DR. I.B. HAMBLIN
History of Arizona, 1893

Dr. I.B. Hamblin is an exceptionally popular and successful 
physician and is now medical superintendent of Arizona Asylum 
for the Insane, two and a half miles east of Phoenix.  He is 
scholarly and well informed in every branch of his profession 
and stands well in the community, both as a citizen and as a 
physician.  

The Doctor was born in Hocking County, Ohio, December 24, 
1858; son of Emmett and Calistia (Cook) Hamblin, the father 
a native of New York and the mother of Ohio.  Both are now 
deceased.  The father was a business man. Of the eight children 
born to them only four survive at the present time.

Our subject received the rudiments of an education in the 
common schools, but after removing with his parents to Logan, 
Ohio entered the high school where he remained until just 
before graduating.  After that he began reading medicine, 
entered the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, and was 
graduated from the same in 1884. Immediately afterward he 
began practicing at Dayton, Ohio and remained there for 
four years, being connected with the Dayton Insane Asylum.  
He was afterwards engaged in general practice for a few 
months and was then appointed one of the staff physicians 
of Columbus, Ohio, Insane Asylum, where he remained until 
June 1893.  Afterwards he was appointed to his present 
position of medical superintendent of the Arizona Asylum 
for the Insane.  His appointment for this institution is 
made for four years.

Dr. Hamblin has made a most efficient and capable 
superintendent and has many friends in the Territory.  
The asylum is a brick structure three stories high and 
now has 132 inmates but it has plenty of room for about 
200 patients.  It is surrounded by about 160 acres of 
fine land, which is in alfalfa, fruits, garden, etc. and 
every acre under cultivation and well watered.  On this 
farm cattle and hogs are raised and everything about the 
place indicates that an experienced hand is at the helm.  
Dr. Hamblin has made many improvements, having added a 
laundry, an electric light plant, pumping station and 
sewerage.  He is a member of the Maricopa County Medical 
Society.

The doctor was married in 1884 to Miss Laura Louisa Smith, 
a native of Ohio.

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