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Dr. Samuel D. Barnes was born in 1869. He received his medical degree from Dunham Medical College, Chicago and a degree in osteopathy from the Kansas college where it originated. He also studied electricity and psychotherapy. He and his wife came to Hawaii to vacation in 1911 and decided to remain. He opened an office on Beretania Street next to Iolani College in Honolulu. Dr. Barnes substituted several times for physicians on vacation, spending months on Kauai and Hawaii before returning to his private practice. He received his California license to practice in 1918, having moved there in 1917 to be with his mother who was ill.
Dr. Barnes was active in the Hawaii Society, Sons of the American Revolution
(president 1916). He was a member of the YMCA and the Ad Club Quartet. He also
sang baritone solo at an oratorio performed at St. Andrews Cathedral, Honolulu.
First posted April 2006.
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