 | A history of Caroline county, Virginia |  |
WILLIAM A. BAYNHAM, M. D.
William A. Baynham, M. D., son of the celebrated Dr.
Wm. Baynham, was born October 19, 1813, and at the age of
eight years was placed in Concord Academy in Caroline county,
where he remained until he was fourteen. At the age of fifteen
he entered the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated
at the age of twenty-one, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
He subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania from
which institution he was graduated after two years of study.
Being a rich man he did not find it necessary to practice his
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from the activities of the profession and devoted the remainder
of his life with "singleness of purpose and rare consecration"
to the preaching of the Gospel, being an honored minister in the
Baptist church. Dr. Baynham boarded for thirty-five years in
the home of John Henry Martin, father of the wife of Dr. A. L.
Martin, of Naulakla, Caroline county.
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