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R. MARCUS STUART SEELY, surgery and general practice, with offices in the Wilson Building, has been engaged in the practice of his profession since his graduation in 1913. He located in Dallas on May 25, 1920, follow- ing his discharge from the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. Seely is an instructor in gynecology at the medical department of Baylor University.
A native of the Lone Star State, Dr. Seely was born at Wortham on May 15, 1889. He is a son of W. M. and Annie (Whitaker) Seely, well known pioneer residents of Wortham. His father has been in the retail drug business for a number of years and came to Texas in 1864 from Mississippi. His mother is a native of Texas and a member of a well known family which played an important part in the history of the state in the early days, her father having emigrated to Texas before it became a state.
Dr. Seely was educated in the public schools and graduated at the Wortham high school in 1906. He then entered the Baylor University School of Pharm- acy, graduating in 1910 with the degree of Ph. G. Continuing his studies in the Baylor College of Med- icine, Dr. Seely finished with the class of 1913, re- ceiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Following his graduation Dr. Seely served an in- terneship at the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium until 1914 when he went to Mercy Hospital in Chicago, remaining there until 1916 when he began the prac- tice of surgery in Iron River, Michigan.
On March 24, 1918, he entered the Medical Reserve Corps and was called for active duty and commis- sioned as first Lieutenant February 14, 1919. In August he was promoted to a captaincy. Dr. Seely was stationed first at Camp Sherman, Ohio, then at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, and at the Base Hospital at Fort Sam Houston where he was chief of the bone and joint section of the surgical service. He received his discharge on April 23, 1920.
On March 12, 1917, Dr. Seely was married in Dal- las to Miss Louise Berwick, member of a well known Illinois family. They have one daughter, Phoebe Jane.
Dr. Seeley is a member of the American Medical Association, State, County, North Texas and South- ern Medical Societies and the American Legion.
R. VAN COOKERLY, who has offices in the Dallas County State Bank Building, has been prominently identified with the pro- fession in Dallas for several years and is a young man of the highest ideals. He makes a spec- ialty of the treatment of genito-urinary diseases. He is a member of the United State Health Service and adjutant with the Federal Board of Vocational Education, being a member of the medical staff. He graduated with the degree of M. D. from the Sou- thern Medical University in 1915, and was an in- terne in the City Hospital for sixteen months, and in 1916 he began to practice in Dallas with Dr. John H. Dean. He joined the army June 1, 1917, was made first lieutenant in the medical corps, 36th Di- vision, and stationed at Camp Bowie. He spent eleven months overseas and was in the Meuse-Ar- gonne drive, in which he won a citation for distin- guished service. He was made a captain in August 1918, and later promoted to Major in the Medical Reserve Corps.
Dr. Cookerly came to Dallas in 1910, from Groes- beck, Limestone County, where he was born January 2, 1894, the son of C. S. and Alma (Hart) Cookerly. His father was a pioneer citizen of the State and a prominent business man at Groesbeck. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of his home town, gradu- ating from the high school in 1911. His marriage to Miss Geraldine Hoggard of Oklahoma, daughter of C. P. Hoggard, a well known rancher of Oklahoma was consummated at Sherman, Texas, July 3, 1920, and they live at 701 Woodlawn Avenue. The doc- tor is identified with the American Medical Associa- tion, the State, County, Southern and North Texas Medical Societies and the Association of Military Surgeons. He is a 32nd degree Mason and member of Hella Temple Shrine and the Dallas Athletic Club.
Dr. Cookerly is a booster for Dallas, and says the city has plenty of clinical material to make it the leading medical center of the Southwest.
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EN NEAL ARD, M. D., Dallas County Bank Bldg., came to Dallas in 1915, and makes a specialty of gynecology, that branch of medical science which treats of the func- tions and diseases of women, and that he is con- sidered an authority on this subject is reflected by his selection as a lecturer in the Baylor University lecture course. Upon
coming to Dallas he established an office in the Wilson building, where he remained until May 18, 1919, when he moved to his present address in Dallas County Bank Bldg.
During the war with Germany, Dr. Ard was a member of the United States Medical Reserve Corps, and was commissioned a first lieutenant October 4, 1918, while on duty at the Base Hospital at Camp Travis. He was discharged from the service May 18, 1919, when he returned to the city.
