KCVC Graduates 1910-1914
| Dr. Harvey L. Prouse (1910) |
Dr. Harvey Lee Prouse graduated from Kansas City Veterinary College on March 30, 1910. Before graduating in 1910 he homesteaded in Murdo, South Dakota. It was there that my dad, Raymond H Prouse was born. This was the era of sod busters and cattle men. He arrived home one day to find his small home burned to the ground. He told me cattlemen did it. After the fire he left South Dakota and returned to Allen, Nebraska to open his practice. He had a small office on Main Street not far from the livery stable where he first offered his services in 1904. He was known as the “vest pocket” vet because he used syringes.
By 1915 he owned a small house on the west side of Allen and had four children, a wife, and a 1912 Model T touring car that he used to go on calls. He also traveled by horse, wagon and the railroad for more distant calls. He was eventually appointed Assistant State Veterinarian for Nebraska. In 1928 his youngest son, Howard L Prouse (HL) was born on Christmas Day. Before two weeks had passed Clara, his wife passed away leave behind a 2 week old baby boy and five other children. He hired several ladies to care for the children while he served the surrounding countryside. He eventually remarried to Lilly Connell who helped to raise the kids. During the Dust Bowl days of the 30, life was tough. His pay was 
often in the form of a pig, cow, or whatever he could get for his services. In 1936 he sold out and move to Burley, Idaho. The kids were all out on their own by then except for Howard who was 7 years old. Things didn’t work out in Idaho, even though he did receive certification to practice veterinary medicine in Idaho. Within a year or two he was back in Allen, Nebraska where he continued to serve the community. He would continue providing veterinary services until he retired in 1960 after 50 years of service. While contemplating his retirement he wrote the following:
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I’ve hung up my stethoscope, H.LP. |
“A little tingle of something when I think the whole thing over. It was everything to me as a livelihood. Some rough spots of course, but it has made the kids what they are because I by it , saw them develop into what they are.” |
| Simon Wayne Alford (1910) |
Simon Wayne Alford was born January 23, 1886, at Leanna, Kansas. He graduated from Chanute High School in 1904 and from the KCVC in 1910. He practiced veterinary medicine in Medford and Fremont, Nebraska, from 1910-1913. In 1913, he was appointed Director of the hog cholera serum laboratory at the University of Nebraska Department of Veterinary Science in the College of Agriculture, serving 20 years as Superintendent of the plant. In 1939, he was appointed pathologist and livestock sanitation specialist with the University of Nebraska Extension Department. He served as vice president of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association in 1914, secretary-treasurer from 1916-19, and was elected president in 1920. He was on the Nebraska Veterinary Examining Board from 1917 to 1923. Alford also served with the Nebraska National Guard beginning in 1923 and in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps during World War II. He retired from the Army in 1946 with the rank of Colonel. Dr. Alford died in Lincoln on May 14, 1955, at the age of 69 (Lemonds 1982).
| Dr. Elmer Calvin Eisenhower (1910) |
According to Dan Holt at the Eisenhower Foundation in Abilene, Kansas, Dr. E.C. Eisenhower (1884-1937) was a second cousin of President (General) Dwight D. Eisenhower. His grandfather Samuel was a brother of Ike's grandfather Jacob. According to the KCVC Quarterly Bulletin No. 28, June 1910, following graduation, he took up a new a practice he had established at Gypsum, Kansas. His previous service to that community had paved the way for an extensive practice immediately upon his return following his graduation. Dykstra's KSAC Veterinary Alumni News, October 1, 1925, notes "E.C. Eisenhower, KCVC 1910, after having spent several years in practice in Gypsum City, Kansas, decided opportunities were better in a larger city and moved to Salina, where he is established in general practice."
