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Dr Joseph Francis Kaspar

28 Sep 1876 – 28 Mar 1955

Birth28 Sep 1876
Death28 Mar 1955
CemeteryBohemian National Cemetery
Prague , Saunders County , Nebraska , USA
Added byDesert29Girl on 13 Jan 2014
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KASPAR, JOSEPH FRANK: Physician & Surgeon; b Prague, Neb Sept 28, 1876; s of Joseph Kaspar-Marie Ruzek; ed Prague HS; U of N 1891-93; New York U, MD 1899; grad work U of Prague, Czechoslovaka 1912; m Antonie Janbor Aug 21, 1917 Prague; s Joseph Francis, Oliver Francis; d Pearl (Mrs J Fendrich), Ruby, Opal; 1899 lic phys & surg N Y; 1899-1904 prac med, New York City; 1904- prac med, Prague; 1906- owner & opr first hosp in Saunders Co; 1934 mbr Neb sen; 1909-15 mbr town coun; chmn sch bd; 1932-33 pres Saunders Co Wheat Program under AAA; Saunders Co Med Soc; Neb St & AMA; Sokol, past pres; ZCBJ, pres & dist pres; MWA; WOW; hobby, painting; res Prague. JOSEPH F. KASPAR, M. D. Dr. Joseph F. Kaspar, physician and surgeon at Prague, where he owns and maintains a large hospital, is numbered among the most prominent representatives of the profession in this part of the state, and his work has been of untold value and benefit. He was born September 28, 1876, in the town in which he still makes his home, for the town has been built upon a part of the old homestead which was the property of his parents, Joseph and Mary (Rusek) Kaspar. The father died in the year 1914. He came from Bohemia to the new world, and, making his way to Saunders county, secured a homestead of eighty acres now a part of Prague. He was one of the founders of the town and for a number of years was part owner of the Prague Roller Mills. As time passed he added to his possessions until his realty interests became extensive. Dr. Kaspar is the only son in a family of eight children. After acquiring a common-school education he attended the State University at Lincoln and completed his professional course in the New York University, which was consolidated with the Bellevue Hospital in 1899, in which year Dr. Kaspar was graduated. For five years he practiced in New York city and in 1904 returned to Prague, where he bought the practice of a physician, and in 1913 he built the large hospital which he now conducts. He has accommodations for over fifty beds and he has been most successful in his practice. Before going into the new hospital he had a record of only three deaths out of eight hundred and forty operations. He is a thorough student of anatomy and the component parts of the human body and understands every phase of modern, scientific surgical work, keeping in touch with advanced thought and methods by wide reading and investigation. On the 22d of January, 1904, in New York city. Dr. Kaspar married Miss Lena Hlavac, of that place. Dr. Kaspar is a democrat and several times has served as chairman of the town council and has also been chairman of the school board. He is identified with several fraternal organizations, including the Masonic lodge at North Bend and Wahoo Chapter, R. A. M., the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Z. C. B. J., a Bohemian organization. He is now chairman of the Saunders County Medical Society. He has a large practice of a most important character and his hospital would be a credit to a town of twenty-five thousand inhabitants. He is most progressive and, moreover, his professional work is performed with a sense of conscientious obligation that is manifest in extreme carefulness.

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