Biographical Sketch of Dr. Beverly A. Barrett, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Dr. Barrett is the son of John S. and Margaret (Patterson) Barrett, and
was born in Ste. Genevieve County, January 8, 1826.  The father was 
also a physician, was a Virginian, and emigrated to this State in 1811,
and was a member of the first Missouri General Assembly.  Beverly A. 
was the sixth child of a family of ten children, and had the advantages
of a common school education in his native county, subsequently attend-
ing a seminary taught by Fox and Davis at Fredericktown.  He began the
study of his profession in 1845, and after two years' close application
to medical lore, began the practice in Dallas County, Mo., where he re-
mained till 1858, removing thence to Springfield, his present home.  In
1864 he moved to St. Louis, and remained there till 1869, he moved back
to Springfield which has been his constant place of abode since then. 
Dr. Barrett has been in the active practice for thirty-five years, and 
has done as much labor as any physician in the Southwest.  He is a mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity, and was at one time master of the lodge.
He is also a member of the M. E. Church South and has been for about
twenty-five years.  Politically he is a Democrat, and always acts with
the party.  He is a member of the State Medical Association, and keeps
well up in professional literature.  Dr. Barrett was married in 1847 to
Miss Susan Randleman, in Buffalo, Dallas County, who bore him five
children.  His first wife died in St. Louis in 1865, and he was again
married in 1871, to Miss Mary E. Priest, of Maury County, Tennessee, an
estimable lady, devoted to the cause of the church and to acts of 
Christian charity.  Dr. Barrett, although eminently successful as a
practitioner, has never sought to accumulate wealth, but has, on the
contrary, been moderate in his charges and done much charity work for
which he never asked or received any compensation.  During the civil
war, he was a warm friend of the Southern cause, but never took any
active part nor once neglected his professional duties; his principles
of heart prompting him to give his services to both armies when needed,
and always to bear himself as becomes the gentleman and man of honor
that he is.

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