son of William T. Dudgeon & Mary Wagner
DR. HOWARD RUSH DUDGEON
Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon of Waco, Texas, long has been a surgeon of the first rank, and a good friend of mine. He was born in Chamois, Missouri, November 31, 1873, but came to Texas with his parents in search of a suitable climate to improve the health of his mother, who suffered from tuberculosis. The family stopped at Bremond, the terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, then set out by wagon across the country for Bandera County, but encountered impassable roads. Hence they settled down near San Marcos, where Howard grew up.
Dr. Dudgeon's higher and professional education was secured from Coronal Institute, San Marcos; Southwestern University, Georgetown, and the Medical Branch of the University of Texas, Galveston, where he graduated with the last three-year class, that of 1899. His first post was that of Assistant Surgeon of the Mexican Central Railway, Auguas Calientes, Mexico.
In one year the young doctor saved up enough money to accept an internship in John Sealey Hospital. Galveston, which was followed by two years in the Medical Branch of the University of Texas as Demonstrator of Surgery.
Dr. Dudgeon and the former Miss Sue Montgomery of San Marcos, Texas, were married June 11, 1903. She had been a childhood sweetheart and they have one son, Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon, Jr. Mrs. Dudgeon has great interest in organized medicine, and has been President of the Women's Auxiliary. She usually goes with the doctor to the state and national meetings. His family moved to the Montgomery community when he was seven years old and they attended the same church and 'school. When he graduated, he came back to that little church and they were married. Many of their friends re- marked, "There goes the finest, sweetest, smartest bride of our community." The doctor, after forty years of wedded life, says it is still true.
As for why Dr. Dudgeon became a physician, he supplied a very honest answer: “Ask most men why they studied medicine, and they will enunciate fine words about relieving suffering humanity, cooling the fevered brow, and snatching men and women from the jaws of death. How I wish I could lay claim to such noble altruism, but standing as I am tonight in the beautiful town about which my earliest memories cluster, and among whose people I shall lie down to rest when the day's work is done, I am determined to stick to the unvarnished truth. I thought if the study of medicine made men grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, enabled them to wear fine clothes, smoke fragrant cigars, . . . it would beat jogging along country roads in a rough farm wagon drawn by a rat-tailed, yew-necked black, and an old flea-bitten gray, like we did.
"How seldom do the happy dreams of youth mature into sober realities of midlife. I have never owned a buggy and team; smoking a fragrant cigar makes me dizzy; I failed to grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, and as for fine clothes, sackcloth and ashes become me about as well as purple and fine linen. Instead of driving out pleasant country roads, listening to the happy songs of birds and inhaling the fragrance of the wild spring flowers, I must walk the smelly halls of the hospital, spending anxious and wakeful hours over the desperately sick.
"No, my friends, all is not as smooth sailing with me as I used to think it must be with Dr. Hons as he met or passed us on the road, driving that splendid pair of well-groomed proud-stepping bays, with buggy and harness to match.”
In the State Journal of Medicine, June, 1943, is the memorial address given by Dr. Dudgeon before the State Medical Association of Texas, he said:
"In one of the smaller cities of this state there is a doctor whom I guess expects us to rate him as an internist, but his interests and accomplishments in medicine are rather too broad to be described by that term. His reputation in medicine is first class and has been for many years.
"He has been very busy for years keeping up with the new things in medicine, and very often his ideas have been ahead of his time. As frequently happens in the case of outstanding medical men, he is a speaker of first-rate ability, and his scientific papers, read before the various professional associations to which he has contributed liberally, are ably presented and they show the qualities of the great teacher. In his busy life he has found time to become interested in other things than medicine. He is an outstanding leader in his church, he has donated a great deal of money, for a doctor, to its agencies. He has served in official capacity on the board of one of the great church schools. In recognition of his donations, his services on its board, and his fine scholarship, the honorary degree of Doctor of Law has been conferred upon him.
"In old fiddlers' contests he rates as a star performer. He is a philosopher of no mean ability, and has adopted verse as a vehicle of expressing it. In my humble and oft erring opinion, he is the leading poet of Texas."
