C. DANA CARTER, M. D.

C. DANA CARTER, M. D.
Dr. C. Dana Carter, proprietor of the Carter Sanitarium at Hot Springs, Thermopolis, Wyoming, ranks with the leading surgeons of the state. Constantly studying along the lines of modern scientific investigation and research and thus keeping in touch with the most advanced thought of the day, he has continually broadened his powers and promoted his efficiency and the profession regards him as a peer of the ablest surgeons of Wyoming. A native of Washington, Iowa, he was born on the 24th of May, 1874, his parents being John W. and Allie P. (Perkins) Carter, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Washington county, Iowa, where their marriage was celebrated. The father is a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran church and at the present time is pastor of the church of that denomination at Logansport, Indiana. Dr. Carter pursued his education in the common and high schools of Eugene, Oregon, being there graduated as a member of the class of 1891. He determined upon the practice of medicine and surgery as a life work and in preparation therefor he entered, in 1892, the Missouri Medical College, now the medical department of the Washington University of St. Louis, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He afterward served for a year as interne in the St. Louis City Hospital, gaining that broad and valuable experience which can never be obtained as readily in any other way as in hospital practice. In 1896 he came to Wyoming, settling at Basin, being the first physician in the northern country. He forded and swam the streams with his horse, sometimes astride of the animal, and again holding onto his mane, and thus he would respond to the calls for his professional service. He traveled over the country many miles in every direction and in all kinds of weather, counting no personal effort too great if he could advance the welfare of his patients. The physician's life is often one of sacrifice and this is especially true of the man who practices upon the frontier. In 1912 Dr. Carter removed to Thermopolis and in 1916 built the Carter Sanitarium on the Hot Springs reservation; the building being erected at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars. It is the finest building of its kind in the state and is unsurpassed in its equipment. Dr. Carter is receiving a merited patronage, his practice steadily growing in volume and importance. He is surgeon for the Burlington Railroad Company, is county physician of Hot Springs county at the present time and was formerly county health officer of Bighorn county for fourteen years. Dr. Carter performed the first Caesarean operation ever performed in the state, accomplishing this difficult task alone in a little log cabin in Basin, Wyoming, in 1900. In 1903 Dr. Carter was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary A. Curry, of Omaha, Nebraska. He has a son, Lester W. Fraternally Dr. Carter is a prominent Mason, holding membership in Malta Lodge, No. 17, F. & A. M., while in the consistory he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is also a member of Sheridan Lodge, No. 520, B. P. 0. E., and Thermopolis Lodge, K. P. In politics he is a stalwart republican, taking active and helpful interest in the work of the party and now serving as a member of the republican county central committee. He allows nothing, however, to interfere with the faithful performance of his professional duties and he puts forth every possible effort to promote his efficiency and skill. He keeps in touch with modern professional thought and advancement through his membership in the Northwestern Medical Society, the Wyoming State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, as well as by extensive private study and reading. The consensus of public opinion places him with the distinguished surgeons of the state and professional colleagues and contemporaries acknowledge his worth and ability, many of the younger members of the profession looking to him as an example and as authority upon involved professional problems.

Dr. C. Dana Carter, proprietor of the Carter Sanitarium at Hot Springs, Thermopolis, Wyoming, ranks with the leading surgeons of the state. Constantly studying along the lines of modern scientific investigation and research and thus keeping in touch with the most advanced thought of the day, he has continually broadened his powers and promoted his efficiency and the profession regards him as a peer of the ablest surgeons of Wyoming. A native of Washington, Iowa, he was born on the 24th of May, 1874, his parents being John W. and Allie P. (Perkins) Carter, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Washington county, Iowa, where their marriage was celebrated. The father is a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran church and at the present time is pastor of the church of that denomination at Logansport, Indiana.
Dr. Carter pursued his education in the common and high schools of Eugene, Oregon, being there graduated as a member of the class of 1891. He determined upon the practice of medicine and surgery as a life work and in preparation therefor he entered, in 1892, the Missouri Medical College, now the medical department of the Washington University of St. Louis, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He afterward served for a year as interne in the St. Louis City Hospital, gaining that broad and valuable experience which can never be obtained as readily in any other way as in hospital practice. In 1896 he came to Wyoming, settling at Basin, being the first physician in the northern country. He forded and swam the streams with his horse, sometimes astride of the animal, and again holding onto his mane, and thus he would respond to the calls for his professional service. He traveled over the country many miles in every direction and in all kinds of weather, counting no personal effort too great if he could advance the welfare of his patients. The physician's life is often one of sacrifice and this is especially true of the man who practices upon the frontier. In 1912 Dr. Carter removed to Thermopolis and in 1916 built the Carter Sanitarium on the Hot Springs reservation; the building being erected at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars. It is the finest building of its kind in the state and is unsurpassed in its equipment. Dr. Carter is receiving a merited patronage, his practice steadily growing in volume and importance. He is surgeon for the Burlington Railroad Company, is county physician of Hot Springs county at the present time and was formerly county health officer of Bighorn county for fourteen years. Dr. Carter performed the first Caesarean operation ever performed in the state, accomplishing this difficult task alone in a little log cabin in Basin, Wyoming, in 1900.
In 1903 Dr. Carter was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary A. Curry, of Omaha, Nebraska. He has a son, Lester W. Fraternally Dr. Carter is a prominent Mason, holding membership in Malta Lodge, No. 17, F. & A. M., while in the consistory he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is also a member of Sheridan Lodge, No. 520, B. P. 0. E., and Thermopolis Lodge, K. P. In politics he is a stalwart republican, taking active and helpful interest in the work of the party and now serving as a member of the republican county central committee. He allows nothing, however, to interfere with the faithful performance of his professional duties and he puts forth every possible effort to promote his efficiency and skill. He keeps in touch with modern professional thought and advancement through his membership in the Northwestern Medical Society, the Wyoming State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, as well as by extensive private study and reading. The consensus of public opinion places him with the distinguished surgeons of the state and professional colleagues and contemporaries acknowledge his worth and ability, many of the younger members of the profession looking to him as an example and as authority upon involved professional problems.