West Plains Veterinary Supplies Springfield Inc history

Carl's parents emigrated from Germany; they met aboard ship and married after arriving in the US. They first settled in Illinois in 1883 and were farmers.

He practiced veterinary medicine for about fifteen years before he was appointed to the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) from Kansas City in the meat inspection service of Kansas City on November 20, 1893.

He was a prominent general practitioner in Eldorado, Kansas, the Treasurer of the KVMA in 1894 and also one of the charter members of the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association when it was formed in 1894.

On March 15, 1895, he was appointed to the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) as stock examiner in the cattle quarantine service at Kansas City.

He attended high school in Kansas City and was first appointed in the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) as a laborer at Kansas City on March 21, 1897.

He was appointed to the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) at South St Joseph, Missouri, from Topeka, Kansas, on August 1, 1899, through a civil service examination.

While on the African trip he was offered an appointment in the United States Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) and upon his return to this country accepted and began his Bureau service at the National Stock Yards, East Saint Louis, Illinois, on August 16, 1901.

Lemonds notes that Feistner graduated from the Kansas City Veterinary College in 1903, Who's Who in Nebraska also notes this, but the Nebraskana notes that he graduated from the University Veterinary College in Kansas City, receiving the degree of D.V.S. in 1903.

He practiced veterinary medicine first in Johnson and then in Auburn, Nebraska, beginning in 1905.

In 1906 he located at Columbia, Missouri, and was employed by the State veterinarian's office for two years.

In 1907 he located in Windsor and soon built up a lucrative practice.

He remained in Holton until 1908, when he disposed of his business and moved to Lebanon in Smith County, forming a partnership with his brother, Doctor Daniel H. Hobbs, in the practice of veterinary surgery.

Following graduation in 1909, he started his practice of veterinary medicine in Ord, Nebraska, in a livery stable some place in the area of the present day Sack Lumber Company.

Later it was published in Topeka, Kansas, until June, 1910, when it ceased to exist as a Kansas published "Bulletin." Then under the editorship of Doctor Campbell, it was issued from Chicago first as the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, and ten years later simply Veterinary Medicine.

32, June 1911, notes that he was a recent Kansas City visitor to purchase an automobile in order that he might respond to the calls of a rapidly increasing clientele.

In 1912, Doctor Benjamin F. Kaupp was Director of the new Pathology Laboratory at Colorado Agricultural College, and helped stop a devastating outbreak in horses in the Arkansas Valley of an unknown disease by developing an experimental vaccine from infected brain tissue.

John Huff started his first serum company in 1913 in Sioux City, Iowa, in partnership with the owner of the Henri Packing Company.

44, June 1914 reported that Doctor Norden fractured his right leg just below the knee when his car overturned while making a trip from Nebraska City to Weeping Water, Nebraska.

On January 22, 1915, the State Board of Agriculture honored Doctor Barnard by appointment to the office of veterinarian.

52, June 1916 notes that Doctor Norden had associated himself with the American Veterinary Supply Company in Kansas City.

In September 1917, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Army Veterinary Corps; he was responsible for the purchase of horses and mules for the Army.

Camp Greenleaf was designated as a training school for veterinary officers and on May 2, 1918, Veterinary Company No.

In 1919, Doctor Norden established Norden Laboratories in Lincoln, Nebraska.

254 of Prague, Nebraska was chartered on April 26, 1920, by 34 Veterans of World War I. Its first commander was Doctor Bohaboy.

He was president of the AVMA in 1921-22.

In January 1928, Doctor Miller was placed in charge of the newly established Packers and Stockyards Division and was appointed assistant chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) in charge of regulatory activities.

He founded Doctor Salsbury Laboratories in 1929 to produce chemical based products for parasite and disease control in poultry.

The couple bought Remount Ranch in 1930 and stocked it with sheep and Doctor Carroll moved his family there to run the ranch.

In 1934, he won a silver cup for 1st Prize in Pairs Jumping at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines.

Flynn organized the American Society of Veterinary Therapy, was an associate editor of the North American Veterinarian, and contributed articles on small animal topics. It was referred to by the originator at the "suture-less spaying operation." Flynn was the president of the AVMA in 1935-36.

At the 73rd annual convention of the AVMA, August 10-14, 1936, Flynn in his presidential address advocated, among other things, a campaign against doping racehorses.

He was engaged in general practice in Southwestern Missouri and the Kansas City milk shed area until beginning his association with Haver-Glover Laboratories in 1937.

At the Diamond Jubilee of the AVMA in New York City in 1938, Campbell presented Veterinary Medicine in New York City (JAVMA JAVMA 45(6):782-800, 1938.

The obituary states among other things that he was a past president of the Kansas City Veterinary Medical Association, President of the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association (1946-47), and State Veterinarian in 1946-47.

In 1948, Doctor Dale Karre, a native of Scotia, Nebraska, and a graduate of Colorado State University, joined the practice.

He was president of the Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association and president of the AVMA in 1952-53.

In 1954, Doctor Humberto Ceballo, a veterinarian from Venezuela, spent six weeks with Lee at the request of the World Health Organization for field training in the veterinary programs and activities of the Board of Health.

The firm was sold in 1955 to Cutter Laboratories.

He was named "Veterinarian of the Year" for Tennessee in 1959 and honored with life membership.

Founded in 1962 by Bill Lowe, WPVS had a primary focus on distributing products to the cattle, swine and poultry industries.

He worked for the company for over 45 year until it was sold to Rohm and Haas in 1965.

He died a week later, February 26, 1968.Doctor Carl Fischer spent his entire career, predominately in food animal and equine practice, in Garden City, Missouri.

According to Lemonds (1982), he grew up on a farm near Dunbar.

In 1985, the foundation gave each of the 27 colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States an endowment to support scholarships.

On May 4, 1986, the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association dedicated the Doctor Phillipson Veterinary Infirmary at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska.

He was the State Veterinarian and president of the Arizona Veterinary Medical Association (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).

Although they may have been lured to college by the promise of good work at the BAI, they soon found new opportunities in industry in the manufacture of hog cholera antiserum (Lofflin 2009).