Lampasas County, TX
Biographies
Lampasas County, TX
Biographies
DR. J. W. CARHART
Dr. John Wesley Carhart was born June 26th, 1834, in Coeymans, Albany county, New York . He came to Texas in 1883, and located at Lampasas in 1884. His parents were Daniel S. and Margaret Carhart, native Americans. He received his literary education at Charlottesville Seminary, in Schoharie county, New York ; studied medicine and attended medical lectures in the Berkshire Medical College , and in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, and graduated from the latter institution March 13, 1883. He practiced a while at Clarendon , Texas ; and in Oshkosh , Wisconsin , before his removal to Texas . He took an additional course of instruction at the New York Poly-clinic.
Though doing a general practice he gives special attention to diseases of women and children, and diseases of the nervous system. He is a member of the Northwest Wisconsin Medical Association, the Texas State , and American Medical Associations. Has been county physician of Lampasas county for three years.
In 1857 he was married to Theresa A. Mumford; they have seven children, three of whom are in Wisconsin , and four in Texas .
The Doctor has been a liberal contributor to the medical literature of the day. Among his best papers may be mentioned one on “Colpomyotomy,” and one on “Puerperal Eclampsia,” published in Daniel’s Texas Medical Journal; “Ether per Rectum,” “Ulceration of the Womb,” “The Disposal of Human Excreta,” “Child Bearing and Modern Civilization,” and other valuable papers in the Courier-Record of Medicine; “Carbolic Acid in the Treatment of Carbuncle,” in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 1886; a paper on the “Loco Weed,” in the New York Medical Record, in 1886; and numerous other papers on various medical topics. One of his best papers was read before the Texas State Medical Association at San Antonio , April, 1889, and published in the Transactions in 1889, entitled “Tyrotoxicon and Peptotoxine.” The Doctor has also been a voluminous writer for the secular press, and has also written several works of fiction. His contributions to literary magazines and newspapers, both in prose and poetry, are numerous, and many have been copied and perpetuated in book form. His chief work of fiction, “Mina Harding,” was published anonymously in 1879; in 1859 he published “Sunny Hours,” a volume of poems; “Poets and Poetry of the Hebrews” followed in 1866. His latest book was published in 1880, entitled “Four Years on Wheels.”
Dr. Carhart entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and joined the Troy Annual Conference before he was twenty-one years of age. He remained a member of the Conference seventeen years and a half, filling some of the most important appointments in the Conference. He was then transferred to the Wisconsin Conference, where he occupied some of the best appointments for five years. He was then appointed Presiding Elder of Appleton District and served for four years as Presiding Elder. During this time a personal difficulty arose between him and another member of the Conference, Rev. Geo. C. Haddock. After a thorough vindication, Dr. Carhart withdrew from the ministry and membership of the Methodist Episcopal church and united with the Presbyterian church, in which he is now a ruling member and has been a Commissioner to the General Assembly of that church.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him at the age of twenty-seven.
Since the assassination of Dr. Haddock, in the streets of Sioux City , Iowa , Dr. Carhart has repeatedly been invited and urged to return to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, but he prefers his present profession.
[Source: Types of Successful Men of Texas by Lewis E. Daniell, Publ. 1890. Transcribed by Kim Mohler]
Reger, Howard J., M.D.
A physician and surgeon with a broad and ample experience in his profession, Dr. Howard J. Reger since March 1911, has been practicing at Vernon, and is one of the leaders in his profession in northwest Texas. He is a grandson, through his mother, of Dr. Hillary Ryan, who was distinguished as one of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of this state.
Dr. Howard J. Reger was born in Burleson County, Texas, April 11, 1870, a son of Granville Jarvis and Xanthia Zenobia (Ryan) Reger. His father, a native of West Virginia, came to Texas in an early date, after the Civil war, located in Burleson County, where he lived until his death in 1875. During the Civil war he had served as lieutenant of Cavalry in a West Virginia regiment, going through from the first year until the close of hostilities, and was in the command of Col. Cochran. He was well known as a merchant, and was also a musician of considerable ability. The doctor's mother was born in Texas, was reared, educated and married in this state, and is now living at Fort Worth at the age of sixty-three. She is now the wife of T. H. McMahan, of that city. Of the three children in the Reger family the doctor was the first.
He grew up in Burleson and Mitchell counties, attended the public schools at Caldwell, in the former county, and at Colorado City in the latter, and while still a boy took up the responsibilities of life and by his own labors found his way eventually into a professional career. He entered Centenary College at Lampasas, but left before graduation. Later he became a student in the Texas Christian University, now located at Fort Worth, and graduated in 1902. In October, 1903, he became an interne and house surgeon of St. Joseph's infirmary at Fort Worth, remaining with that institution until November 1904. At Fort Worth he was engaged in general practice until 1906, in which year he moved to Dalhart, but after a short time returned to the former city and became an assistant in practice to Dr. Saunders, the eminent surgeon of that city. In March 1911, Dr. Reger moved to Vernon, and since that time has built up an excellent local practice. He has membership in the Wilbarger County Medical Society.
Dr. Reger is prominent in Masonic circles, having taken his Blue Lodge and Royal Arch degrees at Fort Worth, Texas, and also the orders of Knights Templar there. Ho is a past high priest of the Fort Worth Chapter, and past commander of Worth Commandery, No. 19. He demitted and is now commander of Vernon Commandery No. 33, K. T. He is also a member of the Dallas Consistory of Scottish Rite Masonry, No. 2, and a Thirty-second degree Mason, and also a Shriner in the Hella Temple of Dallas. In politics the Doctor is a Democrat, and he worships in the Presbyterian faith.
At Fort Worth on October 23, 1906, Dr. Reger married Miss Lena May Smythey, a daughter of James and Ellen Smythey, both of whom are deceased. Dr. Reger is fond of outdoor life, and is a broad minded young physician, whose successful accomplishments presage a large field of useful service for the future.
[A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 4 by Francis White Johnson, 1914 – Transcribed by AFOFG (TK)]
Webber, Wilber Hoag, Soldier, Writer and Builder, of Lampasas, Texas, was born Oct 9, 1838, in Fowlerville, N.Y. He received his education in the public schools of New York and Michigan. In 1861-64 he served in the Civil War in the Sixth Regiment Michigan Infantry. In 1866-82 he lived in Louisiana; since 1883 in Lampasas, Texas. For thirty-five years he has written for the press, including the Philadelphia Times, New York Tribune, Chicago Ledger, Globe-Democrat of St Louis; and under contract for several years wrote short stories of the war for the Chicago Newspaper Union. He has been principally engaged in the carpenter and builder's trade; and is now serving his fourth term as postmaster of Lampasas, Texas.
[Source: Herringshaw's American blue-book of biography: By Thomas William Herringshaw, American Publishers' Assoc.; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
Webber, Wilber Hoag, postmaster Lampasas, Tex., was born Oct. 3, 1838, near Fowlerville, N.Y. He received his education in the public schools of New York and Michigan. In 1861-64 he served in the civil war in the sixth regiment Michigan infantry. In 1866-83 he lived in Louisiana; and since 1883 in Lampasas, Tex. For thirty-five years he has written for the press, including the Philadelphia Times, New York Tribune, Chicago Ledger, Globe Democrat of St. Louis; and under contract for several years wrote short stories of the war for the Chicago Newspaper union. He has been principally engaged in the carpenter and builder's trade; and is now serving his third term as postmaster of Lampasas, Tex.
[Source: Progressive Americans of the Twentieth Century:By The Progressive Publishing Co.; Publ. 1910; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]