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Dr. Rufus E. Fort, a surgeon of Nashville, who has gained
distinction by
reason of his eminent ability in the profession, was born in Robertson
county,
Tennessee, on the 19th of March, 1872, and is a son of Colonel Edwin A.
and Julia (Garth)
Fort, who were natives of Robertson county, Tennessee, and of Todd
county, Kentucky,
respectively. The father was a large planter and slave owner in his
native county,
devoting his entire life to the management and development of his landed
interests.
He owned five large plantations but conditions brought about by the Civil
war caused
him to suffer heavy financial loss. He was the first president and the
receiver for
the Hendersonville Railroad and figured prominently in connection with
public affairs
as well as with business interests, representing his county in the state
legislature and
giving earnest support to all those measures which he deemed of vital
worth to the
commonwealth. He passed away in June, 1887, at the age of sixty-seven
years and
was survived by his wife until 1904.
Dr. Fort pursued his early education in the district schools of his
native county
and afterward prepared for college at Montgomery Bell Academy. He next
entered
the University of the South at Sewanee, where he pursued an academic
course and
later became a student in the medical department of Vanderbilt
University, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1895. He next did post-graduate work
and hospital
work in New York, thus greatly adding to his knowledge and promoting his
efficiency.
He then entered upon the active practice of medicine in Nashville, where
he has since
remained, and for six years he was superintendent and surgeon of the
Nashville City
Hospital, being appointed to that position at the comparatively early age
of twenty-five
years. Later he conducted a private surgical hospital, called the Fort
Hospital,
for a period of fourteen years or until 1920, since which time he has
been visiting
surgeon to the Protestant Hospital, of which he was one of the
organizers. He has also
been visiting surgeon to the City Hospital for a period of ten years and
is now chairman
of the board of hospital commissioners. For the past twenty years he has
been
a stockholder and director and also medical director of the National Life
& Accident
Insurance Company, of which he was one of the organizers. He was a member
and
president of the state board of health for eight years and has been
untiring in his
efforts to promote the standards of the profession and render the service
of physicians
and surgeons of the greatest possible benefit to mankind. At all times he
has kept
abreast with the trend of professional thought and progress through his
membership
in various medical organizations as well as by wide reading and study. He
is now a
member of the American Medical Association, the Southern Surgical and
Gynecological
Association, of which he was formerly vice president, the Tennessee State
and Davidson
Dr. Fort was united in marriage to Miss Louise Clark of Boston,
Massachusetts,
on the 6th of October, 1909. She is a daughter of Benjamin and Lula
(Hensly) Clark.
Her father, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, died about 1892. Her mother
afterward
became the wife of Dr. George J. Englemann of Boston, where they still
reside. Dr.
and Mrs. Fort have become the parents of four children: Rufus E., born
August 29,
1910; Dudley Clark, born December 5, 1911; Garth Edmund, born February
14, 1914;
and Cornelia Clark, February 5, 1919.
Dr. Fort is a member of the Hermitage Club, of which he has served
as president,
and he also belongs to the Nashville Golf and Country Club. Politically
he is a
democrat, and his religious faith is that of the Christian church, of
which he is a
loyal adherent. He acted as chairman of the local examining board during
the World
war, and the supreme regret of his entire life was that he was unable to
actively serve
his country during that war on account of an attack of the flu at that
time.
Dr. Fort makes his home on Riverside boulevard in Nashville and in
addition to
his property there he owns and operates a large farm noted for its fine
herd of Jersey
cattle. In fact this is the most famous herd in the south and one of the
most noted
in the United States, having taken probably more blue ribbons than any
other herd
in the south. His place is known as Fort Land and is a most beautiful
southern home
on Riverside boulevard. He is giving considerable attention also to the
cultivation of
four hundred acres of rich river bottom land equipped with every
convenience of the
model farm of the twentieth century. In his agricultural and stock
raising interests
he finds rest and recreation from arduous cares of the profession, which
however
claim the major part of his time and attention and in connection with
which he has
won distinguished honors and prestige.
In his profession, Dr. Fort ranks with the greatest surgeons of the
nation. One
of his brilliant operations, never before performed and now part of the
history of
surgery in the United States, was the complete excision of the clavicle
and complete
excision of the first rib and removal of part of the sternum. Big in
mind, body and
heart, Rufus E. Fort is a typical southern gentleman of the old school,
with all the
ambition for service and progress that his scientific knowledge and
energy, enthusiasm,
abilities and patriotism can bring to the full development of the newer
south, of which
he is one of the greatest and most outstanding examples.
The above sketch is from "Tennessee- The Volunteer State, Vol. 2"
Also see "Historical Sketches of Adams & Port Royal" by Ralph L.
Winters.
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