Dr. Frank Douglas Boyd/ Mattie E. Callabran
Frank Douglas Boyd, physician, son of
John A. and Amy E. (Harrison) Boyd,
was born on Christmas Eve, 1867, at Rusk, Texas. He demonstrated an
interest
in medicine while attending public school in Cherokee County. After
completing
his undergraduate work at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas
(now Texas A&M University), he left for Kentucky to study medicine
at the
University of Louisville. He received his degree in 1890 and left for
New York,
where he did additional study before leaving for San Antonio, Texas.
There he
established his first medical practice and, on April 21, 1892, married
Mattie E. Callaban. The couple had three
children, but their two sons
did not survive childhood.
In 1897 Boyd moved to Fort Worth and opened an office with Dr. Charles
Head. The two men quickly established a reputation as leading eye,
ear,
nose, and throat specialists. In addition to his medical practice Boyd
lectured on hygiene and physical diagnosis at the medical school of
Fort
Worth University (now Texas Wesleyan University). Later he joined the
staff of Baylor Medical College in Dallas as professor of
otolaryngology. To keep abreast of his field he did postgraduate work
in
Vienna, Berlin, and London. He also found time to volunteer his services
as an oculist for the State Masonic Orphans Home in Fort Worth.
Boyd was a member of the American Medical Association and the American
Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology; he was a fellow of the
American College of Surgeons. He chaired the Board of Council of the
State Medical Association and in 1914 was president of the Texas State
Medical Association (see texas medical association). During the last
two
decades of his medical practice he was the senior member of Boyd and
Boyne Hospital in Fort Worth. In addition, he was a Scottish Rite Mason
and Baptist deacon. He continued to practice medicine until he
died,after a brief illness, on January 4, 1929. He was buried in Fort
Worth.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 5, 1929. Frank W.
Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E.C. Barker and
E.
W. Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914;
rpt. 1916]). Memorial and Genealogical Record of Southwest Texas
(Chicago: Goodspeed, 1894; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: