Thomas J. Hargan, M. D.
Thomas J. Hargan, M. D., was born April 13, 1843, in Hardin County, Kentucky, the eldest of three children born to Daniel and Susan (Crandell) Hargan, both of whom were natives of the Blue Grass State, from whence they removed to Newburgh, Indiana in 1876, where the father died in February, 1878. Mrs. Hargan survived her husband until August, 1880, when she died at Rockport, this State.
Thomas J. Hargan remained with his parents on the farm until his sixteenth year, when he entered college at Brandenburg, Kentucky, continuing there and teaching school at intervals until twenty years old. In 1861 he joined the Kentucky State Guards, was elected a Captain, and after serving six months tendered his resignation and began the study of medicine with Dr. J. F. Birkhead, of Shepherdsville, Kentucky. He attended lectures at the medical college in Ann Arbor, and in 1866 graduated from the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Departments of that institution. Returning to Kentucky he began the practice of medicine in Bullitt County, but the spring of 1869 graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville. In 1876 he moved to Yankeetown, Warrick County, Indiana, where he continued the practice of his profession until the fall of 1877, when he was elected editor of the Baptist Herald, of Boonville, by the Trustees of the General Baptist Church. After conducting that periodical eighteen months he resigned his position that he might confine his attention more exclusively to the practice of his profession and at which he is at present engaged.
Dr. Hargan is a member of the I. O. O. F., Masonic and A. O. U. W. fraternities, is Secretary of the County Board of Health, and local surgeon for the L. E. & St. L. Railroad. May 6, 1866, he wedded Henrietta Greenwell, and by her is the father of five children, these three yet living: Edmonia, Guy C. and Stella. He and his wife belong to the General Baptist Church.
Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.
