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DAVID A. MYERS, M.D., C.M.
Vol. 3, p. 1236-1237

Among the physicians who settled at Lawton in the opening year of
1901, Doctor Myers has probably the highest distinctions in the field
of surgery. With Dr. A. L. BLESH and Cr. LeRoy YOUNG, he was a member
of the committee on credentials to pass on all candidates from the
State of Oklahoma for the honor of fellow in the American College of
Surgery. This indicates his recognized standing as an American
surgeon, and his local practice in that specialty has made him known
all over the western part of the state.

Doctor Myers was born in Cambria, Wisconsin, June 16, 1875, a son of
G. D. and Maggie E. (KITTELL) Myers. The Myers family came originally
from Scotland, where they were members of the Rob Roy Clan. On coming
to America they located in New York State, probably before the
Revolutionary war. The Kittells came from Holland, settling in
Pennsylvania, and this family contains ancestors who participated in
the Revolutionary war. G. D. Myers was born in New York State in 1839
and died at Prentice, Wisconsin, in 1905. As a boy in 1857 he removed
to Southern Wisconsin, where for many years he was in the grain and
elevator business, and subsequently proprietor of a hotel in
Prentice. His wife was born in Pennsylvania in 1843 and died at
Prentice in 1903. Their children were: Fred, who is connected with
the El Rose Development Company at El Rose, Saskatchewan, Canada;
Major, who died at the age of seven years; and Doctor David.

Doctor Myers as a boy attended school in Cambria and subsequently
was graduated from the high school at Marshfield, Wisconsin. He
obtained a liberal education, spending two years in the University of
Minnesota, and then entering one of the most conspicuous professional
training centers in America, McGill University at Montreal, where he
was graduated in 1898 with the degree M. D. and C. M. He has since
taken post graduate courses, specializing in surgery at St. Louis and
Kansas City, and has always kept in close touch with the leaders of
the profession. After a few months of practice in Colby, Wisconsin,
illness compelled him to recuperate in Texas, where he remained about
five months. Returning to his old home at Prentice, Wisconsin, he
practiced there a short time, and then became interne or house
surgeon in St. Mary's Hospital in the clinic of Charles W. OVIATT at
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He remained there a year and held a similar
position for a few months in St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac.

Since removing to Lawton in 1901 Doctor Myers has had a general
medical and surgical practice, but more and more his time has been
taken up with surgery. His offices are in the Simpson Building. He is
an ex-president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, a former
president and secretary of the Comanche County Medical Society, has
served as vice president of the Medical Association of the Southwest,
and is a member of the State Medical Society, the America Medical
Association and the Southern Medical Association. He is on the staff
of the Southwestern Hospital at Lawton, and formerly was one of the
proprietors of the Lawton General Hospital. For nine years he served
as county superintendent of public health and for two years was city
physician at Lawton.

Doctor Myers is a democrat, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and
his fraternal affiliations comprise membership in Lodge No. 325,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Phillips, Wisconsin; Lodge No.
1056, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Lawton; Modern
Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, Woodmen Circle,
American Nobles, and Knights and Ladies of Security.

In 1902 at Oklahoma City Doctor Myers married Daisy M. HERRIOTT, who
came from Plattsburg, Missouri. There is one child, Wanda Hallie, who
now lives at home, and has attended Hardin College in Mexico,
Missouri, and Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, November 06, 1998.