Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Bass, J. Loreaine February 4 1864 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   J. LOREAINE BASS, M. D., an accomplished and progressive young physician of
Escambia county, is a native of South Carolina, born in Marion county, that
state, on the 4th day of February, 1864. His father, Thomas R. Bass, one of the
most eminent physicians of the south, was a native of the same county and state,
and was born in the year 1814. He was a finely educated gentleman, a graduate of
the university of South Carolina, and his professional training was received at
the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, and medical college of South
Carolina, at Charleston, in both of which he completed the prescribed course and
graduated with the highest honors. He practiced his profession at one place,
Marion, S. C., for a period of fifty years and was the first democratic
representative of that county in the state legislature, which body he served two
terms. This was just after the war, when both legislatures were largely
dominated by colored members, which fact, with the corrupting way in which
legislation was effected, so disgusted the doctor with politics that he
abandoned the political field, never to enter it again. He was prominent in
Masonic circles, and for several terms held the highest positions, within the
gift of the order in South Carolina. He was united in marriage with Mary R.
Carter at Darlington, S. C., in the year 1844, and raised a family of six
children, as follows: Liston D., president of the Southern Female institute,
Florence, Ala.; Ida I., wife of R. D. Rollins, Lake City, S. C.; Oscar L.,
manufacturer; Ella M., wife of C. S. Covington, Florence, S. C.; W. Leonidas,
lawyer, Lake City, S. C., and Dr. J. Loreaine, whose name introduces this
mention. Joseph Bass, father of Thomas, was a wealthy Englishman and came to the
United. States in company with a brother and settled many years ago in South
Carolina, where he married and reared a family, several members of which left
the impress of their superior abilities on their native state. Dr. J. Loreaine
Bass grew up in an atmosphere of culture and refinement and was fortunate in
having superior educational advantages placed at his disposal early in life.
After pursuing his studies for some time in the schools of his native county he
entered the university of South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1883, and
immediately thereafter began a medical course in the South Carolina medical
college, which he attended one year. Later he became a student of the Medical
college of Louisville, Ky., and after graduating from that institution in 1887,
embarked in the practice of his profession in partnership with his father at
Marion, S. C., where he remained for a period of one year, removing at the end
of that time to Brewton, Ala., where he has since resided. During the year 1891,
Dr. Bass took post-graduate courses at the Louisville medical college and
Bellevue hospital, New York, for the especial treatment of female diseases, to
which he expects to turn his attention largely hereafter. The doctor has risen
very rapidly in his profession and is now maintaining a very extensive and
lucrative practice in Escambia and other counties. His career so far has been
marked by much ability, and he easily ranks with the most successful and
progressive medical men in the southern part of the state. The doctor and Miss
Emma Lucas, an accomplished young lady of Charleston, S. C., were united in
marriage, June, 1887. They have a beautiful home in Brewton and move in the most
refined social circles of the city.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 953-954
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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