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C. H. GUIBOR, M.D.
Few members of the medical profession in the State of Kansas have been more justly entitled to eminence than the late Dr. C. H. Guibor, whose death took place at The Jane C. Stormont Hospital, Topeka, on September 22, 1901, as the result of an operation made necessary by an aggravated stomach trouble, which his own great knowledge and skill could not cure. Dr. Guibor was born in St. Louis, Missouri, January 4, 1842, and was a son of Augustus and Edith (Harrington) Guibor.

Dr. Guibor’s parents removed from St. Louis to Peru, Illinois, when he was a child, and there his father was extensively interested until 1860 in the manufacture of plows. When our subject was 18 years old, the family removed to Colorado where the father engaged in mining, in which he met with considerable success. The youth was at an age when the adventurous life of the mines, mountains and changing population attracted him and he never lost interest in that section where he subsequently owned vast properties. Prior to the location of the family in Denver, in 1873, Dr. Guibor had been sent East to begin his medical studies and these he pursued to graduation at Rush Medical College, Chicago, subsequently being attached to the St. Luke Hospital staff as interne.

After closing his medical student life in Chicago, Dr. Guibor located for practice at Iowa Falls, Iowa, happening to go there just in time to find his services needed in a smallpox epidemic. This trying ordeal for a new physician was successfully lived through and the experience he gained was of the greatest value to him, while his fidelity to his patients marked a notable phase of his character, one which made him honored and beloved through his entire professional career. In 1875 he moved to Beloit, Kansas, where he practiced until 1887-88, when he went back to Chicago to take a post-graduate course along the lines of what later became his specialty. One year later, his health failing, he came to Topeka, where he opened an office and purchased a home at No. 822 Buchanan street. Later he purchased the present handsome family residence at No. 1015 Harrison street, where his family still reside.

Dr. Guibor was known as one of the most thoroughly competent specialists in the diseases of the nose, throat and lungs, in Kansas, was a member of the staff of physicians of the Santa Fe Hospital Association, and he was called all over the State for consultation in the treatment of difficult cases. During his residence at Beloit, he was a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners and a large portion of his time was then spent in conducting examinations in the various county-seats in Eastern Kansas. During his time of general practice, he held membership in all the medical societies of the day and held every office in the Kansas State Medical Society. He had read extensively and traveled widely and his culture was as genuine as his information was general. He was a man of large means, owning an immense lumber camp and sawmill in Arkansas, considerable real and personal property in Kansas, Illinois and Colorado, many mining and banking interests and was the largest stockholder in the Little Bay Lumber Company. He enjoyed his large income in that it enabled him to carry on various philanthropic enterprises. The extent of his private charities will never be known, for the hundreds who came with empty hands to profit by his skill were freely treated and as carefully tended as were those who had fortunes to offer to regain health.

On June 16, 1879, at Beloit, Kansas, Dr. Guibor was married to Mrs. Fannie Bross, who still survives, with a daughter, Edith, and a son, Charles, the latter of whom was at school at Jarvis Hall, Mount Clair, Colorado, at the time of his beloved father’s death.

Dr. Guibor was never active in political life. He belonged to no fraternal societies but was a member of the Topeka Club. To himself his probable death was an accepted fact, but to his family it came as an unexpected calamity. After two months spent on the shores of Lake Michigan, his health had seemingly so much improved to their loving eyes, that they awaited the results of the operation with thoughts of a happy future. Dr. Guibor was of an exceptionally genial and cordial disposition, generous and kind of heart, and devoted to his family, his home, his city and his profession.