| Dr. James Monroe Eisenhower (1910) |
According to Dan Holt, Dr. J.M. Eisenhower may have been an uncle of Dr. E.C. Eisenhower and a first cousin once removed from President Eisenhower. According to the KCVC Quarterly Bulletin, No. 28, June, 1910, Dr. J.M. Eisenhower returned to Schell City, Missouri, after graduation where a splendid practice had already been established. The June 1911 KCVC Quarterly Bulletin, No. 32, June 1911, notes that he was a recent Kansas City visitor to purchase an automobile in order that he might respond to the calls of a rapidly increasing clientele. Eisenhower practiced large animal medicine in Schell City and Nevada, Missouri until 1927, when they moved to Los Angeles, California. From 1927 to 1928, he was in a mixed practice of small animal and dairy. For the next ten years (1929-1939), he practiced in Hollywood, California, at the Beverly Dog and Cat Hospital. He then moved to the Van Nuys Small Animal Hospital from 1939 to 1951. His son Arthur John Eisenhower graduated from the University of California at Davis in 1953 (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| Dr. Joseph Charles Flynn (1910) |
Dr. Joseph Charles Flynn was born in York, Nebraska, in 1878. He graduated from the Kansas City Veterinary College in 1910 and opened a practice on Spring Street in the West Bottoms in Kansas City. Within a few years he moved to 3038 Main Street where he operated a mixed practice out of a barn. He was among the first to set up a practice devoted exclusively to small animals. As his companion animal practice grew, Dr. Flynn realized that he need a more sophisticated structure to better isolate diseased patients, to handle multiple clients, and to provide sterile care. In 1915, he modified a brick building at 3026 Main Street into the prototype of today's veterinary clinic. Flynn's pet hospital in Kansas City, established in 1915, was considered a model; he became a spokesman for this new concept and became a popular speaker on the efficient design of pet hospitals and how companion animal medicine could provide a good living. Flynn had an ultra-modern limousine type of ambulance built by the Holcker Manufacturing Company for his hospital on Main Street in Kansas City. The cost of the ambulance was about $1,500. The body was divided into upper and lower compartments. The upper part was also fitted with adjustable partitions, allowing dogs and cats to be accommodated without danger of physical conflict. The interior was electrically lighted. Electric lights on the sides gave the ambulance a luxurious appearance. Flynn organized the American Society of Veterinary Therapy, was an associate editor of the North American Veterinarian, and contributed articles on small animal topics. He proposed the idea of a section on small animal practice within the AVMA, and with the aid of Dr. L. A. Merillat, this section was created over the objections of those who had previously opposed Dr. Flynn on this question. The first meeting of this section was held at Portland, Oregon, in 1925. Early in his career and in order to best to meet prevailing prices for spaying bitches, he developed the technic for the operation which bears his name. It was referred to by the originator at the "suture-less spaying operation." Flynn was the president of the AVMA in 1935-36. At the 73rd annual convention of the AVMA, August 10-14, 1936, Flynn in his presidential address advocated, among other things, a campaign against doping racehorses. Flynn retired from practice in 1940, but resumed active work a year later when his successor was called to military service in World War II in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Flynn died of a heart attack on April 26, 1954 (from the University of Missouri Veterinary Medical Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring/Summer, 2005; KCVMA News & Notes, May/June, 2010 and March/April 2011; The North American Veterinarian June, 1954, p. 418).
