Cortez F. Enloe, M.D. Bio

Cortez F. Enloe, M.D.
Son of James T. Enloe and Mary Ryan

For 39 years Dr. Cortez F. Enloe engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Missouri, and with the exception of a few months following his graduation from Vanderbilt University, has continuously been a representative of the profession in Jefferson City. He now has well appointed offices in the Central Trust building and has long since been accorded an extensive patronage.

A native of this state, Doctor Enloe was born in Clarksburg, June 28, 1881, a son of Captain James T. Enloe and Mary (Ryan) Enloe, who were also born in Missouri. James taught school in early manhood, while later he followed mercantile pursuits. He was a civic-minded man whose deep interest in the public welfare was manifest in many tangible and helpful ways. The cause of education ever found him a stalwart champion and after ceasing his teaching activities he served for a number of years as County Superintendent of schools. When the Civil War was in progress he became a member of the 9th Regiment of Provisional Enrolled Militia in 1863 and was made Captain of Company F, after having previously served as 2nd Lieutenant of Company B, 42nd Regiment of Missouri Militia, with promotion to Captain of Company B, Enrolled Missouri Militia, August 20, 1864. He died in 1917 and his wife has also passed away.

Doctor Cortez Enloe pursued his public school education in Versailles, Morgan County, Missouri. He had carefully considered his choice of a life work and had determined to qualify for medical practice. He attended the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, now the Medical Department of Washington University and then entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where he pursued his professional course, winning his M.D. degree at his graduation with the class of 1901. He took post- graduate courses at the New York Polyclinic School, at Heidelberg University and at the University of Vienna. Immediately afterward he went to Greenville, Wayne County, Missouri, but a few months later came to Jefferson City, where he has since successfully practiced both medicine and surgery, although specializing in the latter. He was surgeon at the Missouri State Penitentiary from 1909 to 1913. In 1909-1911 he was 1st Lt. And later Captain of the 3rd Regiment of the Missouri National Guard and also, at the request off Governor Hadley, he served as prison physician temporarily until the vacancy could be filled. During the World War period he was appointed a member of the district draft board No. 2 in the western division of Missouri and gave his entire time to his duties in that connection. He is now serving on the staff of St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City. Formerly he was identified with zinc mining in the Picher District of Oklahoma and to further the development of the zinc deposits in that area, he organized five different companies, including the Jefferson City Mining Company, the King Brand Mining Co., the NY Mining Co., and the C&O Mining Co., all of Picher, and was vice president of the Cortez Cortez Mining Company, his activities in that field having been a large contributing element in the prosperity that followed the working of the zinc mines.

Submitted by: Kelly Hagen

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