William Otis Callaway, MD 1888 - 1965
San Mateo county is fortunate in having within its borders so able and efficient a physician as Dr. William Otis Callaway (Eugene Lloyd, Abraham Aaron, Joseph, Job, Sr., Edward, John, Peter Callaway), of Burlingame, who as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases has gained an enviable reputation and a large and remunerative practice.
He was born in Engleville, Colorado, on the 23rd of October, 1888, and is a son of Eugene Lloyd and Mary Etta (Detamore) Callaway. His father was born in Alabama January 28, 1858, and became one of the early pioneers of Colorado, in which state he located in the early '70s. He there became successful as a wholesale merchant, having business organizations in Denver and Pueblo. He died April 18, 1921, in San Francisco, California, and is buried in the Cypress Lawn cemetery in that city.
The mother was born in Virginia, October 18, 1862, and is a daughter of Peter Detamore, who later became a cattle king in Colorado. When she was a little girl the family went west, traveling by train to Kit Carson, Kansas, and thence by ox team to Colorado. She now makes her home with her son in Burlingame.
William Otis Callaway attended the public shcools of Colorado, graduating in 1906 from the Grand Central high school in Pueblo. He attended the University of Colorado, from which he was graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1910, and then matriculated in the medical school of Tulane University, at New Orleans, Louisiana, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1914. He served his internship during 1915-16 in Charity Hospital, New Orleans, and became resident surgeon at the Hotel Dieu, in that city, where he remained until the United States entered the World war. He immediately enlisted in the United States Medical Reserve Corps, in which he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and was later ordered overseas, serving with Base Hospital No. 102, which was attached to the Sixth Italian Army. He was located in the town of Vicenza, province of Venetia, northern Italy, until after the close of the war, and in 1919 returned to the United States and was sent to the Army Medical School in Washington, D. C., where he took a postgraduate medical course. On graduating therefrom, he was commissioned a captain in the medical corps of the regular army and was ordered to the Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, where he served for two and a half years as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. He then resigned from the army and came to Burlingame, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Thorough educational training and extensive experience have made him more than ordinarily efficient in his special field of work and his reputation as a successful physician extends far beyound the boundaries of his home county.
The Doctor is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity, the Omega Upsilon Phi medical fraternity and the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary fraternity, and he also belongs to the Burlingame Rotary Club and the Burlingame Country Club. Cordial and friendly in manner, he has formed a wide acquaintance since coming to San Mateo county, and his professional ability and strong personality have gained for him a high place in public esteem.
The above article is from History of San Mateo County, California, Roy W. Cloud, S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill., pp. 2-120-2-124, 1928.
As of the 1930 census, at the age of 41, he had never married. He died October 3, 1965 in San Diego, California.
He was born in Engleville, Colorado, on the 23rd of October, 1888, and is a son of Eugene Lloyd and Mary Etta (Detamore) Callaway. His father was born in Alabama January 28, 1858, and became one of the early pioneers of Colorado, in which state he located in the early '70s. He there became successful as a wholesale merchant, having business organizations in Denver and Pueblo. He died April 18, 1921, in San Francisco, California, and is buried in the Cypress Lawn cemetery in that city.
The mother was born in Virginia, October 18, 1862, and is a daughter of Peter Detamore, who later became a cattle king in Colorado. When she was a little girl the family went west, traveling by train to Kit Carson, Kansas, and thence by ox team to Colorado. She now makes her home with her son in Burlingame.
William Otis Callaway attended the public shcools of Colorado, graduating in 1906 from the Grand Central high school in Pueblo. He attended the University of Colorado, from which he was graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1910, and then matriculated in the medical school of Tulane University, at New Orleans, Louisiana, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1914. He served his internship during 1915-16 in Charity Hospital, New Orleans, and became resident surgeon at the Hotel Dieu, in that city, where he remained until the United States entered the World war. He immediately enlisted in the United States Medical Reserve Corps, in which he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and was later ordered overseas, serving with Base Hospital No. 102, which was attached to the Sixth Italian Army. He was located in the town of Vicenza, province of Venetia, northern Italy, until after the close of the war, and in 1919 returned to the United States and was sent to the Army Medical School in Washington, D. C., where he took a postgraduate medical course. On graduating therefrom, he was commissioned a captain in the medical corps of the regular army and was ordered to the Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, where he served for two and a half years as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. He then resigned from the army and came to Burlingame, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Thorough educational training and extensive experience have made him more than ordinarily efficient in his special field of work and his reputation as a successful physician extends far beyound the boundaries of his home county.
The Doctor is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity, the Omega Upsilon Phi medical fraternity and the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary fraternity, and he also belongs to the Burlingame Rotary Club and the Burlingame Country Club. Cordial and friendly in manner, he has formed a wide acquaintance since coming to San Mateo county, and his professional ability and strong personality have gained for him a high place in public esteem.
The above article is from History of San Mateo County, California, Roy W. Cloud, S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill., pp. 2-120-2-124, 1928.
As of the 1930 census, at the age of 41, he had never married. He died October 3, 1965 in San Diego, California.
posted by DFM | 8/27/2004
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home