| John Neal Huff (1910) |
John's son, Major, reported to Dr. Ole Stalheim in 1986 that he knew of hundreds of companies working in the hog cholera antiserum business nationwide at the turn of the century. Kansas City supported at least 10 manufacturing plants in the proximity of the thriving stockyards on the city's west side. John Huff started his first serum company in 1913 in Sioux City, Iowa, in partnership with the owner of the Henri Packing Company. Over the next decade, he started four serum companies, several other ventures, and a hog-feeding operation. He also spun off two other serum companies, including Anchor Serum Company. Over the next 10 years, John Huff was involved with several other companies: the Peters Serum Company, the Union Serum Company, the American Serum Company, the Globe Serum Company, and the Colorado Serum Company. Dr. J.N. Huff moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1922 to open a satellite manufacturing plant to the original "American Serum Company" founded in Sioux City, Iowa. Denver's high altitude provided hogs with enriched blood, so Colorado was considered an ideal environment for producing a new antiserum for Hog Cholera. In 1923, the small Denver plant began production and shortly thereafter separated from American Serum to become Colorado Serum Company. Hog Cholera was eventually eradicated from the United States. Colorado Serum Company went on to expand its product lines to include a full range of large animal biologicals, large animal veterinary instruments, veterinary diagnostics, specialty products, and laboratory reagents. The facilities now cover 22 acres in Denver and contain all manufacturing as well as administrative offices. Products are marketed and distributed by numerous animal health companies across the globe. Colorado Serum Company is a 4th generation family-owned company, on the cutting edge of modern science while continuing the valuable and time honored traditions of personal and responsive service (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| Toby W. Crump (1911) |
Toby W. Crump was granted Arizona License # 49 in 1937. Dr. Crump practiced in the Glendale area around 1918 and was employed as a Federal Veterinarian around 1939 (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| David M. Dill (1911) |
David M. Dill was granted Arizona License # 53 in 1937 (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| Floyd L. Marney (1911) |
Floyd L. Marney was granted Arizona License # 29 in 1924. He practiced in Chino Valley and Prescott around 1944 (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).
| Dr. Carl J. Norden (1911) |
Dr. Carl J. NordenThe Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teaching Award is named in honor of Dr. Norden, founder of Norden Laboratories, and is sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health. It is given annually to a teacher at each veterinary college in the United States. According to Lemonds (1982), Dr. Norden was born at Norra Halsingland (Norland), Sweden, on December 18, 1888. The family came to the United States in 1896 and settled in Polk County, Nebraska. After attending Grand Island Business College, Carl Norden enrolled in the KCVC. While a veterinary student, Carl was a student representative for Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories. The KCVC Quarterly Bulletin No. 25, September 1909, reports that Carl Norden selected Spencer, Nebraska, for a summer practice and was making trips to all neighboring towns, finding plenty of work and good success. The KCVC Quarterly Bulletin No. 33, September 1911, reported that following graduation from the KCVC, Dr. Norden found an opening at Nebraska City with which he was well pleased. The KCVC Quarterly Bulletin No. 36, June 1912, notes that Dr. Norden was recently made a member of the health board for Nebraska City. The KCVC Quarterly Bulletin No. 44, June 1914 reported that Dr. Norden fractured his right leg just below the knee when his car overturned while making a trip from Nebraska City to Weeping Water, Nebraska. The KCVC Quarterly Bulletin No. 52, June 1916 notes that Dr. Norden had associated himself with the American Veterinary Supply Company in Kansas City. His address was 1401 East Fifteenth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. After serving in the U. S. Army Veterinary Corps, Dr. Norden became the Assistant State Veterinarian in Nebraska. In 1919, Dr. Norden established Norden Laboratories in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dykstra's KSAC Veterinary Alumni News, Oct 1, 1926, reports that Dr. Norden was elected president of the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association at the meeting held in Kansas City during the summer months. In 1960, Norden Laboratories became a subsidiary of SmithKline and French laboratories (later GlaxoSmithKline Corporation).
| Charles E. Salsbery (1911) |
After Dr. Salsbery graduated from the KCVC, he was employed as an assistant to Dr. A.T. Kinsley in the pathology department. In 1914, he left the KCVC to establish, with Dr. Jensen, the Jensen-Salsbery laboratories, one of the largest veterinary supply houses in its day. Dr. Salsbery was in charge of the production of biological products, including anti-hog cholera serum. Dr. Salsbery died at the age of 57 from an infection with equine encephalomyelitis. He was vice-president of Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories at the time (Lindley 1973).
