Thomas G. Maghee papers, 1872-1909 (bulk 1872-1878)

Thomas G. Maghee (1842-1927) was a physician and plastic surgeon. He was born in Evansville, Indiana, and served with the Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. After completing his medical studies in 1873, he was an assistant army surgeon at Camp Brown (later Fort Washakie) and Camp (Fort) Stambaugh in Wyoming. In 1875 he reported on the hot springs which later formed the nucleus for Thermopolis, Wyoming. He entered private practice in 1878 in Green River, Wyoming; moved to Rawlins in 1880; and to Lander in 1905. In 1886 he performed pioneering facial reconstructive surgery on George Webb, a sheep herder who had attempted suicide.