KCVC Graduates 1892 - 1895

 

Thomas A. Bray (1892)

Thomas A. Bray was born in London, England, January 4, 1858 (Salmon 1901). He attended boarding schools in India where his father was an officer in the British Army. At the age of seventeen, he and his sister Ella and a black dog named Sanka sailed from Bombay to rejoin their father who had relocated to Chicago (Dethloff and Dyal 2000). He studied at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in London, England; Ontario Veterinary College; New York Veterinary College; Chicago Veterinary College; Kansas City Veterinary College; College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; Kansas City Medical College; and the University Medical College of Kansas City (Salmon 1901). He was one of three students who received a D.V.S. degree in the first class to graduate from the KCVC in 1892. Bray was also on the faculty of the KCVC from 1896-1899 and taught clinical diagnosis, lameness, and shoeing. He practiced veterinary medicine for about fifteen years before he was appointed to the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) from Kansas City in the meat inspection service of Kansas City on November 20, 1893. He was transferred to the quarantine force on April 10, 1897, and stationed at El Paso, Texas, inspecting Mexican livestock for importation (Salmon 1901). According to Dethloff and Dyal (2000), Mexico exported 75,000 cattle per year to the U. S. Dethloff and Dyal also note that Bray studied veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and served with the BAI until his retirement in 1930. He was a strong supporter of the Texas Veterinary Medical Association from its inception and served as president in 1906. He organized the El Paso Humane Society in 1907, one of the first societies in Texas.

Onesimus G. Atherton (1893)

Onesimus G. Atherton was born at Maysville, Kentucky, April 13, 1846. From 1861 to 1865, he served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War as a private in Company A, 40th Kentucky Infantry. On January 21, 1869, he married Amanda A. Parks in McClean County, Illinois. He was postmaster in McClean County, Illinois, from 1890 to 1893. He attended the Kansas City Veterinary College and graduated in the second class of four students on April 17, 1893, with the D.V.S. degree. The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, Volume 14, page 431, 1893, lists the graduates. He was a demonstrator of anatomy in the KCVC in 1894 and 1895; Lee notes that he also taught the materia medica lab and pharmacy lab from 1894-1897. In 1896, he was a Captain of Veteran Company E of the Kansas National Guard. On November 10, 1896, he was appointed through a civil service examination, an assistant inspector in the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) in Chicago. He was promoted to inspector in February 1900. During October and November, 1900, he was detailed for sheep inspection in Oregon, returning to meat inspection service in Chicago on November 1, 1900. (See picture on page 62 of BAI Century Souvenir Book). In the Proceedings of the AVMA 46:386, 1910, he gave his residence as 3100 Groveland Avenue, Chicago.

Charles G. Saunders (1893)

Charles G. Saunders was one of four students who graduated in the second class from the KCVC in 1893. He was a prominent general practitioner in Eldorado, Kansas, the Treasurer of the KVMA in 1894 and also one of the charter members of the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association when it was formed in 1894. According to the KSAC Veterinary Alumni News on Jan 1, 1926, Dr. Saunders donated a very fine collection of polished horse-shoes to KSAC when he died in 1925 (Dykstra 1953).

Benjamin Franklin Kaupp (1895)

Benjamin Franklin Kaupp was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1874. His higher education, an M.S. degree, was obtained at Odessa College and the KCVC, graduating from the latter in 1895 with the D.V.S. degree. He practiced veterinary medicine in Missouri until his appointment in the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) as assistant inspector, February 10, 1896, through civil service examination. He was promoted to the position of inspector, June 2, 1900. He was an active member of the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association and of the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association, serving as secretary of the latter organization (Salmon 1901). He served as First Vice-President of the KCVC from 1902-1909, a trustee of the KCVC from 1895-1909, and taught parasitology, feeds and feeding, and poultry diseases (Lee 1956). In 1908, he published Animal Parasites and Parasitic Diseases. In July 1910 the American Veterinary Review notes that Dr. B. F. Kaupp recently investigated swamp fever in the neighborhood of Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the same issue, it was noted that Dr. B. F. Kaupp would be busily engaged investigating the diseases of poultry in Colorado during the summer. Dr. Kaupp and Dr. George H. Glover tuberculin-tested the dairy cows in Leadville, Colorado, during the early part of June 1910.

In 1912, Dr. Benjamin F. Kaupp was Director of the new Pathology Laboratory at Colorado Agricultural College, and helped stop a devastating outbreak in horses in the Arkansas Valley of an unknown disease by developing an experimental vaccine from infected brain tissue. The disease was later identified as cerebrospinal meningitis (CSU Equine Hospital Newsletter, Volume 1, Edition 1, Spring 2006). Kaupp was Professor of Pathology and Parasitology in the Veterinary Department, Colorado Agricultural College.

About 1914, he moved to the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. He became an authority on poultry diseases, publishing Bulletin No. 185 from the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station in 1912. In 1918, he authored Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl which was published by W.B. Saunders and sold for $3.00 (JAVMA 54:567, 1918). In 1922, he published Poultry diseases, including diseases of other domesticated birds.

The North American Veterinarian reported in June 1950 under "Forty Years Ago" that "The second edition of Kaupp's 'Animal Parasites and Parasitic Diseases' made its appearance." (The North American Veterinarian 31:414, 1950)