Dr. Stephen Hamlett Barham

Lone Oak

              Stephen Hamlett Barham, son of John Barham and Emily F. Hamlett, natives respectively of North Carolina and Virginia, was born in Coffee, Tennessee, October 2, 1842. Was educated at McKenzie College at Clarksville, Texas; his parents having come to Texas in 1854, locating first at Caledonia, in Rusk county; received from that college a certificate of honor. Engaged in teaching school, and during his leisure hours studied medicine without a preceptor; attended two consecutive courses of lectures at the Louisville, Kentucky, Medical College, and graduated from that institution in 1875. He began practicing at Caledonia the year before he graduated (1874), and continued to practice at that point till 1880, when he removed to Mt. Enterprise; here he practiced five years; removing to his present place of residence in 1885.

             He is a member of the State Medical Association, having joined in 1882; and was a delegate from that body to the American Medical Association at St. Paul, in 1883 ; has been thrice appointed member of the Medical Examining Board of the Second Judicial District.

             He has contributed some papers to the medical press. One on the treatment of epilepsy—in which was detailed a case of thirty years standing, in which a cure was effected by the use of pot. brom. and atropia sulph., was published in the Medical and Surgical Reporter, pp. 358-368, Vol. 38.

              Dr. Barham's wife was Maria Hayter nee Nichols. They have four children, two sons and two daughters.

             Although a mere youth, he entered the Confederate army during the recent civil war, and served as a private soldier; was several times wounded; once at Richmond, Kentucky, he was shot in the knee, afterwards, at Murfreesboro, he was wounded in both legs, which for eight years made a cripple of him. Notwithstanding these severe wounds, he remained in the service till the close. Being unfit for future service in the field he was detailed in the quartermaster's department and was engaged in purchasing supplies for Johnston's army in Mississippi.

             Though, like most interior physicians, he does a general practice, he has a decided preference for diseases of women, and to this branch he devotes special attention.