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ERNEST B. DUNLAP, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1123
Book has photo

A prominent physician and surgeon of Oklahoma Dr. Ernest B. Dunlap
has had a great variety of experience and his attainments have not
been of mediocre order. He is vice president and a director of the
Southwestern Hospital Association at Lawton, in which city he has
been established in a general practice for the past seven or eight
years.

Ernest Be. Dunlap was born at Eden, Alabama, July 24, 1881, a son of
Dr. Perry G. and Jennie B. (TURNER) Dunlap. The Dunlap family
originated in England, and settled in South Carolina during colonial
days. Dr. Perry G. Dunlap was born in Alabama in 1862, removed from
Eden to Adger near Birmingham in 1892, and in 1907 came out to
Lawton, Oklahoma. He was in practice in that city until January,
1912, since which date he has lived at Porter, Alabama. He is a
graduate in medicine from the Vanderbilt University at Nashville,
Tennessee, and is still engaged in practice. His wife is also a
native of Alabama. Their living children are: Dr. Ernest B.; Ellis, a
merchant at Adger, Alabama; Carl Walton, who is in service with the
United States Navy, but whose home is at Bremmerton, Washington;
Vivian, of Anniston, Alabama; Lucile, a teacher at Livingston,
Alabama; and Hurteline, a student in the public schools of Porter.

Dr. Ernest B. Dunlap attended the common schools at Eden, Alabama,
and in 1902 graduated A. B. from the Southern University. His medical
studies were pursued in the Birmingham Medical College, where he
received his degree Doctor of Medicine in 1906. He is a member of the
Sigma alpha Epsilon college fraternity and the Phi Chi medical
fraternity. During his college days he took a prominent interest in
athletics, particularly football and baseball, and was also president
of the college Y. M. C. A. he has been a member of Board of Education
of Lawton for past six years and has been president of this board for
the past four years.

Doctor Dunlap had an unusually thorough training and experience
before taking up individual practice. He spent nearly two years as
interne in St. Vincent's General Hospital in New York City, was for
four months connected with the health department of that city, and
three months in the Lying-in Hospital. For about two months he was
assistant surgeon at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Doctor Dunlap began his
active individual practice at Lawton in October, 1908, and now has a
large clientage in general medicine and surgery. His offices are in
the First National Bank Building. He is a member of the County and
State Medical societies and the American Medical Association and was
appointed by Governor Williams on State Board of Medical Examiners,
April 17, 1915. He was elected president of the board at the meeting
in January, 1916. He holds a commission from the United States
Government with the rank of first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve
Corps. His church is the Methodist Episcopal in which he is a
trustee, and his polities is democratic. Doctor Dunlap is a member of
Lawton Lodge No. 183, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons: Lawton
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and belongs to the Lawton Chamber of
Commerce.

On January 20, 1909, at Greensboro, Alabama, Doctor Dunlap married
Miss Willie WALTON. Her father, the late J. J. Walton, was a
prominent plantation owner at Greensboro. To their marriage have been
born three children, all of them still young and at home: Mary
Virginia, Jack Walton, and E. B., Jr.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Carolyn Smith Burns on November 4, 1998.