| Walter Hayward Spencer (1911) |
Walter Hayward Spencer earned a B.S. degree in agronomy from KSAC in 1902 and then was a farmer and stockman near Yates Center, Kansas, from 1902-08. In the fall of 1908, he enrolled in the KCVC and earned a D.V.S. degree in 1911. He returned to Yates Center and worked as a veterinary surgeon (From: Record of the Alumni of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, Kansas State Agricultural College, Department of Printing, 1914).
| Anton W. Bohaboy (1912) |
Anton W. Bohaboy was born in Czechoslovakia on September 8, 1888. He came to the United States when he was quite young. He graduated from the KCVC in 1912 and practiced veterinary medicine at Prague, Nebraska, until his retirement in 1967. During WWI, he served in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. He was a member of Masonic Lodge 119, Royal Arch Masons Chapter 43, and American Legion Post 254. The American Legion Post No. 254 of Prague, Nebraska was chartered on April 26, 1920, by 34 Veterans of World War I. Its first commander was Dr. Bohaboy. He died on January 26, 1963, at Prague, Nebraska, at age 74. Military graveside services were held by Masonic Lodge 119 and burial was at the Bohemian National Cemetery in Prague (Lemonds 1982).
| John H. Copenhaver (1912) |
John H. Copenhaver was the Laboratory Supervisor for the Corn States Serum Company in 1917. An advertisement in the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine in 1917 noted that Dr. G.R. Tinkham was the General Manager and that Corn States serum conferred immediate and lasting immunity against hog cholera. The main office and laboratories were in Omaha, Nebraska (Am. J. Vet. Med. 12:196, 1917) The Norden News reported in 1946 that Copenhaver, formerly of Houston, Iowa and Nebraska, retired from general practice to manage a ranch near Burton, Texas (Norden News 20 (5):11, November-December, 1946).
| Arthur Winston Ewing (1912) |
Arthur Winston Ewing was born on February 4, 1882, at Morrisville, Missouri, where his father was the Methodist minister. He completed his grade school and high school education in Morrisville and attended Morrisville Methodist College. Dr. Ewing practiced for 45 years in Morrisville until he became ill, except for two years with the Bureau of Animal Industry in tuberculosis eradication in Missouri and Arkansas. According to the Missouri Year Book of Agriculture published in 1918, pages 139 and 142, he was appointed a deputy to the Missouri State Veterinarian for the year 1918 and perhaps other years as well. On December 15, 1920, he married Emma May Briley. They raised two sons, Morris B., 1024 Pine Valley Road, Little Rock, Arkansas, a dairyman, University of Arkansas, and Winston of Morrisville who was a marketing expert for the Agricultural Department for the State of Missouri. During this whole time he also farmed and raised shorthorn cattle. Dr. Ewing was a member of the Masonic Lodge, which he served as Master; he was also active in the Methodist church. He died September 13, 1957, at his home in Morrisville after an extended illness of three years (KCVC Alumni Quarterly 42 (2):13, 1959; JAVMA 135:45, 1958).
| Carl F. Fischer (1912) |
According to his son, Dr. George F. Fischer (a retired Colonel, U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and a 1954 graduate of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine), Carl Fischer was born near Hopedale, Illinois, on January 6, 1887, the second child of George and Henrietta (Ahl) Fischer. Carl's parents emigrated from Germany; they met aboard ship and married after arriving in the US. They first settled in Illinois in 1883 and were farmers. In 1906 the family moved to 100 acres they purchased approximately two miles southwest of Garden City, Missouri. During the move, Carl's parents and his two sisters rode the rail coach and Carl and his brother Eugene rode with the livestock and household belongings. Carl and his brother returned to Illinois the fall of 1906-1908 to work for former neighbors to assist with the harvest.
