Dr. Thomas Clemons Hart is a native of Arkansas. He was born June 5, 1867, in El Dorado, a town located in the Southern part of the State. Thomas Clemens Hart was the third and youngest child of this marriage, the eldest being John M., a merchant prominent in Weatherford for the past thirty-six years; and the second being Ida, now the wife of W. A. Freear, a well-known business man of Weatherford. Doctor Hart attended the Southwestern Baptist University of Jackson, Tennessee, then entered the medical department of the University of Louisville. He finished his medical training in the medical department of the Arkansas Industrial University, graduating and receiving his M. D. degree m 1891. He has never ceased being a student, however, and has taken post graduate work at the Graduate College of Medicine in Chicago. His active practice began in El Dorado, Arkansas, where he was located from 1891 to 1898. Then he came to Texas, locating at Brock, Parker County, where he continued in active practice until 1912, when he located at Carrollton, Dallas County. Here he remained until 1917, when he became identified with the health department of the City of Dallas. During the years 1918 and 1919 he served as house physician for the Cotton Belt Hospital at Texarkana,
Texas, returning then to the Dallas Health Department. Doctor Hart remained with the Dallas Health Department until September, 1924, when he located in Odessa, practicing there his profession very actively down to the present date. Besides his general practice, since coming to Odessa, he has served as health officer for Ector, Crane and Upton counties, being for awhile the only doctor in this particular section. During the short space of three years this physician has lived through a remarkable period of development. Besides serving as county health officer, he has acted as surgeon for the Texas and Pacific Railroad. He is a member of the Tri-Counties' Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Doctor Hart was married November 10, 1891, at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Madeline Witherington, a native of that State. Five children have been born to them: Ida, now the wife of Thomas Williams, of Dallas; Roscoe, now a business man of Brooklyn, New York, who is a veteran of the Great War; Thomas, Jr., of Odessa, also a world war veteran; Hal, a business man of Dallas; and Emma Bell, now the wife of Ben Amos, of St. Louis, Missouri. By a former marriage, Mrs. Hart has another daughter, Mattie Mae, who is now the wife of Arthur Alverson, of Dallas, Texas. This physician with so many avenues of service is widely known and much loved because of his fine character. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics he has always been a Democrat.
