The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 52

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1328

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On June 11, 1917, Dr. Smith was married at Ennis, Texas, to Miss Frances Hickey, a native Texan and a daughter of T. J. Hickey, of Corsicana. They have two children, Edgar, Jr., and Mary Ann.

Dr. Smith is a member of the American Medical Association, Texas Medical Society, North Texas Medical Society and Dallas County Medical Society. He also is a member of the Dallas Athletic Club and the Knights of Columbus. He believes that Dallas will become a great medical center and is a con- sistent booster for this movement.

R. BENJAMIN KINSELL, urologist and proctologist, Wilson Building, has been a member of the medical fraternity in Dallas about nineteen years, and up till 1910 was a general practitioner, beginning to specialize in urology and proctology in that year. At one time he was a teacher of clinical diagnosis in the South- western Medical College and served on the staff of Parkland Hospital for one year, and he is well known among the members of his profession. Dr. Kinsell acquired his medical education in the medical de- partment of the University of Texas and the Rush Medical College, graduating from the latter institu- tion in 1901 with the degree of M. D. In 1906 he did post graduate work for about eight months in New York and London. Following his graduation in 1901 he served about one year in the United States Marine Hospital Service on the Rio Grande in Texas. He spent several months in Illinois in 1902, returning to Dallas in the fall of that year, and has remained here since that time.

Dr. Kinsell is a Californian by birth, born at Oak- land. His parents were George and Mary (Searing) Kinsell. His father located in California in 1852, and his mother was a native of New Jersey. He at- tended school at Alameda and graduated from the high school there in 1881. On April 25, 1907, at St. Louis, Mo., he was married to Miss Jessie Newton, of Oakland, Calif., and they have one daughter, Mary Jane. The family home is at 3901 Cedar Springs. Dr. Kinsell is a member of the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Society, the North Texas Medical Society and the State and County Medical Societies. He worships at the Episcopal Church.

Dallas is now the medical center of Texas, he says, and is growing more important all the time. As the state and city continues to develop, Dallas will natur- ally become the great medical center of the whole Southwest.

R. DE WITT SMITH, who has offices in the Southwestern Life Building, and specializes in surgery and internal medicine, has had a great deal of experience since he qualified for the practise of his profession in 1914, filling important posts that fall to the lot of very few young physicians, and then only to those specially qualified. At the present time he is assistant to Dr. Whitfield Harrell, medical director of the South- western Life Insurance Company, formerly clinical assistant in obstetrics at Baylor Medical College

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and demonstrator of anatomy in surgery study at Baylor. Now member and secretary of staff at St. Paul's Sanitarium. His military record during the war is specially creditable, showing that he served at Mayo Bros. base hospital No. 26; was at Allery, France, in 1918 and 1919, and ranked as captain; and that he served eighteen hours a day at Juoy Sur Morin, back of the lines at Chateau Thierry. He was honorably discharged from the service April 22, 1919. He has also taken an active interest in the Dallas Baby Camp, and has given freely of his services and counsel to that worthy institution.

In the years 1915 and 1916, Dr. Smith served as an interne in the German Hospital in New York, and during the last eight months spent there was house physician. In 1914 he located at Trenton, Tenn., where he was born July 2, 1888, and practised there until 1917, when he came to Dallas. His parents were J. W. and Emily E. (Combs) Smith, and both were natives of Tennessee, his father a business man at Eaton, that state. The public schools of Eaton supplied the foundation for his education, which was completed at a preparatory school at Trenton, Tenn., in 1902. He then spent seven years at Vanderbilt University and graduated from that institution in 1914 with his medical degree.

Dr. Smith was married at Little Rock, Ark., May 1, 1917, to Miss Hazel Dean, daughter of J. J. Dean, well known Arkansas planter, and they have two sons, DeWitt, Jr., and John Dean, and live at 5626 Junius Street. He is an Alpha Kappa Kappa in the medical fraternity and a Delta Kappa Epsilon in the college fraternity, a Mason and an Elk and identified with the Lions Club, the University Club, the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, and the State and County Medical Societies.

