Neathery
Dr. Neathery Celebrates Eighty-Second Birthday
Democrat, August 19, 1915
The following article pertaining to the life one one of Collin County's most prominent and progressive citizens appeared in the columns of the Farmersville Times under date of Friday, August 13. Dr. Neathery recently celebrated the 82d anniversary of his birth. He has been a resident of this county for fifty-eight years, and has seen the county grow from a frontier country to its present high state of development and Christian civilization.
Emerson wrote that the world the world is upheld by the veracity of good men, and they who live with them, find life glad and nutritious. Farmersville has her great men, and no greater has she ever had than the honored and beloved Dr. A. H. Neathery, 82 years young, and a resident of Farmersville for nearly sixty years.
Dr. Allen Hill Neathery, whom Farmersville is honored to claim as her own, celebrated his eighty-second birthday anniversary, Wednesday, August 11. Friends and acquaintances who met him during the day, in the pursuit of his social and business and home duties were not impressed with eight-two years of age, but instead with the experience, the sound judgement and genial comradeship of the man who ha been with Farmersville from its infancy, the man who has ministered to her people for more than half a century, with the skill acquired from much learning together with the human interest, that has made him one of the greatest men in North Texas, and one of the great men of the State.
Speaking of his eight-two years of life, Dr. Neathery said that he had walked when eight months old, and been going ever since. He also mentioned that he had always lived rather a circumspect life, because he was born on Sunday, and had tried to live up to what the day stood for. The knowledge that in Farmersville, there lives a man who has been the balance wheel of the power that has built up the little city, is an asset to the citizenship.
One scarcely dares to presume in write the biography of a man who has presided over the entrance into life of the fathers and mothers, who now make up the populace of an influential section. It is with reverence and a due sense of the inability to write of one whose record will live without written words, that this sketch is given. The Farmersville of today was not in existence when Dr. Neathery first arrived here, a beardless youth, to cast his lot with the people then here, in the little town called Whitehall.
He had just received his medical education and diploma form the University of Nashville, Tenn., when he came to Texas. At that time there were only three medical colleges in the United States. He came from Nashville by water to Jefferson, the route being the Cumberland, Ohio, Mississippi and Red Rivers. Reaching Paris by means of private conveyance, he tarried for a season, seeking out a location deciding finally on this place.
Why he came to Farmersville
In those days, according to the interesting story given by Dr. Neathery, the state coach running between Paris and Austin, was the only means of transportation in this section. He said that he kept daily watch on the hotel register, while sojourning in Paris, for names of passengers, their residence and destinations. One day he saw registered, the name of a physician, with residence given as Sugar Hill. Old Farmersville settlers are familiar with the history of sugar Hill, in early days the township of this section. Recalling the incidents of those far away days, Dr. Neathery says, that after talking to this physician who had left there, he decided to locate in East Collin. On his arrival he found, however, that the field was not clear, but that there were three doctors of Medicine already on the ground and very few folks to be patients. It proved a case of survival of the fittest and Dr. Neathery remained.
It was the advent of a new day for the young physician, the beginning of a new era for a community. It was the simple and beautiful life in those days, the life filled with events that formed the history of a community, and people who have taken a prominent place in the affairs of the State.
Bank President Twenty Eight Years
Today, Dr. Neathery is among the wealthiest and most influential citizens of this community. According to his own statement, his finances on his arrival in Farmersville, fifty-eight years ago, was composed of six dollars, and this he paid for the good will of a young doctor who wanted to leave in search of a new location. Today, Dr. Neathery is president of the First National Bank of Farmersville, which position he has held for twenty-eight years. The bank having been organized only two years longer than his term of service. He signs legal and all document requiring his signature, with out the glasses, writing a legible and very attractive style of penmanship.
The first years of life and medical practice in Farmersville, according to Dr. Neathery, were not lucrative ones-money came slowly, but man's needs were few, and the hospitality of the people very bountiful. Success followed his practice however, and the physician's skill was valued highly. A yearling or colt or some other collateral came his way, and in the course of some years, he entered the mercantile business.
There were no banks and the money taken in at the store was put away in wash pots and tea kettles. Frequently in a pile of wash pots there would be two or three thousand dollars and the clerk know the pot or kettle however, and it was never marked for sale.
Dr. Neathery married in 1857, a Miss Bowie, a native of Mississippi but a resident of Texas at the time of the marriage.
Twelve children were born to Dr. Neathery and wife eleven who are living and all of them occupy worthy and useful positions in life. Nine sons are valuable business and professional men, two are physicians and the youngest is an able lawyer.
