Fenn John Hart
1 Nov 1859 - 2 Nov 1935
diedPhoenix, Arizona, USA
bornSherborne, Vermont, USA
SchooltblData
BiographyPhysician; School director.Came to Tempe in 1887.
In 1894 was appointed first mayor of Tempe, and served 13 Dec 1894 - 20 Apr 1896.
Tempe City Councilman, 1894-1900.
Member of the Territorial Normal School Board of Education, 1889-1891.
Graduated from New York Eclectic College in New York City in 1883, with a degree in medicine.
He came to Arizona on 17 Mar 1884, and was a Government Physician and School Director at San Xavier Indian Reservation, nine miles south of Tucson. After three years of government work with the Papago Indians, he came to Tempe on 1 Oct 1887.
In 1888, he opened a private practice and drug store in Tempe.
For eight years, he was a member of Company C, National Guard, at Tempe.
When the Spanish-American War began, he went to the Philippines in charge of a Red Cross unit.
Spent ten months in the Philippine Islands.
Returned to San Francisco with a shipload of invalid soldiers, then returned to Tempe.
In 1901 he opened a practice in Jerome, Arizona.
Held positions as a mining company physician in Bisbee, and in Mexico. President of Cochise County Medical Society in 1907. He was physician for the Ray Consolidated Copper Company in Ray, Arizona,
1912-1916.
Started a medical practice in Phoenix in 1919.
Lived at 125 E. 6th Street, Tempe, c1888-1900.
Lived at 118 N. 2nd Street, Phoenix, c1916-1935.
OSB 21; OSB 22
BIO-Brown
BIO-Hart
Quebbeman, Medicine in Territorial Arizona
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
TN, 13 Mar 1908
Tempe CD, 1898
HPS-110
TH-311
TH-942
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, p. 100
Person TypeIndividual
