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             Dr. John Wesley Carhart was born June 26th, 1834, in Coeymans, Albany county, New York. He came to Texas in 1883, and located at Lampasas in 1884. His parents were Daniel S. and Margaret Carhart, native Americans. He received his literary education at Charlottesville Seminary, in Schoharie county, New York; studied medicine and attended medical lectures in the Berkshire Medical College, and in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, and graduated from the latter institution March 13, 1883. He practiced a while at Clarendon, Texas; and in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, before his removal to Texas. He took an additional course of instruction at the New York Poly-clinic.

             Though doing a general practice he gives special attention to diseases of women and children, and diseases of the nervous system. He is a member of the Northwest Wisconsin Medical Association, the Texas State, and American Medical Associations. Has been county physician of Lampasas county for three years.

             In 1857 he was married to Theresa A. Mumford; they have seven children, three of whom are in Wisconsin, and four in Texas.

             The Doctor has been a liberal contributor to the medical literature of the day. Among his best papers may be mentioned one on "Colpornyotomy," and one on "Puerperal Eclampsia," published in Daniel's Texas Medical Journal; "Ether per Rectum," "Ulceration of the Womb," "the Disposal of Human Excreta," "Child Bearing and Modern Civilization," and other valuable papers in the Courier-Record of Medicine; "Carbolic Acid in the Treatment of Carbuncle," in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 1886; a paper on the "Loco Weed," in the New York Medical Record, in 1886; and numerous other papers on various medical topics. One of his best papers was read before the Texas State Medical Association at San Antonio, April, 1889, and published in the Transactions in 1889, entitled "Tyrotoxicon and Peptotoxine." The Doctor has also been a voluminous writer for the secular press, and has also written several works of fiction. His contributions to literary magazines and newspapers, both in prose and poetry, are numerous, and many have been copied and perpetuated in book form. His chief work of fiction, "Mina Harding," was published anonymously in 1879; in 1859 he published "Sunny Hours," a volume of poems; "Poets and Poetry of the Hebrews" followed in 1866. His latest book was published in 1880, entitled "Four Years on Wheels."

             Dr. Carhart entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and joined the Troy Annual Conference before he was twenty-one years of age. He remained a member of the Conference seventeen years and a half, filling some of the most important appointments in the Conference. He was then transferred to the Wisconsin Conference, where he occupied some of the best appointments for five years. He was then appointed Presiding Elder of Appleton District and served for four years as Presiding Elder. During this time a personal difficulty arose between him and another member of the Conference, Rev. Geo. C. Haddock. After a thorough vindication, Dr. Carhart withdrew from the ministry and membership of the Methodist Episcopal church and united with the Presbyterian church, in which he is now a ruling member and has been a Commissioner to the General Assembly of that church.

             The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him at the age of twenty-seven.

             Since the assassination of Dr. Haddock, in the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, Dr. Carhart has repeatedly been invited and urged to return to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, but he prefers his present profession.