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LEMUEL EDMOND GEE, M.D.
Vol. 3, p. 1296-1297

Among the learned vocations, there is none in which the warning to
"make haste slowly" may be followed to greater advantage than in that
of medicine and surgery. Almost without an exception, those who have
gained success in the field of medical and surgical science have been
men of the most careful preparation. Native talent is desirable, but
those who enter practice unprepared by scholastic teaching are at a
disadvantage and have a handicap exceedingly difficult to overcome.
Lemuel Edmond Gee, M.D., of Terral, Oklahoma, is a typical modern
physician and surgeon, who has laid a broad foundation for continuous
personal development and professional progress. Born near Gladewater,
Gregg County, Texas, June 24, 1878, he is a son of Lemuel Merral and
Sallie (ARMSTRONG) Gee.

The Gee family originated in Scotland, went then to Ireland, and was
brought from the latter country to America by the great-grandfather
of Doctor Gee. His grandfather, John Philip Gee, was a Free Will
Baptist minister, who preached for many years in Alabama and in later
life went to Hunt County, Texas, where he died. Lemuel Merral Gee was
born in 1850, in Alabama, and as a young man removed to Gregg County,
Texas, where he conducted a logging camp until 1888, then moving to a
point four miles east of Big Sandy, Texas, where he still resides.
During the greater part of his career he has been an agriculturist
and at the present time is engaged in diversified farming and
stockraising. During the past twenty-seven years he has lived on his
present handsome and valuable tract, a property of 240 acres, which
he has brought to the highest state of cultivation. In the various
departments of agricultural work he has achieved excellent results,
and is widely known in his community as a successful grower of fruit.
Politically, in former years he was a populist, but at this time is
supporting republican candidates and policies. He is a member of the
Christian Church, in which he has been an elder for many years, and
Mrs. Gee also belongs to this faith. Like her husband, she is a
native of Alabama, and they have been the parents of the following
children: Benjamin, who died at the age of sixteen months; Dr. Lemuel
Edmond, of this review; Ludie, who is the wife of Robert A. MARTIN, a
prosperous merchant of Atoka, Oklahoma; Iola, who is the wife of
James HAIGWOOD, residing three and one-half miles east of Big Sandy,
Texas, on a farm; Jackie Ophelia, who is the wife of Roy MACKEY, a
farmer residing six miles east of Big Sandy, Texas; and Robert
Madison, who is employed in farming in the vicinity of the homestead
of his father.

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