A physician and also a business man who has practiced medicine at Conroe and vicinity since 1896. Dr. Earthman settled in his present locality from Robertson county, having-practiced at Bald Prairie for some years after finishing his medical training. Dr. Earthman is local surgeon for the International and Great Northern Railroad, has laid off the Earthman addition to Conroe and sold its lots, which are mostly improved with residences, and has interested himself in a business way and also as a public-spirited citizen in the improvement of conditions in his locality.

Dr. Earthman was born in Fayette county, Texas, November 29, 1870, a son of William B. Earthman, who spent about fifty years of his life in Fayette county as a farmer. He was born in that locality during the forties. It was Grandfather Henry Earthman who founded the family in Texas and who came out of Tennessee near Memphis and arrived in this state in 1839, settling in Fayette county. It should be remembered that his settlement was during the era when Texas was still a Republic so that this is one of the very old families of the state. Grandfather Earthman spent the rest of his life in Fayette county and died when past ninety years of age. He married Tabitha Trammel. Their children were: Fields, Henry, Isaac, William, John and Mary, who married Augustus Kennedy. All these spent their lives in Fayette county. When the family settled in that section of Texas the Indians were still numerous and the annals of the family record the sacrifice of one son to the deadly hostility of the redman on the occasion of one of their raids into the community.

William B. Earthman, father of Dr. Earthman, during the war, was a member of Captain McNally's scouts in Tom Green's Brigade, and first saw service out in New Mexico in General Sibley and later in tae Louisiana campaign, and against the banks on the Red River. He continued fighting until the close of the war and was disbanded at La Grange. After it war all his active life was spent in farming and he was regarded as a successful business man and died leaving a good estate, principally in land. Late in life he joined the church, was a Democrat in politics, but never affiliated with fraternal orders. He married Miss Bertha Tharp. Her father, E. W. Tharp, came to Texas from Ohio before the war, served with the rank of captain in the Confederate army in the campaign east of the Mississippi River and after the break " of the Southern government he went with General Shelby's command as a refugee to old Mexico. Later he returned and settled in Montgomery county in Tharp Switch on the Santa Fe road, and for many years was a saw mill man. He was living there ' the time of his death in 1884. Captain Tharp married Miss Snook and of their children Mrs. Earthman was the oldest and the other children were: Mrs. Belie Rabb of Austin and DeWitt C., who died at Teagne. William B. Earthman and wife had the following children: Dr. Earthman, Mrs. May Clark, who died in

Caldwell, Texas; William B., Jr., of Conroe; DeWitt, who died in Conroe; Mrs. Carrie Summers of Yoakum, Texas; Wayne M. and Wendal P., twins, the former living at Conroe and the latter at Houston.

Dr. Earthman received his education in the common schools of Fayette county and also attended school at Austin. His first vocation was farming and he saved enough money as a bachelor farmer to enter Tulane University at New Orleans in 1889. After a course of lectures there he began the practice of medicine on Bald Prairie in Robertson county and practiced five years before returning to college to take his degree. In 1898 he graduated from the Hospital Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, and since then has been established and cared for a large practice at Conroe and vicinity. He is a progressive man in his profession and in 1909 took a postgraduate course in the New Orleans polyclinic. He has been secretary of the Montgomery Medical Society, is a member of the Texas State Medical Society and fraternally is a Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery Mason, and belongs to the Mystic Shrine and the Galveston Consistory of Scottish Rite. The early members of his family were largely of the Presbyterian faith, but Dr. Earthman and family are Methodists.

On December 20, 1892, Dr. Earthman married Miss Lillie Burns, a daughter of Rev. J. L. Burns, whose family came from Alabama. Mrs. Earthman died in 1898 without children. On May 18, 1900, Dr. Earthman married Miss Ella McKibbin. Her father, Robert McKibbin, was a widely known business man of Conroe, a native of Walker county, Texas, and married Kate Ball, a sister of Hon. Tom Ball of Houston. The McKibbin children were Mrs. Earthman; Mrs. H. N. Anderson, wife of the city school superintendent of Conroe; Robert E., Jr., of Conroe; Nettie, who married A. M. Madeley of Kingsville, Texas. Dr. Earthman and wife have an adopted daughter, Mary Curtis. Mary Curtis has two brothers, Dion and Allen, and a sister, Sadie Lou, all of whom live at La Junta, Colorado.