From the Matagorda County History & Genealogy page
The warm climate of Collegeport and the excitement of a new town lured many homeseekers from the northern states.
All communities needed doctors and four doctors moved to Collegeport in its infancy to meet the medical needs of the residents.
The first two physicians in Collegeport were Canadians, Dr. Erastus S. Darling and Dr. George Edwin Lipsitt.
Darling, born in Ontario, Canada, in 1872, was a true renaissance man studying science, philosophy and Christian evidence, law, English literature, English history and finally medicine.
He practiced in Indiana before moving to Collegeport.
He registered at Hotel Collegeport in March and April of 1910, and immediately took part in Collegeport activities.
He served as treasurer and entertainment chairman in the Collegeport Industrial League.
He was in Collegeport for the 1910 Collegeport census and Dr. George Edwin Lipsitt (1883-1943) was lodging with him at the time.
Lipsitt was also from Ontario and purchased lots 9 and 10 in Block 10 in Collegeport in the spring of 1910.
In addition to his medical duties, he operated the Collegeport Pharmacy.
He served as the president of the Collegeport Industrial League before leaving Collegeport for Blessing in late 1911.
Dr. G. Edwin Lipsitt, our genial and popular druggist, has sold the City Pharmacy to Mr. F. D. Everson, who takes possession November 1st.
It is rumored that the Doctor will engage in the drug trade in Blessing. Reprinted in the Palacios Beacon, October 13, 1911.
Lipsitt moved on to Waco from Blessing and eventually returned to Canada where he lived out the rest of his life.
Darling was back in Canada by June 1, 1911 when the 1911 Canadian census was enumerated.
Dr. Felix Vinson Bryant (1871 – 1951) was the next physician to move to Collegeport.
native of Sardis, Tenn., he graduated from Hering Medical College in Chicago and began his medical practice in Oklahoma in 1900.
He married Bessie Bird Moore who was the daughter of Sadie Bell Moore Merck.
The Bryants moved to Van Zandt County, Texas and the Mercks moved to Collegeport.
Dr. Bryant was in Collegeport by September 12, 1912 because his ad appeared in the Collegeport Chronicle.
When Dr. and Mrs. F.V. Bryant, left the Collegeport area and returned to Van Zandt County, the Mercks purchased their 20 acres adjoining the Merck property which had a two-story home and a large orange orchard.
Bryant practiced medicine for 51 years and died Aug. 25, 1951, in Jacksonville, Texas.
Collegeport’s fourth physician, Dr. Guy Fontane Fausset (1886 – 1968), was born in Harper County, Kansas and apparently lived there until he moved to Collegeport as a young physician about August 1913.
He first had quarters in the Hotel Collegeport, but moved into his own office in January 1914, at which time he advertised in the Collegeport New Era as a physician and surgeon.
On June 20, 1914, he married Charlotte Amelia Crabill who was the daughter of Henry Amos and Lula Weidermier Crabill.
Dr. G. F. Fausset, who has been here for sixteen months, during which time he found insufficient practice for a livelihood, shipped his household goods Monday by boat to Freeport, himself and wife leaving Tuesday for that place. While we regret to lose Dr. Fausset, we realize that we have too healthy a location for a doctor to receive a very lucrative practice, and we wish him success in his new location and hope he may find a more lucrative practice at that point.
Collegeport New Era, November 26, 1914
Their first son, Richard Henry Fausset was born October 6, 1915 in Matagorda County.
By 1920, the family was once again living in Matagorda County in Blessing, where Guy Fontane Fausset, Jr. was born December 12, 1920.
They family moved to Houston by 1923 and Mrs. Fausset died in 1937. Dr. Fausset continued his practice and about 1942, he remarried to Virginia who worked with him in his practice. He died in Houston on Dec. 16, 1968, and was buried at Forest Park Cemetery.