Dr. C.C. Howard, an outstanding physician and citizen of Barren County, was born in Summer Shade, Kentucky, in 1888 and began his medical career in Glasgow. He opened a private hospital there in 1914 and later helped build Glasgow's first community hospital. He encouraged passage of an act that created six regional tuberculosis hospitals in Kentucky, was instrumental in establishing the Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund, received numerous awards including the Governor's Medallion for outstanding leadership in the field of rural medicine and the Kentucky Medical Association's first Distinguished Service Award, opened the Howard Clinic in 1947, and died in 1971.