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Dr. Charles L. Fields

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Groom, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 35° 12' 2.92505000004", -101° 6' 26.4274300008"
 
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    (1858-1941) Prominent pioneer dentist and farmer. As a boy, cut wood to support mother widowed in Civil War. Worked as carpenter for money to attend dental school in Chicago. Licensed 1890. Came to Canadian in 1903; Groom, 1916. Traveled at times to ranch headquarters and to Ochiltree and Mobeetie, to patients unable to go to him. Often had to ford rivers, hauling his collapsible dental chair and foot-powered drill. Used iodine and laudanum as antiseptics and pain-killers. Operated his own denture lab. Met large demand for gold teeth. Often was paid in beef, produce.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Dr. Charles L. Fields Historical Marker Location Map, Groom, Texas

 
   
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