Dr. Charles L. Fields
(1858-1941) Prominent pioneer dentist and farmer. As a boy, cut wood to support mother widowed in Civil War. Worked as carpenter for money to attend dental school in Chicago. Licensed 1890. Came to Canadian in 1903; Groom, 1916. Traveled at times to ranch headquarters and to Ochiltree and Mobeetie, to patients unable to go to him. Often had to ford rivers, hauling his collapsible dental chair and foot-powered drill. Used iodine and laudanum as antiseptics and pain-killers. Operated his own denture lab. Met large demand for gold teeth. Often was paid in beef, produce.
35.2019° N, 101.1075° W
Where to Find It
On Groom Community Center, corner of Broadway and First, Groom.
Nearby Markers
- <0.1 mi SW State National Bank Groom
- 0.1 mi N Groom Groom
- 11.8 mi E Boydstun Cemetery Clarendon vicinity
- 11.8 mi E Jericho Cemetery Clarendon vicinity
- 12.2 mi S Site of Old Goodnight College Goodnight
- 12.2 mi S Town of Goodnight Goodnight