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W. EUGENE DIXON, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Vol. 3, p. 1075
Book has photo

Among the biographies appearing in this work, there are found not a
few sketching the careers of men who have overcome early environments
and obstacles and risen to honored and distinguished positions among
the world's workers. However, few there are which can compare in
interest with the career of W. Eugene Dixon, M.D., F.A.C.S.,
struggling student, working at humble occupations in order that he
might pursue his cherished medical studies, and who is today one of
the leading specialists in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat
in the state. Not only as a practitioner has Doctor Dixon become
prominent, but as a demonstrator, a teacher and author.

Born at Woodstock, Illinois, in 1872, Doctor Dixon is a son of
Samuel B. and Mary Jane (DYER) Dixon. He was but three years of age
at the time of his mother's death, and he was accordingly thrown more
or less on his own resources, but this fact may have strengthened him
in a way and added to his self-reliance. He was given educational
advantages in the graded and high schools of Chicago, and was then
desirous of entering upon the study of medicine, for which he had a
predilection from early youth. His finances, however, were decidedly
limited, and it was necessary for him to find employment that he
might work his way through college. In 1894 he was graduated from the
Louisville Medical College, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine,
and at once entered upon practice of his profession at Sidell,
Illinois, where he remained until 1899. Seeking a wider field at that
time, he moved to Chicago, and carried on practice there until 1901,
at that time coming to Oklahoma City.

Even the medical practitioner is apt to overestimate his strength,
and it was so with Doctor Dixon. Long hours of the hardest kind of
labor at his calling had gradually undermined his health, and he was
forced for a time to give up his practice and to again gain resisting
power for the exacting demands of his vocation. In 1908, when he was
ready to again take up his duties, he decided to specialize in
diseases of the eye, ear , nose and throat, and accordingly, during
that year, took post-graduate work at the New York Post-Graduate
College, the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, New York
City, St. Bartholomew's Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, New York
City and the New Orleans Polyclinic, at New Orleans. Subsequently, in
1910, Doctor Dixon took post-graduate work at the Chicago Eye, Ears,
Nose and Throat College, and while in that city studied under the
preceptorship of the celebrated Dr. A. L. ANDREWS.

Since his return to Oklahoma City, Doctor Dixon has gained something
more than a state-wide reputation in his specialty.. He is a member
of the State and County Medical societies, of the American Medical
Association and the Southwestern Medical Association, is a fellow of
the American College of Surgeons, a member of the staffs of the
Wesley and University Hospitals at Oklahoma City, and assistant
professor of the eye, ear, nose and throat in the medical college of
the University of Oklahoma. In 1914 he did the original work in
catarrhal deafness and nasal reflexes. He has been a frequent and
valued contributor to the literature of his profession, and has
prepared and read numerous papers before the various associations of
the calling, which have since been widely circulated. Among these may
be mentioned: "The Tonsil-with Special Reference to the Sluder-
Ballenger Operation" (1913); "Pharyngeal Diagnosis from the General
Practitioner's Standpoint" (1914); "Recent Progress of Oto-
Laryngology" (1914); "The Nose Anatomically Considered with Special
Reference to the Reflexes and Constitutional Diseases" (1914). Doctor
Dixon's papers have been received with great favor and have enjoyed
widespread popularity. Selecting some subject which has attracted his
study, he has treated it in such a complete and exhaustive manner,
lighting up its obscure points by flashes of genius and clothing a
familiar subject with novelty and freshness, from the new lights
which his observations have been able to cast upon it, that he has
invariably induced not only acquiescence in his view, but enthusiasm
as well.

Doctor Dixon has not only secured a high reputation in his calling,
but has been rewarded with the emoluments which go with such a
position, and is not unknown in financial circles, being a director
of the Tradesmen's State Bank of Oklahoma City, vice president of the
First National Bank of Weleetka, Oklahoma, and president of the First
Guarantee Bank, of Wewoka, Oklahoma. His religious connection is with
the Christian Church. Doctor Dixon is a thirty-second degree Mason,
being a member of Siloam Lodge No. 276, A. F. & A. M., all the
Scottish Rite bodies, Oklahoma Consistory, Valley of Guthrie, and
India Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He also holds membership in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the
Modern Woodmen of America.

Doctor Dixon was married in 1906 to Miss Nell C. CANTERBURY,
daughter of O. P. Canterbury, of Springfield, Illinois. The pleasant
family home is situated at No. 436 West Eleventh Street, Oklahoma
City.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Vickie Neill Taylor Nov. 19, 1998.