Smith, Edgar Thomas : 1860-1923

Edgar T. Smith, M. D., who is one of the well-known physicians of Boonsboro, has built up a good practice in his chosen profession at this place and has gained the esteem of all as a progressive citizen and skillful physician.  He was born in the town where he now resides, August 6, 1860, and is a son of Otho B. and Anna (Thomas) Smith.  The family traces its lineage to Ireland, whence the first of its representatives in America emigrated in an early day and settled at Clear Spring, Maryland.

The doctor's grandfather, himself a successful physician, was Otho J. Smith, M. D., a native of Clear Spring and the first physician to settle in Boonsboro, where he became a leading citizen.  His death occurred in 1868, when he was fifty-nine years of age.  He is remembered as one of the pioneer residents of this village, a man who accomplished much for the benefit of the town and the upbuilding of its material resources.  His son, Otho B., was born in Boonsboro and has been a life-long resident of the town, where he still resides, being now sixty years of age.  Farming has been his occupation and he has become a large land owner, having a number of tracts that are valuable and well improved.  His wife, who was a daughter of Jacob Thomas, has also spent her entire life in Boonsboro, and is a lady of great worth of character and irreproachable life.  Their only child is the subject of this sketch.

The education of our subject was thorough, for it was the ambition of his parents to fit him for a high position in life.  He received his primary education in the public schools and later was a student in Georgetown University, where his literary education was completed.  In 1884 he graduated from the University of Virginia, receiving the degree of M. D.  With a desire to increase his knowledge of therapeutics by experience, he entered Bellevue Hospital in New York, and made a careful study of the many forms of disease that came beneath his observation there.  On completing his studies there in 1886, he was given a certificate.  During the same year he began to practice his profession, returning to his native town, where he as since been a general practitioner, having built up a profitable and increasing practice.  In religious belief he is a Catholic.  He devotes himself wholly to his profession, and continues his studies of the science, in order to keep fully abreast with the times.

~ Portrait and Biographical Record of the Sixth Congressional District, Maryland, Published 1898, Page 177

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