DR. WARD ALMA SNODGRASS
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Ward Alma Snodgrass was born in Fort Worth, Sept., 1887.
His mother, Rosa May Waterson, was born in Tennessee and his father, J. B.
Snodgrass was a native of Virginia. They came to Texas in 1883 to live in
Austin. Mr. Snodgrass was an ardent Mason and school teacher. He was on
his way to deliver a Masonic lecture when he was killed in a railroad
accident in 1888. Several years later Mrs. Snodgrass was married to D. F.
Smith of Evant, a prosperous farmer.
Ward Alma Snodgrass was educated in the public schools
of Evant. He finished his high school work in Dallas at the Hardin School
for boys. He then went to the University of Tennessee where he received
his medical degree in 1918. Immediately upon graduation he was sent to
Jacksonville, Fla., by appointment of the Surgeon General, to St. Luke’s
Hospital. This hospital took care of the overflow of enlisted men from the
base hospital. He was married in Memphis in 1915 to Miss Lottie Hunter,
daughter of Lydia E. Waldrip and R. G. Hunter. He was a Mississippi
merchant and farmer. Mrs. Snodgrass was born in Oxford, Mississippi;
educated in the public schools, and the summer schools of the University
of Mississippi and taught school 2 years. She then went into the hospital
at Oxford to receive her nurses training. After finishing there she was at
the Presbyterian and Lucy Brinkley hospitals in Memphis, Tenn. After
marriage, she started doing private nursing for her husband. She
accompanied here husband to Florida where they remained until the end of
the World War.
The young doctor and his wife atory /sic/
to settling in one of those were persuaded to settle in Star in order to
be near them although he had taken the Tennessee and Florida medical board
examination, preparatory to settling in one of those states. He practiced
in Star for three and a half years and then came to Hamilton in 1923 to
enter into the partnership of Bolding-Kooken and Hartman. Here, he and
Mrs. Snodgrass conducted a private (cottage) Sanitarium for several years.
Dr. Snodgrass is a member of the State Medical
Association and President of the Hamilton County Medical Society. He has
taken post-graduate work in surgery at the Chicago Laboratory of Surgical
Technique.
They have one young daughter, Rudy Nell.
The Hamilton County News, Vol. IV, Number
11--Section One
Historical and Trading Expansion Issue
W. F. Billingslea, Editor-Publisher
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June 29, 1934
