People from Linn County, Oregon

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Chapters: People from Albany, Oregon, People from Lebanon, Oregon, Alan L. Hart, Ben Howland, Katherine Ann Power, Daveigh Chase, Thomas B. Kay, Orlando Plummer, Ardyth Kennelly, Samuel T. Richardson, Mae Yih, Frank Morse, Dave Johnson, Jerry Andrus, Julie Payne, Gordon Gilkey, Mike Barrett, Elmo Smith, Howard Hesseman, Roderick Sprague, William Justin Kroll, Alexis, Edmund F. Baroch, Charles E. Wolverton, Lawrence T. Harris, Reuben S. Strahan, Edwin Russell Durno, Delazon Smith, George Earle Chamberlain, Ron Saxton, Percy R. Kelly, Oliver P. Coshow, Andy Olson, Kim Walker, Jeff Kropf, Joanna Masingila, David W. Ballard, Jo Collins, Carson Bigbee, Charles E. Wicks, Tinker Hatfield, Glenn Jackson, Time Winters, Charles D. Alexander, Pat McQuistan, Michael Lowry, Dave Roberts, J. Arthur Younger, Dick Smith, Norma Bassett Hall. Excerpt: Alan L. Hart (October 4, 1890 - July 4, 1962) was an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer and novelist. Hart was born a female named Alberta Lucille Hart. He was in 1917-18 one of the first female to male (FTM) transsexuals to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy in the United States, and lived the rest of his life as man. He pioneered the use of x-ray photography in tuberculosis detection, and helped implement TB screening programs that saved thousands of lives. Alan Lucille Hart was born October 4, 1890 in Halls Summit, Coffey County, Kansas to Albert L. Hart and Edna Hart (née Bamford). When his father died of typhoid fever in 1892, his mother reverted to her maiden name and moved the family to Linn County, Oregon where she cared for her own mother during a period of sickness. When Hart was five years old his mother remarried, to Bill Barton, and the family moved to Edna's father's farm. Hart wrote later, in 1911, of his happiness during this time, when he was free to dress and live as a boy, playing with boys' toys made for him by his grandfather. His parents and grandparents largely accepted and supported his gender expression, though his mother described his desire to be a boy as "foolish." His grandparents' obituaries, from 1921 and 1924, both list Hart as a grandson. When Hart was 12 the family moved to Albany. There Hart was obliged to dress as a girl to attend school, where he was treated as a girl. He continued to spend the holidays at his grandfather's farm, living there as a boy among his male friends, "teasing the girls and playing boy's games". According to a reminiscence piece in the Halls Summit News of June 10, 1921, "Young Hart was different, even then. Boys' clothes just felt natural. Lucille always regarded herself as a boy and begged her family to cut her hair and let her wear trousers. Lucille disliked dolls but enjoyed playing doctor. She hated traditional girl tasks, preferring farm work with the menfolk instead.