KCVC Graduates 1905-1909
| Robert Logan Allen (1905) |
Robert Logan Allen was a veterinarian and farmer, according to the Henry County, Missouri, Biographies. He was born on June 28, 1882, in Tebo Township, Henry County, Missouri, on the farm where he resided most of his life. He was the son of Robert W. Allen, a sketch of whom can also be found in the Henry County Biographies. Robert L. Allen was educated in district school number nine and the Windsor High School, where he graduated in 1900. In 1902 he entered the KCVC graduating in 1905. He began the active practice of his profession in 1905 and for a year he was engaged in the service of the Government with the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), at South Omaha, Nebraska. In 1906 he located at Columbia, Missouri, and was employed by the State veterinarian's office for two years. In 1907 he located in Windsor and soon built up a lucrative practice. In 1909 he settled upon the Allen home place in section 12 of Tebo Township. Dr. Allen was a well-known breeder of Hereford cattle and farmed 400 acres of land, being owner of 120 acres in Tebo Township. He continued his successful practice in addition to his farming operations. On April 4, 1909, Dr. Allen was married to Miss Myrtle Bell, who was born in Pettis County, Missouri, the daughter of John H. and Mary H. (McDaniel) Bell. Mr. and Mrs. Allen had one child, Robert Bell Allen, born August 21, 1910. Mrs. Myrtle Allen was also a graduate of Windsor High School and taught grade school for a number of years in Windsor, Weatherford, Oklahoma, and Clinton, Missouri. Doctor Allen was a member of the Missouri State Veterinary Association and the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association. He was also a member of the Presbyterian Church.
| Richard Franklin Bourne (1906) |
Richard Franklin Bourne was born on a farm near Delphos, Kansas, in 1881. He was a direct descendent of the original Mayflower party. He entered KSAC in 1898 and graduated in 1903 with a B.S. degree in general science. He taught physiology and took graduate work at KSAC until 1904 when he enrolled in the KCVC where he received his D.V.S. degree in 1906. A record of the alumni of KSAC published in 1914 notes that Bourne was a veterinary practitioner in 1906 and a Veterinary Inspector with the USDA in 1908. From 1906 to 1918, he taught physiology and histology in the KCVC. When the College closed in 1918, Dr. Bourne joined the faculty at the Agricultural College of Colorado, now Colorado State University. He became head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in 1934, a position he held until he retired in 1948. Dr. Bourne was also the Director of the ROTC Band at Colorado A&M for many years (Dykstra 1953). The fight song known today at Colorado State University was written in the late 1920's or early 1930's by ROTC Marching Band Director, Dr. Richard F. Bourne.
| James Arthur Goodwin (1906) |
James Arthur Goodwin a native of Pointe Coupee Parish, Mississippi, was born on May 21, 1877. He attended public school and received a diploma from St. Stanislaus College of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. After graduation, he was involved in several commercial ventures until September 1903 when he entered the KCVC. For many years, Dr. Goodwin was involved in the general practice of veterinary medicine in New Iberia, Louisiana. He was active in local, state, and national professional associations and was president of the Louisiana State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners from 1908 to 1917. As secretary of the Iberia-St. Mary Livestock Association, he assisted in organizing local cattlemen to participate in the state's tick eradication program to control Texas cattle fever and helped establish the Louisiana Livestock Experiment Station in New Iberia. Dr. Goodwin gave a talk during the dedication of the Louisiana State University Department of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Research Center, and the addition to the Dalrymple Memorial Laboratory on January 29, 1957 (Hornsby, 1993).
| John Victor Lacroix (1906) |
John Victor Lacroix was born in 1882. He was a prominent early graduate of the KCVC who established a general practice in Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1906. In 1908, he built a hospital with box and tie stalls for 10 large animal patients. This was the first hospital in Kansas built especially for the hospitalization of animal patients. The 1910-11 catalogue of the KCVC lists Dr. Lacroix as occupying the chair of "Obstetrics and Clinical Medicine." He remained on the faculty as Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics until the KCVC closed its doors in 1918. In 1920, he established in Evanston, Illinois, the North American Veterinarian and served as senior editor for a number of years. He was the founder of the North Shore Animal Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of "Animal Castration and Lameness in the Horse" published in 1915 and 1916, respectively in the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine (Dykstra 1953).