In the fall of 1909 both Carl and Eugene entered the KCVC. Neither of the boys had much formal education but they were avid readers. Dr. George Fischer has a photo copy of a postcard Carl wrote his older sister on January 21, 1910, saying that Eugene had quit college, had caught the train for home at 9:50 pm the night before, and that he sure hated to see him leave. Carl spoke frequently of the extracurricular activities of the KCVC, the YMCA and the assistance the college provided in finding living accommodations and some part time work to assist financially. He talked of going to the Kansas City Star/Times and loading papers for distribution. After completion of the first year, students could take an examination for clinical proficiency and if found acceptable, they were granted a certificate or license to practice; this was valid for three years and provided students an opportunity to earn funds to return to college to complete their degrees. Carl passed the examination in the spring of 1910; he practiced plus went to school, graduating in 1912. He completed his DVM requirements in three six-month college years.
Dr. Carl Fischer returned to Garden City, lived with his parents for a year or two and then moved into Garden City, a community of about 1200 people today, where he purchased property with a house and barn. He occupied a living space in the house and had his office there but he also rented most of the house to another family. The barn was used to stable his horse and house his buggy. He had a full length horsehide coat (in possession of Dr. George Fischer's older sister) and horse blankets (one is in possession of Dr. George Fischer's younger sister) that he used for body comfort during the winter when making farm calls. When he arrived at a farm, he would take the blanket off himself and cover the horse until he was ready to return to town. Dr. George Fischer said that horse blanket still smells of horse perspiration if it gets wet. Dr. Carl Fischer's first automobile was a 1917 Model "T" Ford Doctor's Coupe. His second auto was a 1924 Model "T" Ford Doctor's Coupe. This car was his practice vehicle until the spring of 1936. Dr. George Fischer said he can attest to the stamina of the vehicle. He spent his young formative years riding the country roads primarily in Cass County, Missouri, doing a junior apprenticeship in veterinary medicine.
Carl met Edith M. Webb in the fall of 1924 and they were married in April 1925. During the 1930's, many farmers lost their farms and livestock. During the depression of the 1930's and the drought, there were many frantic calls because cattle had breached fences, seeking something green to eat, and were in fields of sorghum; prussic acid poisoning claimed many animals. It was not unusual for a farmer with no money and little feed for livestock to offer a sack or two of corn or oats or bring some hay to the home as we had an acre of ground, kept a cow, chickens (both for eggs and meat), and sometimes a pig for butchering. Sacks of grain traveled well on the back deck of the Doctor's coupe and there was adequate space in the floor board to haul a shoat. Dad would arrive home and tell Mom, "I didn't collect any money but we will have something to eat."
Even though it has been 75 years, Dr. George Fischer said he can still drive to within a few hundred yards of where his dad saw his first case of Western Equine Encephalomyelitis in Bates County, Missouri. In those years, the primary source of agricultural power was the horse, and spring time surgery to castrate horses was a major activity. Dr. George Fischer recalls a Saturday morning in 1932 or 1933; they headed out around 5:30 am and returned home around 3:00 pm. Many of these animals were three-year-olds and when the casting harness was removed, a collar and harness were placed on the gelded animals and placed in a hitch with broken horses on a plow. With a good casting harness used for anesthesia (Dr. George Fischer still has the casting harness), Dr. Carl Fischer had earned $33.00 dollars for his day's efforts. They said they probably only visited 5 or 6 farms, all in the same neighborhood. Dr. Carl Fischer also did extensive testing in both Cass and Bates Counties in the eradication of tuberculosis in the early 1930's. After some of the farmers regained some fiscal solvency after WWII, several of them came to the house and settled their accounts, some 15-20 years of being active but never paid in full.
He was active in the KCVC Alumni Association, and Dr. George Fischer has his dad's membership cards in the AVMA, Missouri Veterinary Medical Association and the Kansas City Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. George Fischer had the privilege to meet many of the pillars of the veterinary profession because he had the opportunity to attend many of the meetings with his dad even before he finished high school. Dr. Carl Fischer practiced to the end of his life, suffering a coronary while delivering a calf. He died a week later, February 26, 1968.
