1883 History of Kansas
SAMUEL M. PRATT, physician and surgeon, of the homopathic school, was formerly from Vermont, born in Washington County, December 2, 1835. He is the son of Asaph and Hermione Pratt, both of the old Puritan stock. His mother's family name was Clark. They removed to Bureau County, Ill., in 1845, and here the subject of this sketch spent his youth, attending school and clerking in his father's store. His parents are still residents ther
In 1861 Dr. Pratt graduated from the Homopathic Medical College of Missouri, and one year later was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the great Rebellion, by Gov. Yates. He was assigned to duty in the Mound City Hospital of Illinois, where he served until the latter part of 1863. Returning to Bureau County, in the same State, he resumed his regular practice there until the spring of 1871, when he came to Hiawatha, Kan., and has since followed his profession there. He was the first physician of that school in the county. Dr. Pratt is identified with the Homopathic State Medical Society of Kansas and the Western Institute of Homopathy. He is also connected with the following organizations: Hiawatha Lodge, No. 35, A., F. & A. M.; Mount Horeb Chapter, No. 43, R. A. M.; Hiawatha Commandery, No. 13, K. T.; Star of Hope Lodge, No. 1338, K. of H. and K. & L. of H., being an instigator of the two latter.
His wife's maiden name was Lizzie M. Martin, to whom he was married in Illinois, in 1864. They have one daughter, Myrtle.
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Vera Oswald Clark Hungerford was born to John and Lena (Meyners) Oswald on June 15, 1908; northwest of Putnam, Oklahoma on a farn homesteaded by her father in 1902. She died on Tuesday November 2, 2004 in the Thomas Nursing Center having reached the age of 96 years, 4 month, 17 days.
She married Orval Clark on June 6, 1939 at Enid, Oklahoma. They made their home on the farm northwest of Putnam until 1960, when they moved to Putnam where Vera was the telephone operator. They moved to Thomas in 1966. Orval passed away in December of 1976.
On December 27, 1978, she married Leslie Hungerford and he passed away on May 13, 1994.
She was prededed in death by her parents, John and Lena Oswald; an infant brother, Henry Oswald; and infant sister, Sophia Oswald. She leaves in her passing several cousins and host of friends.