| Daniel B. Leininger (1906) |
Daniel B. Leininger was born in Pennsylvania and received his D.V.S. degree from the KCVC in 1906. He became the first post veterinarian at Fort Riley when the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps was established in 1916. The Department of Hippology at Fort Riley was established in 1902. It consisted of a veterinary hospital, a school for stable sergeants, and the school for horse-shoers. Initially, the instructors were civilian veterinarians and enlisted farriers. In 1918, Captain Daniel B. Leininger became the senior instructor in the Department of Hippology. He was promoted to colonel in 1937 and retired in 1943. (From An Army Hospital: From Horses to Helicopters—Fort Riley, 1904-1957--Concluded, by George E. Omer Jr., Kansas Historical Quarterly 24, No. 1, Spring 1958).
| Clinton H. Bugbee (1907) |
Clinton H. Bugbee was from Keene, New Hampshire, and had a V.S. degree before he graduated from the KCVC in 1907. In 1915, Bugbee was associated with the Imperial Serum Company, 756 Livestock Exchange, Kansas City, Missouri. He had prepared a booklet called Anti-Hog-Cholera Serum—Its Production and Field Uses. The product was prepared by skilled pathologists under U.S. Veterinary License No. 14 (Veterinary Medicine 10:215, 1915). In 1935, he was granted Arizona License # 43 and worked for the Phoenix Department of Health (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| Delwin Morton Campbell (1907) |
Dykstra in Veterinary Medicine in Kansas (1953) states that Campbell undoubtedly was better and more widely known, and he personally knew more veterinarians than any other veterinarian in America. He was born at Big Spring, Kansas, near Topeka, on January 19, 1880, attended the local schools near Meriden, completed one year in Kansas State Normal College in Emporia, Kansas (1901-1902), and four terms in KSAC (1902-1904). From 1898 to about 1903 he taught school—two years of this period as principal of the village schools. His summers were spent on fruit and dairy farms, and during the 1903 and 1904 summers he served as a tagger for the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI). He was an instructor in the anatomy laboratory at the KCVC from 1906-07. Immediately after graduation from the KCVC in 1907, he engaged in general practice in partnership with Dr. J. V. Lacroix (KCVC 1906) in Hiawatha, Kansas. In April 1908, Drs. Campbell and Lacroix revived the Missouri Valley Veterinary Bulletin, the official organ of the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association which had suspended publication for several months. Later it was published in Topeka, Kansas, until June, 1910, when it ceased to exist as a Kansas published "Bulletin." Then under the editorship of Dr. Campbell, it was issued from Chicago first as the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, and ten years later simply Veterinary Medicine. It is said that he inspired American veterinarians to read the current literature of their profession and, with literary and technical values uppermost in mind, furnished the type of reading material required to achieve that end. Dr. Campbell is best known for his editorial work; however, as a practitioner he was second only to Dr. Leonard Pearson of Pennsylvania in the recognition of Johne's disease in the United States in February, 1908, in Brown County, Kansas. Unknown to Dr. Campbell at that time (February 1908) the American Veterinary Review at a later date indicated that Dr. Pearson had diagnosed Johne's disease in Pennsylvania in December, 1907. Dr. Campbell served as milk inspector (1909) of Topeka, Kansas, and for a short period on the staff of Abbott Laboratories in Chicago. He played an active part in the launching of a milk and dairy inspection program for Topeka and Kansas City. He was also on active duty as a Lt. Colonel in the Veterinary Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army and served as the commanding officer of the 30th General Veterinary Hospital, De Quincy, Louisiana, in 1941. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1944. One of his most noteworthy contributions was the compilation of the two-volume work Veterinary Military History of the United States, published in 1935; Lt. Col. Louis A. Merillat was the senior author and Lt. Col. D.M. Campbell the junior author. Dr. Campbell joined the AVMA in 1909, served as secretary of the Section on Military Medicine in 1931-1932 and as chairman of the Committee on Public Relations from 1935-1938. At the Diamond Jubilee of the AVMA in New York City in 1938, Campbell presented Veterinary Medicine in New York City (JAVMA JAVMA 45(6):782-800, 1938. He died at his home, 7632 Crandon Avenue, Chicago, the victim of renal carcinoma, March 27, 1952. He was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, April 1, 1952.
