Henry Franklin Barnes
M 1829 -| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Henry Franklin Barnes |
| Born | 1829-08-11 Orleans, Indiana |
| Gender | M |
| Died | |
| Buried |
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Father | Dean B. Barnes b. (1801-04-28, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky) d. (1875-04-28, Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana) |
| Mother | Mahala Athon b. (1805-01-22, Collierstown, Rockbridge County, Virginia) d. (1865-02-09, Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana) |
| Married | 1823-04-26, Orange County, Indiana |
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Family | Fannie R. Seabolt |
| Married | 1863-00-00 |
| Children |
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Family | Margaret V. Merle |
| Married | 1890-12-18 |
| Children | 1 Pearl A. Barnes 2 Beatrice M. Barnes 3 Hattie F. Barnes |
Notes
Henry Franklin Barns was about two years old when his parents settled in Springville, Lawrence County, where he remained and was reared, receiving a common-school education. He was for a number of years engaged with his father buying stock and selling the same at Green Bay, Wis., which was on the frontier at that time, and the youth was frequently brought into contact in the way of trade witli the Indians, whom, however, he always found peaceful. At the age of seventeen he entered the Union School, of Xenia, Ohio, taking an eight months’ course, and was chosen valedictorian of bis class. Following this, he remained at home for a few weeks, then went to Greencastle and took an irregular scientific course and languages in what was known as Asbury University. At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. James S. Athon, at Charleston, lud., matriculating afterward at Jefferson Medical College, where he took two courses of lectures and graduated iu the class of 1854, having previously, in 1853, graduated from the Edward Parish College of Pharmacy. During the second course he practiced medicine in Philadelphia, and at New Washington, Ind., between the first and second courses, making sufficient money to carry him through the medical college. He is a self-made man, finding it necessary to earn the money which procured him his literary and professional education. After graduating he settled at Bedford, Ind., and entered upon the practice with Dr. Wiuthrop Foote, a leading practitioner of southern Indiana. In the fall of 1854 circumstances called Dr. Barnes to Paoli, Ind., where he practiced until the fall of 1855. Iu September, 1855, he was chosen senior physician at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, now the Central, having special charge of the female department, and was elected for six consecutive years. At the end of that time he entered upon a large and lucrative practice in Indianapolis. When the great battle of Pittsburgh Landing was in progress, Dr. Barnes was commissioned by Gov. Morton as one of the additional surgeons to the Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Gen. Lew Wallace, and was detailed to Shiloh Hospital after that battle, in addition to serving the Eleventh, and rendered most efficient aid while down there. Upon his return to Indianapolis he at once resumed the practice, and enjoyed a large and very lucrative income. In 1870, at the solicitation of a number of friends, he removed to Louisville and at once entered upon a very gratifying practice, which continued until 1877, when, his old preceptor and partner, Dr. James S. Athon, dying, he was induced to return to Indianapolis, where he found a most satisfactory practice, which has continued to the present time. In 1865 Dr. Barnes was appointed by the commissioner of pensions at Washington, D. C., a pension surgeon, a position he held until 1869. In the years that have passed since leaving the insane hospital service he has been chosen by the courts of this and other States to give expert testimony where the plea of insanity has been set up and has received the largest possible fees for that service. Prior to the Doctor’s removal to Louisville, he was one of the founders of the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine, and one of a committee of three to establish a fee bill for the government of the physicians of Indianapolis and vicinity. He was also an active member of the Indiana Slate Medical Society. After his location at Louisville, in 1870, he became an active member of the Medico Chirurgical Society of Louisville, was a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society and an honorary member of the Ohio State Medical Society. He was the author of “A Discussion of Insanity from a Medico-Legal Standpoint,” for the Kentucky State Medical Society, and an article entitled “Cerebral Congestion,” for the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Louisville, both of which were published in the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, and highly eulogized by the profession generally. The Doctor has produced many other able articles of importance during his professional career. About ten years ago Dr. Barnes was elected president of the Life and Endowment Association of Indiana, one of the largest and best insurance companies of its kind in the State, and has held that position, with the exception of one year, ever since. In the year 1868 he was at the head of the Democratic ticket for the office of State senator from the Indianapolis district, and came near being elected, in the face of nearly 2,000 majority of the opposing party, in this county alone, one of his associates on the Democratic ticket being 1,900 votes behind. In the same year he was made a member of the State Central Committee, for the central district of Indiana, serving two years efficiently. Dr. Barnes makes a specialty of diseases of the mind and nervous system, including the liquor and opium habit, etc., and is an expert and leading physician and surgeon, being universally recognized as such by the profession and by the people of Indianapolis. He combines with a rare knowledge of his profession pleasant and agreeable manners and a broad and conscientious charity. Dr. Barnes was married in 1863 to Mrs. Fannie R. Seabolt, and again in 1880, to Margaret V. Merl, who died of consumption December 18, 1890, leaving three children, namely, Pearl A., Beatrice M. and Hattie F., all of them bright, intelligent and most interesting children, who would attract attention anywhere on account of their sweet and winning ways. Recently the Doctor was induced on account of their health to take them on an extended tour of 15,000 miles, through the Southern States, California, Mexico, Utah, Colorado and other Western States and Territories, and on his return visiting the World’s Fair at Chicago. Dr. Barnes has all the zeal and energy and studious and investigating spirit that inspired him a quarter of a century ago. While conservative and prudent, he is at the same time progressive and active in promoting measures calculated to keep the profession in full touch with the spirit and genius of the age. Blessed with good health, and in possession of an active and vigorous mind, and enjoying a very lucrative practice, Dr. Barnes may be truly said to have made a most decided success of his life, as well as having good reason to look forward to many years of further usefulness in his profession. The Doctor”s only living sister, Mrs. Virginia A. Williams, is residing at Indianapolis. She is a lady of much dignity and personal beauty, and possessed of many accomplishments. He has two brothers, J. D. and William A. Barnes, worthy gentlemen respectively of Abilene and Olcott, Kan.
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