Biography of Thomas E. Sanders, White County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Bonnie Palmer Date: Jun 1997 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/white/white.html *********************************************************** From "A Centennial History of Arkansas", edited by Dallas T. Herndon, the Director of the Dept. of Archives & History, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock, 1922. THOMAS E. SANDERS, M. D. Dr. Thomas E. SANDERS, actively & successfully engaged in the practice of medicine in Hot Springs, was born in Beebe, Ark. on the 13th of Dec., 1880. His father, A. F. SANDERS, a native of Alabama, was also a physician & in 1886 came to Hot Springs, where he continued in the practice of his profession to the time of his death in 1906. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having joined the Confederate army when a youth of but 14 years. He belonged to the Knights of Pythias lodge & was highly esteemed by those with whom he was brought into contact through social or professional relations. Dr. Thomas E. SANDERS was a lad of but 6 years when brought by his parents to Hot Springs & here he attended the public schools, while after completing his high school course he became a student in the Ark. State University, graduating there from with the class of 1901. Whether natural predilection, environment or inherited tendency had most to do with his chore of a profession it is perhaps impossible to determine, but at any rate he entered upon the field of labor for which nature seemed to have aptly adapted him. He determined to follow in the footsteps of his father & read medicine under his direction for a time, while later he entered Tulane University at New Orleans, Louisiana, as a medical student & was graduated therefrom with the class of 1905. He then put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test by serving as interne in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans & there gained that broad & valuable knowledge which hospital practice & experience bring. He afterwards returned to Hot Springs & became associated with his father in practice, the partnership continuing until the father's death. Since that time Dr. SANDERS has practiced independently & has steadily advance by reason of his merit & skill to a point in the front rank of the able physicians of the city. His practice is now extensive & of an important character & the results which he secures well entitle him to the enviable reputation that he now bears. Dr. SANDERS was married to Miss Ethel HALLMAN, a daughter of Dr. HALLMAN, and they now have 2 sons: Hallman, who is 12 years of age; and Carl, a lad of 7. The parents are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church & along strictly professional lines Dr. SANDERS is connected with the County, State & American Medical Associations. He served as city health officer in 1914 & 1915. He is keenly interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life. His reading & study have covered a wide field & he at all times keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought, investigation & progress.