MARK H. SMITH, M. D.

MARK H. SMITH, M. D.
Dr. Mark H. Smith, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Basin, comes to Wyoming from far off New England, his birth having occurred in Waterbury, Vermont. January 20. 1871. His parents were Edgar C. and Sarah E. (Ruttan) Smith. The father was born in the state of New York. while the mother was a native of Canada, and their marriage was celebrated at Niagara Falls. They began their domestic life in Vermont. where they resided until 1877 and then removed to Rochester, New York, where they lived until 1879. In that year they took up their abode in Iowa, becoming residents of Council Bluffs, where the mother died February 2, 1918. To them were born five children. Mark B. Smith was reared and educated in western Iowa, attending the common schools and passing through consecutive grades to the high school. He afterward became a student in Tabor College of Iowa and afterward pursued a course in a business college at Council Bluffs. At length he determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view entered the State University of Iowa as a medical student and won his professional degree upon graduation therefrom with the class of 1895. Wishing still more comprehensive medical training, he attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1898. Dr. Smith located for the practice of medicine in Page county, Iowa, there remaining until 1900, when on account of his health he removed to New Mexico and afterward to Colorado Springs, where he practiced until 1908. He then came to Basin, where he has since been located, and he is now one of the leading physicians of northwestern Wyoming. He is interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life, and he is constantly promoting his knowledge by wide reading and study, thus keeping in touch with modern scientific investigation and research. He is also the secretary of the Irrigation Company of Bighorn county and he is the owner of two ranches in the county and is associated with his father and brother in the ownership of a large stock ranch, upon which they now have over lour hundred head of fine cattle. In addition Dr. Smith owns a most beautiful and attractive residence in Basin and his various property holdings are the visible evidence of his life of well directed energy, of thrift and sound business judgment. In July, 1895, Dr: Smith was married to Miss Blanche R. Goan, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, a daughter of Andrew and Jane (Huber) Goan, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the mother born in 1831 and the father in 1830. Both are now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have become the parents of three children: Edgar C., who has passed away; Elizabeth J., who died in 1914; and Mark H., Jr., who was born October 20, 1914. Mrs. Smith is a consistent member of the Episcopal church, in the work of which she takes a helpful interest. Dr. Smith is a thirty-second degree Mason and is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His interests are broad and varied, his business affairs are carefully conducted and his activities touch the general interests of society.

Dr. Mark H. Smith, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Basin, comes to Wyoming from far off New England, his birth having occurred in Waterbury, Vermont. January 20. 1871. His parents were Edgar C. and Sarah E. (Ruttan) Smith. The father was born in the state of New York. while the mother was a native of Canada, and their marriage was celebrated at Niagara Falls. They began their domestic life in Vermont. where they resided until 1877 and then removed to Rochester, New York, where they lived until 1879. In that year they took up their abode in Iowa, becoming residents of Council Bluffs, where the mother died February 2, 1918. To them were born five children.
Mark B. Smith was reared and educated in western Iowa, attending the common schools and passing through consecutive grades to the high school. He afterward became a student in Tabor College of Iowa and afterward pursued a course in a business college at Council Bluffs. At length he determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view entered the State University of Iowa as a medical student and won his professional degree upon graduation therefrom with the class of 1895. Wishing still more comprehensive medical training, he attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1898.
Dr. Smith located for the practice of medicine in Page county, Iowa, there remaining until 1900, when on account of his health he removed to New Mexico and afterward to Colorado Springs, where he practiced until 1908. He then came to Basin, where he has since been located, and he is now one of the leading physicians of northwestern Wyoming. He is interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life, and he is constantly promoting his knowledge by wide reading and study, thus keeping in touch with modern scientific investigation and research. He is also the secretary of the Irrigation Company of Bighorn county and he is the owner of two ranches in the county and is associated with his father and brother in the ownership of a large stock ranch, upon which they now have over lour hundred head of fine cattle. In addition Dr. Smith owns a most beautiful and attractive residence in Basin and his various property holdings are the visible evidence of his life of well directed energy, of thrift and sound business judgment.
In July, 1895, Dr: Smith was married to Miss Blanche R. Goan, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, a daughter of Andrew and Jane (Huber) Goan, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the mother born in 1831 and the father in 1830. Both are now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have become the parents of three children: Edgar C., who has passed away; Elizabeth J., who died in 1914; and Mark H., Jr., who was born October 20, 1914.
Mrs. Smith is a consistent member of the Episcopal church, in the work of which she takes a helpful interest. Dr. Smith is a thirty-second degree Mason and is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His interests are broad and varied, his business affairs are carefully conducted and his activities touch the general interests of society.