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This portfolio belonged to Dr. C.O. Hoover, a general practioner who practiced medicine in Kansas for 55 years. After receiving a diploma from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1910, he treated patients in Overbrook for 14 years before moving to Quinter in 1925. Hoover also served as the Gove County health officer and the coroner. In 1957 he appeared on the television series "Wide, Wide World" in an episode titled "The House I Enter - A Television Portrait of the American Doctor." The show used two Kansas doctors to demonstrate how a Kansas plan provided small communities with topnotch medical care. Hoover died in 1973.
Date: between 1900 and 1940
Item Number: 319466
Call Number: 2016.21.7
KSHS Identifier: 2016.21.7
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Medical doctors
Collections - Museum
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Personal Gear - Wallet
People - Notable Kansans - Hoover, Charles Oliver, 1881-1973
Places - Cities and towns - Overbrook
Places - Cities and towns - Quinter
Places - Counties - Gove
Places - Counties - Osage
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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