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English: Vesta M. Swarts, M.D. was a daughter of S. B. Ward and Laura Brook, and the wife of D. J. Swartz, M.D., whom she married on 29 August 1862. Their son, Willard Swarts, M.D., was also a physician. During the American Civil War, she served as a nurse while her husband was an assistant surgeon with the 100th Indiana Volunteers. After working under Annie Wittenmeyer at the "Brown" U.S. General Hospital during the summer of 1864, she was transferred to the U.S. General Hospital "Crittendon" at Louisville, Kentucky, where she remained until March 1865. Post-war, she was a member of the National Association of Civil War Army Nurses, a lecturer in Dermatology at Fort Wayne College in 1886, and a North Main Street resident in Auburn, Indiana in 1910.