From the National Park Service:
Dr. Foster K. Camp founded Wesley Hospital in circa 1910 in rented space downtown until the first block of the free-standing hospital was completed in 1911. The original structure was much smaller than the building that stands today. Over the next forty years, four additions enlarged the building to keep it a relevant and operating hospital. Two of the oldest building sections were demolished during this period of growth. Medical advances and changing development patterns in the 1960s made it increasingly difficult to maintain Wesley as a modern hospital.
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- Photo Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society
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- Photo courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society
This is the hospital where my mother was born. I do not know if births happened in the operating room, but it gives a picture of what the facility was like.
Research Note:
I still cannot locate my grandparents in the 1940 US Census. We wondered if possibly my grandmother was in the hospital, because my mother remembered she was in the hospital before her birth, and the proximity to the census-taking date seemed like it might be a good possibility. However, there was no sign of her in the hospital’s census pages. (I did check the whole ED 78-94)
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