Evening star., 1937-06-11
PRISON PHYSICIAN
FOR27 YEARS DIES
Dr.. Frank Hornbaker, 62,
Remained on Duty De.
spite Ill Health.

DR.. Frank Wandling Hornbaker, So.
who for 27 years has ministered to the
physical ailments Of District prisoners
at the Occoquan Work House and
Lorton Reformatory. died at Garfield
Hospital at 2 am. today.
In ill-health for the last two years,
DR.. Hornbaker continued until
month ago work which his superiors
said should require the services of
at least three physicians. He had
been in critical condition at the hos
pital for two weeks.
He was a wonderful fellow" said
Capt M. NJ Barnard, who retired May
l as general superintendent of the
District penal institutions and for
years worked closely with DR.. Horn
baker at Lorton. His service began
when there was nothing but wire
fence and a few wooden buildings at
Occoquan. and included caring for all
the prisoners at the work house and
reformatory until a few years ago,
when another physician took over the
reformatory work"
In Trouble of 1917.
In the troublesome Summer of 1917
scores of woman suffragists we're sent
to the work house for picketing the
White House
The woman political prisoners
rioted on october 3, 1917, in an at
tempt to prevent Dr.. Hornbaker from
bringing one of their number who
was Ill, Mrs. Margaret B. Johns, to
hospital in Washington. Guards
quelled the riot by force. Alonzo
Tweedale, in charge of the work house
at that time, reported to District au-
thorltles that after he finally got Mrs.
Johns into DR.. Hornbaker's automo-
bile Il had to unwind the fingers of
some of the suffragettes from their
hold on the auto" before he could
start.
A few days later dozen of the
women went on "sit-down" strike,
refusing to do any of the work re-
quired of work house prisoners. They
were segregated for a week in the
work house hospital, where DR.. Horn
baker had no patients at the time, and
later put in solitary confinement at
the District Jail
Educated in Manassas.
! Born in Manassas, Va, the son of
DR.. Jacob and Augusta Anne Cannon
Hornbaker, DR., Hornbaker received
his early education in the public
| schools of his native town. He grad
uated in 1900 from the University
College of Medicine, in Richmond,
now the University of Virginia Medical
School. He started private practice
in Fairfax Courthouse, Va, and later
| moved to Dumfries, Va.
DR.. Hornbaker was connected with
the Occoquan work house from its be-
! ginning, starting his service there in
July, 1910, only three months after
| the District acquired the site for the
! institution. Opening of the Lorton
Reformatory on the same reservation
in 1916 increased his work He was
| physician for both institutions until
another doctor was named for the re-
formatory five years ago.
DR.. Hornbaker and his family lived
in house provided on the prison res
erva ton.
His widow, Mrs. Grace Clarke Horn
baker, survives, as do a son, Frank
w. Hornbaker, jr., lS; a daughter
Mildred, 81; brother, Mai. J. N
Hornbaker, U. S. Army, retired, of st.
petersburg, Fla; sister, Mrs. James
Bradford of Manassas; half-sister,
Mrs. William Powell of Alexandria
and two half-brothers. Read and Fred
R. Hynson of Philadelphia and Manas-
sas respectively.
| Funeral services will be held at 5
| pm. tomorrow at Pohick Church, Rev.
| c. A. Langston, rector of the church,
and Rev. Edward w. Millechampe, a
| former rector, officiating Burial will
| follow in Pohick Cemetery.