Background
Denman, Ira O. was born on June 9, 1872 in Lenna, Kansas, United States. Son of Francis M. and Lydia (Harding) Denman.
Denman, Ira O. was born on June 9, 1872 in Lenna, Kansas, United States. Son of Francis M. and Lydia (Harding) Denman.
Alien Company Normal School, Iola, Kansas. Doctor of Medicine Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1897. Post-graduate work Chicago Post-Graduate Medical College.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Harvard Medical College. University of Vienna and Freiburg.
Morfields Hospital, London, England.
Practiced general medicine and surgery, and eye, ear, nose and throat, Charleston, Illinois, until close of 1907. Moved to Toledo, O., January 1908. Practice limited to eye, ear, nose and throat.
Chief of staff, Toledo Hospital, since 1913.
Oculist Pennsylvania Railroad, Detroit & Toledo Shore Lincolnshire Railroad, Nickel Plate Railway. Chairman Board of Health, Charleston, Illinois, 1903-1907.
Member American Board of Oto-Laryngology and American College of Physical Therapy. Member Christian (Disciples) Church. American College of Surgeons fellow Originated technique and designed chair for tonsilectomy under nitrous oxide and oxygen gas anesthesia.
On editorial staff of Archives of Physical Therapy, X-Ray and Radium.
Company-inventor of vocaphone and artificial larynx for use in talking after a laryngectomy.
Married Sabra Blair, September 14, 1893. Children: Loraine, Ira O., Patti.