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JACKSON BROSHEARS, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1202

In the practical work of his profession and in his devotion to the
interests of the medical fraternity and the welfare of the community,
Doctor Broshears has been one of the leading men of Lawton since the
founding of that city. His name and attainments are especially
associated with a high degree of skill as a surgical operator, and
his practice is almost exclusively confined to that branch of his
profession.

Jackson Broshears was born in Spencer County, Indiana, January 30,
1866. The name originated i n France, and the family were early
settled in the American colonies. Doctor Broshears' grandfather was
Jeremiah Broshears, a Kentucky farmer, who was killed about 1850 in
Hardin County as the result of being kicked by a horse. The father of
Doctor Broshears was Ira Broshears, born in Hardin County, Kentucky,
in 1844, and now living in Hancock County, Kentucky, where he is a
farmer and stock man. During the Civil war he enlisted in Company D
of the Sixty-fifth Indiana Mounted Infantry, and was in active
service from the first year of the war until its close. He was at one
time taken prisoner by the Confederates and kept at Belle Isle in
Virginia. About 1865 he removed to Grand View in Spencer County,
Indiana, and in 1901 participated in the opening at Lawton, Oklahoma,
but remained in this community only a few years, and in 1906 returned
to Kentucky, locating in Hancock County. He is an active republican
in politics. Ira Broshears married Elizabeth YORK, who was born in
Grant County, Kentucky, in 1830, and died at Lawton July 26, 1912, at
the age of eighty-four. Their children were: Doctor Jackson; James,
who died at Lawton and had been a pioneer merchant here; Thomas, a
resident of Clinton, Oklahoma; and Anna, wife of Frank RUMPEL, a
traveling salesman with residence at Clinton, Oklahoma.

Dr. Jackson Broshears spent his early life on a farm in Indiana,
attending the public schools at Grand View and graduating from the
high school there with the class of 1890. In 1891 he entered the
State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, and in the fall of 1892
matriculated in the Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, where he
continued his studies until graduating March 6, 1894, with the degree
M. D. He was in practice at Grand View, Indiana, from 1894 until
July, 1898, but in the meantime, during 1896, had left his practice
to pursue a post-graduate course at Baltimore, Maryland, where he
remained for fifteen months, giving particular attention to surgery.
In 1898 he accepted a professional position as physician for a lumber
company in the State of Missouri. In the fall of 1899 an illness
compelled him to desist from his work, and for nearly two years he
did little practice. On July 26, 1901, Doctor Broshears was among the
pioneer arrivals at Lawton with the opening of the Iowa and Comanche
Reservation, and was one of the best qualified among the physicians
who came to Lawton at that time. He had enjoyed a large practice, and
in surgery probably has no superior in Northwestern Oklahoma. He is a
director in the Southwest Hospital at Lawton, and has his offices in
the Boone Hammond Building on D Avenue.

Doctor Broshears is a member of the Presbyterian Church, a
republican in politics, and has served as county coroner of Comanche
County under appointment from Thomas Ferguson. Fraternally, his
affiliation are with Lawton Lodge No. 183, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and with Lawton Lodge No. 1056, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In December, 1905, Doctor Broshears was married at
Sapulpa, Oklahoma to Mrs. Lulu (SASSAR) GULLETT, who was a native of
Ohio.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 11, 1998.