Dr. Leo Arthur Nelson of Dallas died in a local hospital on August 18, 1955 after a long illness. He retired from active practice in 1952. He was born February 27, 1889 in Chariton, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. Will Nelson. He received his preliminary education in the public schools and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, which he attended for three years. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1916. Dr. Nelson served his internship and residency at the University Hospital in Iowa City.
In 1918, he served with the Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant at the base hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana. In 1919, he moved to Texas and began his practice in Sherman. He moved to Dallas in 1924, where he helped to found the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic. He specialized in diseases of the ear, nose and throat.
Dr. Nelson was a member of the American Medical Association, and in 1953 was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association through the Dallas County Medical Society, of which two groups he had been a member since shortly after coming to Texas. He was also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the Texas Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.
Dr. Nelson was a Knight Templar and a member of the Shrine and the Baptist Church. He married Miss Cora Kathryn Beeler in Denison, Iowa on August 29, 1917. Survivors include Mrs. Nelson, one daughter, Mrs. Robert Karper of Dallas, one brother, H.R. Nelson of Corvallis, Oregon, and two grandchildren.
++ ++ ++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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