The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-06-09
DIR. SIMON BARUCH
DIES AT AGE OF 81
HAD VALUABLE CAREER IN THIS
STATE PRIOR TO GOING TO
NEW YORK IN 1881.

NEW YORK IN 1881.
Surrounded by the members of his
family, DR.. Simon Baruch died at his
HON in New York last Friday after
noon. He had been seriously i'll for a
north; an affection of the heart fol-
lowed an attack of pneumonia about a
year ago.
Although centuries old Spanish
blood flowed in his veins, and one of
his ancestors was a victim of the
1nquisition, DR.. Baruch was born on
July 20, 1910, at Schwersenz, Prussia,
in a country that, up to 1915, had
been liberty loving Poland, and is
again. He received his academic
training at the Royal Friedrich Viii
helm Gymnasium in Posen, and, COM
ing to the United States, pursued his
medical studies in Charleston, s. c.,
apd at the medical College Of Virginia.
Having been graduated in medicine
from the lattef Institution in March,
1862, he passed examination as Assis-
tant Surgeon in the Confederate Ar
my and so became the youngest in
years, of that rank in the forces of
the South.
Both sympathy and environment
easily persuaded DR.. Baruch to cast
his lot with the Confederacy, for he
was loyal always. When the United
States entered the war against Ger
many he wrote:
eff l did not stand ready to conse-
crate heart and soul and all that /
possess to the defense of my adopted
country, l would despise myself as a
scoundrel and perjurer and regard
myself as an migrate to the Govern
ment that has, for sixty years, en-
hanced and protected my life, honor
and happiness"
DR.. Baruch served in the field for
three years with Gen. Robert E. Lees
Army of Northern Virginia. He par
ticipated in many battles now his
toric, including South Mountain
where he was taken prisoner and
ordered to remain in the Union lines
in charge Of battlefield hospital
and Gettysburg, where he was again
taken prisoner and, again, wounded
Confederate prisoners were placed
in his carel
The war ended, DR.. Baruch entered
private practice in Camden, S. c., and
resided there from 1865 to 1881. Dur
ing this time he served as President
of the South Carolina Medical Asso-
citation and as chairman of the state
Board of Health. There stands in
Camden hospital erected eight years
ago in DR.. Baruch's honor.
His Domestic Life.
His life in South Carolina was
marked by the happiest event in all
his career. He met. wooed and won
Miss Isabel Wolfe Of Winnsboro, on
November 81, 1869. She is of an old
American family; her sons are the
fifth generation born in this country.
The devotion of husband and wife
grew stronger, if possible, with the
years it endured. The celebration OF
their golden wedding was attended
by a most distinguished company.
President Wilson signalized the occa-
sion by sending his congratulations
and huge basket of roses from the
White House Conservatives.
J His life companion represented for
DR.. Baruch woman, for whom he had
a most chivalrous admiration and
respect. But he had scant patience
with modern feminism, so called, least
of all with those militant women who
demanded the suffrage.
"Woman possesses some qualities
that are infinitely superior to mans"
DR.. Baruch had said. "What John
Brown could not accomplish with his
savage, masculine methods, Harriet
Beecher Stowe accomplished by her
feminine, noble and inspiring meth
ods. What all the skill and con-
structive capacity of the surgeons in
the Crimean war had failed to ac-
complish, Florence Nightingale ac-
complished by her beautiful feminini-
ty and nobility of soul.
"The great movements for the wei
fare of mankind are absolutely the
products of the feminine mii,d and
have failed to emanate from the mas
culine mind, showing the superiority
of the inscrutable germ plasm in the
feminine in this respect. But the germ
plasm of fenininity has never min
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