Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Alkire, H. L. 1862 - 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

H. L. ALKIRE, M. D.

    H. L. ALKIRE, M. D., dean of the Kansas Medical College, at Topeka, one of
the leading specialists on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, has been
associated with this well-known medical institution since the year of its
organization. He is a native of Illinois, born near Springfield, November 17,
1862, and is a son of W. W. and Judith (Lightfoot) Alkire.

    Although our subject was born in Illinois, he was developed in Kansas, where
he received district school and university training. After three years of the
latter, he read medicine under Dr. D. J. Holland, of Atchison, for 18 months and
then entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, where he was graduated
with his degree, in 1887. He practiced in Western Kansas until 1889 and then
settled at Topeka, where he continued in general practice until 1895. Finding
his greatest professional interest to be in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and
throat, he took a course in the New York Polyclinic School, returning to Topeka
in 1896. Since then he has made a specialty of the above diseases and has met
with great success in this line. Since 1904 he has been dean of the Kansas
Medical College, having been connected with this institution since its
organization, first as professor of chemistry, then in the chair of anatomy, and
at present fills the chair of anatomy and otology.

    Dr. Alkire is a member of all the leading medical organizations including
the American Medical Association, the Kansas State Medical Society, the Shawnee
County Medical Society, the Northeast District Society, the Golden Belt Society,
and the Society of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. He is also a Mason of high
degree, having passed through the order's higher branches, and belongs to other
fraternal orders. Dr. Alkire was married at Omaha, Nebraska, to Emma V.
Somerlott, who was born in Maryland.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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