HART, Frederic W., M. D.; CAN., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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FREDERIC W. HART, M.D., ST. MARTINVILLE.--Dr. Hart is a native of Canada and
was born November 22, 1814.  His father, Benjamin Hart, was also a Canadian
and a prominent merchant of his province.  He died in 1884.  Our subject's
mother, Harriet Hart, was a native of New York.  To this union were born seven
sons and seven daughters.

Dr. Hart was reared and educated in Canada.  He pursued a thorough classical
and scientific course at McGill's College, of which  institution he is a
graduate.  He studied medicine in Montreal, after leaving college, graduating
in 1835.  In 1836 he emigrated to the United States and located at Grand Gulf,
Mississippi, where he remained two years.  He subsequently removed to Yazoo
county, and two years later to New Orleans, where he remained for nine years. 
Tiring of the constant labors connected with his professional duties, the
Doctor purchased a plantation in Iberville parish and removed to that place,
where he attended to his agricultural interests.  In 1857 he went to Colorado
and invested in the mining interests; remaining there for three years.  Being
a strong Southern sympathizer, he moved to Mississippi and enlisted in the
Confederate service, Regiment 6, Cavalry.  He was assigned to the staff of
Gen. Witherspoon, and served with him until the close of the war.  Since that
time he has devoted his time and attention to his profession.  The Doctor is
the author of several essays on different medical subjects which have been of
much benefit to the profession.  He has been thrice married and is now a
widower.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
334-335.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.