| Thomas B. Jones (1907) |
Thomas B. Jones was granted Arizona License # 31 in 1924. He practiced in the Phoenix area on West Van Buren. He was the State Veterinarian and president of the Arizona Veterinary Medical Association (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| John S. Koen (1907) |
John S. Koen graduated from the KCVC in 1907. Although Dr. Koen described swine flu in 1918, his work was not accepted until many years later (Koen, J.S. Am. J. Vet. Med. 14:468-470, 1919). On May 22, 1922, Dr. Koen, Bloomington, Illinois, was the guest speaker at the commencement exercises for the St. Joseph Veterinary College (VM/SAC 17:418, 1922). In 1931 Dr. Koen designed the original meat inspection program for the City of St. Louis. Dr. Koen had a very distinguished veterinary career. In 1933, he is listed as a City Health Officer and specifically as Chief of Food Control for the City of St. Louis. The Dr. John S. Koen Memorial Award is presented each year at Kansas State University for demonstrated proficiency in porcine medicine and surgery.
| Hugh Curry (1908) |
Hugh Curry was born in Kansas City in 1885 and received his D.V.S. degree from the KCVC in 1908. He was an instructor in the KCVC from 1917-18. He also served as State Veterinarian for Missouri with office in the capitol building in Jefferson City.
| Robert B. Doty (1908) |
Robert B. Doty was granted Arizona License # 1 in 1923. He was first listed as practicing in Safford, Arizona (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| Pete Phillipson (1908) |
Pete Phillipson was born September 1, 1880, in Gosper County, Nebraska, the son of Andrew Phillipson and Pettrena Olson. He attended Holbrook High School and graduated from the KCVC in 1908. He married Anna S. Olson on December 28, 1902, in Holbrook (Who's Who in Nebraska 1940). According to Lemonds (1995), Dr. Phillipson of Holbrook, Nebraska, epitomized the pioneer Nebraska veterinarian. In 1983, at the age of 102, he had served 75 years as a veterinarian. On May 4, 1986, the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association dedicated the Dr. Phillipson Veterinary Infirmary at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska. The Infirmary, a barn-like structure, is one of the largest buildings in Railroad Town. It is believed to be the largest full-scale pioneer veterinary hospital in the United States. There are examination and treatment rooms for both large and small animals. The majority of the veterinary artifacts, tools and equipment that you see in the building came from Dr. Phillipson's Infirmary in Holbrook. He was president of the Security State Bank, a partner with his brother in buying and feeding cattle, owned 1,280 acres of land in Furnas County and was president of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. Phillipson died on August 8, 1983, in Holbrook, where he had spent his entire life. His veterinary practice of 75 years began with a horse and buggy and he lived to see man on the moon. (Photo: Dr. Phillipson ca. 1925)
| Wirt R. Barnard (1909) |
Wirt R. Barnard was a native Kansan, born in 1880, and a son of W.A. and Hannah Barnard. His parents were from Illinois and in September 1878, came to Kansas. Dr. Barnard was educated in the public schools and from an early age showed an interest in livestock and veterinary surgery as a vocation. He entered the KCVC, graduated in 1909, and began an active practice in Belleville, Kansas. In 1915, he formed a partnership with Dr. F.W. Galley, a 1912 graduate of the Chicago Veterinary College. On January 22, 1915, the State Board of Agriculture honored Dr. Barnard by appointment to the office of veterinarian. He was also secretary of the Republic County Agricultural Association and a member of the city council of Belleville.
| Williard Lee Boyd (1909) |
Williard Lee Boyd was born September 27, 1883, in Batavia, Illinois. After graduation from the KCVC in 1909, Boyd taught at the University of Minnesota beginning in 1911. The Annual Register of 1918-1919 for the University of Minnesota notes that Boyd was a Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery and Associate Veterinarian in charge of the Section of Veterinary Medicine and Pathology, Agricultural Experiment Station. He received the Borden Award for his cattle pathology work in 1945. He was associated with C.P. Fitch in brucellosis research. He was promoted to Director in 1947, serving until 1952. He was president of the Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association and president of the AVMA in 1952-53. The Kansas Veterinarian, March-April 1963, noted there were nine AVMA past-presidents who were from Kansas or had a Kansas connection.
