The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 65, July 1961 - April, 1962 Page: 474

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Rogers, W. [William?] S., M.D., Clinical Medicine, Ausculation and
Percussion.
Proposed for first faculty, 1859.
First active faculty, 1865.
Two doctors have been located with the names W. S. Rogers, one
in Fayette and the other in Washington County.
Ruter, Augustus, Chemistry.
First active faculty, 1865.
Son of pioneer Methodist missionary, Martin Ruter.
Smythe, David Porter, M.D., Chemistry.
Elected to the faculty, 1866.
Born Sumterville, Alabama, 1824; died Bryan, Texas, 1889.
Graduate University of Pennsylvania, 1847.
First professor of biological sciences and college surgeon at Texas
A. and M.
Swearingen, R. J., M.D.
Proposed for first faculty, 1859-
Trueheart, Charles W., Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Elected to the faculty, 1866.
Watkins, J. L., Theory and Practice of Medicine.
First active faculty, 1865.
Watkins, R. A. [H.?], M.D., Obstetrics and Materia Medica.
Elected to the faculty, 1872.
Webb, J. H., Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
First active faculty, 1865.
Wilkinson, Cary Hamilton, M.D., Procurator and Curator of the
College, Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Elected to the faculty, 1868.
Born Benton, Mississippi, 1844; died, 192o.
Graduate Jefferson Medical College."
laCompiled from Soule University Board Minutes; Samuel Wood Geiser, "Men
of Science in Texas, 182o-188o," Field and Laboratory, XXVI, XXVII; Catalogue
of the Galveston Medical College, x871-72.

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