Olline Burton DOYLE
Biography

History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California. by J M Guinn, 1905

O. BURTON DOYLE, M. D. The genealogy of the Doyle family is traced back to the colonial history of the south, where its representatives bore an honorable part in public and commercial affairs. Dr. Doyle is a son of John F. Doyle, M. D., whose father for years held a leading position among the people of Dyer county, Tenn. For one term he held the office of county sheriff, for a similar period served as county clerk, owned and conducted a hotel and also had general mercantile interests, but finally settled upon a cotton plantation in Dyer county, where he remained until his death. Born and reared in Dyer county, Dr. John F. Doyle was given excellent educational advantages, and after completing his classical studies he matriculated in the McDowell Medical College of St. Louis, from which he received
the degree of M. D. During all of his active professional career he had his office in Kuttawa, Lyon county, Ky. In 1898 he retired from practice and in 1902 came to California, since which time he has made his home with his son, Dr. O. B. Doyle, in Fresno. His wife, who died in 1898, was Laura Gray Rucker, a native of Kentucky, and a daughter of Isaac B. Rucker, also a native Kentuckian and a lifelong farmer.

In the family of Dr. John F. Doyle there are four children, of whom O. B. was the first-born. Ernest M., a graduate of dental surgery, is engaged in practice at Fresno ; Earl P. is an employe on the Southern Pacific Railroad at Fresno; and King V., an eleven-year-old boy, is
a student in the Fresno schools.

Dr. O. B. Doyle was born in Kuttawa, Lyon county, Ky., November 2, 1875. During boyhood years he attended the public schools of his home town. Later he was a student in the Princeton Collegiate Institute, after which he entered a drug store and studied pharmacy for two years. His next employment was as a clerk in the freight office of the Illinois Central Railroad at Paducah, Ky. It was his ambition to become a physician and his earnings were carefully saved with this object in view. The hope he had cherished found its fruition in his matriculation, January 1, 1896, in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and he continued a student in that institution until he received the degree of M. D., at the time of his graduation, in June of 1898.


A month after completing his medical studies Dr. Doyle came to Fresno county. In October of the same year he was appointed physician and surgeon to the Fresno Flume & Irrigating Company at Shaver and continued in that capacity until December 1, 1902, meanwhile spending the summer months at Shaver and during winters residing in Fresno. In January, 1903, he established himself in Fresno, where he has since spent his entire time, engaging in a general practice of medicine and surgery. Everything pertaining to his profession receives his thoughtful attention. The developments constantly being made in the science of materia medica are carefully studied by him and, when feasible, adopted in his own practice.

Various associations of a
professional nature receive his support and encouragement. Numbered among these is the Fresno County Medical Society, of which at one time he acted as first vice-president. He is further connected with the San Joaquin Valley Medical Society, California State Medical Society and the American Medical Associations. Among organizations more strictly commercial receiving the benefit of his support may be mentioned the Chamber of Commerce.

In fraternal relations he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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