Dr. Carl Fischer spent his entire career, predominately in food animal and equine practice, in Garden City, Missouri. Dr. George Fischer has the graduation announcement for his father's class of 1912, graduation photo, his dad's license to practice in both Kansas and Missouri, and other memorabilia.
| Mason A. Harp (1912) |
Mason A. Harp was granted Arizona License # 15. He worked for the Federal Government in Phoenix around 1919 (Gillespie and Ellsworth, 2007).
| Hugh H. Hervey (1912) |
Hugh H. Hervey graduated from the KCVC in 1912 in a class of some 130 students. According to congressional documents, he was appointed a tagger with the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) on December 1, 1906, at $720 per annum, to take effect on December 10, 1906. His services were needed on the force at Nebraska City, Nebraska, in the enforcement of the meat inspection regulations. Hervey had two sons who studied veterinary medicine at Kansas State University, William H. Hervey (KSC 1937) and James Sterling Hervey (KSC 1947). Dr. William Hervey was in regulatory veterinary medicine, and served in the U.S. Air Force. Dr. James Hervey practiced in Wichita first on Pawnee Street east of Washington Street. In 1960-61, the practice moved to 3036 South Broadway. Dr. Walter Cash, Professor of Anatomy, and Roy Walter Upham, Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University, worked in Dr. Hervey's practice in Wichita as students and knew both Drs. James Hervey and his father, Dr. Hugh H. Hervey.
| S. Hendricks Woods, Sr. (1912) |
According to Kirkeminde (1976), Dr. Woods was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in March 1885. He was the son of Steven H. Woods, M.D., and Sarah Catherine Hoffa; he was one of nineteen children. As a youngster he worked on a farm and hauled logs to Murfreesboro. He attended public schools in Murfreesboro. Before entering veterinary school, he worked for Dr. George White and Dr. Joseph Plaskett in Nashville. He was licensed to practice in Tennessee on December 16, 1912, at the age of twenty-seven. He held Tennessee license number 153. Raising and racing horses was a great pastime for Dr. Woods. One of the horses he bred and raised held the track record at Murfreesboro for the fastest mile. He served as Livestock Inspector for Rutherford County from 1914-1916. He was twice president of the Tennessee Veterinary Medical Association and first vice president from 1938-39. He was named "Veterinarian of the Year" for Tennessee in 1959 and honored with life membership. An interesting story told in Kirkeminde's History of Veterinary Medicine in Tennessee is about a female coon Dr. Woods owned which was quite a pet. Her name was Lula Belle. One night she pried herself from her cage and went into the pharmacy where she knocked over the telephone. Lula Belle proceeded to remove the tops from many of the bottles and compound her own prescription. The telephone operator heard the commotion and could not figure out what was happening. She called the police and they came to discover what had happened. They called Dr. Woods who spent the remainder of the night cleaning up after Lula Belle. Many coon hunters would come into the office with their dogs and tell stories about how their dogs could whip any coon. Dr. Woods would delight in betting them that their dog would not even fight a coon. After a heated argument, Dr. Woods would get Lula Belle and turn her loose in the room with the coon hounds. Of course Lula Belle was not afraid of dogs since she was raised with dogs. She would walk right up to the hounds and make loving advances. The dog owners simply could not believe this. There is a folk tale that coons do not breed in captivity, but Lula Belle proved this wrong on several occasions. Dr. Woods died June 15, 1976 (Kirkeminde 1976).
