NOTE: In early records, his given name was captured as "Elisha" rather than Euclid. Additionally, his surname was written with multiple, phonetical variants (i.e., Vanzant, Van Zant, Vanzandt, etc.) but the name above is his name as recorded in all official records found after 1880.
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Per 1860 Federal Census & other records he was the seventh of nine children born to Lewis & Elizabeth (Hunt) Van Zandt. He received his medical training in Iowa -- at the Medical Department of the Iowa State University -- later renamed the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was a single physician in May 1864 Dent County, Missouri Civil War Draft Registration records.
About 1868, Euclid first married Salina Elizabeth Boyd while living in Tennessee. They had three children: Spencer Boyd, James Hoyle & Katherine before they ultimately divorced in 1891.
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NOTE: About 1882 he moved with his family to Washington Territory as part of the "Washington Colony" -- a “Kansas for Profit Corporation” set up in Kansas on 2 Jan 1880. The purpose of the Washington Colony was to assist in the community building in the Bellingham, Washington area. E. Van Zandt was one of the original members, whose name can be found on the original corporation papers. [-provided by James Sipe, author of “The Story of Van Zandt, Washington”-]
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He second married Anna May Burton on 18 November 1897 in New Whatcom, Washington -- they had no children together.
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Northwest Medicine - Volume 14 - Page 30 "Dr. Euclid Van Zandt died at Bellingham, Washington, November 24th, from arteriosclerosis after an illness of about a year. He was born in Georgia in 1844. He graduated from the medical school at Keokuk, Iowa. When the Sante Fe railroad was built across the deserts of Arizona, he served as one of the company's surgeons. Later he practiced in Kansas, and in 1882 came West with a colony of Kansans and settled at the present site of Bellingham. He was one of the first regular physicians in Whatcom County.
"By 1890, he had become county health officer as well as keeping up a surgical practice. For many years he traveled about the county on horseback, visiting patients in the remote parts of the county. He served as president of the State Medical Association and president of the Medical Examining Board. He was appointed by Governor Mead as Superintendent of the Washington Hospital for the Insane at Steilacoom, which position he held from April 1905 to October 1906."
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Per 1860 Federal Census & other records he was the seventh of nine children born to Lewis & Elizabeth (Hunt) Van Zandt. He received his medical training in Iowa -- at the Medical Department of the Iowa State University -- later renamed the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was a single physician in May 1864 Dent County, Missouri Civil War Draft Registration records.
About 1868, Euclid first married Salina Elizabeth Boyd while living in Tennessee. They had three children: Spencer Boyd, James Hoyle & Katherine before they ultimately divorced in 1891.
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NOTE: About 1882 he moved with his family to Washington Territory as part of the "Washington Colony" -- a “Kansas for Profit Corporation” set up in Kansas on 2 Jan 1880. The purpose of the Washington Colony was to assist in the community building in the Bellingham, Washington area. E. Van Zandt was one of the original members, whose name can be found on the original corporation papers. [-provided by James Sipe, author of “The Story of Van Zandt, Washington”-]
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He second married Anna May Burton on 18 November 1897 in New Whatcom, Washington -- they had no children together.
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Northwest Medicine - Volume 14 - Page 30 "Dr. Euclid Van Zandt died at Bellingham, Washington, November 24th, from arteriosclerosis after an illness of about a year. He was born in Georgia in 1844. He graduated from the medical school at Keokuk, Iowa. When the Sante Fe railroad was built across the deserts of Arizona, he served as one of the company's surgeons. Later he practiced in Kansas, and in 1882 came West with a colony of Kansans and settled at the present site of Bellingham. He was one of the first regular physicians in Whatcom County.
"By 1890, he had become county health officer as well as keeping up a surgical practice. For many years he traveled about the county on horseback, visiting patients in the remote parts of the county. He served as president of the State Medical Association and president of the Medical Examining Board. He was appointed by Governor Mead as Superintendent of the Washington Hospital for the Insane at Steilacoom, which position he held from April 1905 to October 1906."
