L. G. ROBERTS and his son also had an announcement of their dental office in the same issue.

MARK H. PATTEN, a native of Ohio, came to El Paso in 1872 and opened a dental office. His home from July, 1879 to November, 1881 was the house recently moved from its location just south of the St. Andrew's Episcopal church.

JOHN A SCHOFIELD, a native of Pennsylvania, studied at the Cincinnati Dental College and practiced for four years with S. W. Wood, dentist in Wilmington, Ohio. He began his El Paso practice in 1879 which continued for fifty years.

JAMES M. FISHBURN, son of pioneer Jacob Fishburn, studied dentistry under Dr. Mark H. Patten and was granted a diploma after taking the State Board's examination. He practiced over thirty years in El Paso.

CHARLES O. PATTON was born northwest of El Paso. He graduated from the East Side High School in 1890, and in 1896 from the Chicago Dental College. Beginning his El Paso practice in 1896, his record continues, longest in El Paso's history.

WILL THORPE, local boy, now of Redlands, California, practiced here briefly in 1907-8.

MARIAN WARNER was a dentist in Secor in 1905.

CLAUDE NICHOLS purchased the Will Thorpe dental office and practiced dentistry for several years before becoming associated with the Belt Automobile Indemnity Association.

A. CARLETON KING, a native of LeRoy, passed the state examination in 1900 but did not finish his dental schooling until 1901. Dr. King had a dental office in El Paso from 1916 until 1952.

GORDON D. HEIPLE, a graduate of the Illinois Dental School and a postgraduate of Northwestern Dental School in 1942, opened his office in El Paso in 1939 at 35 West Front Street. He lives at 336 East First.

VERNON HAAS is a graduate of El Paso Township High School and the University of Illinois Dental College in 1942. He began his practice in Lexington in 1946 and opened a Bloomington office in 1949. He purchased Dr. A. C. King's practice in El Paso in 1952 and has conducted that office on Tuesdays and Thursdays since then at 10 North Central Street.

DOCTORS, SURGEONS, OSTEOPATHS AND CHIROPRACTORS.

WILLIAM C. ANTHONY, "a regular educated physician," practiced in Bowling Green in 1837 but left soon after 1841.

ALBERT REYNOLDS, SR., located in Bowling Green in 1838 and in Kappa in 1854. He was a resident of Piketon, Ohio in 1827.

ALBERT REYNOLDS, JR., graduated from Woodward College, Ohio, and from the Rush Medical College in 1848. He died in El Paso in 1882.

SAMUEL L. KERR took his medical course at Carrolton, Ohio and moved to Kappa in June, 1856 from a location near Fort Wayne, Indiana. He came to El Paso the following year.

PETER L. TRIBBEY, physician and surgeon, came from Indiana to Secor in 1859.

ALANSON V. STOCKWELL, homeopathic physician, came from Vermont to El Paso in 1859. He served as a surgeon in the Civil War.

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