​Dr. Charles L. Fields
​(1858 - 1941)

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Marker Text: 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. (1966)

Marker No: 1264

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 35.200794, -101.107338

Location: On Groom Community Center, corner of Broadway and First, Groom.