Dr. Homer Cutler Crowell MD, 32°
(Jan 14, 1852-Oct 24, 1918)
Raised: Kansas City Lodge #220

Scottish Rite
32° Consistory of Western Missouri, Kansas City

Member, Ararat Shrine Temple

Occupation: Physician; Professor of Gynecology, University Medical College, Kansas City
Alum: College of Medicine, University of Vermont at Burlington; post graduate schools of New York.
Interred: Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, MO

Dr. Crowell located his office in the Young Men's Christian Association building on 9th Street. His specialties were genecology and abdominal surgery. He made liberal contributions to the medical literature of the day, and his writings were reputed to be widely copied and quoted. By thorough study and persistent effort he has won a place in the ranks of his profession that secures him the patronage which comes from a wide area, being by no means confined to his adopted city. His rank as an abdominal surgeon is such that he is classed with the most distinguished members of the profession devoted to that specialty, in a work now being prepared by the granddaughter of Ephraim McDowell, who was the first to practice ovariotomy.

Doctor Crowell served as president of the Jackson County Medical Society, and was the 1st vice president of the Academy of Medicine of Kansas City. He was also one of the vice-presidents of the State Medical Society in 1894, and is now vice-president of the Western Gynecological Society. He is also president of the Kansas City Polyclinic Post-Graduate School of Medicine, an institution devoted to clinical teaching exclusively and admitting as matriculants only graduates of medicine. The Doctor is also connected with several of the hospitals as surgeon in the department of gynecology.

Aside from his profession Dr. Crowell was a director in the Bankers' Life Insurance Society of Kansas City, and is president of the Whittaker Phosphate Company. He is vice-president of a coffee plantation in New Mexico, and has a clay and coal farm in southern Missouri, which he is now developed to the manufacture of paving brick; also mining coal for gas purposes and numerous other enterprises. He is a vice-president of the gold mining company organized for working the Tamana gold mines in Antioquia, United States of Colombia.