Dr. Ard is a native of Pickton, Hopkins county, Texas, born September 7, 1884. His parents were N. and Elizabeth (May) Ard, and his father was a pioneer groceryman, of Pickton. His mother was a native of Texas. He was educated at the East Texas Normal School, receiving two degrees, B. S. and B. L., and received his medical degree at Baylor University in 1915. November 18, 1916, he was married to Miss Maudie Lew Yattes at Josephine, Texas, daughter of G. B. Yattes of that place, and they have one little daughter, Mary Louise, to gladden their hearts and bring sunshine into the family home at 900 N. Bishop street.
The doctor is a Mason and a member of the I. O. O. F. and takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to his profession. He is deeply interested in the upbuilding of Dallas and is confident the city will become the chief medical center of the South- west. He declares that Texas is the greatest State in the Union as well as the largest, and that Dallas is the brightest spot in the constellation of States. In other words, he is full of the Texas and Dallas spirit, the thing it takes to make States and cities great.
O C. ALEXANDER, physician, Municipal Building, in charge of the city and county Venereal Clinic, maintained by the city, county and Federal governments, special- izes in genito-urinary diseases and in addition to his connection with the venereal clinic at the city hall, does private practice. His offices are located in the Dallas County State Bank Building, rooms 901-2-3. He was appointed to his present position by Mayor Frank Wozencraft in November, 1919, and has given a service that was highly satisfactory to Federal, county and city governments. Dr. Alexander is a graduate of the medical department of the University of Tennessee, receiving his M. D. degree in 1915. He then went to New York and spent one year as an interne in the Nursery and Child's Hospital, and in August, 1916, joined the British Navy as lieutenant in the medical corps. In February, 1917, he became attached to the American Medical Corps, was made a captain and in October, 1917, was promoted to major. He spent one year in Honolulu, and in the United States was stationed at Camp Lewis and Camp Pike. He was discharged from the service June 4, 1919, and immediately located in Dallas.
Dr. Alexander is a native of Garland, Texas, born March 8, 1893, and educated in the public schools there, graduating from the high school in 1911. His ยท parents were J. D. and Nannie E. (Arnold) Alexan- der. His father, deceased, was a business man at
Garland and State Field Man for the Woodmen of the World. Both parents were natives of Alabama. He was married in Honolulu, February 23, 1918, to Miss Florence Hastings, of London, England, daugh- ter of D. Hastings, a business man of London. They have their home at 917 North Haskell Avenue. The doctor is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, the North Texas, State and County Medical So- cieties, the Masonic Order, the Dallas Athletic Club and the University Club, Lakewood Country Club. His religious affiliation is with the Baptist church. He is an enthusiastic booster for Dallas and believes the city will became the great medical center of the Southwest.
R. JOIIN R. BEALL, 151912 Main Street, came to Dallas in April, 1918, from New York City and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession here for the past three years. He has been one of the leading spirits in. the movement for a new hospital in Dal- las and has given a great deal of time to the task of arousing interest in the proposed million dollar institution.
A native of Texas, Dr. Beall was born at Deca- tur, August 28, 1888. He is a son of R. H. and Hat- tie (Renshaw) Beall, well known residents of De- catur. His father came to Texas from Mississippi in 1853 and for many years was one of the leading attorneys of Decatur. His mother is a native of Tennessee.
After receiving his preliminary education in the public schools and the high schools of his home town, Dr. Beall matriculated by examination in the Univer- sity of Texas and in 1910 graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the medical department of the University, graduating in 1914 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then went to New York and did interne work in the New York City Hospitals and was with the department of health in New York for six months. He then went to the Manhattan Hospital for the Insane where he did special work for a year and then for a year and a half was with the New York Hospital, Hud- son Street Branch, before coming to Dallas and en- gaging in private practice.
On September 6, 1916, Dr. Beall was married in New York City to Miss Gabriella Baldwin, member of a well known Texas family. They reside at 5540 Victor Street.
Dr. Beall is a member of the Texas Medical So- ciety and the Dallas County Medical Society and takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the profession. He is a firm believer in the future of Dallas and predicts that the city will become a great medical center. He also is a Mason and a member of the Knights Templar bodies and the Ju- nior Chamber of Commerce.
