GEORGE C. WILTON - Jefferson Co. Okla

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Information below was copied from:
"History of Oklahoma" by Luther Hill, published in 1908"

DR. GEORGE C. WILTON. One of the physicians of Jefferson county who is recognized as one of the old-timers in practice in this section of the country is Dr. George C. Wilton of Ryan. Although advanced in professional training and methods, he is in many respects a representative of the old school of medical practice. He merits especial mention among the elect of this c1ass of the profession because of the labors undertaken in practicing in southern Indian Territory twenty years ago. He located at Grady, in the Chickasaw country, now in Jefferson county, in 1889. He had a satisfactory patronage, but his patients were scattered over a vast expanse of country almost equal to several counties, and every journey necessitated traveling over miles of distance in which he would hardly see a human habitation. The physician of that time was very much dependent on his own resources, was obliged to find his way out unaided of the most perplexing situations, and was daily confronted by hardships that would daunt the average town doctor of the present. The organizations of professional men at whose meetings occurs an interchange of experience and fraternal advice, played no part in the career of the Physicians in Indian Territory until very recently. His active professional life and civic relations with the people have established Dr. Wilton high in the esteem of the citizens of Jefferson county. He removed to Ryan in 1900, and is closely identified, both professionally and in a business way, with this town. His faith in town and county has led him to invest in property in the county seat, and he has also aided in building up the business section of Ryan by the erection of a first class business block, besides owning- residence property.
Dr. Wilton was born in Wise county, Texas, March 1, 1859, and was reared on a Texas farm, receiving most of his literary education in Decatur. He farmed until about thirty years of age, when, in order to carry out his plans for the practice of medicine, he entered the. College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, and after a term continued his studies in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis. His final courses of preparation were taken in the Fort Worth Medical College, where he was given a degree in April, 1900. Dr. Wilton is a Master Mason, and in politics a Democrat.
Dr. Wilton's parents were, Henry H. and Martha (Fullingim) Wilton. His father, a native of Canada, came to Texas while a young man, joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war, and having been captured died at Chicago in 1862, while a prisoner in Camp Douglas. His widow survived until 1905, dying at the age of seventy-six. Their children were: Dr. Henry F., of Nocona, Texas; Dr. George C.; and Mrs. Jesse Wade, of Decatur, Texas. The Fullingim family, of which the mother was a member, came from near Birmingham, Alabama. Rev. Henry Fullingim, her father, was a Methodist minister, well known among the people of the Red river district, where he died. Dr. George C. Wilton married in Wise county, Texas, in November, 1883, Miss Mary E., daughter of Rev. William Taylor, a Methodist minister of wide repute and favor in many localities of Alabama. He died in Texas in 1908. Mrs. Wilton was born in Alabama in 1857. Dr. and Mrs. Wilton have two children, Maud and Rowan .