Obituary adapted from the following source:
Torbett. (n. d.). Some friends of mine. Retrieved from http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txfalls/MISC/TORBETT/TorbettSomeFriendsOfMineChap10.htm
DR. HOWARD RUSH DUDGEON
Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon of Waco, Texas, long has been a surgeon of the first rank, and a good friend of mine. He was born in Chamois, Missouri, November 31, 1873, but came to Texas with his parents in search of a suitable climate to improve the health of his mother, who suffered from tuberculosis. The family stopped at Bremond, the terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, then set out by wagon across the country for Bandera County, but encountered impassable roads. Hence they settled down near San Marcos, where Howard grew up.
Dr. Dudgeon's higher and professional education was secured from Coronal Institute, San Marcos; Southwestern University, Georgetown, and the Medical Branch of the University of Texas, Galveston, where he graduated with the last three-year class, that of 1899. His first post was that of Assistant Surgeon of the Mexican Central Railway, Auguas Calientes, Mexico.
In one year the young doctor saved up enough money to accept an internship in John Sealey Hospital. Galveston, which was followed by two years in the Medical Branch of the University of Texas as Demonstrator of Surgery.
Dr. Dudgeon and the former Miss Sue Montgomery of San Marcos, Texas, were married June 11, 1903. She had been a childhood sweetheart and they have one son, Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon, Jr. Mrs. Dudgeon has great interest in organized medicine, and has been President of the Women's Auxiliary. She usually goes with the doctor to the state and national meetings. His family moved to the Montgomery community when he was seven years old and they attended the same church and 'school. When he graduated, he came back to that little church and they were married. Many of their friends re- marked, "There goes the finest, sweetest, smartest bride of our community." The doctor, after forty years of wedded life, says it is still true.
As for why Dr. Dudgeon became a physician, he supplied a very honest answer: “Ask most men why they studied medicine, and they will enunciate fine words about relieving suffering humanity, cooling the fevered brow, and snatching men and women from the jaws of death. How I wish I could lay claim to such noble altruism, but standing as I am tonight in the beautiful town about which my earliest memories cluster, and among whose people I shall lie down to rest when the day's work is done, I am determined to stick to the unvarnished truth. I thought if the study of medicine made men grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, enabled them to wear fine clothes, smoke fragrant cigars, . . . it would beat jogging along country roads in a rough farm wagon drawn by a rat-tailed, yew-necked black, and an old flea-bitten gray, like we did.
"How seldom do the happy dreams of youth mature into sober realities of midlife. I have never owned a buggy and team; smoking a fragrant cigar makes me dizzy; I failed to grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, and as for fine clothes, sackcloth and ashes become me about as well as purple and fine linen. Instead of driving out pleasant country roads, listening to the happy songs of birds and inhaling the fragrance of the wild spring flowers, I must walk the smelly halls of the hospital, spending anxious and wakeful hours over the desperately sick.
"No, my friends, all is not as smooth sailing with me as I used to think it must be with Dr. Hons as he met or passed us on the road, driving that splendid pair of well-groomed proud-stepping bays, with buggy and harness to match.”
In the State Journal of Medicine, June, 1943, is the memorial address given by Dr. Dudgeon before the State Medical Association of Texas, he said:
"In one of the smaller cities of this state there is a doctor whom I guess expects us to rate him as an internist, but his interests and accomplishments in medicine are rather too broad to be described by that term. His reputation in medicine is first class and has been for many years.
"He has been very busy for years keeping up with the new things in medicine, and very often his ideas have been ahead of his time. As frequently happens in the case of outstanding medical men, he is a speaker of first-rate ability, and his scientific papers, read before the various professional associations to which he has contributed liberally, are ably presented and they show the qualities of the great teacher. In his busy life he has found time to become interested in other things than medicine. He is an outstanding leader in his church, he has donated a great deal of money, for a doctor, to its agencies. He has served in official capacity on the board of one of the great church schools. In recognition of his donations, his services on its board, and his fine scholarship, the honorary degree of Doctor of Law has been conferred upon him.
"In old fiddlers' contests he rates as a star performer. He is a philosopher of no mean ability, and has adopted verse as a vehicle of expressing it. In my humble and oft erring opinion, he is the leading poet of Texas."