| Dr. Burt Lyle Currier (1913) |
Dr. Burt Lyle Currier was born December 6, 1891, Mantorville Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, according to his nephew, Dr. Russell W. Currier (Minnesota 1967), Executive Vice President Emeritus, American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. As a student, he lived at 1413 Forest Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. He practiced veterinary medicine in Hayfield, Minnesota, for several years, but later took a meat inspection job with the USDA and worked in the turkey plant in Faribault, Minnesota, for several years before retirement. He died October 9, 1961. Dr. Russell Currier recalls meeting his uncle once about 1949 when he was around 9 or 10 years old, and according to a cousin he made pretty good money and always had a nice car. The turkey plant is still in operation and Dr. Currier said he went through it during his student days, circa 1966. He told the inspector that his Uncle Burt used to work in the plant and indeed he confirmed this by seeing his name on some old papers. Dr. Currier said he was in the Army at time of Burt's passing and it totally eclipsed his recall. The veterinarian in charge of the plant during his student tour was a character and made the observation that this was not a job for anyone who could not make a decision. He offered that he was hammered by his supervisors for letting too many birds through with mild air sacculitis so he promptly condemned a larger numbers of birds and they stopped the line and called Washington [probably Senator Humphrey] and there was a little 'dust up' after which the issue was resolved and he went back to using good judgment again. Later, Dr. Russ Currier said while he was still with CDC and before he came to Iowa a year later, he was asked to investigate a large psittacosis episode emanating out of Texas in 1974 in processing plant workers in Waco and Lampasas, Texas, a Norbest plant in Nebraska and yet a fourth plant in southwest Missouri. In the conclusion, Dr. Currier traveled to Washington, DC, USDA headquarters for FSIS, at the invitation of Mike Pullen who investigated the turkey producers involved in the outbreak, and met Dr. Ed Merritt, chief of poultry meat inspection, and he informed me that his first assignment in meat inspection was the turkey plant in Faribault and that Dr. Burt Currier was his supervisor. Dr. Russ Currier donated many of the books that Dr. Burt Currier used as a student at the KCVC.
| Dr. Allan J. Ferguson (1913) |
Dr. Allan J. Ferguson was born May 17, 1888, in Taylor, Nebraska. He joined Dr. McGinnis and Dr. Vinnedge in Ord, Nebraska, in 1913 after graduating from the KCVC. In 1913, Dr. McGinnis (1909), Dr. Vinnedge (1909), and Dr. Ferguson remodeled the old Methodist Church at the corner of 14th and L Streets and converted it into an animal hospital. The stucco building still stands and if you look real close, you can still see high on the front painted "McGinnis & Ferguson, Animal Hospital." Dr. Ferguson served in World War I, but returned to Ord after his discharge from active duty. In their early years, their practice was mainly draft and carriage horses. Also, every farmer milked some cows and raised hogs, sheep, and chickens, which gave the veterinarians a variety of interests. During the 1930's, with the drought and depression, it was a real challenge for them to keep the practice going. During that time, Dr. McGinnis contracted with the State of Nebraska to test cattle for tuberculosis in central and western Nebraska, while Dr. Ferguson kept the practice going at home. During that time, there was a sleeping sickness outbreak in horses and Dr. Ferguson would go all day and night, hiring a driver and sleeping between calls, trying to keep up with treatments and vaccinations. When the drought ended and the economy improved, the two partners were both kept busy again with more hogs, more dairy cattle and more beef cattle. During World War II, with a shortage of veterinarians in the area, they were extremely busy. Every auction market had to have a Veterinary Inspector on hand. So in addition to their own practice, they were inspecting six auction markets every week. In 1948, Dr. Dale Karre, a native of Scotia, Nebraska, and a graduate of Colorado State University, joined the practice. Dr. Ferguson retired in 1951. He was a member of the Ord Presbyterian Church. He died July 5, 1963, and is buried in the Ord City Cemetery (Karre 2009; Lemonds 1982).
| Dr. Owen H. Person (1913) |
According to Lemonds (1995), Dr. Person was born on a farm near West Point, Nebraska, on November 28, 1888. He graduated from West Point High School in 1906 and farmed in Cuming County from 1906-10. Dr. Person entered the KCVC in 1910 and graduated in 1913 in a class of 103 graduates. He immediately located a practice in Wahoo, Nebraska, forming a partnership with Dr. W. E. Nordheim (Chicago Veterinary College, 1905). He was mayor of Wahoo for 16 years (1922-38), president of the Chamber of Commerce, Saunders County Fair Board, and League of Nebraska Municipalities. Dr. Person was president of the NVMA in 1947. He was one of two Nebraska veterinarians who served in the Nebraska Unicameral legislature. He served as State Senator from Wahoo from 1947 through 1956. Following this he became State Veterinarian from 1957 to 1958. As a state legislator for ten years, Dr. Person introduced bills to provide for improved swine and bovine brucellosis control and narcotics regulations. He sponsored legislation for both the medical and veterinary professions including agreements made by the University of Nebraska with other states for the acceptance of Nebraska students in their schools of veterinary medicine. Dr. Person was chairman of the Public Health Committee for eight years, and introduced legislation which required the appointment of a veterinarian on the State Board of Health. In 1956, he was presented a meritorious service award by the AVMA. Following his retirement, he became race track veterinarian at AkSarBen in Omaha from 1960 to 1973 while in his 80s.
