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German furniture artist arrives in Texas
May 21, 1849
On this day in 1849, C. F.
Carl (Charles) Steinhagen, early Texas cabinetmaker and German
emigrant, arrived in Galveston from Bremen aboard the Galliott Flora.
He was a wheelwright by trade who made furniture for his family as a
hobby. Steinhagen settled in Anderson, where he died in 1893. Ima Hogg,
who collected many of his fine pieces of household furniture for the
University of Texas Winedale Properties at Roundtop, described
Steinhagen as "one of the most outstanding-if not the
finest-cabinetmaker who came to early Texas."
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Pioneer Texas doctor born in Alabama
May 21, 1844
On this day in 1844,
pioneer Texas physician Abbe Alzu Ledbetter was born in Tallapoosa
County, Alabama. He served in the Confederate Army and after the war
studied medicine at Tulane University. In the fall of 1869 he settled at
Vienna, Lavaca County, Texas, where he practiced medicine until 1887.
He moved to Hallettsville that year, continued to practice medicine, and
operated a drugstore. Ledbetter, who died in 1919, thus practiced
during a period of transition in health care in Texas. While traditional
methods still predominated, new aspects of medicine were developing:
more custodial care for those with chronic conditions, organized efforts
to improve sanitation and public health, more successful outcomes from
more surgical operations, more hospitals with greater acceptance by the
public, more organizations of doctors and others involved in health
care, and the establishment of schools to educate the professionals
needed by the citizens of an ever-expanding state.
Texas Physical Therapy Association organized
May 21, 1930
On this day in 1930, ten
physical therapists organized the Texas Physical Therapy Association as a
state chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association. Physical
therapists, practitioners of a specialized health-care service performed
for the rehabilitation of those disabled by pain or loss of motor
function, had been active in Texas since the 1920s. Because Texas was
such a large state, the new association soon divided into two districts,
the northern and the southern. In 2003 Texas had thirteen districts
with a total membership of about 3,600.
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posted - 5.21.2012 - The Texas State Historical Association
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