Obituary adapted from the following source:
Torbett. (n. d.). Some friends of mine. Retrieved from http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txfalls/MISC/TORBETT/TorbettSomeFriendsOfMineChap10.htm
son of William T. Dudgeon & Mary Wagner
DR. HOWARD RUSH DUDGEON
Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon of Waco, Texas, long has been a surgeon of the first rank, and a good friend of mine. He was born in Chamois, Missouri, November 31, 1873, but came to Texas with his parents in search of a suitable climate to improve the health of his mother, who suffered from tuberculosis. The family stopped at Bremond, the terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, then set out by wagon across the country for Bandera County, but encountered impassable roads. Hence they settled down near San Marcos, where Howard grew up.
Dr. Dudgeon's higher and professional education was secured from Coronal Institute, San Marcos; Southwestern University, Georgetown, and the Medical Branch of the University of Texas, Galveston, where he graduated with the last three-year class, that of 1899. His first post was that of Assistant Surgeon of the Mexican Central Railway, Auguas Calientes, Mexico.
In one year the young doctor saved up enough money to accept an internship in John Sealey Hospital. Galveston, which was followed by two years in the Medical Branch of the University of Texas as Demonstrator of Surgery.
Dr. Dudgeon and the former Miss Sue Montgomery of San Marcos, Texas, were married June 11, 1903. She had been a childhood sweetheart and they have one son, Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon, Jr. Mrs. Dudgeon has great interest in organized medicine, and has been President of the Women's Auxiliary. She usually goes with the doctor to the state and national meetings. His family moved to the Montgomery community when he was seven years old and they attended the same church and 'school. When he graduated, he came back to that little church and they were married. Many of their friends re- marked, "There goes the finest, sweetest, smartest bride of our community." The doctor, after forty years of wedded life, says it is still true.
As for why Dr. Dudgeon became a physician, he supplied a very honest answer: “Ask most men why they studied medicine, and they will enunciate fine words about relieving suffering humanity, cooling the fevered brow, and snatching men and women from the jaws of death. How I wish I could lay claim to such noble altruism, but standing as I am tonight in the beautiful town about which my earliest memories cluster, and among whose people I shall lie down to rest when the day's work is done, I am determined to stick to the unvarnished truth. I thought if the study of medicine made men grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, enabled them to wear fine clothes, smoke fragrant cigars, . . . it would beat jogging along country roads in a rough farm wagon drawn by a rat-tailed, yew-necked black, and an old flea-bitten gray, like we did.
"How seldom do the happy dreams of youth mature into sober realities of midlife. I have never owned a buggy and team; smoking a fragrant cigar makes me dizzy; I failed to grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, and as for fine clothes, sackcloth and ashes become me about as well as purple and fine linen. Instead of driving out pleasant country roads, listening to the happy songs of birds and inhaling the fragrance of the wild spring flowers, I must walk the smelly halls of the hospital, spending anxious and wakeful hours over the desperately sick.
"No, my friends, all is not as smooth sailing with me as I used to think it must be with Dr. Hons as he met or passed us on the road, driving that splendid pair of well-groomed proud-stepping bays, with buggy and harness to match.”
In the State Journal of Medicine, June, 1943, is the memorial address given by Dr. Dudgeon before the State Medical Association of Texas, he said:
"In one of the smaller cities of this state there is a doctor whom I guess expects us to rate him as an internist, but his interests and accomplishments in medicine are rather too broad to be described by that term. His reputation in medicine is first class and has been for many years.
"He has been very busy for years keeping up with the new things in medicine, and very often his ideas have been ahead of his time. As frequently happens in the case of outstanding medical men, he is a speaker of first-rate ability, and his scientific papers, read before the various professional associations to which he has contributed liberally, are ably presented and they show the qualities of the great teacher. In his busy life he has found time to become interested in other things than medicine. He is an outstanding leader in his church, he has donated a great deal of money, for a doctor, to its agencies. He has served in official capacity on the board of one of the great church schools. In recognition of his donations, his services on its board, and his fine scholarship, the honorary degree of Doctor of Law has been conferred upon him.
"In old fiddlers' contests he rates as a star performer. He is a philosopher of no mean ability, and has adopted verse as a vehicle of expressing it. In my humble and oft erring opinion, he is the leading poet of Texas."
