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SWEETBRUSH
John Milton Swisher came to Texas with his family in 1333 from Franklin,
Tennessee. When he was sixteen he fought in the Battle of San Jacinto.
He moved to Austin in 1839 and was in the Treasury Department of the
Republic of Texas under President Mirabeau B. Lamar. He served in the
Texas Navy in 1841; was clerk in the Ninth Congress of the Republic; did
Ranger service in 1846 as Colonel of the First Regiment Texas Militia;
became State Auditor of Public Accounts in 1848; and during the Civil Var
was a member of the Texas State Military Board. After the war he had a
banking and commission business. He died in Austin March 11, 1891 and
was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.
Col. Swisher's third wife was Bella French Swisher who was author of
several books, and who published the magazine The American Sketch Book.
She moved the magazine from Nisconsin to Austin, Texas, where she married
Swisher in 1878. Mrs. Swisher died in California in 1893.
The Handbook of Texas p. 699
iach'y Thomson Scott was born in 1880 in Ft. North, Texas and moved with
his family to Bosque County when he was two years old. He attended private
schools in Virginia, then entered the University of Texas Medical School
at Galveston and was graduated May 30, 1903. Thile a medical student he
became a hero during the Galveston flood of 1900. The night of the hurrican
he was at St. Mary's Infirmary, and alone and single handed carried more
than 200 patients from the old wooden buildings to the large brick building
there. The wooden buildings were destroyed by the wind and water.
In 1909 he married Sallie Lee Masterson from Kin,- County, Texas, and that
same year moved his medical practice to Austin. Soon after he became a
director of the Texas Tuberculosis Association, and borrowed on his personal
note to defray cost of the first Christmas Seal Sale in Texas. In orld
War I he organized a complete hospital unit in Travis County which was moved
intact to the Naval Hospital at Gulfport, Mississippi, where it operated
under his charge until the war was over. Tie resumed practice in Austin,
and in 1923, with Dr. Frank Gregg, built the Scott-Gregg Clinic at Brazos
and 7th St. Later he served as Brackenridge Hospital chief of staff. He
was also active in other organizations: member of Board of Directors of
the Caoital National Bank, trustee of University Presbyterian Church, pre-
sident of the Heritage Society of Austin. After -Norld ar I he was active in
organization of the American Legion; during world War II he exa-iined draftees
for selective service, and later was a member of the Travis County Draft
Board for years. He died in Austin in 1964, survived by his wife and three
children, Mrs. Fanning Hearon (Ann), Mrs. R.M. Kleberg, Jr. (Mary Lewis),
and 3achtry, Jr., the actor.[ho has s'nce did.
Journal
Travis County Medical Society
Zachar o t, Jr., ti* actor, died in March, 1964
Austi on Oc t. 3, 196$. See The Handbook
or T , III, 864.