 525 Wilson Building, formerly an associate of Dr. Small, began his medi- cal career in Dallas and has been a familiar figure in medical circles of the city for about fifteen years. He has devoted a great deal of time and study to gnyecological and obstretrical subjects and is now specializing in these branches of the profes- sion. He began his practise in Dallas in 1906.
Dr. Gordon is a native of Texas and was born in Ellis County December 21, 1877. . He is a son of Elisha S. and Rebecca (Lancrest) Gordon and re- ceived his preliminary education in the public schools of his native county. His parents were pioneer resi- dents of Texas and were actively connected with the events of the reconstruction period following the close of the Civil War.
As a boy Dr. Gordon received his first employment in a drug store and after reaching manhood decided to study pharmacy. He entered the pharmaceutical department of the University of Texas, graduating in 1897 with the degree of Ph. G. He was connected with a drug store in Forney for a while and in 1900 came to Dallas and became associated with the Oak Cliff Pharmacy where he remained until entering the medical department of Southwestern University to take up his medical studies. He graduated at Southwestern with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1906 and after one year as interne in Saint Paul's Sanitarium began general practise in Dallas.
Dr. Gordon was married in Dallas in 1908 to Miss Walker Hargreth, member of a well known Dallas family. They have three children, Manly, James and Elizabeth.
Deeply interested in seeing Dallas become a great medical center, Dr. Gordon also is interested in the movement for obtaining additional hospital and clini- cal facilities for the city. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Texas State Medieal Society and Dallas County Medical Society.
R. GARTH A. RIDDLER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Dallas, has done some valuable work for the city of Dallas in its health department and is now engaged in private practise, having left the service of the city in 1914 after being made assistant city health officer and serving in that capacity for two years. Dr. Riddler was connected with the City Hospital during 1911 and 1912.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Riddler was born at Jefferson City, the capital of the state, September 3, 1882. He is a son of Dr. John A. and Sophia (Sharp) Riddler. His father was a well known physician of Jefferson City.
After attending the public schools and the high schools of Jefferson City and Kansas City, Dr. Riddler came to Dallas and entered the medical department of Southwestern University, completing his studies and graduating with the degree of doctor
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of medicine in 1911. He served an interneship at the City Hospital after his graduation and in 1914 began private practise.
In 1917 Dr. Riddler was married in Dallas to Mrs. Lydia Jackson, daughter of R. B. Courtney, well Anown railroad man and division passenger agent for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. They have three children, Courtney and Garth A., Jr., and John Richard. They reside at 3208 Douglas Street.
Dr. Riddler is a Mason and is a member of the American Medical Association, Texas Medical So- ciety and the Dallas County Medical Society. He is deeply interested in the movement to make Dallas a great medical center and has also taken a deep interest in the efforts of members of the profession to obtain additional hospital facilities for the city.
R. ROBERT WALLACE BARNES, 90112 West Jefferson Street, Oak, Cliff, came to Dallas from Waco, Texas, in 1907, and has been active in the practice of his profession here for nearly fourteen years. For the past eleven years Dr. Barnes has been located in Oak Cliff, although his practice is not limited to any particular section of Dallas nor has he ever specialized in any particular phase of medicine or surgery, having done general practice since his entry into the medical profession.
Dr. Barnes is a native of Arkansas and was born at Ozark January 13, 1869. He is a son of W. E. and Margaret (Anderson) Barnes, both natives of Arkansas, who came to Texas in 1894 and settled at Waco. His father was a well known planter for many years but is now retired.
Dr. Barnes was reared on a farm and attended the public schools of Arkansas, later taking an aca- demic course at Hendricks College. He entered the medical department of the University of Arkansas and in 1892 graduated with the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. Barnes began practice at Altus, Arkansas, re- maining there until September, 1894, when he re- moved to Waco, continuing to practice there until 1907 when he came to Dallas.
On October 25, 1895, he was married at Waco to Miss Nettie Corbell, daughter of John C. Corbell, well known McLennan County rancher. They have one daughter, Wanda Margaret, now married to King S. Williamson, well known Dallas attorney.
Dr. Barnes is an enthusiastic booster for Dallas and especially for Oak Cliff, pointing to the fact that the population of that section of the city has doubled in the last nine years and further that Oak Cliff has some of the finest schools, churches and residences in the South. He expects to see Dallas a great Medi- cal Center and has always co-operated in the move- ment looking to that end. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a communi- cant of the Methodist Church.
R. WILLIAM M. LIVELY, former professor of obstetrics in the medical department of Baylor University, now engaged in general practise with offices at 1011% North Lan- caster Street, Oak Cliff, or Station "A," Dallas, came to Dallas on November 16, 1897, from Detroit, Texas, and has been a well known figure in medical circles of Dallas for nearly 23 years. He held the chair of obstetrics at Baylor Medical College for three years and is now a member of the medical staff of Parkland Hospital.
Dr. Lively is a native of Mississippi and was born in Tate County, March 26, 1864. His parents were J. M. and Mary (Richert) Lively, well known resi- dents of Mississippi and Arkansas for many years. His father was a prominent Mississippi planter and had an active part in many of the stirring events of the reconstruction days following the close of the Civil War. His mother was a native of France.
