Sedgwick-Greenwood County KS Archives Biographies.....Basham, David Walker 1854 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   David Walker Basham, is a prominent physician and surgeon at Wichita, Kan. A
native of Breckenridge county, Kentucky, he was born in 1854, and is a son of
Nathan Claybourne and Helen Josephine (Haddock) Basham. His maternal grandfather
was a physician, and his father a business man and farmer. He had good
educational advantages and after finishing his preliminary studies, was
graduated from the Kansas City Medical College in 1884. Going to Rich Hill, Mo.,
Dr. Bashan practiced his profession there one year, after which he pursued a
course of study in the University of New York, where he was graduated in 1890.
He then spent some time in Philadelphia in practice and research and later
continued his studies in surgery in Paris, France. Dr. Basham returned hither in
1895 and made his home at Neal, Kan., till 1902, when he settled at Wichita,
spending much of the interval in Philadelphia and New York. Dr. Basham is widely
known as a learned and skillful surgeon and maintains a suite of offices at Nos.
205, 207 and 209 East Douglas avenue, Wichita, and is one of the surgeons
practicing in St. Francis Hospital. He is also active in fraternal and social
organizations, being a Mason of high degree, and holding membership in the
Country, the Riverside and the Commercial Clubs, and belonging to the Chamber of
Commerce of Wichita.

   In 1902 Dr. Basham married Miss Katherine Genevieve, a daughter of Francis
and Honora Dailey, formerly of Eureka, Kan., but at that time residents of
Helena, Mont., and they have two children named, respectively, David Walker,
Jr., aged four and one-half years, and Francis Claybourne, aged one year.


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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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