Newton T. Enloe

Newton Thomas Enloe Sr. (February 23, 1872 – December 21, 1954) was an American doctor. Enloe was a native of Missouri and was raised in a family of medical professionals. who also later became a doctor. Herrick died in 1897, he constructed a small five-bed clinic and offered mill employees a one-dollar-a-month healthcare plan. He opened a private practice in nearby Chico in 1903-04, but continued working for the mill on a part-time basis treating minor illnesses and injuries; seriously injured workers were taken to facilities in Chico or San Francisco. Owing to the mill's isolation and the poor conditions of roads in the area, patients were often transported by log flume using purpose-built flume boat "ambulances". During the First World War, the senior Enloe briefly left his Chico practice to serve with the U.S. Medical Reserve Corps, where he was commissioned as captain and treated war wounded at the Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco. Enloe died in Chico in 1954, having outlived his son Newton Jr., who had been killed in an airplane crash on San Francisco Bay in 1946. After Enloe's death, his surviving son and daughters took over the management of the hospital.