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Dr. Walter Griswold Bisbee

Male 1876 - 1944  (67 years)

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  • Name Walter Griswold Bisbee  [1]
    Prefix Dr.
    Birth 1 Aug 1876  Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Gender Male
    Census 23 Jan 1920  Chandler, Lincoln, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 5 Apr 1930  Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Death 17 Mar 1944  [3] 
    Burial Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, Lincoln, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Walter G. Bisbee Memorial with Gravestone Photo    		 Walter G. Bisbee Memorial with Gravestone Photo
    created at Find A Grave by Heartland Volunteer
    inscription includes "Captain Medical Corps"
    Person ID I5594  Bisbee
    Last Modified 28 Jul 2014

    Father Frank Abner Bisbee,   b. 20 Jan 1843, Chester, Windsor, Vermont, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1932 (Age 88 years)
    Mother Eliza Griswold,   b. 1844   d. 1913 (Age 69 years)
    Marriage 22 Aug 1866  Londonderry, Windham, Vermont, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • Couple was married by G. S. Godall, minister, Londonderry, Vt. [1]
    Family ID F1856  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eleanor Carpenter,   b. Abt 1881, , , Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 3 Dec 1902 
    Children 
     1. Wallace Bisbee,   b. Abt 1907, , , Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F11168  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2010

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Aug 1876 - Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 23 Jan 1920 - Chandler, Lincoln, Oklahoma, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 5 Apr 1930 - Bristow, Creek, Oklahoma, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, Lincoln, Oklahoma, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Walter Griswold Bisbee, M.D.
      Representing the first class ability and skill of his profession and enjoying a large general practice, Doctor Bisbee is one of the young physicians and surgeons of Oklahoma who have quickly taken front rank in their profession. Doctor Bisbee has a large general practice as a physician and surgeon in Chandler. He began practice with an excellent equipment and the test of real work found him qualified for this
      important service among the social professions. Doctor Bisbee is a graduate from the Dartmouth Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia with the class of 1901.
      Walter Griswold Bisbee was born at Dexter, Iowa, August 1, 1876. His father, Frank A. Bisbee, was one of the leading citizens of Dexter, and was born in Vermont of an old Vermont family, the ancestors having come from England to New England in the early days, and men of that name participated in all the early wars of the country, including the
      Revolution and the War of 1812. Frank A. Bisbee is now living at Chandler at the age of seventy-one, and his wife died at the age of seventy.
      Doctor Bisbee, after some experience in the Post-Graduate and City Hospital of Philadelphia came to Chandler and began active practice. He soon had all he could do, and the almost constant driving over the country, loss of sleep, and arduous devotion to his duty caused a breakdown in health. He then gave up his practice and spent two years
      in recuperating in San Antonio, Texas. While there he resumed practice, but soon afterward returned to Chandler and now enjoys a reputation with the leading physicians and surgeons of Central Oklahoma.
      Doctor Bisbee was married December 3, 1902, to Eleanor Carpenter. She comes from an old Tennessee family at Knoxville, where she was reared and educated. Her father was Maj. D. A. Carpenter, an officer in the Union army, with which he made a gallant record of service. Doctor Bisbee and wife have one son, Wallace, now seven years of age. Outside of his home and his profession Doctor Bisbee has few interests. With him medicine is not only a profession but also a hobby and enthusiasm, and he finds his chief interests in continued studies, and no doctor in the state keeps more closely in touch with the advance of knowledge in medical and surgical science than he.

      Transcribed by Norma Capehart March 5, 2003.
      SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
      Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
      American Historical Society, 1916). Vol. 3, p 1916-1917

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 254.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 375.

    3. [S2754] www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Internet Website.

    4. [S564] Bisbee, Walter Griswold (i5594): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2010): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 1469, enumeration district (ED) 103, sheet 13B, page 23B, line 89, dwelling 240, family 316; image accessed 4 Jul 2010. Enumerated 23 Jan 1920 (household as of 1 January).), 1920.OK.Lincoln.Chandler.103.25.

    5. [S563] Bisbee, Walter Griswold (i5594): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 1900, enumeration district (ED) 5, sheet 8A, page 78A, line 17; image accessed 4 Jul 2010. Enumerated 5apr1930 (household as of 1 April).), 1930.OK.Creek.Bristow.