ILLIAM CLAIBORNE BROWNE, physician, 312 Southwestern Life building, who has been practicing in Texas since he graduated from the University of Nashville, Tenn., in 1906 with the degree of M. D., is a veteran of two wars, and in the last one the record shows that he went into the army July 28, 1917, as first lieutenant, and came out May 28, 1919, as captain. He went to France September 15, 1918, and was with the engineers at Abainville Muse and all over the Ameri- can front. including the Argonne. He was in the field fourteen months. He served in the Spanish- American War from 1897 to 1900, one year in the cavalry and two years in the medical corps.
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Dr. Browne began the practice of his profession at Britton, Ellis county, and remained there until 1908, when he moved to Midlothian, where he prac- ticed until he came to Dallas in 1919. In 1913 he took post graduate work at Rush Medical College in Chicago, and in 1916 he took a post graduate course at Tulane University, New Orleans. He was born at Gatesville, Texas, January 15, 1874, and attended the high school at Brownwood. His parents were both natives of the State, his father, C. M. Browne, rancher and cattleman, being a native of Galveston, and his mother, Margie (Key) Browne, being a native of Palestine.
On December 21, 1905, at Midlothian, Texas, Dr. Browne was married to Miss Delle Evyline Lawrence, daughter of J. E. Lawrence, and they have one daughter, Margie E. Evyline, and the trio live at 5210 Victor St. The doctor is identified with the leading medical associations and societies, including the American Medical Association, the North Texas Medical Society and State and County Medical So- cieties.
He expresses the belief that Dallas will be the greatest medical center in the entire Southwest, hold- ing that the city is the logical location for it. Al- though a citizen of Dallas only a short time, he is identified with all the agencies devoted to the task of making it a greater and a better city, and he be- lieves it is destined to become the most important city in the great Southwest.
ANE BUTLER COOKE, M. D., health officer of the city of Dallas with offices at the Municipal Building, has been a resident of Dallas since December, 1918, coming here upon his discharge from the medical corps of the United States army. Dr. Cooke was appointed city health officer July 1, 1919, and has entire charge of city health matters, including the department of communicable diseases, the disposition and quaran- tine of people who have come in contact with these cases, the detention, internment and treatment of persons afflicted with venereal diseases.
Dr. Cooke is a native of Tennessee and was born in Carroll County, October 31, 1886. His parents were George M. and Sophie (Blair) Cooke, well known residents of Tennessee for many years. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Tennessee and after coming to Texas at- tended Trinity University at Waxahachie and later was a student in the State Normal School at Hunts- ville. Completing his academic courses, he matricu- lated in the medical department of the State Uni- versity at Galveston and graduated with the de- gree of doctor of medicine in 1913.
Following his graduation Dr. Cooke served an interneship at John Sealey Hospital at Galveston, remaining there until 1914 when he was appointed assistant state quarantine officer at Galveston. He remained in the service of the state quarantine de- partment until 1916 when he went with the United States public health service and was stationed at the port of Vera Cruz, Mexico, until November, 1917. He then came back to the United States and served as acting assistant surgeon in the United States public health service and was stationed at Camp Bowie. In April, 1918, he was commissioned a major in the medical corps and stationed at Dallas until September, 1918, and then assigned to duty at Leon Springs and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, until his discharge on December 12. Dr. Cooke then
took up private practise in Dallas until his appoint- ment as city health officer the following July.
Dr. Cooke is unmarried and his principal interest is the promotion of better health and better living conditions for the people of Dallas. He is intensely devoted to his work and takes a great deal of pride in the fact that Dallas is one of the healthiest cities in the United States. He predicts that the city will become one of the really great medical centers of the country in the next few years.
Dr. Cooke is a member of the American Legion, the American Medical Association, State, County and North Texas Medical Societies, the American Public Health Association and the Association of Military Surgeons. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite bodies and of Hella Temple Shrine. He also is a member of the Officers' Club of Dallas.
R. GATES COLLIER, 513 Southwestern Life Building, engaged in the general practise of medicine and surgery, is one of the best known of the younger physicians in Dallas. He is practising with his father, Dr. W. W. Collier, and has been in Dallas for seven years, coming here in 1914 from Italy, Texas.
