Dr. Herbert Taylor Harris is one of the distinguished physicians and surgeons of northwestern Wyoming, being now successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Basin. Liberal college and university training have well qualified him for the onerous and responsible duties that devolve upon him in this connection and he is continually promoting his knowledge and efficiency by wide reading and study and yearly post graduate work.
    Dr. Harris is a native of Illinois. He was born in Piasa. December 27, 1879, a son of William Johnston and Louise A. (Braley) Harris, the former a native of Frankford, Ontario, Canada, while the latter was born in Franklin, New Hampshire. The father was also a physician, devoting his entire life to the practise of medicine, and Dr. Herbert T. Harris was therefore, as it were, "to the manner born." He pursued his early education in the Wentworth Military Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897. He afterward attended the Creighton Medical College at Omaha, Nebraska, winning his M. D. degree upon graduation with the class of 1902. The following years he went abroad for study and for two years was a post graduate student in the University of Vienna, Austria, and at London. England.
    Upon his return to the United States in 1905 Dr. Harris came to Wyoming and entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has since been constantly and successfully engaged. From 1905 until 1908 he was chief surgeon to the Sheridan Coal Company at Dietz and in the latter year he opened an office in Basin, where he has since practiced. He is half owner of, and surgeon to, the Basin Hospital, Inc., and in addition he has a large private practice which makes constant demands upon his time and energies. He is also interested in ranching, in banking and in the development of the oil fields and his investments have been judiciously made.
    On the 27^th of June, 1906, in Carlinville, Illinois, Dr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Ryder Burton, A. B., R. N., a daughter of Frank W. Burton. an eminent lawyer and jurist, and of Anna (Robertson) Burton. To Dr. and Mrs. Harris has been born a son. Burton, whose birth occurred September 3, 1907.
    In his political views Dr. Harris is a democrat, having supported the party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, but he has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking and the only public positions which he has held have been in the strict path of his profession. Since 1910 he has been a member of the Wyoming state board of health, of which he was president, a fact that indicates his high professional standing. He is also city physician and county health officer of Basin and Bighorn county, respectively, and he is the president of the Bighorn County Library Association. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, while along strictly professional lines he is identified with the Northwestern Wyoming Medical Society, of which he was one time the president; the Wyoming State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. Holding to the highest professional standards, he has made his work of great value and benefit to his fellow-men, and colleagues and contemporaries speak of him in terms of the highest regard.