William Rozell McGlathery, M.D. (1882-1920)

Dr. William Rozell McGlathery (undated photo)

Education: LSU (1904), Tulane School of Medicine (1908)

Parents: James Melkijah (1845-1918) and Georgia Ann Campbell (1850-1937) McGlathery

Spouse: Margery Frances Lloyd (1887-1925)

Children: William Rozell, Jr.

Tenure in Oil City: 1908-1917

Dr. McGlathery was born in Tennessee and lived in Pass Christian, Mississippi where his parents owned a hotel. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1904 and from the Tulane Medical School in 1908. That same year he set up practice in Oil City per the LSU catalog.


Dr. McGlathery as an LSU underclassman....

William R. McGlathery as an LSU  student

 in 1902

Source: 1902 LSU Gumbo (yearbook), Page 88

....and graduate of the Tulane Medical School.

1908 Tulane University Jambalaya (yearbook), Page 50

Listed as a physician practicing in Oil City that same year.

Source: Catalogue of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College - 1908, Page 232

In a news story perhaps appropriate for Murder, Mayhem, and Vice, Part I (AKA, I Found My Thrill On Reno Hill), the good doctor was once noted to have removed a bullet from the cheek of a shooting victim in 1911.

Times 17-Dec-1911, Page 21


Dr. McGlathery married Margery Frances Lloyd of Chicago, Illinois in 1910 and they had a son, William Rozell, Jr. in 1913.

Articles conflict however in 1914, either he or partner P. T. Alexander bought out the other to become sole proprietor of the Alexander Drug Co., open at the time.

He continued to practice in Oil City until sometime in late 1917 or early 1918, when he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to be with his wife who had been living there for a couple of years for health reasons. While it's not clear what her illness was, that was a popular destination for people having tuberculosis and other lung issues. There he continued practicing medicine until 1920 when sadly he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Margery passed away in 1925, possibly from the aforementioned illness, as she was only 36.

Source: American Medical Association Notice of Death Aug 7th 1920, Page 426

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery; Colorado Springs, CO

Epilogue

OC native William Rozell McGlathery, Jr. afterward lived with his maternal grandparents in Chicago, graduated from the University of Illinois, and served as an officer in WWII. He lived for many years in Kentwood, La. before passing away in 1985.


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