ENRY CLAY, M. D., specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, 523-24 Wilson Building, and a member of the clinical staff in gynecol- ogy at the Baylor Hospital came to Dal- las in 1910 from Tyler, Texas, and for twelve years has been an active figure in medical circles of Dal- las. The year following his removal to Dallas Dr. Clay was appointed assistant professor of the principles of surgery in the medical department of Baylor University and continued in this position until 1918 when he entered the medical corps of the United States army.

'Dr. Clay is a native of Texas and was born at Moody, April 11, 1881. He is a son of Dr. C. L. and Nannie (Peebles) Clay. His father is a native of North Carolina but came to Texas in the early days and became one of the best known physicians of Central Texas.

Dr. Clay received his preliminary education in the public and high schools and Jefferson Academy, graduating from this institution in 1900, then tak- ing a four-year pre-medical course at Baylor Uni- versity. He entered the medical department of Baylor University and graduated in 1909 with the degree of doctor of medicine. Following his grad- uation Dr. Clay began active practice at Tyler, remaining there until 1912 when he came to Dallas and accepted an interneship at the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium which he held until 1913 when he re- entered private practice.

On May 17, 1903, Dr. Clay was married at Tyler to Miss Lottie Ray, daughter of Dennis Ray, pioneer Texan and well known fruit and truck grower of

Tyler. They have one daughter, Evelyn.

In June, 1918, Dr. Clay entered the medical corps of the United States army and was commissioned first lieutenant. Following a competitive examina- tion he was assigned to the post of assistant in- structor in orthopedic surgery at the Harvard Uni- versity Military School, remaining there until his discharge in December, 1918. Dr. Clay was diz- charged with the rank of captain in the Medical Reserve Corps.

A booster for Dallas, Dr. Clay declares the city is sure to be a great medical center and expects facilities to be provided that will enable the pro- fession to take advantage of the splendid clinical material here. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Southern, State, North Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies.

MELVIN O. REA, member of the medical firm of Millwee & Rea, physicians, Wilson Build- ing, makes a specialty of X-Ray laboratory work and radium therapy. They have a fine Roentgen laboratory and have recently added a radium department, and are prepared to treat dis- eases with radium in addition to Roentgen ray and diagnosis. Dr. Rea has specially equipped himself for this class of medical work, having spent nine months in the hospital and laboratory at the Temple Medical Laboratory, Temple, Texas, and at King's Daughters Hospital, Temple, Texas. While in the army he was affiliated with the X-Ray department in base hospitals at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, and at Fort Riley, Kansas, and at the Military Roentgen Ray School at Kansas City under Dr. E. H. Skinner, and at Camp Bevens. He had charge of the X-Ray department at General Hospital No. 32, at Chicago. He was also head of X-Ray department at Base Hospital No. 102, in Italy, for ten months. Was a first.lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, and was discharged from the army October 21, 1919, and during that month formed the present partner- ship with Dr. Millwee to take up this line of work He is a graduate in medicine from the medical de- partment of the University of Texas, awarded the degree of M. D. in 1917.

Dr. Rea was born at Hamilton, Texas, June 5, 1888, attended the public schools there and gradu- ated from Daniel Baker College in 1913 with the degree of B. Lit. His parents were T. K. and Helen (Mattson) Rea, both natives of Wisconsin. His father was a stockman and rancher and came to Texas in 1884, being a pioneer in that section of the state.

Dr. Rea is identified with the American Medical Association and the Southern, North Texas, State and County Medical Societies, and takes a deep in- terest in all matters pertaining to his profession, and especially to that branch of the science in which he is especially engaged. He is a member of the Dallas University Club. Dallas has need of more hospitals, he says, and he believes the chances for the city becoming a great medical center are exceptionally encouraging at this time.

R. JOIIN SAUNDERS CARTER, eye. ear, nose and throat specialist, Southwestern Life Building, has been identified with the medical fraternity of Dallas since 1912, when he came to the city from Oklahoma City, Okla., and for the past fifteen years he has devoted his practice to the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

Dr. Carter studied medicine at the University of

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Tennessee and the University of the South, graduat- ing from the latter institution in 1900 with the de- gree of M. D. He then began general practice at Denison, Texas and practiced there until 1906, when he went to the New York Polyclinic and the Man- hattan Eye and Ear Hospital, where he took a post graduate course in the study of the treatment of dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Returning to Denison in October, 1906, he gave up his general practice and began to specialize. In 1907 he went to Oklahoma City and was there until he came to Dallas in 1912. At one time since coming to Dallas he was a teacher in oral surgery in the State Dental College. He attends clinics in the leading medical centers of the country every year and keeps in thorough touch with his profession.

Dr. Carter is a native of Lenoir City, Tenn., born September 17, 1873. His father, Rev. C. B. Carter, was a well known Baptist minister of that State, and his mother, Almira (Saunders) Carter, was a native of Kentucky. He attended the schools of Lenoir City and graduated from Grant University at Chatta- nooga, in 1896, with the degree of B. S. His mar- riage to Miss Aurora Cutler, daughter of Judge W. T. Cutler, prominent attorney and jurist of Denison, now deceased was consummated at Denison, October 26, 1906, and to the union one daughter, Allene, has been born. The family home is located at 120 Win- netka avenue, Oak Cliff.

Dr. Carter is a Mason and is identified with the American Medical Association, the State and County Medical Societies and the North Texas Medical Society. His religious affiliation is with the First Presbyterian Church.

Like other members of his profession, Dr. Carter is firm in the belief that Dallas will become the great medical center of the South.

OHN D. CARROLL, physician, 716 Linz Building, devotes himself entirely to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and, although a new-comer to Dallas, he is meeting with splended success in getting himself established here, and is well liked and esteemed by his fellow members. He is inter- ested in his work, and particularly in that branch in which he is specializing and is building up a satis- factory and lucrative practice. The medical de- partment of the University of Nashville, which he attended three years, and the University of Louis- ville, which he attended one year, and from which he graduated in 1909 with the degree of M. D., pro- vided him with his medical education. He began practicing at Louisburg, Tenn., after his graduation and remained there until 1915, when he went to New York and spent one year doing post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic, and special work in eye, ear, nose and throat study. He came to Texas in 1916, remaining there until the beginning of the war in 1917, when he entered the army as a member of the Reserve Medical Corps and was commissioned a first lieutenant at Corpus Christi General Hospital No. 15, where he was chief in the eye, ear, nose and throat department. He was dis- charged from the service in December, 1918.

Dr. Carroll is a native of Tennessee, born at Fayetteville, April 8, 1887, and attended the public schools there, finishing his education at the Uni- versity of Kentucky, which he attended three years. His parents were R. and Mary (Martin) Carroll, both natives of Tennessee, and his father was a

physician at Fayetteville. He is well pleased with Dallas, believes it to be a city of great possibilities and is confident that it will be a great medical center, with great medical institutions, hospitals and sanitariums. He is a member of the Dallas County Medical Society and the East Dallas Chris- tian Church and resides at a down-town hotel.

AY LESTER TOUCHSTONE, physician, 520 Wilson Bldg. doing a general medical practise, and a member of the surgical staff of the medical department of Baylor Uni- versity, is among the younger members of the medi- cal profession who have located in Dallas within the past few years, and is already becoming a prominent factor in the medical life of the city. He spent four years in the study of medicine, one year in the medical department of the University of Texas, and three years in the medical department of Baylor University, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of M. D. in 1917. He then became an interne in New York City General Hospital, and August 21, 1917, was commissioned a first lieutenant and entered the army December, 1917, a member of the Reserve Medical Corps, and stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and Camp Devens, Mass. He went overseas July 13, 1918, and was stationed at Saint Amond one month; then went into the St. Mihiel drive where he spent two months under fire. He marched into Germany with the Army of Occupation and left that country May 27, 1919, arriving at Boston, June 13, 1919, and was honorably discharged from the service at Fort Worth, Texas, July 8, 1919.

Dr. Touchstone is a native of Ballinger, Texas, born March 25, 1892. His parents were James N. and Mary Lucy (Smith) Touchstone. His father, now a retired farmer and business man, residing at Sherman, Texas, came to Texas from Arkansas in 1875. He attended the public schools of Sherman and completed his education at Austin College, which he attended three years. He was married at Har- vard, Mass., August 16, 1919, to Miss Beatrice War- ren Egerton, of Boston, Mass., daughter of C. E. Egerton, retired wholesale tobacco importer. He is identified with the American Medical Association and the State, County, North Texas and Southern Medical Societies; is a Mason and a member of the medical college fraternity, Alpha Mu Pi Omega, and the University Club. His religious affiliation is with the Baptist Church.

. Dr. Touchstone says that because of the great territory to draw from Dallas will become the great medical center of the South and Southwest, and that there will be plenty of money to make it such. HEODORE L. E. ARNOLD, physician, Wil- son Building, is a specialist in eye diseases, and is well known and highly esteemed member of the medical profession in Dallas, his identity with the profession in this city dating from 1891. He came to Dallas direct from Zurich, Switzerland, where he was first assistant in the Uni- versity Eye Clinic under Prof. Dr. Otto Haab from 1886 to 1891, and in point of service he is the oldest eye specialist in the city. Since locating in Dallas he has been connected with two of the first medical schools here, and is generally considered as a practi- tioner of the highest ethical standards, learned in the science of medicine and an efficient and capable practitioner. His medical education was acquired in his native country at Berne Medical College, from

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which institution he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1875, and was further augmented by post graduate courses in the University Medical School at Zurich in 1884 and 1885.

Dr. Arnold was born at Solothurn, Switzerland, September 8, 1848, and was educated in the public schools of that town, graduating from the high school in the year 1868. His parents were Dr. Gustave and Babette (Hugy) Arnold, and his father was a well known medical practitioner of Solothurn. He was married at Zurich, April 15, 1880, to Miss Susanna Punter, deceased, who bore him one son, Erwin, a photographer.

Dr. Arnold has witnessed many changes as well as great advancement in the medical life of Dallas since he has resided here, and expresses the opinion that the city should be and will become the leading medi- cal center of the Southwest, the home of great medi- cal schools devoted to the study of all branches of the science, and that greater hospitals and sanitariums will be among the many big things sure to come to the city as the resources of the State are developed and the population increased.

OBERT HUGHES MILLWEE, M.D., came to Dallas from Bell County, Texas, in 1901, and since 1914 has been one of the best known physicians of the city, specializing in X-ray work, radium treatments, radium therapy and diagnosis. His equipment for handling work of this kind is said to be one of the most complete and expensive in the Southwest and was installed at a cost of approximately $20,000. Since commencing active practice Dr. Millwee has taught X-ray work in various educational and medical institutions of Dallas and has come to be regarded by other mem- bers of the profession as one of the state's foremost experts in this line.

A native Texan, Dr. Millwee was born at Belton, May 29, 1884. He is a son of S. H. and Aletha (George) Millwee, members of two of the oldest families of Texas. The maternal grandmother of Dr. Millwee was a first cousin of the famous General Sam Houston.

Educated in the public schols of Belton and in the high school at Norfolk, Virginia, Dr. Millwee early evinced an interest in medicine and entered South- western University at Dallas where he graduated in 1913 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then studied in Chicago at Northwestern Hospital and at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore. He specialized in X-ray and kindred subjects and had special courses at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston and Vanderbilt Hospital in New York City.

On September 2, 1914, Dr. Millwee was married to Miss Alma D. Rea, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Rea, of Hamilton County, Texas. They have two children, Robert H., Jr., and Helen Aletha.

Dr. Millwee was a member of the medical corps of the United States Navy from 1905 to 1909 and saw service in nearly every portion of the world but principally in China and Japan. Following the outbreak of the war with Germany in 1918 he again entered the medical service of the navy and was soon promoted from lieutenant of the junior grade to lieutenant and servide until the close of the war at New Orleans, having charge of the X-ray Hos- pital and was also personal officer of the hospital. Dr. Millwee is a member of the Texas Roentgen Ray

Society, American Radium Society and the Radio- logical Society of North America. He is also identi- fied with all the recognized National, State and Loca! Medical Associations and Societies, the Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, Auto Club, Dallas Country Club and University Club of Dallas. He believes Dallas to be one of the best locations in the United States for a great medical center.

