Biography of Harry Houston Hughart, M.D. - Summers Co. WV

"Arizona, The Nations Youngest Commonwealth", S.J. Clarke Publishing, 1916, pg 320

Dr. Harry Houston Hughart, who since 1903 has been practicing his profession in Tombstone, 
Arizona where he is the only representative of the medical fraternity, was born in Warm Springs, 
Virginia, September 11, 1876, a son of Dr. J.P. ad Mary J. (McCutchan) Hughart, the former a 
representative of an old Virginia family.  The paternal grandfather was a planter in that state 
and a prosperous and representative citizen.  His son, Dr. J.P. Hughart, removed to West Virginia,
wehre he held an important position as a railway surgeon.  He died in 1906 and was survived by 
his wife until 1909.  They had four children: Betty M., the wife of Walter A. Saunders, of 
Hinton, West Virginia; Nellie R., deceased; Dr. John E. of Landisburg West Virginia and Dr. 
Harry Houston, of this review.

Dr. H. Houston Hughart was reared in West Virginia acquiring his early education in the public 
schools of Sewell.  When he was thirteen years of age he went to Huntington and there continued 
his studies, attending the high school for two years.  He ocmpleted his high school course in 
Staunton, Virginia nad when he was sixteen entered a business college in that city.  Returning 
to West Virginia he worked as a bookkeeper and stenographer for one year and then spent a year 
and a half in the coal mines, abandoning that occupation in 1897.  Having determined to make 
the practice of medicine his life work, he entered the university College of Medicine at 
Richmond Virginia and was graduted with the degree in M.D. in April 1900.  He afterward took a 
post-graduate course and then practiced in various parts of Virginia, spending only a short time
in each and going in May of the following year to Lanark West Virginia, where he had an office 
until 1903 when he came to Tombstone Arizona.  He has remained a continuous resident here for 
twelve years and has built up in that time an enviable reputation as a skilled physician 
commanding a liberal ptronage that is indicative of the confidence and trust reposed in him 
professionally.  He was superintendent of the County Hospital for five years or until that 
institution was removed to Douglas and is otherwise well known in medical circles in Cochise 
County.

In 1901 Dr. Hughart married Mrs. Lillie L. Bishop, a native of Virginia and a daughter of 
Samuel D. and Margaret (Callahan) Dixon, both of whom were born in that state.  In their family 
were five children: William, deceased, Robert, who has also passed away; Charles, a contractor 
and builder of Covington, Virginia; Ella, deceased; and Lillie L. now Mrs. Hughart.

Dr. Hughart owns one of the most attractive homes in Tombstone and has other valuable property 
interests, including the opera house in Courtland Arizona and valuable real estate in and around
Hinton West Virginia.

Submitted by <burns@asu.edu>

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