Daniel Webster Gilbert, M. D.

Dr. Gilbert's practice ran fifty-five years on Dallas County's west side. A Dallas pioneer association profile says he was the first doctor near Sowers, then home to about 120. He made calls by buggy, horseback or on foot to Kit, Euless, Estelle and other settlements, mixed his own medicines and treated patients whatever they could pay; some paid with produce or an old mule. He treated Black residents of the Bear Creek and Shady Grove community, the profile says. When Irving was laid out in 1903 he kept an office over the bank he helped organize and later led.

What the plaque says

Daniel Webster Gilbert, M. D. (1854 - 1930) Mississippi native D. W. Gilbert came to Texas in 1874. Graduated from Missouri Medical College in 1881, he began his practice in Euless and Grapevine. In 1884 he moved to Sowers, purchased 1500 acres of farmland, planted a peach orchard and operated a dairy. He relocated to Irving in 1903, becoming one of the area's first physicians and a civic leader. Respected and beloved by those he served, Gilbert was buried here among his family. (1996)

Where it stands

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• City of Irving — 2.2 mi
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