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Walter Griswold Bisbee, M.D.
Vol. 3, p 1916-1917

     Representing the first class ability and skill of his profession and enjoying a
large general practice, Doctor Bisbee is one of the young physicians and surgeons of
Oklahoma who have quickly taken front rank in their profession.  Doctor Bisbee has a
large general practice as a physician and surgeon in Chandler.  He began practice
with an excellent equipment and the test of real work found him qualified for this
important service among the social professions.  Doctor Bisbee is a graduate from
the Dartmouth Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia with the class of 1901.

     Walter Griswold Bisbee was born at Dexter, Iowa, August 1, 1876.  His father, Frank
a. Bisbee, was one of the leading citizens of Dexter, and was born in Vermont of an old
Vermont family, the ancestors having come from England to New England in the early
days, and men of that name participated in all the early wars of the country, including the
Revolution and the War of 1812. Frank A. Bisbee is now living at Chandler at the age of
seventy-one, and his wife died at the age of seventy.

     Doctor Bisbee, after some experience in the Post-Graduate and City Hospital of
Philadelphia came to Chandler and began active practice.  He soon had all he could do,
and the almost constant driving over the country, loss of sleep, and arduous devotion to
his duty caused a breakdown in health.  He then gave up his practice and spent two years
in recuperating in San Antonio, Texas.  While there he resumed practice, but soon
afterwards returned to Chandler and now enjoys a reputation with the leading physicians
and surgeons of Central Oklahoma.

     Doctor Bisbee was married December 3, 1902, to Eleanor Carpenter.  She comes from
an old Tennessee family at Knoxville, where she was reared and educated.  Her father
was Maj. D. A. Carpenter, an officer in the Union army, with which he made a gallant
record of service.  Doctor Bisbee and wife have one son, Wallace, now seven years of
age.  Outside of his home and his profession Doctor Bisbee has few interests.  With him
medicine is not only a profession but also a hobby and enthusiasm, and he finds his chief
interests in continued studies, and no doctor in the state keeps more closely in touch with
the advance of knowledge in medical and surgical science than he.

Transcribed by Norma Capehart March 5, 2003.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).