| Dr. Joseph E. Weinman (1913) |
According to the KCVC Quarterly Bulletin, No. 41, September, 1913, Dr. Weinman was in practice in Loup City, Nebraska, in addition to weekly trips to his old location at Arcadia. He taught anatomy for several years at the St. Joseph Veterinary College, and then practiced in Nebraska until he was hired to teach anatomy at the University of Missouri. He is also listed as a 1921 graduate of the St. Joseph Veterinary College. Dr. Weinman's son, Dr. Donald E. Weinman was a 1946 graduate of Kansas State College and taught microanatomy at Kansas State. In 1946, The Norden News reported that Dr. J. E. Weinman, KCVC, 1913, Lincoln, Nebraska, after 27 years of practice, had accepted the position as Chairman, Department of Anatomy in the new College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Dr. Weinman, an experienced anatomy instructor, taught anatomy at the KCVC from 1914-15 and at St. Joseph Veterinary College in 1920-23. He served in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps during World War I, was president of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association in 1933 and was on the Nebraska Board of Veterinary Examiners for 7 years. He recently completed a small animal hospital in Lincoln. His son-in-law, Dr. R. W. White, CSC, 1943, is now in charge of the hospital and is being assisted by Dr. R. H. Cook, KSC, 1943 (Norden News 20(5):3, 1946).
| Henry E. Kemper (1914) |
Henry E. Kemper was granted Arizona License # 19 in 1925 (Gillespie and Ellsworth).
| Dr. Joseph Edward Salsbury (1914) |
Dr. Joseph Edward Salsbury was born in Long Eaton, England, in 1887 and came to America when he was 21 years old. 1n 1912, he worked for Dr. McCloud in Charles City, Iowa, and graduated from the KCVC in 1914. He practiced in western Nebraska until the fall of 1922, leaving because of the drought. In November 1922, he moved his family to Menno, South Dakota, because of the large hog population where he practiced veterinary medicine until December 1923. Mrs. Salsbury was not satisfied with the school system for her children and also the lack of water available for Dr. Salsbury's experiments. Dr. Salsbury moved his family to Charles City, Iowa, and took over Dr. McCloud's practice after Dr. McCloud left to do government work. He founded Dr. Salsbury Laboratories in 1929 to produce chemical based products for parasite and disease control in poultry. Later, it included biological products for the animal health industry. Salsbury Laboratories evolved into two companies, Fort Dodge Animal Health and Salsbury Chemicals, both located in Charles City, Iowa. Fort Dodge Animal Health is a leading national and international manufacturer and distributor of prescription and over the counter animal health care products for livestock and companion animal industries. Salsbury Chemicals is dedicated to providing services and products in the life science industry that aid in the treatment of prostate cancer, cholesterol reduction and kidney dialysis. Dr. Salsbury's son, Dr. John G. Salsbury, graduated from Iowa State University in 1940 and served as president and chairman of Salsbury Laboratories. Dr. Joseph Salsbury died in 1967, but his good works continued with the establishment of the Salsbury Foundation. In 1985, the foundation gave each of the 27 colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States an endowment to support scholarships. That gift was the greatest single undertaking of the foundation, which was then dissolved in 1986. (Ludgate and Kitzler) See also Dr. Ole Stalheim's book, The Winning of Animal Health.