Bios.Tulsa,OK GROSSHART, Ross (M.D.)
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Posted by Earline Barger on Sun, 02 Jan 2000
Surname: GROSSHART, MEEKS, HALL, STALEY
ROSS GROSSHART, M.D.
Vol. 3, p. 1143 
The State of Missouri has contributed to the newer commonwealth of Oklahoma a goodly percentage of well fortified and specially successful representatives of the medical profession, and of this number a popular and successful physician and surgeon is Doctor Grosshart, who is engaged in active general practice in the City of Tulsa and whose status in his profession and as a loyal and progressive citizen well entitled him to recognition in this history of the state of his adoption. 
The younger of the two children of Dr. J. Emory Grosshart and Anna (MEEKS) Grosshart, the doctor was born at Papinsville, Bates County, Missouri, on the 28th of January, 1878, his father having died in the following year, at the early age of thirty-one years. J. Emory Grosshart was born in the State of Illinois but passed the major part of his life in Missouri. His widow, who is still living, is a native of the State of Kentucky, and the elder of their two children is Launia, who is the wife of John HALL, of Sand Springs, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Dr. J. Emory Grosshart received excellent academic and professional education and was graduated in the Kansas Medical College at Kansas City, Kansas, as a member of the class of 1875, but death soon brought untimely close to his profession endeavors, as he was summoned to the life eternal in 1879, as above noted. 
Dr. Ross Grosshart acquired his early education in the public schools of Shell City, Vernon County, Missouri, and thereafter attended one of the excellent normal schools of his native state. In 1899 he was graduated in the Kansas City Medical College, at Kansas City, Missouri, and later he fortified himself still further for his chosen profession by completing a post-graduate course in surgery in the celebrated New York Post-Graduate Medical School, where he was a member of the class of 1905. 
Soon after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine Doctor Grosshart engaged in the practice of his profession at Rockville, Bates County, Missouri, where he continued his successful labors until 1905. On the 11th of June of that year, after the completion of his post-graduate course in the City of New York, he established his residence in the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has since continued in successful practice and controls a substantial and representative professional business, in which he gives special attention to surgery. The doctor is actively identified with the Tulsa County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Southwestern Medical Association, the organization of which covers Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. 
In politics Doctor Grosshart gives unqualified allegiance to the democratic party, and he is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in the consistory at McAlester, this state. His ancient-craft affiliation is with Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, and in addition to being affiliated with other York Rite bodies in his home city he here holds membership also in Akdar Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The doctor is a member also of Tulsa Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
On the 4th of April, 1900, Doctor Grosshart wedded Miss Emma S. STALEY, who likewise was born and reared in Missouri, and they have four children: Paul L., Alyne A., Jack S. and Ruth. 
Transcribed by: Earline Sparks Barger, December 21, 1999