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Sunday, February 4, 1906 pg 1 Dr. Field Dead Dr. Julian C. Feild, who had been in declining health for the past two years, died Wednesday of Bright's disease at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Mathis, No. 826 West Sears street. With the death of Dr. Feild one of the best known factors in our pioneer life passes away. He cast his lot with Denison in the fall of 1872. At that period this was an ideal frontier town, composed of wooden shanties and a great many living in tents. It was a wild and woolly town, its population embracing every conceivable rank of life. It was every man for himself and the devil take the hindmeat. Dr. Feild was a good man for a new town and able to hold his own with the best of them. He had seen all of the ups and downs of army life which was a good school to fit one for the rough and tumble life of the frontier. The personality of Dr. Feild attracted immediate attention and almost from the first he was recognized as a man of affairs. He has held almost every office within the gife of our people. He was our first city physician. A number of times a member of the council. He was also closely identified with the early educational interests of our city. He has for a period of at least twenty-five years been prominently before the public eye. The history of Denisonis the history of the public life of Dr. Feild. As a citizen of Denison he was ever an earnest and enterprising helper in every movement for the advancement of the city. Every worthy enterprise found in him an able and tireless champion, and what he accomplished without ostentation and without the incentive of selfish interest was of far greater moment to the city than the achievements of many more pretentious men. Whatever in public life Dr. Feild attempted was done well, and it is to his lasting credit that no one act of his public career was ever questioned that he did not have the best interests of the city at heart. He never abused any public trust reposed in him. The Herald furnishes the following sketch of his birth and early career: "Dr. Julian C. Feild was a native of Tennessee, having been bornin Pulaski in 1841. When a child he removed with his parents to Little Rock, Ark., where his father was elected shortly afterward to the office of circuit judge with a district that comprised about one-half of the State of Arkansas, which office he held for more than twenty years. The boy was educated in the common schools of Little Rock and later in Tulane University at New Orleans, where he was graduated in the medical department. "In short time after he left college the Civil War broke out and Dr. Feild enlisted in the Confederate side as an army surgeon, in which capacity he served during the entire war under Gen. S. B. Maxey, and during the greater part of the trouble was located in the Indian Territory. At the close of civil strite he located in Fort Smith, Ark., and took up again the practice of medicine, in which he was always actively engaged till a short time before his demise. "In 1872, thirty-two years ago, he came to Denison and has lived here continuously since that time. In 1874 he was united in marriage to Miss Susan E. McClain of Whitesboro, and of this union five children were born, two of whom, Julian C. Feild of Springfield, Mo., and Mrs. William J. Mathis, with their mother, survive him." One of the first votes that the writer ever cast was for Dr. Feild when he made his first race for city honors. He was an eminent and successful physician and surgeon, his patrons embracing a large majority of our well-to-do class of citizens. A number of years he was local surgeon for the H & T. C. railway. He was also president of the Denison Medical Society at various times. At the time of death he was a member of the Masonic order or Knights Templar and was also the first council commander of the local camp of the Woodsmen of the World, as well as a member of B. P. O. Elks. He was a member of the Episcopal church and for many years served as a vestryman in St. Luke's Episcopal church in Denison. He was a member of the legislature but was defeated in a second race, the honor going to a Sherman man. Dr. Feild was buried from the residence of his son-in-law, W. J. Mathis. The services were conducted by the Rev. C. R. D. Crittenton. The pall bearers embraced several of our most prominent citizens, among others Judge Head of Sherman. The funeral was a very large and imposing affair. The interment was at the Fairview cemetery. The Denison Press
Monday, December 23, 1940 pg. 1 JULIAN C FEILD DIES SUDDENLY HERE SUNDAY Julian C. Feild, 59, civil engineer, contractor and owner of the Julian C. Feild construction company, Inc. who had been a life-long resident of Denison, died suddenly Sunday afternoon at 12:30 at his home, 1100 W. Sears street. He had been in ill health the past year. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning from St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Interment was at Fairview cemetery, Short-Murray directing. Mr. Feild was the son of a prominent pioneer physician here and bore the given name of his father. He was born September 9, 1881 and was reared and educated in the public schools of Denison, later attending the University of Texas, Cumberland law school at Lebanon, Tennessee, from which he received an engineering degree. He was married to Miss Mary Lea Sanders January 10, 1903 at Lebanon. Mr. Feild owned considerable real estate, was an officer and director in the State National bank, president of the Hotel Denison company, member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, past president of the Denison Chamber of Commerce, Director in the Denison Building and Loan association, director of the Rod and Gun club, a Rotarian, a Mason and a member of the Episcopal church. At the time of his death he held a government contract to apply sand in construction work at the Denison dam site and was noted for building the first macadam highway through this city w hen he served as county engineer. Surviving are his widow; one daughter, Miss Katherine Feild of Denison; one sister, Mrs. Mary Feild Mathis of Seattle, Washington and a number of other distant relatives.  Fairview Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
