CALHOUN, Dr. O.V.: Born 1901

CALHOUN, THROOP

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 11/2/2013 at 01:44:44

Dr. O.V. CALHOUN
**Handwritten: 1953

Dr. O.V. Calhoun, prominent physician and local civil leader, died at a Lincoln, Nebr., hospital at 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, after becoming suddenly ill at his home. He was 52 and lived at 2510 So. 24th.

A practicing physician in Lincoln since 1934, he was a former member and president of the Lincoln-Lancaster health Department and a member of the school board in 1937-38. He had been active in many civic organizations and at the time of his death was president of the Lancaster Tuberculosis Association.

Dr. Calhoun was chief of medical service at the Veterans hospital here, and was on the staffs of Lincoln General and Bryan Memorial hospitals.

Headed Medical Society

The doctor also was a former president of the Lancaster County Medical Society, and a member of the state and national medical associations and the Board of Internal Medicine. He was made a life member of the American College of Physicians in 1938. He was also a member of the Nebraska Heart Association, had done research on heart disease, and had been the chairman and originator of a heart clinic held in Lincoln to explain the facts about heart disease tot he layman.

A collector of old and rare volumes, Dr. Calhoun's library included several thousand medical books. He was an enthusiastic outdoor man, a former college football player, and a fisherman and hunter. He was also active in Cornhusker and American Rose Societies.

A favorite speaker, Dr. Calhoun had discussed medical matters before many Lincoln organizations, and had delivered addresses at many graduation exercises for Lincoln nursing schools.

Came Here in 1934

Born in Birmingham, Iowa, Feb. 6, 1901, he was editor of the Birmingham high school paper, then received a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa Wesleyan University in 1926. He did graduate work at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, and in 1932 he received his doctorate of Medicine from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and interned at Lakeside hospital in Cleveland. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta, Nu Sigman Nu, and Sigma Xi, and Gamma Alpha.

Dr. Calhoun began practice in Lincoln in 1934 with Dr. Harry Flansburg, and opened his own office in 1938. Last January, with three other doctors as his associates, he purchased the former Olney Clinic building at 800 So. 13th, and remodeled it as the Medical Arts Building.

Served in WW II

As a member of the Naval Reserve, Dr. Calhoun had served during world war II at San Diego naval Hospital with the rank of lieutenant commander.

He was a member and former director of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, a Mason, a member of Rotary Club, the University Club, the Country Club, the Candlelight Club and the board of directors of the Social Welfare Society. He was a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.

Surviving are his wife, the former Marjorie R. Throop of Davenport, Iowa; a son, David, at home; a daughter, Jane Ann, a University of Nebraska student, and another daughter, Mary Lou, a student at Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif. Other survivors include his mother, Mrs. O.S. Calhoun of Birmingham.

**Handwritten: DR. O.V. CALHOUN

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 300, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA