Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1907-12-11
Or. JOHN 1s|iAIl SHERIDAN
BARRETT ISa: G: :
DEAD &C. :
CFrom Tuesdays Daily

tFrom Tuesday's Daily
DR.. John Sheridan Barrett Ar dead
| and a host Of friends in this city and
| elsewhere are today carrying heavier
| hearts az n result. The end came yes
| terday morning Mt $3.50 o'clock, when
after ten days of torturing pain, due to
complication Of diseases, the genial
physician, well knowing from the first
that mis- ease was hopeless, gave up the
unequal struggle aud "a brave, gencr.
Gus, sympathetic soul passed out into
the Great Unknown.
cdr. Barrett il dead To those
who knew him not 10 tongue can tell
or pen portray the sorrows these words
bring to the hundreds who did. Grip.
pied with gout SO cruelty that many
would long ago have yielded in despair,
for many years DIR. Barrett continued
20 answer the calls " tine i'll and dis
tresseJ, giving his time, talent and
medical skill 10 the alienation Of ku.
man suffering, taking no account Of the
great pain his efforts Outlines cost
him.
John Sheridan Barrett was born in
San Francisco, Oct. s, 1870. He grew
TO manhood there, and graduated from
81. Mays college in 1887, and from
the Cooper Medical college in 1898.
After graduating as q physician and
surgeon, he was appointed coroncr's
surgeon in San Francisco, which posi-.
ton he filed until Z short time before
he came TO this city, Dec. !, 1895.
In San Francisco h. was considered
ono Of the best expert medical wit.
nesses in the state Of California. lie
proved his right TO . high place in the
medical profession Of the entire country
a. witness in the famous Durant ease,
and, IL is said, mis- unimpeachable tcsti.
mony had much 10 Il, with the convIc.
tion Of the murderer OF Blanche La.
mont.
u
took u place at the head Of his profcs-
sion, Until his death he mad been
recognized by the medical fraternity
and the public as one Of the brightest
minds Of the profession in the entire
southwest. 1t 10 conceded by the local
physicians that his wide medical knowl.
edge, his clear and mature judgment,
contributed much towards placing the
practice OF medicine IN Arizona on us
high n level as any in the country.
OF exceptional ability, his services
were ever In great demand. Broad in
his sympathies and charitable to q
fault, he was ut the service Of the rich
and poor alike. lie has not only rem.
dered his services FREQ to those in need,
but oftentimes has aelped the dis.
tressed in u financial way, even to his
last dollar. No death in the community
for long time has been no deeply and
generally regretted as his.
Surviving him are his wife and two
children, u son and daughter Of tender
years, his mother, Mrs. NJ. A. Barrett;
four sisters, Mary, Kate, Nellie and
Josephine, and four brothers, Emmett,
Joseph, Edward and Frank, all resi-.
dents OF San Francisco, the brothers
being prominent in business and pro.
fessional circles. His mother and sis
ter, Mary, arrived here q few days ago
and were with him when the end came.
His remains were taken In charge by
the RufYner undertaking establishment
to be prepared for shipment to Ban
Francisco for interment. The remains
Of his infant son, Jack, who died q fcw
years ago, will also be exhumed and
shipped TO San Francisco for reburiaI.
the funeral will take place Wednesday
morning at 7;lo O'Clock, from the un.
dertaking parIors ~ the Catholic
church, where services will be held.
The remains Of father and son will be
shipped ON the morning north. bound
rain. His relatives here will accom-.
pany the remains.