Dr. Walter C. Baskin, a well-to-do farmer and prominent physician of Coat's Bend, Etowah county, Ala., was born on the 18th of October, 1832, in Carroll county, Ga., the son of James and Henrietta (Williams) Baskin. His father was a native of South Carolina, and removed when a young man to Gwinnett county, Ga. He was a well-known minister of the Methodist church. He was for many years a magistrate, and a man of ability and energy, and died in 1882, aged eighty-eight. Four of his children, out of a family of ten, are living: James L., of Carroll county, Ga.; Mary A., widow of Dr. J. D. Thompson, East Point, Ga.; W. C., and Clark W. of Carroll county, Ga. The mother died in 1872. The great-grandfather, William Baskin, was a native of Ireland, and came to America,and settled in South Carolina before the Revolutionary war. Dr. Baskin's mother was born and brought up in Columbia, S. C. At the age of twenty-four years, Dr. Baskin commenced the study of medicine with Dr. M. W. Gray, of Carroll county, and attended lectures at Macon, Ga., where he graduated in 1858 and came to Turkeytown, Etowah county, and engaged in the practice of medicine and farming.
He married December 6, 1859, in Etowah county, Martha J. Prater, daughter of A.J. Prater, and they have one child-Herschel V. During the war the doctor served first as surgeon, and after the fall of Fort Donelson was made assistant surgeon. He has made a good success of life, owning a beautiful home in the valley of the Coosa river, and a farm of three hundred acres. He enjoys a larg practice. Politically he is a peoples' party man, a royal arch Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married December 6, 1859, in Etowah county, Martha J. Prater, daughter of A.J. Prater, and they have one child-Herschel V. During the war the doctor served first as surgeon, and after the fall of Fort Donelson was made assistant surgeon. He has made a good success of life, owning a beautiful home in the valley of the Coosa river, and a farm of three hundred acres. He enjoys a larg practice. Politically he is a peoples' party man, a royal arch Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Dr. Walter C. Baskin, a well-to-do farmer and prominent physician of Coat's Bend, Etowah county, Ala., was born on the 18th of October, 1832, in Carroll county, Ga., the son of James and Henrietta (Williams) Baskin. His father was a native of South Carolina, and removed when a young man to Gwinnett county, Ga. He was a well-known minister of the Methodist church. He was for many years a magistrate, and a man of ability and energy, and died in 1882, aged eighty-eight. Four of his children, out of a family of ten, are living: James L., of Carroll county, Ga.; Mary A., widow of Dr. J. D. Thompson, East Point, Ga.; W. C., and Clark W. of Carroll county, Ga. The mother died in 1872. The great-grandfather, William Baskin, was a native of Ireland, and came to America,and settled in South Carolina before the Revolutionary war. Dr. Baskin's mother was born and brought up in Columbia, S. C. At the age of twenty-four years, Dr. Baskin commenced the study of medicine with Dr. M. W. Gray, of Carroll county, and attended lectures at Macon, Ga., where he graduated in 1858 and came to Turkeytown, Etowah county, and engaged in the practice of medicine and farming.
He married December 6, 1859, in Etowah county, Martha J. Prater, daughter of A.J. Prater, and they have one child-Herschel V. During the war the doctor served first as surgeon, and after the fall of Fort Donelson was made assistant surgeon. He has made a good success of life, owning a beautiful home in the valley of the Coosa river, and a farm of three hundred acres. He enjoys a larg practice. Politically he is a peoples' party man, a royal arch Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married December 6, 1859, in Etowah county, Martha J. Prater, daughter of A.J. Prater, and they have one child-Herschel V. During the war the doctor served first as surgeon, and after the fall of Fort Donelson was made assistant surgeon. He has made a good success of life, owning a beautiful home in the valley of the Coosa river, and a farm of three hundred acres. He enjoys a larg practice. Politically he is a peoples' party man, a royal arch Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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