Biographical Sketches
Frank Albert Barta
Although a man of scholarly attainments, able to throw light upon almost any subject, drawing from a fund of rich experience and years of association with people of every class, Dr. Frank Albert Barta, of Ord, is also a man of executive ability and most practical ideas. For some years he has been devoting a large amount of his thought and practice to diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, and in this specialty he is associated with the staff of Hillcrest Hospital, but he also carries on a general practice, and is active in the life of his home city. Doctor Barta was born at Fairfax, Iowa, January 13, 1888, a son of Frank and Anna (Troyna) Barta, both of foreign birth, and the parents of both were born abroad.
Frank Barta was a general workman in his native land, and when he came to the United States, in 1882, he continued in this line of employment. He settled at Fairfax, Iowa, and there he died in 1917. His wife died in 1915, having borne her husband the following children: Bessie, who died in 1918, married Bohemel Barta; Lillian, who married a Mr. Richmond, has two children; Genevieve, who married J. Gordon Pringle; Elsie, who married Raymond Ripold, has one child, and Dr. Barta, who is the second in order of birth.
From his childhood Doctor Barta has been ambitious, and he studied hard in the graded and high schools of Fairfax, Iowa, and after he had completed their courses he entered the University of Iowa, where he took a degree in pharmacy. Subsequently he entered the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and was graduated therefrom June 15, 1910, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Having no money or influential friends, Doctor Barta has had to make his own way in the world, and his success is all the more to his credit because he has been forced to work hard for it. Each step of his upward progress was financed through physical labor, and he overcame obstacles that to many would have been utterly discouraging. Finding that the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat most interested him, he has taken post-graduate work in this specialty, and is regarded as the outstanding man in this line throughout a wide territory. His practice is a very large one, and extends over Valley and surrounding counties. Doctor Barta has been connected with the professional life of Ord since 1910, and is also an active factor in its civic life. He is entitled to high standing in his profession not only on account of the size of his practice, but also because of his quick perception and adoption of advanced methods, and by his important contributions to the literature of his profession through the numerous papers he has prepared.
On August 20, 1912, Doctor Barta married, at Ord, Emma L. Zackariah, of Lawrence, Nebraska, a daughter of Herman Zachariah. Mrs. Barta lost her mother when she was an infant, and she has a sister, Anna, who married Lou Madsen, and has two children. These sisters have a half brother, Fred, who is unmarried. Mr. Zachariah is living, and is a general laborer. Doctor and Mrs. Barta have three children: Zola M., Evelyn M. and Frank D., the two elder ones attending school. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church. Doctor Barta is a Knight of Columbus. He belongs to the Valley County Medical Society, the Nebraska State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
Source: Transcription from the book, Nebraska, the Land and the People, by Addison Erwin Sheldon, published in 1931; located on the website, Hathitrust Digital Library (http://www.hathitrust.org), accessed 11 January 2026.
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