Educated in the public schools of Tate County and of White County, Arkansas, Dr. Lively then attended Quitman College at Quitman, Arkansas, and Central College at Sulphur Springs, Texas. He entered the medical department of the University of Arkansas and graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1892. He began active practise at Rosebud, Arkansas, and in 1893 removed to De- troit, Texas, remaining there until he came to Dallas in 1897. Dr. Lively took a post graduate course at the New York Post Graduate Medical School in 1897.
On December 4, 1890, Dr. Lively was married at Searcy, Arkansas, to Miss Ola Baugh, member of a well known family of White County, Arkansas. They have five children, C. B., who served two years with the expeditionary forces in France, E. P., of Dallas Telephone Co., Mrs. H. D. Yeargan, Mrs. R. K. Porter of Santa Maria, and Wm. M., Jr. The family resides at 516 East Jefferson.
Dr. Lively is a member of the State, County and North Texas Medical Societies and believes Dallas has bright prospects for becoming the medical center of the Southwest.
R. R. H. DANIEL, eye, ear, nose and throat . specialist, 612, 614 Wilson building, occupies. a prominent place among the men of his profession in Dallas. Graduating from the medical department of the Southern Methodist Uni- versity in 1913, with the degree of M. D., he came to Dallas and for one year was house physician at St. Paul's Sanitarium, has been on the hospital staff of the same sanitarium for the past eight years and was at one time on the teaching staff of the South- western University.
Devoting himself entirely to the treatment of dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, Dr. Daniel has naturally made a very exhaustive study of this department of his profession. He has built up a large practise and ranks high as a physician and citizen.
Dr. Daniel is a native of Dallas County, born within twelve miles of the city on December 1, 1874. His parents were among the early settlers of the county, his father, R. N. Daniel, a prominent planter and at one time county commissioner, coming to Dallas County in 1853. His mother, Frances (Palmer) Daniel, was a member of a Missouri family that came to the county about the same time.
Dr. Daniel graduated from the high school at Duncanville, Dallas County, in 1897. He was mar- ried to Miss Beulah Fite, a native of Dallas County, at Duncanville, December 26, 1898, and they have five children, Mable, Ruby, Marjorie, Robert and Mary. The family home is at 4722 Swiss Avenue. He is a 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason and a mem- ber of Hella Temple Shrine; belongs to the American Medical Association, the State Medical Society and the Dallas County Medical Society. Ilis church af- filiation is with the Methodist denomination.
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OSEPH H. MONTGOMERY, Dallas' leading photographer, proprietor of the magnificent studio, corner of Akard and Elm Streets, over Liggett's Drug Store, where the most artistic "portraits by photography" are made, oc- cupies a leading place among the photographers of the Southwest.
The opening of this beautiful studio in 1921, marked a new epoch in the art of portraiture in Dallas and was the culmination of the dreams of its proprietor, backed by a long period of experi- ence in making the finest class of portraiture. In the designing and building of this unexcelled studio, everything was considered and combined to make a place of par excellence for the taking and finishing of fine portraits. One needs only to visit the studio to recognize the builder's triumph in giving Dallas the finest place of its kind that can be found in the Southwest.
Mr. Montgomery has made a long study of the art of fine portraiture and has many of the at- tributes essential in the best class of work in find- ing the best expressions of the human countenance, regulating the proper lighting effects, and securing the best possible poses, In the finishing department he employs high grade artists who know how to turn out the best class of workmanship.
His son, Berner Montgomery, chief assistant, studied in the leading studios of Washington, D. C., and other leading cities in the East, learning the art of up-to-date photography. Mr. Montgomery, Jr., also has many attributes that qualify him as an artistic photographer and has contributed a great deal toward the success of the studio.
A native Texan, Mr. Montgomery was born in Hempstead in 1883. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Montgomery, of Yoakum, Texas. His father was a well known and successful contractor of Yoakum. Joseph Montgomery received his educa- tion in the public schools of Yoakum, after which he went into the photograph business with his elder brother. He later owned and operated a studio at Yoakum, Eagle Lake, Victoria and Corsicana, Texas, the latter place where he continued until 1917 when, in search of a wider field of activity, he moved to Dallas. He first located at 1102 Elm Street where he built up a reputation and a large clientele. Here he continued until he moved to the present location.
Mr. Montgomery was married in 1903 to Miss Jewel Berner, daughter of F. A. Berner, of San Felipe, Texas. They have one son, Berner, who is associated in the business with his father in the studio. The family residence is at 4929 Worth Street, Dallas.
Mr. Montgomery is president of the Southwestern Professional Photographer's Association, which in- cludes the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. He holds a membership in the Elks Club, Glen Haven Country Club, Dallas Athletic Club, Kiwanis Club and the Christian Church. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason and member of Hella Temple Shrine.
ENRY C. HUGHES, secretary and manager of Hughes Bros., Manufacturing Co., manu- facturing confectioners, 1401-7 South Ervay street, is a native of Dallas, and has been connected with this firm ever since he left school. His father, John V. Hughes, is president of the com- pany, Royal A. Ferris, vice-president, and C. E. Gardner, treasurer.
The Hughes business is one of the early institu- tions of Dallas, having been established in 1878 by Dr. Frederick E. Hughes, grandfather of Henry Hughes. Three sons of the originator of the busi- ness, John V., F. V., and George V., inherited the business, and at the present time John V. Hughes is the only son actively identified with the concern, and the subject of this sketch is the only son of John V. Hughes connected with the business.
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