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HOWSON C. BAILEY, M.D.
Vol. 3, p. 1155

For fully twenty years there has been a member of the Bailey family
engaged in the practice of medicine in what is now Southern Oklahoma.
Dr. Howson C. Bailey is one of the prominent physicians and surgeons
of Sulphur, and his father is also well known to the profession
there, and first began practice in Indian Territory in 1896 in the
Wynnewood locality.

This branch of the Bailey family came from England to Virginia
during colonial times. Dr. Howson C. Bailey was born in Hickman,
Kentucky, December 9, 1878. His father, Dr. J. E. Bailey, was also
born in Kentucky in the year 1847, was reared and educated in that
state and after his removal to Texas he married Sallie M. MILLER, a
native of Texas. He graduated in medicine from the Louisville,
Medical College, and practiced his profession in Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Texas before locating at Wynnewood, Indian Territory,
in 1896. In the years before statehood he carried his skill to a
large patronage in and about Wynnewood, where he was a pioneer
doctor, but since 1908 has carried on a general medical and surgical
practice at Sulphur. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and in politics is independent. He and his wife have three
children: Dr. Howson C., R. S. Bailey who conducts a men's furnishing
store at Sulphur; and Lucy, wife of C. P. WILLIAMS who is engaged in
the life and fire insurance business at Sulphur.

In 1887 Howson C. Bailey accompanied his parents to Hunt County,
Texas, where he attended the public schools until graduating from
high school in 1895. The following year his parents moved into Indian
Territory, but in the meantime he had entered the Add-Ran University
at Thorp Springs, Texas, the nucleus of what is now the Christian
University at Waco. He graduated S. B. in 1898, took post-graduate
work in the same school, and then for two years was a student in the
medical department of Forth Worth University and for one course
attended the medical department of the University of Texas at
Galveston. He finished his studies in the Trinity University Medical
Department, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1903. Doctor Bailey
took much part in college and university life, was prominent in the
Glee Club and as an athlete made the footballs teams.

After graduating he spent one year as assistant to Doctor CHAMBERS,
who was at that time health officer of Fort Worth. From 1904 to 1912
he practiced in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and in the fall of 1912 located
Sulphur, where he has his offices in the Weems Building. Few of the
younger physicians have applied themselves more industriously to
continue study and training for their special work. Doctor Bailey has
taken special post-graduate work at Galveston and at Dallas and in
1913 attended the Sophian clinics at Dallas. In these courses he
specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat and also in general surgery
and diseases of women. For the past two years Doctor Bailey has been
city superintendent of health at Sulphur, and for one year was
assistant city superintendent of health at Dallas.

He is a member of the board of censors of the County Medical
Society, a member of the State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. Doctor Bailey is president of the Physicians Oil
and Gas Company of Sulphur. He is a democrat, a member of the
Christian Church, affiliates with the Modern Woodmen of America, with
the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma of the Ancient Order of United Workmen,
with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and with the Homesteaders.

At Baxter, Kansas, in 1903, Doctor Bailey married Miss Anna L.
BEESON, whose father is E.E. Beeson, a Presbyterian minister now
located at Bloomingdale, Indiana. Doctor and Mrs. Bailey have two
children: H. C. Bailey, who was born December 15, 1904 and Foster,
born November 9, 1906, both attending the public Schools in Sulphur.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lois L. Coffelt, November 6, 1998.