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- Gibson County, Indiana
Herschel Logan Bass, M.D.
The present age is essentially utilitarian and the life of every successful man carried a lesson which, told in contemporary narrative, is productive of much good in shaping the destiny of others. There is, therefore, a due measure of satisfaction in presenting, even in brief resume, the life and acheivements of such men, and in preparing the following history of the well-known and successfully physician whose name appears at the head of this sketch, it is with the hope that it may prove not only interesting and instructive, but also serve as an incentive to those who comtemplate making the medical profession their life work, for it shows how a man, not especially favored by inherited wealth, may forge to the front and not only succeed in the material things of life, but also be of inestimable service to his fellow men.
Herschel Logan Bass, M.D., the present efficient coroner of Gibson county, was born June 4, 1883, in Lane township, Warrick county, Indiana, the son of Gaines H. and Rhoda (McKinney) Bass, both natives of the Hooiser state. The progenitors of the Bass family were three brothers, who came to America from England, two of them locating in North Carolina and the other in the state of Maine. Doctor Bass’s family descended from those who settled in North Carolina.
The subject’s father, who spent his life following agricultural pursuits, is now retired, after a long and honorable career of usefulness to his fellow men, he having served in the offices of township trustee and county assessor, and has always been recognized as a representative man in his community.
Of a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters, the subject of this review was the eldest. His elementary eduation was received in the common schools, after which he entered the State Normal School and prepared himself for teaching, a profession which he folowed for four years. Being desirous of taking up the medical profession as a life work, he abandoned his pedagogical work and entered the Louisville Medical College, from which he was graduated on June 30, 1909, two years of his time in college having been spent in hospital practice. Having thus laid a splendid foundation for this future calling, he came to Fort Branch, hung out his shingle, and in a comparatively short time had built up a large and lucrative practice. He is essentially progressive and modern in his methods, realizing that the education of a physican is never at an end, and by constant reading from the leading medical journals and study of the complex problems of medicine at first hand, he is keeping himself abreast of the times in his profession.
In Decmeber, 1909, Doctor Bass was united in matrimony to Lena Johnson, daughter of F.M. Johnson, of Illinois. Mr. Johnson is one of the leading and representative men of his community and the subject’s wife is a most charming and cultivated lady. A beautiful residence and up-to-date offices have been erected by Doctor Bass, and his home is the social center of his many friends, the genial natures of the subject and his wife being demonstrated in the true spirit of hospitality which radiates from their home. To Doctor Bass and wife has been born one child, Herschel L.
In 1910 the subject of this review was elected coroner of Gibson county, and so efficiently did he discharge the duties of that reponsible position that he was re-elected in 1912, and is at present capably filling that office. The Doctor is a member of the Gibson County Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association and the Ohio Valley Medical Association, while, fraternally, he is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Mason, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Modern Woodmen of America, of which latter order he is medical examiner.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1883 - 1962 (79 years)