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LEWIS EDGAR EMANUEL, M.D.
Vol. 3, p. 1045-1046
Book has photo

While during the nine years that he has been a resident of Chickasha
the people of this city have ranked him principally as among the
ablest and most successful practitioners of Grady County, Dr. Lewis
Edgar EMANUEL is probably as equally well known as an invaluable
community builder. As city physician, as county physician and as
county health officer, he has been successful in maintaining a high
standard of public health and sanitation, but he has also been an
enthusiastic champion of parks, play-grounds and outdoor sports, and
was one of the three members of the Chickasha Country Club who
established a golf course which ranks as one of the best in the
Southwest.

Doctor Emanuel was born at Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas,
February 18, 1873, and is a son of Thomas and Emma (KING) Emanuel.
His father was a native of Georgia, from which state he enlisted in
the Confederate army during the war between the North and the South,
and three of his uncles met soldiers' deaths on the battlefields of
the South while serving under the "Stars and Bars." The paternal
grandfather of Doctor Emanuel was a native of Georgia, also, and
Emanuel County, in the Cracker State, was named in his honor. The
fundamental principles of Doctor Emanuel's education were secured in
the public graded and high schools of Weatherford, Texas, and later
he enrolled as a student at Weatherford College. He was graduated in
1906 from P. M. Medical College, at Dallas, Texas but his education
was not acquired without many hardships and disappointments. While
pursuing his literary course he did yard work to pay for his board,
and between sessions sawed wood for other necessary expenses of the
school year. Easier work, but as unremunerative a salary was his
portion later when he clerked in a drug store for Edward LENEAR, at
Weatherford, Texas, receiving the princely sum of $1.25 per week for
his labors, a position in which he remained two years, then entering
the employ of Charles TURNER, another druggist of the same place, who
paid him $8.00 per week. In November, 1901, following the opening of
the Kiowa and Comanche Indian country, Doctor Emanuel located at
Duncan, Indian Territory, and began farming, and later, for about a
year he was engaged in the same way in Tillman County, Oklahoma. In
1902 he entered the medical college, where he remained two years,
after which he began the practice of medicine at Arthur, near Duncan,
and after six months of practice returned to college, but was unable,
for financial reasons, to remain long enough to complete the course.
During all his trials and difficulties, Doctor Emanuel had not
allowed himself to become discouraged, and at this time he resolutely
returned to Arthur and resumed his practice long enough to gather
together the means for his tuition, when he returned to college and
in 1906 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

When he received his degree, Doctor Emanuel located at Chickasha,
which has since been his place of residence, his field of practice
and the scene of his well-won success. He stands high in the respect
and confidence of a large and lucrative practice, as well as in the
esteem of his fellow-practitioners, and is a valued member of the
American Medical Association, the Oklahoma State Medical Society and
the Grady County Medical Society. Doctor Emanuel was a member of the
Oklahoma State Board of Medical Examiners during the administration
of Governor HASKELL, the state's first governor, and at present is
commissioner of health of Grady County, county physician, a member of
the Grady County Insanity Commission, and for three years secretary
of the Board of Federal Pension Examiners. In 1912 and 1913 he was
city physician of Chickasha.

Doctor Emanuel was married May 9, 1906, at Dallas, Texas, to Miss
Emma G. GILLESPIE, and they have two children: Jenelizabeth, aged
eight years; and Lewis Tucker, aged five years. Doctor Emanuel has
five brothers and one sister: J. R., who is engaged in farming at
Camp, Oklahoma; B. J. and W. E., who are farming in Frederick,
Oklahoma; F. C., a farmer at San Angelo, Texas; M. T., carrying on
farming operations at Frederick, Oklahoma, and Miss Eula Florence,
who is a teacher in the public schools of Ninnekah, Oklahoma.

Doctor Emanuel is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His fraternal
connections include membership in Chickasha Lodge No. 93, A. F. & A.
M.; Chickasha Lodge No. 44, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
Washita Valley Lodge No. 143, Knights of Pythias. He also belongs to
the Praetorians and the Woodmen of the World. Interested always in
the affairs which affect the welfare of Chickasha and the surrounding
country, he has allied himself with several bodies of a local nature,
including the Grady County Farm Bureau and the Chickasha Chamber of
Commerce. He is popular in social circles of the city, as is also
Mrs. Emanuel, and is a member of the Chickasha Country Club. The
family residence is one of the pleasant modern homes here.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy Marie Tenaza, December 10, 1998.