- A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative, Vol 3, p. 991
Walton F. Dutton, M. D. Oklahoma claims its due quota of able physicians and surgeons, and among the number a comparatively recent recruit to the ranks is Doctor Dutton, who is recognized for his high professional attainments and who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Tulsa. Though he is still a young man, Doctor Dutton has had exceptionally broad and varied experience in the practical work of his profession, has made many valuable contributions to its standard and periodical literature, and his reputation is firmly based on r
Dr. Walton Forest Dutton was born in the Village of Macksburg, Washington County, Ohio, on the 6th of August, 1876, and is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of the old Buckeye State, and the family name has been closely identified with the petroleum oil industry virtually from the time of its inception. The doctor is a son of Robert L. and Mary (Walton) Dutton, the former of whom was born on the old homestead farm of his parents, near Macksburg, Ohio, in the year 1858, and the latter of whom was born in Monroe County, Ohio, in 1857. Robert L. Dutton passed to the life eternal in March, 1912, and is survived by his wife and by three children, of whom the subject of this review is the eldest; Dolly is the wife of Dr. Frank L. Watkins, who is special agent at Jackson, Mississippi, for the United States Bureau of Vital Statistics; and Amanda B. is the wife of Dr. Frank C. Reisling, who is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Caldwell, Ohio.
James Dutton, the great-grandfather of the doctor, was the first man to drill an oil well in Washington County, Ohio, this pioneer well having been drilled in 18t30, near the Village of Mackburg, and its construction having been effected by the primitive means of a spring pole, oil having been found at a depth of fiftyfive feet and the product having been found to be a fine quality of lubricating oil constituency. The output of the well was barrelled and then transported by wagon to Lowell, Ohio, from which point it was transported by boat up the Ohio River and sold in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at $20 a barrel. This enterprise on the part of James Dutton represented the inception of the oil industry in America outside of the Oil Creek fields in Pennsylvania. Incidentally it is pleasing to note that James Dutton attained to the venerable age of nearly ninety years and that his great-grandson, Doctor Dutton of this review, had the privilege of accompanying him on various hunting expeditions.
The progenitor of the Dutton family in America was Joseph Dutton, who came from England in 1778 and who first established his residence in Pennsylvania, whence he later removed to and became one of the pioneers of Ohio. He was a son of James Dutton, Lord Sherbourne of England, and the lineage of this patrician family in England traces back to the time of the Norman conquest.
William Dutton, grandfather of the doctor, succeeded his father in the oil-producing business in Ohio, and he in turn was succeeded by his son Robert L., father of him whose name initiates this article, the original oil field developed by the Dutton family in Ohio having been one of the best in the history of the industry in that state. Robert L. Dutton continued his operations as an oil producer until the time of his death, which occurred in March, 1912, and he achieved distinctive success and prominence in this important field of enterprise. He was a man of strong mentality, sterling character and much business acumen, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party and he having been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
The public schools of his native village afforded to Doctor Dutton his preliminary educational advantages, and in 1898 he was graduated in the excellent academy at Marietta, Ohio. In the same year, at the inception of the Spanish-American war, Doctor Dutton enlisted, in the City of Cleveland, as a member of Company B, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the regiment having been mustered into the United States service at Columbus, the capital city of the state, and having thence been sent to the reserve camp at Tampa, Florida, where Doctor Dutton was detailed to the hospital service. After the lapse of several months he was transferred to the same department of service at Fernandina, Florida, where he remained until October, 1898, when he returned to Cleveland, Ohio, in charge of a hospital train. He continued in supervision of the invalid soldiers until the 3d of the following month, when he received his honorable discharge, the regiment in which he enlisted having not been called to the stage of military operations in Cuba.
The experience gained in the hospital service during the war fortified the doctor in his determination to prepare himself for the medical profession, and in the autumn of 1899 he was matriculated in the medical department of the University of Ohio, at Columbus. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903, and after thus receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine, he served his professional novitiate by engaging in practice, in May of the same
year, at Walkers Mills, a suburb of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where likewise he established and maintained an office. There he continued in successful practice, with excellent opportunities for diversified clinical experience, until January, 1910, when he removed to Carnegie, likewise in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he built up a substantial private practice and served also as chief surgeon for the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Superior Steel Company, the Carnegie Coal Company, the McHugh Coal Company, the Dunlap Enameling Company, and the Adler Stove Company, besides having been local medical examiner for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, the Polish National Alliance and other organizations of fraternal and insurance order.
Owing to impaired health doctor Dutton sold his substantial practice at Carnegie in August, 1913, after which he traveled somewhat extensively through the Southern States and gave special attention to the study of tropical diseases and sanitation. Thereafter he completed an effective course in the Post-Graduate Medical College of New York City, in the class of 1913, and on the 1st of June, 1914, he established his residence in the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has built up an excellent general practice, though he gives special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart and lungs, and arterial system.
A close and appreciative student and one who is unremitting in his researches and investigations, Doctor Dutton has unselfishly given the results of his labors and experience to his professional confreres, through contributions to the leading medical journals and through the compilation and publication of various standard works. It may thus be noted that he is the author of the following papers, which were read before various medical associations: "Hypertonia Vasorumcerebri," published in 1908; "Insect Carriers of Typhoid Fever," published in 1909; "Blood Pressure in the Practice of Medicine," 1908; "The Responsibilities of Municipalties in the Ohio Valley for epidemics of Typhoid Fever," 1908; "Present Day Problems and Progress in Prevention of Typhoid Fever," 1910; "Laws Relative to the Sanitary Control of Public Eating and Drinking Places,'' 1912; "Tubercular Phthisis: Is the second R«covery Possible?" 1908. All of the above papers were published by the respective medical associations before which they were read, and a number were prepared for the meetings of such representative organizations in the cities of New' York, Pittsburgh and Chicago. It is specially interesting to record that the suggestions made by Doctor Hutton relative to the sanitary control of public eating and drinking places were embodied in the admirable laws passed by the State of Pennsylvania in the supervision and control of such places of public service. The doctor is now engaged in the preparation of a comprehensive volume which will comprise about 300 pages and which will bear the following title: "Venesection: A Monograph of Practical Value to Students and Practitioners."
Doctor Dutton was a prominent and valued member of the Carnegie Academy of Medicine, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and served as president of the same. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Prevention of Social Disease, and is identified also with the American Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the International Congress on Tuberculosis, the National Geographical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Association, the Tulsa County Medical Society, and many other representative professional and scientific organizations. The doctor was raised to the degree of master mason in Harrison Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Cadiz, Ohio; his capitular degrees were received in Cyrus Chapter, No. 280, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania. His present affiliations are with Delta Lodge, No. 425, at Tulsa; Tulsa Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Chartiers Cominandery, No. 78, Knights Templars, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania; Akdar Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the City of Tulsa. He is affiliated also with the consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which he has received the thirty-second degree. In politics the Doctor is not constrained by strict partisan lines but gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment.
August 8, 1901, recorded the marriage of Doctor Dutton to Miss Julia Augusta Russell, who was born at Sunbury, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and they have one child, Genevieve Lydian.
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