Monday, December 19, 2011

French Nestor Smith, M.D. (1891-1955)

Dr. French Nestor Smith died at his home in Harlingen, Texas on July 10, 1955, of cancer.  He was born April 15, 1891 in Red Creek, West Virginia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Smith.  He attended the University of West Virginia and the West Virginia Wesleyan College before beginning his medical education at the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1921. 

Dr. Smith practiced briefly in Dalton, Ohio before going to Canton, where he practiced for nine years.  He then moved to Harlingen, where he had practiced for 25 years.  He was a member of the Texas Medical Association, and the Cameron-Willacy Counties Medical Society.  He was a member of the Methodist church, was a past master of the Masonic Lodge, a past patron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Knights Templar.

While still a medical student, Dr. Smith joined the Army and served from 1917 until 1919.  On January 1, 1917 he married Miss Martha Matheney in Oakland, Maryland.  He is survived by his wife, two sons; Robert Fenton Smith, D.D.S. of Corpus Christi and French N. Smith, Jr. of Harlingen; one daughter, Mrs. K.B. Slavin of Hillsboro; three sisters, Mrs. R.C. Teter, Mrs. Margaret Judy and Mrs. Jennie Johnson, all of Parsons, West Virginia; and two brothers, Daniel Smith of Parsons and P.C. Smith of Canton, Ohio.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

1 comment:

Emily said...

Do you know anything of his son, French Smith Jr.?