HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912.  Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1157-58. [Jefferson Co.]

THOMAS KELLY VAN ZANDT, A. B., M. D., of Louisville, was born in
Leavenworth, Indiana, on June 24, 1875.  He is the son of Thomas Kelly
Van Zandt, who was a native of Indiana.
     The Van Zandts are Holland Dutch, the name originally having been
Van der Zandt.  The original Van Zandt in this country was John, who had
three sons, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  One of the sons went to Tennessee
and thence into Texas, one went to Minnesota, and Isaac, the
great-grandfather of our subject, came into northern Indiana. The original
John Van Zandt came over and fought in the Revolutionary war with General
Lafayette. The grandfather of our subject, Thomas Van Zandt, married a
daughter of the Hon. Thomas Kelly, who for years was speaker of the House
of Representatives from New York.  The father of the Doctor was a
journalist and visited Leavenworth, Indiana, on newspaper business, met
his future wife, married her, then purchased the Crawford County Democrat,
but died three years after he settled there, on May 2, 1875, at the age of
twenty-six years.  The mother of the Doctor was Sarah Louise Ouerbacker,
who was born in Leavenworth, Indiana, in 1851, the daughter of Michael and
Sarah (Lowrie) Ouerbacker, both natives of Germany, where they were
sweethearts.  She came to Louisville on a visit, and he came over on the
next ship and they were married in Louisville.  They then went to
Leavenworth, where he went into business and became quite wealthy.  Among
the children of this old couple were John, Samuel, Joseph, Peter and
George, the Doctor's mother and Mary Martha, who married Judge N. R.
Peckinpaugh, of Leavenworth, now of Louisville, who was governor of Alaska
for four years, appointed under President Harrison.  John is deceased,
Peter still resides in Leavenworth, while Joseph is the president of the
O.K. Stove and Range Company and vice-president of the Commercial Bank and
Trust Company.  Samuel has for years been at the head of the Querbacker-
Gilmore Wholesale Grocery Company, a director in the American National Bank
and an influential business man in Louisville.  George is vice-president
and general manager of the Querbacker-Gilmore Company.  Mrs. Van Zandt
married for her second husband, in 1879, J. T. Crecelius and is living in
Louisville.
     Dr. Van Zandt was born six weeks after the death of his father, and
when he was four years old his mother brought him to Louisville.  He
attended the public schools and graduated from the Male High School,
Louisville, in 1894.  He was then in the employ of the Querbacker-Gilmore
Grocery Company for over five years and of which he became cashier and head
bookkeeper.  At the end of this time Mr. Van Zandt, having decided to make
the profession of medicine his life business, matriculated in the medical
department of the Kentucky University, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1902, and was honor man of his class.  He was then an interne in
the City Hospital for one year, and in 1903 began practice.
     Dr. Van Zandt has been called upon for more than one position of
importance.  He was associate professor of anatomy until the uniting of
the two medical colleges and since it has become the University of
Louisville, and he is now associate professor of obstetrics.  He is on the
visiting staff of the Louisville City Hospital, and he has made a special
study of one of the modern scientific discoveries, one that claims the
closest attention of the great scientific men of the day, the study of
anaesthetics.  Dr. Van Zandt has probably done more in that line than
any other one physician in Louisville, having administered anaesthetics
to over two thousand patients without one death.
     Dr. Van Zandt is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society,
the Kentucky State Medical Society, and the Louisville Society of Medicine.
He is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging to Louisville Lodge, No.
400, F. & A. M.  The Doctor married Mary Gibson Morgan, who was born in
ashville, Tennessee, the daughter of J. B. Morgan.  Her mother was Jean
Gibson, a granddaughter of General Jackson.  She is also descended from
the Polk family, of which President James K. Polk was a member.  One son
has been born to the Doctor and wife, Thomas Kelly Jr., born January 10,
1909.  From the above sketch it will be seen that the Doctor is a man of
intellectuality and advanced ideas, without which he could not have
attained to the rank among the most prominent physicians which he now
enjoys.  He wrote a booklet on "Bible Baptism," which received high
commendations from ministers of several denominations, who recommended it
to their parishioners who had doubts on that subject.  He also prepared
an analysis of the "Twenty-Five Articles of Religion" of his church, that
by many ministers and laymen was pronounced the strongest presentation
of the subject they had ever seen--if not absolutely unanswerable.

Van_Zandt Van_der_Zandt Kelly Ouerbacker Lowrie Peckinpaugh Crecelius
Morgan Polk Gibson
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Leavenworth-Crawford-IN TN TX MN NY Germany Alaska Holland

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