Bios.Tulsa,OK HOUSER, Mortimer A. (M. D.)
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Posted by Charmaine Keith on Mon, 23 Nov 1998
Surname: HOUSER, LEGORE, JACKMAN, FRYER, WEHN
MORTIMER A. HOUSER, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1242 
With professional connections of the highest order Doctor Houser since 1907, the year of Oklahoma statehood, has been identified with his profession in this state, and since 1909 has been a resident of Tulsa. He is a surgeon more than a physician, and has unusual qualifications for practice in what is coming to be recognized more and more as a distinctive and co-ordinate profession instead of a department of medicine. With excellent ability and experience, Doctor Houser also possesses that prestige which goes with solid ancestry. 
His father has for many years been one of the prominent newspaper men and public leaders in the State of Wisconsin. Doctor Houser himself was born at Mondovi in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, April 30, 1879. His father, Hon. Walter Livingston Houser, was born at Tidioute in Warren County, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1855, his ancestors having been German people who established their home in Pennsylvania several generations ago. Doctor Houser's mother was Susan Cora LEGORE, who was born in Wisconsin, of remote French lineage. Doctor Houser was the first in a family of five children and the other two now living are Ethel, wife of Ralph W. JACKMAN of Madison, Wisconsin, and Hazel, wife of John FRYER of Toledo, Ohio. Walter L. Houser in 1865, at the age of ten, accompanied his widowed mother from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, and while growing to manhood in Pierce County was given the equivalent of an excellent academic education. At the age of twenty he established his home at Mondovi, and in 1876 became the founder of the Mondovi Herald, and is still one of the editors and publishers of this old and stanch newspaper which has had a successful existence and an influential part in the political and civic life of the Badger State for fully forty years. He was also concerned in the establishment of the Milwaukee Free Press, which has long been one of the leading daily papers in Wisconsin. A man of distinctive business ability and strong intellectuality, Walter L. Houser has achieved large and worthy success both in a material way and in public affairs. He is the owner of a large amount of real estate in Buffalo County, and is identified with the agricultural and stock growing industry. In 1895 he took a prominent part in organizing the Bank of Mondovi, in which he has since served as a directory. He has filled various local offices of public trust, served as assistant chief clerk and later as chief clerk of the Senate, and in 1902 was elected secretary of state of Wisconsin, as candidate on the republican ticket, and was re-elected in 1904. In 1902 he received 193,631 votes against 134,755 votes given his democratic opponent, Louis A. LONG. During his political career Mr. Houser has been a close associate and friend of Hon. Robert M. LAFOLLETTE, the distinguished senator and former governor of Wisconsin, and was manager of Mr. LaFollette's campaign for the nomination for president during the national campaign of 1912. He went with Mr. LaFollette in the ranks of the progressive party in the same year. His is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church. 
Dr. Mortimer A. Houser grew up in a home and among associations which could not fail to bring out the best in his character. He attended the public schools of his native village, and subsequently was a student both in the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago, having been a member of the class of 1898 in the latter university. Professionally he is a product of one of the oldest and best known schools of the Middle West, having attended Rush Medical College of Chicago, but completed his medical course in the Milwaukee Medical College, where he was graduated M. D. in 1903. Before taking up active practice he gained valuable clinical experience in the Trinity and Milwaukee hospitals at Milwaukee. Doctor Houser began private practice in 1905 at Arapahoe, Nebraska, remained there until 1907, and on coming to Oklahoma first established his home and office at Pawhuska in Osage County. Since 1909 he has lived in Tulsa, and in this broader field has built up a large and representative practice, now confined exclusively to surgery. His practice in this specialty is by no means confined to the City of Tulsa and he attends important cases all over the northeastern section of Oklahoma. He is an active member of the Tulsa County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. 
In politics a democrat, Doctor Houser is a good citizen without being a politician, and usually favors the best man in local affairs. Fraternally he is a member of Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E., and his home is one of the popular social centers at Tulsa. February 18, 1907, Doctor Houser married Miss Florence J. WEHN. She was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, attended the university of Nebraska, and among her friends and local club circles is recognized for her talent as a musician. Mrs. Houser completed her musical training in both vocal and instrumental in one of the leading conservatories of San Francisco. California. 
Transcribed by Charmaine Keith, November 04, 1998