Bush Houston (1885-)

HOUSTON, SMITH

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Date: 12/5/2005 at 08:15:17

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BUSH HOUSTON, physician and surgeon, practicing at Nevada in Story County, grew up in the State of Iowa from early childhood, and has earned a very enviable record in his profession in this state.

He was born at Wamego, Kansas, September 4, 1885, son of James and Lucy (Barrett) Houseton. His father went to Kansas at an early date and was a builder and contractor who did a great deal of work for the Union Pacific Railroad. He died in Kansas in 1891 and his wife passed away in 1888.

Dr. Bush Houston was only three years old when his mother died, and he was then sent to the home of his uncle, E. E. Barrett, at Montezuma, Iowa, where he grew up and received his early education n the grade and high schools. In 1908 he graduated in medicine from the University of Iowa, and for five years remained in Montezuma in general practice. Doctor Houston gave up his work there in order to prepare himself for larger service in the profession. He pursued a special course in anatomy under Doctor Prentiss at the University of iowa and spent a year in Chicago under the instruction of a famous surgeon, Dr. Emil Ries. Then, in February, 1913, Doctor Houston located at Nevada, and while engaged in a general practice he had limited his work to the town, and for the most part specializes in surgical cases. He has been honored with election to the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the Story County, Iowa State and American Medical Association.

Doctor Houston married, in August, 1912, Miss Rachel Smith, of Montezuma, who was born there and was graduated from the Cumnock School of Chicago in 1910. Doctor and Mrs. Houston have had two children: Florabel H., born at Nevada, April 10, 1916, a junior in high school; and Virginia L. born at Nevada, November 28, 1919, who passed away May 5, 1930.

Doctor Houston is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, a member of the Rotary Club, is a Methodist and belongs to the Indian Creek Country Club.

He has membership in the American Legion. In July, 1918, he enlisted at Des Moines, was sent to the Medical Officers Training School at Fort Riley, Kansas, for six weeks, joined the Eighth Sanitary Train of the Eighth Division at Palto Alto, California, and was under overseas orders, en route when the armistice was signed. He was honorably discharged June 23, 1919, with the rank of first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, at Newport News, Virginia.

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