Westmoreland-Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Gaut, Robert F. October 29, 1833 

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ROBERT F. GAUT, M. D., of Kecksburg, a successful physician of fourteen years
active practice and a soldier of the late civil war, was born in Tyrone
township, Fayette county Pa., October 29, 1833, and is a son of Joseph and
Margaret (Francis) Gaut. His grandfather, Matthew Gaut, was a native of
Aberdeen, Scotland, immigrated to New Jersey, soon removed to New York where he
married Sarah Bird, of German descent and soon emigrated to Tyrone township,
Fayette county, Pa., where hie settled on Jacob's creek and patented a tract of
four hundred acres of land. He was a presbyterian and a democrat and was a
blacksmith by trade, He served as justice of the peace. He reared a family of
five sons and two daughters. One of these sons was Joseph Gaut, the father of
Dr. Gaut, and was born in 1806. He purchased two hundred acres of his father’s
farm and was engaged in farming until his death in 1878. He was a whig,
afterwards a republican and served one term as county treasurer. He was a
constant reader, a friend of education and a highly respected elder of the
Presbyterian church. He married Margaret Francis, who died in 1851, aged
forty-five years. Her father was William Francis who came from Ireland to East
Huntingdon township, this county. He was a presbyterian and married Mary Silla,
of his native country, by whom he had six sons and six daughters, one of whom
was Mrs. Gaut. Mr. and Mrs. Gaut were the parents of four sons and four
daughters. One of the sons is Dr. Matthew, chief physician of the Clifton
Springs’ sanitarium, N. Y., at a salary of $5,000 per year. Another son, William
F., served as a soldier in the late war.

   Dr. Robert F. Gaut received bis education at Laurel Hill Parochial school and
taught fourteen terms in the common schools. He read medicine with A. W.
Stricklcr, attended lectures at Jefferson Medical college for one year and then
entered Detroit Medical college at Detroit, Michigan, from which he was
graduated in the class of 1876. After graduation he located at Madison, this
county, where he remained two years and then came to Kecksburg where he has been
actively practicing ever since. On August 23, 1862, he enlisted in company I,
fifteenth reg., Pa. cavalry, and was mustered out February 10, 1863. He
participated in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Murfreesboro. He is
a republican and a member of Pleasant Unity Presbyterian church, while his wile
bolds membership in the U. B. church.

   On October 12, 1877, he married Eleanor Gallatin, daughter of Samuel
Gallatin, of Fayette county, Pa. They are the parents of four children: William
L., a graduate of Iron City college, married Lizzie Brown and is in the
commission business at Altoona, Pa.; John S., married and living in Nebraska;
Lyman and Mina B., a teacher. Mrs. Eleanor Gaut dying, Dr. Gaut married for his
second wife, in September, 1876, Mary J. Trump, daughter of John and Hettie
(Zuck) Trump. By this second marriage he has three children: Robert L., Homer B.
and Arthur.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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