Show Dr LeCompte E Early Par ii 1 Dies Bias Saturday l Dr r. r Edward Dexter LeCompte 84 84 40 East Salt Lake City prominent retired Salt Lake eye bye ye car nose and and throat specialist dl died d Saturday at t 9 p.m. pm in a It Salt Lake hospital after otter after an Illness He had bad been hospitalized since he be suffered a knee knea Injury in a June 9 automobile accident Dr LeCompte was born April 14 1882 In la Meeker Colo a so son eon cl of Of Dr Edward iEdward Palmer and Lydia Lyda Wells LeCompte At the too time the as elder Dr LeCompte I was a military physician In inGen G Gan n. n George Custers Custer's campaign against the tha Indiana The family later was among early settlers of Park City West Point Cadet I f In 1903 the Y young young ung man was appointed to West Point Military Mili tary tari Academy Academy- where lie Le was wag I plebe under Sophomore re Cadet Douglas MacArthur r. r Among his classmates mates were were such suc American military heroes as as the i late te Vinegar Joe Stillwell Gen Oen Gen n Le Leslie e. e Ml and G Gen Edmund i He est Point until hen hea a Injury dev devil devel l lo o Pd Into Is s and C Cadei def Le was was' co cv shelled tora T i. i sign sira For y year he ho was under I treatment aud had to tJ walk wit with He He- Hel l with Ms his vert parents par par- onto In n Par Far C CU Cit t during daring this time Later after iia a fans urged him to read s a 8 medical Volume I. I i i he became Inter interested ted in hi medicine and and entered University of Utah Medical School In in 1913 he received his medical medical medi medi- cal degree from Rush Hush Medical College Chicago ago and later went to Europe for specialized study In hi and Berlin Returned to S. S L. L After one year In Chicago's Illinois Illinois Il Il- Eye and Ear Infirmary he returned to Salt Lake City In 1915 to op open n the office in which he he practiced until his retirement Jan 1 1949 He was president of Salt Lake Cot County ty Medical Society In 1942 43 He taught anatomy of the head at Utah for 20 years on an honorarium pay of 50 per year and later Tor 1 per ye year r. r He also alao was e. e time part consultant on student health at atthe atthe i the theU U. U During World War I he served on draft examining boards boards' at Fort Douglas In World War II was o on on the staff at Salt Lake Veterans' Veterans Hospital A permanently permanent permanent- ly stiffened leg prevented him I from entering active military service e Club Member lember After he sold this residence at I 1351 1 E. E ls South to Beta Theta PI fraternity In 1946 19 46 he was waa wasa a l time long resident or the old Un Un- I Club E. E South Tem Tem- Tempie pie l I land Dr Or LeCompte never married and he has fco ho Immediate Bum vors He was W a oIL member of the UnIversity University University Uni UnI- Club Fort Douglas Officers Officers cers Club and the U. U Emeritus Club He was waa a 8 member a-member of tt St Marks Mark's Episcopal Cathedral Par Parish Parish Par Par- I ish lab and of the Utah and American American Ameri Amerl can Medical Asana |