Gaston, Joseph. "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912." Vol. 2. Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 658. ARTHUR J. FAWCETT, M. D. who has been successfully engaged in practice as a physician and surgeon of Ashland since August, 1909, has the finest offices in the city and in fact one of the handsomest suites in the state, his ten rooms in the new Citizens Trust & Savings Bank building being fitted with all modern appliances. His birth occurred in Plantsville, Morgan county, Ohio, on the 21st of March, 1873, his parents being Lindley and Mary (Huestis) Fawcett, who were likewise natives of the Buckeye state. The father, a substantial agriculturist of Morgan county, Ohio, there passed away in March, 1899. In 1908 his widow removed to Pasadena, California, where she has since made her home. Arthur J. Fawcett was reared under the parental roof and obtained his early education in the graded schools. Subsequently he continued his studies in the high school at Chesterhill, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. He then entered the Ohio State University but did not complete the course in that institution. In 1895 he went west and spent some time in traveling throughout the western states, locating finally in Iowa, where he engaged in farming. Returning to Ohio in 1897, he entered the Oberlin Business College and was graduated therefrom in the same year, after which he established himself in the insurance business at Akron, Ohio. In the fall of 1905 he entered the medical department of the State University of Iowa, winning the degree of M. D. in 1909. Immediately following his graduation he came to Oregon and in the month of August located in Ashland, where he has since been engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery. His offices, fitted with all modern appliances known to the medical fraternity, are the finest in the city. In the field of his profession Dr. Fawcett is known as "a man who does things." He keeps in touch with all the new discoveries of medical science, is not hidebound and does not confine himself to old-school medical jurisprudence but on the contrary is always found in the front ranks of progressive practitioners. He keeps a skilled nurse in attendance at all times and is the one physician of Ashland who is strictly progressive. In the line of his profession he is connected with the Southern Oregon Medical Society, the Oregon State Homeopathic Society, the American Medical Association and the American Institute of Homeopathy and also belongs to the Phi Alpha Gamma, a Greek medical fraternity. Dr. Fawcett has been married twice. On the 28th of December, 1898, in Akron, Ohio, he wedded Miss Clara Treap, whom he met in Oberlin, Ohio, where she was attending the Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Clara Fawcett, who was an accomplished vocalist, passed away on the 23d of July, 1910. On the 24th of December, 1911, Dr. Fawcett was again married, his second union being with Miss Alberta Boggess, of Roseburg, Oregon. Fraternally Dr. Fawcett is identified with Ashland Lodge, F. & A. M., and Ashland Lodge, No. 344, B. P. 0. E. His life has been actuated at all times by high and honorable principles, manifested in his professional labors and in his private life. Anything which tends to bring to man the key to that complex mystery which we call life is of interest to him, and he has been a close and discriminating student of the science of medicine, realizing fully the obligations that devolve upon him in the practice of his chosen calling. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in April 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.