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ROBERT ELMORE LOONEY, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1083
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In the ranks of Oklahoma's medical profession, one whose skill in
the healing art has won for him a high standing with the medical
faculty and an enviable reputation among the people generally, is Dr.
Robert Elmore Looney, who, since 1908, has been engaged in practice
at Oklahoma City. While his professional business is a large a
constantly-increasing one, making incessant and heavy demands upon
his time, Doctor Looney has been able to serve in a number of
positions of importance to which he has been called, and in which he
has displayed a profound knowledge of the most enlightened tenets of
his calling.

Robert E. Looney was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, August 12,
1877, and is a son of Robert Taylor and Alice (NEELY) Looney. His
parents were natives of Tennessee, and throughout his life Robert T.
Looney was engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he won success
through perseverance and untiring industry. While the father was
himself too young for service during the Civil war, the family was
well represented in that struggle, three of his brothers having
fought in the ranks of the army of the Confederacy.

The public schools of Davidson County furnished Robert E. Looney
with his early education, following which he was a teacher in the
high school at Goodlettsville, Tennessee, for two years. He then
entered upon his cherished medical studies at the University of
Nashville, Tennessee, from which institution he was graduated in
1902, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and further prepared
himself for his calling by spending one year as interne at the
Davidson County Hospital. Doctor Looney entered actively upon the
duties of his profession in 1903, at Lindsey, Indian Territory, and
while there was a member of the Chickasaw Medical Society. To further
his studies, in 1907 he went to New York City, where he did
postgraduate work at Bellevue Hospital, serving a term service on the
resident staff, and on his return to the West, in 1908, located at
Oklahoma City, where he has been engaged in a general practice to the
present time, now occupying offices at No. 622 State National Bank
Building. Through the exposition of his skill and particular talents,
Doctor Looney has attracted to himself a very gratifying patronage
and has gained no insignificant place among Oklahoma City's
practitioners.

As an educator in his profession, Doctor Looney has also made his
name well known. In 1908 he was professor of physiology at the
medical school of Epworth University, and when this school became a
part of the University of Oklahoma, in 1910, he was appointed
assistant professor of obstetrics, and in 1915 associate professor of
obstetrics, a capacity in which he still acts. He is a member of the
staffs of University and St. Anthony's hospitals, and is attending
obstetrician of the latter. Doctor Looney belongs to the Oklahoma
State Medical Society, the Oklahoma City Academy of Medicine. He has
always been ready to contribute of his energies and time to the
city's interests, and from May, 1909, until May, 1911, was city
physician of Oklahoma City. In fraternal circles, Doctor Looney is
well known, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of
Oklahoma City Lodge No. 36, A. F. & A. M.; past master of Lindsay (I.
T.) Lodge No. 248, A. F. & A. M., and a member of all the Scottish
Rite bodies, of Oklahoma Consistory, Valley of Guthrie, and of India
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., holds membership in Capital City Lodge No.
231, Knights of Pythias, and is past chancellor of Endowment Lodge
No. 77, Lindsay, Indian Territory. He belongs to the Oklahoma City
Men's Dinner Club, the Oklahoma City Rotary Club, the Oklahoma City
Golf and Country Club, and is connected religiously with St. Luke's
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In January, 1912, Doctor Looney
was honored by appointment to the personal staff of Governor Lee
Cruse, and in 1915 was appointed on the personal of Gov. Robert L.
Williams, and holds a commission as colonel thereon. He is one of the
city's most popular professional men and his career is being watched
with interest by a host of friends and well-wishers.

On September 2, 1903, Doctor Looney was united in marriage with Miss
Sallie CORE, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Core, of Nashville,
Tennessee. Doctor Core has since about 1905 been superintendent of
the Davidson County Hospital. Doctor and Mrs. Looney have no
children. They reside at their pleasant and attractive home, at No.
1616 North Klein Street, Oklahoma City.

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