R. CHAS. FRANKLIN CARTER, man .- ager and director of the Terrell Biologi- cal and Chemical Laboratories and the North Texas Pasteur Institute, 160812 Main Street, is an expert in biological and laboratory work, having devoted his entire time since entering the medical profession to these particular lines. His company does laboratory work for the medical profession and gives treatment in hydrophobia cases or furnishes the clinical material for the treatment to physicians in charge of persons affected with rabies.

The Dallas laboratory, located at 160812 Main Street, is one of the most complete and modernly equipped plants of its kind in the South, having more than five thousand dollars' worth of laboratory equipment. Laboratories are equipped for doing both biological and chemical research work and three experts are kept busy making the various tests and cultures. The products of other laboratories are dis- tributed throughout this section by the Terrell or- ganization.

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Dr. Carter is a native of Texas and was born near Gilmer in Upshur County, November 7, 1890, a son of J. F. and Maggie (Jones) Carter. His parents are pioneer residents of East Texas, his father having come to this state from Tennessee prior to the outbreak of the Civil War

The preliminary education of Dr. Carter was re- ceived in the public schools and the Gilmer high school and he then attended the East Texas Normal College, graduating in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Beginning his medical studies he attended the Fort Worth School of Medicine and finished with the class of 1913, receiving the degree of doctor of medicine. He did post-graduate work in physiological chemistry at the University of Mich- igan.

In 1914 Dr. Carter began his present work with the Terrell Laboratories in Fort Worth and from 1917 until 1919 was director of laboratories at United States Naval Base Hospital at New Orleans. He was commissioned a lieutenant of the senior grade and received his discharge in August, 1919. He enjoys the distinction of being the second doctor to leave Texas in the service of the United States after the war with Germany was declared. Dr. Carter came to Dallas from Fort Worth on February 12, 1920.

While stationed at New Orleans Dr. Carter was married on June 15, 1918, to Miss Annie M. Taber, daughter of J. F. Taber, well known citizen of Brown County, Texas. They reside at 4722 Columbia Avenue.

Besides membership in the various national, southern, state and local medical societies, Dr. Carter is a member of the American Public Health Associa- tion, American Society of Bacteriologists, the State Pathological Society and is deeply interested in the development of Dallas as a great medical center.

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R. LEONARD F. BLAND, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, 412-413 Southwestern Life Building, is one of the best known physicians in this section of the state, hav- for five years taught clinical medicine at Baylor y !- fical College. Graduating from the medical de- ja:tment of the University of Tennessee in 1904, with the degree of M. D., after a two years course " the medical department of the University of Texas Me has since further qualified himself as a doctor of r:"dicine by taking post graduate courses at the New York Polyclinic (1908), Harvard Medical College ( !. /10), and Vienna, Austria in 1911, besides attend- rx clinics in London, Paris, Berlin and Edinbor- ,ugh. In 1918 and 1919 he served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant in the Medical corps, located at hospital in New York, and was dis- charged from the service June 20, 1919. In 1920 [ .. Bland attended the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College.

l'revious to coming to Dallas in 1912, Dr. Bland practiced medicine in South Texas, beginning at Willis, Texas, in 1904, directly after he graduated from the University of Tennessee. After two years at Willis, he went to Port Arthur, Texas, and prac- ticed there from 1906 until he located in Dallas.

Dr. Bland was born at Salado, Bell County, Texas, December 24, 1877; attended the public and high schools of Port Arthur and graduated from the A. & M. College in 1899 with the degree of B. S. His fother and mother, J. A. and Eugenia (Fort) Bland, were both natives of Arkansas. His father, now de- ceased, came to Texas in 1876, and was a planter in Bell county. Dr. Bland's wife was Miss Cora Belle Pace, a native of Texas and daughter of J. B. Pace, deceased, of Sabine Pass, one of the pioneer families of Texas. Mrs. Bland's grandmother is said to have been the first white child born in that part of Texas. Dr. and Mrs Bland live at 4530 Bryan street. The Doctor is a 32d degree Mason, a Knight Templar and member of Hella Temple Shrine. He is affiliated with the American Medical Association, The Dallas County Medical Society, The State Medical Society, The North Texas Medical Society and the Southern Medical Society. His religious affiliations are with the Methodist church.

Dallas should, and unquestionably will, become the medical center of the whole south, is the opinion of Dr. Bland.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 52

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau Number of Pages: 1328

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1328