Dr. Collier is a native of Texas and was born at Italy August 4, 1896. His parents are Dr. W. W. and Hattie (Gates) Collier.
After receiving his preliminary academic educa- tion in the public schools and the Italy High School where he graduated in 1913, Dr. Collier attended High School in Dallas for a year, graduating here in 1914, and then took up his medical course in the medical department of the University of Tennessee. Dr. Collier was one of the honor men in the graduat- ing class of 1918 when he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. During his senior year Dr. Collier served as interne in the Memphis General Hospital and after receiving his degree was for a short time connected with Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. On September 1, 1918, he entered the medical department of the United States Navy and was commissioned a Lieutenant of the junior grade. He was in the Naval Medical School at Washington, D. C., for a while and then stationed at Quantico, Virginia, in the Base Hospital of the Marine Corps. He then went to Santo Domingo with the Fifteenth Regiment of Marines and remained there until June, 1919.
Dr. Collier is unmarried and is a popular member of the younger social set in Dallas.
Deeply interested in the movement to make Dallas a great medical center, Dr. Collier declares the city should provide additional hospital and clinical facili- ties and when these are provided he believes the suc- cess of the greater medical center movement will be assured. He is a member of Texas Medical Society and the Dallas County Medical Society.
R. EARL LOVE CARTER, now engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery, 523-4 Wilson Building, is making plans to devote the major portion of his time to obstetrics and gynecology. He is associated with Dr. Henry Clay who has specialized in gyneco- logical and obstetric work for several years.
Dr. Carter is a native of Texas and was born at Abbott in Hill County, March 10, 1895. He is a son of Dr. C. C. and Emma (Love) Carter. His father is a well known physician now practising in Oak- wood, Texas, and who came to the Lone Star State
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in the year of 1885 from the eity of Lousville, Ky. The preliminary education of Dr. Carter was re- ceived in the publie schools and the high school at Oakwood where he graduated in 1910. He then attended the Marshall Training School in San An- tonio, graduating in 1911, and then entered the aca- demie department of Southern Methodist University, studying for a year, and then matriculating in the medical department of S. M. U. When the medieal department of Southern Methodist University was merged with the Baylor University School of Medi- cine, he continued his studies and graduated at Baylor. in the class of 1918, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Following his graduation he aceepted an interneship at the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and was stationed there during the war as a member of the Medical Reserve Corps. In 1918 he went to Van Alstyne, Texas, and began practising with Dr. S. D. Moore, continuing there until May 1, 1920, when he formed a partnership with Dr. Henry Clay and returned to Dallas.
Dr. Carter is a member of the American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association and the State, County and North Texas Medical Societies. He also is a Mason and a member of Trinity Valley Lodge No. 1048 and Hella Temple Shrine, Dallas. He is unmarried and resides at 5128 Reiger.
An enthusiastie booster of the movement to make Dallas a great medieal center, Dr. Carter believes the city will beeame a real center of medical eduea- tion in the South.
D. DONNELL, editor of the Wichita Daily Times, at Wichita Falls, is one of the best known newspaper men in West Texas and has been with the Times since its organization in 1907. He is president of the Times Publishing Company, publishers of the paper, which has an average daily circulation of about ten thousand. Other offieers of the publishing com- pany are R. E. Huff, viee-president, and Rhea Howard, secretary-treasurer. The Times has fifty employees and occupies approximately six thousand square feet of floor space. Besides a comprehensive and ably edited editorial department and local news service, the Times is supplied with domestic and foreign news over the leased wire serviee of the Associated Press and United Press and besides has the service of the New York Post and other na- tionally known news gathering organizations.
Mr. Donnell is a native of Indiana and was born in the southeastern portion of the state in 1881. He attended the publie and high schools of that section and then matriculated at Indiana University. He began his newspaper eareer in Indiana and in 1902 eame to Texas. He removed to Wiehita Falls in 1907 and the Times Publishing Company was organized in that year. He became president of the company in 1915 and for the past seven years has been actively in charge of its polieies.
Mr. Donnell was married in Wichita Falls in 1909 to Miss Mathilde Christensen, daughter of J. V. C. T. Christensen, president of the Wiehita Foundry and Machine Company. They have five children, Mary Elizabeth, Mathilde, William Luther, Ben and Jennie June. The family home is at 2307 Ninth Street.
