Dr. Edward Bacon Brannin of Dallas, Texas, died in a local hospital on September 13, 1955. Dr. Brannin was born on September 19, 1886 in Cisco, Texas and was the son of Lewis Edward and Katie Bacon Brannin.
He graduated from Texas Christian University, then in Waco, in 1905, then spent two years in the old Fort Worth Medical College. He completed his medical education at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1909, and has practiced medicine in Dallas since that time.
He took postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, specializing in gynecology and endocrinology.
He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and also was a member of the Dallas Southern Clinical Society and Phi Chi medical fraternity. Dr. Brannin's membership in other organizations included Phi Delta Theta, Rotary International, the Dallas Athletic Club and the Community Church.
During World War I, he was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Deming, New Mexico and Camp Fullerton, Kansas.
Miss Mary Fidelia Skiles and Dr. Brannin were married on July 3, 1911 in Sherman, Texas. Mrs. Brannin survives, as do two daughters; Mrs. Arch J. McNeill and Mrs. E. Martin Caldwell, both of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Schneider of Washington D.C., and Mrs. D.D. Templeton of DeWitt, New York. He is also survived by four brothers, Dr. Dan Brannin and C.P. Brannin of Dallas, Louis D. Brannin of Ramona, Oklahoma and R.C. Brannin of Great Bend, Kansas.
+++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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