Dr. Enos S. Swain

Surgeon

5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment U.S.

 

Enos S. Swain, M. D., was born in 1836, near Charlestown, N. H., a son of Dr. John Swain and Mary E. Stevens. Dr.John Swain moved to Kentucky about 1840, and located at New Castle in Henry County, but after a year’s residence there moved to Ballardsville in Oldham County. Dr. Enos S. Swain was reared in Ballardsville, and educated at Centre College, Danville. After his literary course he began reading medicine with his father, and a year later, 1858, entered the Kentucky Medical School, from which he graduated in 1860. He then practiced for a year with Dr. S. W. Colman.

Dr. Swain mustered into the Fifth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (the Louisville Legion") as assistant surgeon on September 9,1861, and was appointed surgeon of the regiment on October 1, 1862.. After his return from the army in September, 1864, he attended the Bellevue Medical Hospital, N. Y. In the fall of 1865 he began practice at Smithfield. Dr. Swain was a member of the Presbyterian Church and of the Masonic fraternity. He owned about 260 acres of land. He married Bittie Michell of Henry County in November1868. The names of the children born to Dr. Enos S. Swain are Henry E., Enos M., John, Paul and Mary E. Politically Dr. Swain was a Republican.

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