In spite of the activity incident to the publication of a daily newspaper Mr. Donnell finds time to de- vote a great deal of attention to eivic matters in which he is interested. He is a Mason, Master of
the Royal Areh Chapter, and a member of the Knights Templar and the Elks. He is an enthus- iastic booster for Wichita Falls and predicts a great future for this enterprising and progressive eity.
R. QUINCY BROWN LEE came to Wiehita Falls from San Antonio in 1914. He is president and past seeretary of the Wiehita County Medical Society. He has been an interne in the John Sealy Hospital, Southwestern Casual Hospital of San Antonio, and the Providence Hospital at Washington, D. C. He practised three years at San Antonio and was with the state health department for two years. During the war with Germany he was in the service eighteen months, serving as major in the medical corps. He was ten months in France.
Dr. Lee was born at Weatherford, Texas, March 18, 1888, son of Dr. J. J. Lee, who has been prae- tising at Munday, Texas, for the past twenty years. His mother was Sadie Saule. He was edueated at Polytechnie College at Fort Worth and received his M. D. degree at the University of Texas, where he took the medical course.
He was married at San Antonio in 1912 to Miss Genevieve Thompson, daughter of J. A. Thompson, a ranehman of Fort Davis, Texas, and a 33d degree Honorary Mason. Their union has been blessed by three children: Mary Elizabeth, James and Frank.
Dr. Lee is a Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason, and a Shriner, belonging to Wichita Blue Lodge No. 636, and Moslah Temple. He is a member and past president of the Rotary Club, the Golf Club and president of the Wichita County Medical Society. He is also a member of the board of managers of the Methodist Hospital.
His church affiliation is with the Methodist de- nomination.
R. THOMAS JEFFERSON STRONG, Amer- ican National Bank Building, was honorably discharged from the army on March 30. 1919, and located at Wichita Falls. He has been a practicing physician for twenty-two years, seven years of the time in the government service. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1899, and joining the army the following year was sent to the Philippines for two years as first lieu- tenant A. A. Surgeon in the Medical Corps. Later he was stationed at San Francisco for two years, and then at various other points for a period marks a total service of about five years. He then with- drew from the army (1905) and went back to Ver- mont, remaining there one year. In 1907 he went to Canada and in 1908 he was assigned as first lieu- tenant in the United States Public Health Service in North Dakota, as Acting Assistant Surgeon. He left this service and located at Enderlin, N. D., and practiced there for several years. During his stay at Enderlin he was surgeon for the "Soo Line" Rail- road. In 1917 he again went into the army serviee, being eommissioned first lieutenant, then captain, then major. He went to France with the 90th Di- vision and helped to organize same. He was in France and Germany about one year, and was com- manding officer of Field Hospital No. 359 on the Western front. He spent seventy-four days on the front and was in the St. Mihiel and Argonne drives. He is a specialist in surgery and gynecology.
Dr. Strong is a native of Hudson Falls, N. Y.,
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born May 22, 1877. His father, Thomas J. Strong, was former Pvt. Brig. General in the Civil War and his mother, Mary Margaret Schaeffer Strong, was a native of New York.
He was married at Enderlin, N. D., to Miss Char- lotte Dalton Burgess, of Virginia, member of the old Virginia family of Daltons. Her father, Capt. J. H. Burgess, was a captain in the Civil War and very prominent in Henry County, Va. The Burgess and Dalton families were among the most prominent in the state. Dr. and Mrs. Strong reside at 1663 Elizabeth Street.
Dr. Strong is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, belongs to the Elks and the University Club. He is a member of the Baptist Church.
LBERT DICKSON PATTILLO, M. D., of the medical firm of Pattillo & Collard, and pres- ident of the Wichita County Medical So- ciety, City National Bank Building, came to Wichita Falls from Electra in 1916. He has been practicing his profession in Texas since 1907, and has been secretary of the Wichita County Medical Society for three years. In 1915 he did post grad- uate work at the New Orleans Polyclinic, and in 1916 he served as interne in the Baptist Sanitarium at Dallas, Texas. He was in the volunteer medical service corps during the war, but was never called into active duty.
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