Lamartine G. Hardman, M.D.

Larmartine G. Hardman, M. D., was born in Harmony Grove, Jackson County, Ga., April 14, 1856, and is a son of William B. J. and E. S. (Colquitt) Hardman. William B. J. was born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., November 23, 1822, and was a son of Elbert and Lottie (Barnett) Hardman. Elbert was born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., November 15, 1793, and died in May, 1884. He was a planter and merchant and a son of William J. Hardman, who was a native of Virginia and a son of Charles Hardman, a native of England. Mrs. E. S. Hardman, a native of Georgia, was a daughter of Henry and Mildred (Pinson) Colquitt, the former of whom was born in Oglethorpe County, Ga., and was a son of James Colquitt.

L. G. Hardman is the second in a family of eight living children, the eldest being Henry E. The others were born in the following order: F. Ethleen, Robert L., W. B. J., Jr., T. C., T. B., and M. E.

Lamartine G. Hardman received a very good preparatory education in his native town and read medicine under his father. He next attended the medical department of the University of Georgia at Augusta, and graduated in 1876. He then went to New York city, and graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1877, when he returned to Harmony Grove and began practice. He met with immediate recognition as a skillful physician and has held his clientage ever since. The winter of 1883, however, he passed at the University of Pennsylvania, and the full course of 1886 at the Polyclinic Medical School in New York city. The doctor is not yet married. He now devotes his time more especially to diseases of women and to surgery, in which branches he has won considerable reputation. He is six feet high, weighs from 175 to 185 pounds, has dark skin, brown hair, and light brown or hazel eyes.

Contributed by Jeanne Arguelles