Howard Weber, donated complete equipment for the surgical and obstetrical floor. Many individuals and societies, including a number of doctors and their wives furnished rooms and name plates for doors. The duties of this board were to secure furniture and equipment and manage the affairs and business of the hospital. Engle of Ochelata and a man from Vera, J.E. Other members of this board were Burdette Blue and R.L. Athey became chairman of the board of control appointed by the county commissioners. Joint efforts of the Medical Society, returned veterans and local citizens succeeded in voting bonds, awarding contracts, constructing and furnishing a new building, which was occupied on March 22, 1921.ĭr. Somerville was on its medical staff and a few years later was named its medical director. When the company was organized in 1917, Dr. He has been a member of its school board, county superintendent of health, county physician, a member of the World War I Appeals Board, local physician for the Katy railroad, and for 30 years was associated with Phillips Petroleum Company. He has served the community of Bartlesville in numerous capacities. He enjoys recalling and relating the incidents related to his practice as a pioneer physician in the young and growing town, and his genial nature and excellent memory serve him will when he is relating these experiences. Somerville has many memories of the early days of Bartlesville, its growth and progress. Weston's columns recount the history of Bartlesville as well as Washington, Nowata and Osage counties.ĭr. Editor's Note: In collaboration with the Bartlesville Area History Museum, the Examiner-Enterprise has revived the late Edgar Weston's 'Revisiting the Past' columns that ran in the newspaper from 1997-99.