Biography of Robert B. S. Hargis, Pensacola, Escambia Co., FL

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ROBERT B. S. HARGIS

     Robert B. S. Hargis, of Pensacola, Florida, was born in Hillsborough, North
Carolina, June 07, 1818, and is of Scotch-Irish and Anglo-Saxon descent.  He
received his preliminary education at the University of North Carolina; studied
medicine three years in Fayetteville, in the same State, under the preceptorhips of
Dr. T. J. Jordan, and was graduated with honors from the Medical College of
Louisiana [now the Medical Department of Tulane University, New Orleans, La.], March
21, 1844.  He located in Mobile, Alabama in 1845, where he practiced one year; had a
severe attack of malarial fever, which compelled him to repair to the countryto
recuperate; sojourned at Mount Pleasant, Alabama; secured a large and remunerative
practice; remained there five years; married in the meantime, but his wife becoming
in poor health, and removed on that account to Pensacola, Florida.  In September,
1851.  There he also obtained an excellent practice, and in 1852 was appointed Port
Physician, which office he held for several years.  Yellow fever having been
introduced into Pensacola about August 01, 1853, his professional labors were
thereby very largely increased.  While busily engaged attending the sick, he was
seized with the disease on the 25th of the same month, and was sent immediately by
his friends to Milton, Florida, where his family wre temporarily sojourning.  Having
recovered, and the yellow fever having bee induced there, by the earnest appeals of
the citizens of Milton and adjacent villages, he resumed practice and continued
until the epidemic ceased [on or about the 15th day of the following December]...
In May, 1854, an United States Marine Hospital was established in Pensacola, and he
was appointed surgeon of the same in June of the same year...  In 1861, took service
as a medical officer in that part of the Confederate States Army under General
Braxton Bragg, stationed at Fort Barrancas, Florida...  [This is a very lengthy
biography.]

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND
SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianaplis, pp. 632-634.

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