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Dr. Galvin Luther Johnson

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Dr.  Galvin Luther Johnson

 Galvin Luther Johnson was born Sept 30, 1879 in Kingston, Alabama, one of a family of 16 children.  He attended grade school in Alabama until he went to Texas at the age of 20 and attended League High School for a year before teaching school in Navarro County.

He graduated from Memphis Hospital Medical College in 1903 and first practiced in Lamar County, Alabama before moving to Johnson, I.T., near Byars.

In 1905 Dr. Johnson married Zealand Harris, daughter of J.A. Harris, who had a store in Byars.  In 1910 they moved to Pauls Valley and he formed a partnership with Dr. T.C. Branum.

Dr. Johnson was one of the founders of the Pauls Valley Sanitarium, Pauls Valley's first hospital and the Lindsey-Johnson-Shirley Clinic and hospital which was formed in 1937 at 220 North Chickasaw Street.

Dr. Johnson served in the Medical Corps during World War I and ran the clinic and hospital with Dr. Hugh H. Monroe, while Drs. Edward T. Shirley and Ray H. Lindsey were serving their country during World War II.

Dr. Johnson was a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners.  He was active in the Christian Church, and a Mason and a Shriner.

 

 

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