Obituary adapted from the following source:
Torbett. (n. d.). Some friends of mine. Retrieved from http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txfalls/MISC/TORBETT/TorbettSomeFriendsOfMineChap10.htm
DR. HOWARD RUSH DUDGEON
Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon of Waco, Texas, long has been a surgeon of the first rank, and a good friend of mine. He was born in Chamois, Missouri, November 31, 1873, but came to Texas with his parents in search of a suitable climate to improve the health of his mother, who suffered from tuberculosis. The family stopped at Bremond, the terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, then set out by wagon across the country for Bandera County, but encountered impassable roads. Hence they settled down near San Marcos, where Howard grew up.
Dr. Dudgeon's higher and professional education was secured from Coronal Institute, San Marcos; Southwestern University, Georgetown, and the Medical Branch of the University of Texas, Galveston, where he graduated with the last three-year class, that of 1899. His first post was that of Assistant Surgeon of the Mexican Central Railway, Auguas Calientes, Mexico.
In one year the young doctor saved up enough money to accept an internship in John Sealey Hospital. Galveston, which was followed by two years in the Medical Branch of the University of Texas as Demonstrator of Surgery.
Dr. Dudgeon and the former Miss Sue Montgomery of San Marcos, Texas, were married June 11, 1903. She had been a childhood sweetheart and they have one son, Dr. Howard Rush Dudgeon, Jr. Mrs. Dudgeon has great interest in organized medicine, and has been President of the Women's Auxiliary. She usually goes with the doctor to the state and national meetings. His family moved to the Montgomery community when he was seven years old and they attended the same church and 'school. When he graduated, he came back to that little church and they were married. Many of their friends re- marked, "There goes the finest, sweetest, smartest bride of our community." The doctor, after forty years of wedded life, says it is still true.
As for why Dr. Dudgeon became a physician, he supplied a very honest answer: “Ask most men why they studied medicine, and they will enunciate fine words about relieving suffering humanity, cooling the fevered brow, and snatching men and women from the jaws of death. How I wish I could lay claim to such noble altruism, but standing as I am tonight in the beautiful town about which my earliest memories cluster, and among whose people I shall lie down to rest when the day's work is done, I am determined to stick to the unvarnished truth. I thought if the study of medicine made men grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, enabled them to wear fine clothes, smoke fragrant cigars, . . . it would beat jogging along country roads in a rough farm wagon drawn by a rat-tailed, yew-necked black, and an old flea-bitten gray, like we did.
"How seldom do the happy dreams of youth mature into sober realities of midlife. I have never owned a buggy and team; smoking a fragrant cigar makes me dizzy; I failed to grow tall, lean and distinguished looking, and as for fine clothes, sackcloth and ashes become me about as well as purple and fine linen. Instead of driving out pleasant country roads, listening to the happy songs of birds and inhaling the fragrance of the wild spring flowers, I must walk the smelly halls of the hospital, spending anxious and wakeful hours over the desperately sick.
"No, my friends, all is not as smooth sailing with me as I used to think it must be with Dr. Hons as he met or passed us on the road, driving that splendid pair of well-groomed proud-stepping bays, with buggy and harness to match.”
In the State Journal of Medicine, June, 1943, is the memorial address given by Dr. Dudgeon before the State Medical Association of Texas, he said:
"In one of the smaller cities of this state there is a doctor whom I guess expects us to rate him as an internist, but his interests and accomplishments in medicine are rather too broad to be described by that term. His reputation in medicine is first class and has been for many years.
"He has been very busy for years keeping up with the new things in medicine, and very often his ideas have been ahead of his time. As frequently happens in the case of outstanding medical men, he is a speaker of first-rate ability, and his scientific papers, read before the various professional associations to which he has contributed liberally, are ably presented and they show the qualities of the great teacher. In his busy life he has found time to become interested in other things than medicine. He is an outstanding leader in his church, he has donated a great deal of money, for a doctor, to its agencies. He has served in official capacity on the board of one of the great church schools. In recognition of his donations, his services on its board, and his fine scholarship, the honorary degree of Doctor of Law has been conferred upon him.
"In old fiddlers' contests he rates as a star performer. He is a philosopher of no mean ability, and has adopted verse as a vehicle of expressing it. In my humble and oft erring opinion, he is the leading poet of Texas."
Obituary adapted from the following source:
Torbett. (n. d.). Some friends of mine. Retrieved from http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txfalls/MISC/TORBETT/TorbettSomeFriendsOfMineChap10.htm
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