Dr. H. Moulton, a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, located in Fort Smith, although his practice comes to him from a very wide territory, was born in Morgan county, Illinois, in 1860, a son of S. F. and Jennie (Wadhams) Moulton. The father was a prosperous farmer of Illinois and there reared his family of five children.

Dr. Moulton attended the public schools of Illinois and afterward became a student in the Illinois College at Jacksonville, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1879. His choice of a profession fell upon the practice of medicine and he matriculated in the Chicago Medical College, in which he completed his course in 1884, winning the M. D. degree. He then located at Stuart, Iowa, where he opened an office, remaining in general practice there for a period of four years. He later spent one year in preparing for his specialty by study in New York, receiving instruction from some of the eminent specialists on the eye, ear, nose and throat in the eastern metropolis. For a short while he was engaged in practice with Dr. Tiffany of Kansas City, Missouri, and in 1890 came to Fort Smith, where he has since been located. During the year 1903 he spent some time in clinic work and study in Europe. He has been very successful in his chosen field and is regarded as one of the leading oculists aurists and laryngologists of the southwest. He is a member of the Sebastian County Medical Association and that he enjoys the high regard and unqualified confidence of his contemporaries in the medical profession in this county is indicated in the fact that he has twice been elected to the presidency of the society. He also belongs to the Arkansas State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Medical Association of the Southwest, the Southern Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and oto-Larynology, the American College of Surgeons and the Kansas City Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College. He has likewise been a member of the board of health of Fort Smith for thirteen years and is serving on the staff of the Sparks Memorial Hospital in addition to caring for an extensive private practice.

Dr. Moulton married Miss Lynn Crockett, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but a resident of Iowa at the time of her marriage. She is a daughter of Jacob G. Crockett and by her marriage she has become the mother of a son and a daughter: Dr. E. C. Moulton, who is associated with his father in practice and is mentioned elsewhere in this work; and Elizabeth M.

During the World war, Dr. Moulton did voluntary service on the local advisory board, his duties claiming his attention several nights each week in the examination of boys for the army. He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also of the Business Men's Club and the Country Club. He is appreciative of the social amenities of life and is a gentleman of genial and cordial disposition, but he never allows anything to interfere with the faithful and efficient performance of his professional duties, recognizing fully the obligations that devolve upon him in this connection.