Temple was just 12 years old and had a bad reputation as a rough-and-tumble railroad town when Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott arrived in town to begin work as the chief surgeon at a hospital established by the Santa Fe Railroad. Scott added a private practice to his work at the Santa Fe Hospital and in 1895, three years after his arrival in Temple, he hired Dr. Raleigh R. White to replace Dr. C.R. Johnson, who retired. The partnership would eventually result in the formation of Scott and White Hospital, which today cares for half-a-million people and provides non-profit health care to 167,000 people in 35 counties. A surprising amount of material and even implements of medicine from those early days has survived the century-plus since Dr. Scott and Dr. White first shook hands. Much of what survives is stored in the Scott and White archives at the Santa Fe Center on South 25th Street.