NOTE: In early records, his given name was captured as "Elisha" rather than Euclid. Additionally, his surname was written with multiple, phonetical variants (i.e., Vanzant, Van Zant, Vanzandt, etc.) but the name above is his name as recorded in all official records found after 1880.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Per 1860 Federal Census & other records he was the seventh of nine children born to Lewis & Elizabeth (Hunt) Van Zandt. He received his medical training in Iowa -- at the Medical Department of the Iowa State University -- later renamed the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was a single physician in May 1864 Dent County, Missouri Civil War Draft Registration records.
About 1868, Euclid first married Salina Elizabeth Boyd while living in Tennessee. They had three children: Spencer Boyd, James Hoyle & Katherine before they ultimately divorced in 1891.
~~~~~
NOTE: About 1882 he moved with his family to Washington Territory as part of the "Washington Colony" -- a “Kansas for Profit Corporation” set up in Kansas on 2 Jan 1880. The purpose of the Washington Colony was to assist in the community building in the Bellingham, Washington area. E. Van Zandt was one of the original members, whose name can be found on the original corporation papers. [-provided by James Sipe, author of “The Story of Van Zandt, Washington”-]
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He second married Anna May Burton on 18 November 1897 in New Whatcom, Washington -- they had no children together.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Northwest Medicine - Volume 14 - Page 30 "Dr. Euclid Van Zandt died at Bellingham, Washington, November 24th, from arteriosclerosis after an illness of about a year. He was born in Georgia in 1844. He graduated from the medical school at Keokuk, Iowa. When the Sante Fe railroad was built across the deserts of Arizona, he served as one of the company's surgeons. Later he practiced in Kansas, and in 1882 came West with a colony of Kansans and settled at the present site of Bellingham. He was one of the first regular physicians in Whatcom County.
"By 1890, he had become county health officer as well as keeping up a surgical practice. For many years he traveled about the county on horseback, visiting patients in the remote parts of the county. He served as president of the State Medical Association and president of the Medical Examining Board. He was appointed by Governor Mead as Superintendent of the Washington Hospital for the Insane at Steilacoom, which position he held from April 1905 to October 1906."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Per 1860 Federal Census & other records he was the seventh of nine children born to Lewis & Elizabeth (Hunt) Van Zandt. He received his medical training in Iowa -- at the Medical Department of the Iowa State University -- later renamed the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was a single physician in May 1864 Dent County, Missouri Civil War Draft Registration records.
About 1868, Euclid first married Salina Elizabeth Boyd while living in Tennessee. They had three children: Spencer Boyd, James Hoyle & Katherine before they ultimately divorced in 1891.
~~~~~
NOTE: About 1882 he moved with his family to Washington Territory as part of the "Washington Colony" -- a “Kansas for Profit Corporation” set up in Kansas on 2 Jan 1880. The purpose of the Washington Colony was to assist in the community building in the Bellingham, Washington area. E. Van Zandt was one of the original members, whose name can be found on the original corporation papers. [-provided by James Sipe, author of “The Story of Van Zandt, Washington”-]
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He second married Anna May Burton on 18 November 1897 in New Whatcom, Washington -- they had no children together.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Northwest Medicine - Volume 14 - Page 30 "Dr. Euclid Van Zandt died at Bellingham, Washington, November 24th, from arteriosclerosis after an illness of about a year. He was born in Georgia in 1844. He graduated from the medical school at Keokuk, Iowa. When the Sante Fe railroad was built across the deserts of Arizona, he served as one of the company's surgeons. Later he practiced in Kansas, and in 1882 came West with a colony of Kansans and settled at the present site of Bellingham. He was one of the first regular physicians in Whatcom County.
"By 1890, he had become county health officer as well as keeping up a surgical practice. For many years he traveled about the county on horseback, visiting patients in the remote parts of the county. He served as president of the State Medical Association and president of the Medical Examining Board. He was appointed by Governor Mead as Superintendent of the Washington Hospital for the Insane at Steilacoom, which position he held from April 1905 to October 1906."
Gravesite Details
Euclid's unclaimed cremains are being held in a Lake View Cemetery "Community Storage" vault.
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