Samuel Wallace Sholars, M.D., a native of Talladega, Alabama, moved with his parents to Jasper County in 1858. A Confederate army veteran, he received his medical degree in 1872. He practiced medicine in Orange, founded Sholars Drugstore, served as alderman, school board member, and president of the Southeast Texas Medical Society, and helped organize the Orange Rifles of the Texas Volunteer Guards. His daughter and three sons were also civic leaders.