Democrat, August 19, 1915
The following article pertaining to the life one one of Collin County's most prominent and progressive citizens appeared in the columns of the Farmersville Times under date of Friday, August 13. Dr. Neathery recently celebrated the 82d anniversary of his birth. He has been a resident of this county for fifty-eight years, and has seen the county grow from a frontier country to its present high state of development and Christian civilization.
Emerson wrote that the world the world is upheld by the veracity of good men, and they who live with them, find life glad and nutritious. Farmersville has her great men, and no greater has she ever had than the honored and beloved Dr. A. H. Neathery, 82 years young, and a resident of Farmersville for nearly sixty years.
Dr. Allen Hill Neathery, whom Farmersville is honored to claim as her own, celebrated his eighty-second birthday anniversary, Wednesday, August 11. Friends and acquaintances who met him during the day, in the pursuit of his social and business and home duties were not impressed with eight-two years of age, but instead with the experience, the sound judgement and genial comradeship of the man who ha been with Farmersville from its infancy, the man who has ministered to her people for more than half a century, with the skill acquired from much learning together with the human interest, that has made him one of the greatest men in North Texas, and one of the great men of the State.
Speaking of his eight-two years of life, Dr. Neathery said that he had walked when eight months old, and been going ever since. He also mentioned that he had always lived rather a circumspect life, because he was born on Sunday, and had tried to live up to what the day stood for. The knowledge that in Farmersville, there lives a man who has been the balance wheel of the power that has built up the little city, is an asset to the citizenship.
One scarcely dares to presume in write the biography of a man who has presided over the entrance into life of the fathers and mothers, who now make up the populace of an influential section. It is with reverence and a due sense of the inability to write of one whose record will live without written words, that this sketch is given. The Farmersville of today was not in existence when Dr. Neathery first arrived here, a beardless youth, to cast his lot with the people then here, in the little town called Whitehall.
He had just received his medical education and diploma form the University of Nashville, Tenn., when he came to Texas. At that time there were only three medical colleges in the United States. He came from Nashville by water to Jefferson, the route being the Cumberland, Ohio, Mississippi and Red Rivers. Reaching Paris by means of private conveyance, he tarried for a season, seeking out a location deciding finally on this place.
Why he came to Farmersville
In those days, according to the interesting story given by Dr. Neathery, the state coach running between Paris and Austin, was the only means of transportation in this section. He said that he kept daily watch on the hotel register, while sojourning in Paris, for names of passengers, their residence and destinations. One day he saw registered, the name of a physician, with residence given as Sugar Hill. Old Farmersville settlers are familiar with the history of sugar Hill, in early days the township of this section. Recalling the incidents of those far away days, Dr. Neathery says, that after talking to this physician who had left there, he decided to locate in East Collin. On his arrival he found, however, that the field was not clear, but that there were three doctors of Medicine already on the ground and very few folks to be patients. It proved a case of survival of the fittest and Dr. Neathery remained.
It was the advent of a new day for the young physician, the beginning of a new era for a community. It was the simple and beautiful life in those days, the life filled with events that formed the history of a community, and people who have taken a prominent place in the affairs of the State.
Bank President Twenty Eight Years
Today, Dr. Neathery is among the wealthiest and most influential citizens of this community. According to his own statement, his finances on his arrival in Farmersville, fifty-eight years ago, was composed of six dollars, and this he paid for the good will of a young doctor who wanted to leave in search of a new location. Today, Dr. Neathery is president of the First National Bank of Farmersville, which position he has held for twenty-eight years. The bank having been organized only two years longer than his term of service. He signs legal and all document requiring his signature, with out the glasses, writing a legible and very attractive style of penmanship.
The first years of life and medical practice in Farmersville, according to Dr. Neathery, were not lucrative ones-money came slowly, but man's needs were few, and the hospitality of the people very bountiful. Success followed his practice however, and the physician's skill was valued highly. A yearling or colt or some other collateral came his way, and in the course of some years, he entered the mercantile business.
There were no banks and the money taken in at the store was put away in wash pots and tea kettles. Frequently in a pile of wash pots there would be two or three thousand dollars and the clerk know the pot or kettle however, and it was never marked for sale.
Dr. Neathery married in 1857, a Miss Bowie, a native of Mississippi but a resident of Texas at the time of the marriage.
Twelve children were born to Dr. Neathery and wife eleven who are living and all of them occupy worthy and useful positions in life. Nine sons are valuable business and professional men, two are physicians and the youngest is an able lawyer.
