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Dr. B. Saunders
R. BACON SAUNDERS
is one of the professional
men who has
Vir gi   taken a prominent part
in the general business
affairs of Fort Worth.
He is the builder of the Flatiron
building  at Ninth  and  Houston
streets, and also the big industrial
plant of the Exline-Reimers Company.
One of his important public
services  has  been  the  carrying
through  of arrangements for the
building of the joint City and County
Hospital, and he was largely instru-                                          r
mental in the establishment of the
Medical College, which in 1911-12
became a department of the Texas      l_
Christian University. He is a lineal
descendant of Lawrence Saunders,
the Christian martyr who was burned   j
at the stake during the reign of
Queen Mary, and his ancestors rendered
distinguished service to the
Colonies in the American Revolution.
He is the son of John Smith
Saunders and Sarah J. Claypool
Saunders, descendants of ScotchIrish
families, who first settled in
Virginia and afterwards emigrated
to Kentucky with Daniel Boone. He
is a native of Bowling Green, Ky.,
and was graduated with the highest
honors of his class, from the Medical
Department of the University of
Louisville, afterwards taking postgraduate
courses in New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and other large
clinical centers.  He is Professor
of Surgery and Clinical Surgery of
the Medical Department of Texas
Christian University and President
of the faculty. He is also a member
of the Board of Trustees of Texas
Christian  University.  He  is
Chief Surgeon of the Fort Worth
& Denver, the Wichita Valley and
the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railways,
and Division Surgeon for many
of the railroads centering here. He
is ex-president of the Texas State
Medical Association, and ex-vicepresident
of the Southern Surgical &    9 '.
Gynecological Association, and fof
the American Association of Rail-       ,T HE w',f'. .
way Surgeons.   He was president
of the   old  Country  Club  and          Qi
is a charter member of the Chamber             D                              _
of Commerce. His wife was Miss            4
Ida Jane Caldwell. They have two    '     rORT   S.Achildren,
Dr. Roy F. Saunders and
Mrs. Linda Ray Reimers.