Outten, Warren B., 1844-1911.

St. Louis railway surgeon and medical educator.

Warren Bell Outten, MD (1844-1911) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, was educated at Christian Brother's College, before he received his medical degree from the St. Louis Medical College in 1866. He began his practice of medicine as acting assistant surgeon in military service at St. Louis (ending December 1866), attending troops suffering from cholera. After graduation he also demonstrated in anatomy at his alma mater before he became professor of anatomy at the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons (1868/1869-1871). In 1873, he became the local surgeon for the Iron Mountain Railroad at Carondelet, South St. Louis and subsequently became its chief surgeon (1881). When the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific medical departments were consolidated (1885), he became chief surgeon of the Missouri Pacific Railway System until his retirement in 1909, when he became consulting surgeon.

He was also one of the organizers of the Beaumont Medical College and was its first dean and professor of surgery (1886- ). Active in the medical profession, he was editor of the Railway Surgeon (1884-1898) and president of both the St. Louis Medical Society (1894) and of the National Association Railway Surgeons. -- Sources: In Memoriam, Dr. Warren Bell Outten ..., Weekly Bulletin of the St. Louis Medical Society, Vol. 5. no. 25 (Memorial Number), p. 291-292 (June 22, 1911) in Warren B. Outten Papers; History of St. Louis Medical College, 1898, p. 42, Hyde, Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, 1898) v. 3, p. 1683-1684.