| Reuben A. Button (1909) |
Reuben A. Button "formerly of the class of 1908, but who engaged in practice in Seattle, Washington, during the past year and a half, was afflicted with chronic appendicitis and journeyed to Morris, Illinois, the last week in June to be operated upon for this malady. He made a rapid and complete recovery following this operation, and was a visitor at the KCVC the first week in August. Reuben will take up his studies anew at the College during the coming session" (From the Kansas City Veterinary College Quarterly Bulletin, issue 1 p 523). Button later was the president of the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association.
| Henry Oscar Kelpe (1909) |
Henry Oscar Kelpe was born in Centaur or West St. Louis (the homestead is in what is now Babler State Park) July 14, 1877, according to his grandson, Ronald M. Kelpe (ISU 1984). He graduated from the St. Louis Veterinary Dental College in 1906 and the KCVC in 1909. The St. Louis Veterinary Dental College was a short, popular, practical and scientific course taught in eleven weeks. J.W. Watson, V.S., was the dean of the college, located at 2301 Locust Street in St. Louis, Missouri. Following graduation from the KCVC, Kelpe applied and was accepted for a position with the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI). The family moved to Albuquerque and later to Roswell (where Ronald Kelpe's father was born in 1912); Kelpe worked for 4+ years in what was then called the New Mexico Territory, doing disease eradication. During his 4+ years in the New Mexico Territory, Kelpe was involved in foot and mouth and sheep scabies eradication programs. He was essentially shooting cattle that were suspected of having foot and mouth disease and burning their carcasses. He also herded sheep through dips that were diagnosed with scabies. His address was listed as 500 North Richardson Street, Roswell, New Mexico, in the Proceedings of the AVMA 49:69-71. The family returned to St. Louis before moving to Omaha in 1914, where Kelpe worked as the Omaha Stockyards veterinarian until his death at home (3632 South Twenty-third Street) on October 21, 1932. Kelpe also helped the neighborhood dogs, cats, and birds; he performed surgery on days off and in the evenings in the basement of the house, the house where Ronald Kelpe grew up in South Omaha. Ronald Kelpe's father, as the oldest son, had some good stories as the ten-year-old anesthesiologist. Ronald M. Kelpe (ISU 1984) still has his grandfather's veterinary dental diploma from 1906 and the composite class picture of 1909 which are remarkably well preserved and hang in one of the exam rooms of his hospital in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Kelpe joined the AVMA in 1910 and was also a member of the National Association of BAI Veterinarians (Ref: JAVMA 82(2):281, 1933).
| Dr. James W. McGinnis (1909) |
Dr. James W. McGinnis was born November 20, 1885, at Wymore, Nebraska, but grew up in Maywood, Nebraska. He attended York Business College before enrolling in the KCVC in the fall of 1906. Following graduation in 1909, he started his practice of veterinary medicine in Ord, Nebraska, in a livery stable some place in the area of the present day Sack Lumber Company. Most early calls were made with horse and buggy or they caught the train to North Loop or Scotia, hired a team at the livery stable, made the call and came back home by train which had 2-3 times a day service. In the early days for communication, there were many local farmer-owned telephone lines maintained by the farmers and connected to a central office, then a general all-inclusive system with telephone operators at the switchboard then dial phones. Dr. McGinnis served as president of the NVMA in 1915, on the Board of Examiners from 1917-18, was a member of the Ord Methodist Church, IOOF Lodge, Ord City Council, Ord School Board, and North Loup Public Power and Irrigation District. He retired in 1959 (Karre 2009; Lemonds 1982).
| Dr. John S. Vinnedge (1909) |
Dr. John S. Vinnedge of Sargent, Nebraska, joined Dr. McGinnis in Ord in 1912. In 1918, Dr. Vinnedge was working near Central City, Nebraska, doing some tuberculosis testing for the government, when he died from the effects of the flu epidemic. Dr. McGinnis (1909) and Dr. Ferguson (1913), known as "Mac" and "Fergy," continued to practice together for another 30 years (Karre 2009).