Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Loyal Hamilton Moore, M.D. (1883-1955)

Dr. Loyal Hamilton Moore died in a local hospital in McAllen, Texas on July 8, 1955, of coronary thrombosis.  He was the son of James G. and Samantha Moore, born on October 25, 1883 in Venice, Pennsylvania.  He attended Jefferson Academy in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and Westminster College in New Wilmington.  Then he entered the University of Pittsburgh and completed his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland in 1910.  He practiced for 25 years in Canonsburg and Houston, Pennsylvania before coming to Texas and beginning his practice in McAllen.  He specialized in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association and the Hidalgo-Starr Counties Medical Society, of which he was president in 1943.  He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Shrine and the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Moore married Miss Blanche Peacock on October 26, 1911 in Houston, Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Moore, two children and five grandchildren survive.  His sons are R. Glen Moore of Elsa and William Loyal Moore of McAllen.

++ ++ ++ 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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