California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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BURT B. LAMKIN, M. D. � Prominent among the eminent physicians 
of Fresno County to whose scientific training and special scholarship much of 
the fame of Central California is undoubtedly due, may be mentioned Dr. Burt 
B. Lamkin, a member of the city Board of Health of Fresno. He is an ex- 
member of the Board of Medical Examiners for the U. S. Army in District 
No. 2, on which committee he served ably during the recent war, and a mem- 
ber of the Fresno County Medical Society, to the presidency of which he was 
elected in 1919. Making his way since he was fourteen years of age, and rising 
by undeniable merit, Dr. Lamkin is today famous for his treatment of the eye, 
ear, nose and throat, and as such a specialist enjoys prestige throughout the 
State. 

He was born at Woodland, Cal., on July 21, 1876, the son of G. C. 
Lamkin, a native of Nebraska, who married Miss Sally B. Burks in Missouri, 
and came to California about 1874. About 1882 or 1883, the lad's mother 
moved to Fresno, and here Burt grew up. When fourteen, he was engaged 
by Postmaster N. W. Moodey as a clerk in the Fresno Postoffice, and when he was 
eighteen, he began an eight-year service in the railway mail department. Dur- 
ing this time, having graduated from the Fresno High School, he matriculated 
at the Cooper Medical College at San Francisco; and there, while running 
with the mail trains, he began the study of medicine and surgery. It is not 
surprising that such resolute persistence enabled him to graduate with honors 
in 1902. 

Then he became an interne in a San Francisco hospital, where he served 
for a year. Returning to Fresno, where he had already had some experience 
as a member of the staff of the County Hospital, he opened offices in the 
Forsyth Building and began a general practice in medicine and surgery. At 
the end of six years, Dr. Lamkin went East and at the celebrated Chicago 
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, he took post-graduate work, and was 
house physician for six months. Coming back to Fresno again in 1910, to 
which city his fame as an aggressive young scientist had preceded him, he 
limited his practice to diseases of the eye. ear, nose and throat, in time moving 
into larger and better-appointed offices in the Rowell Building. 

On April 26, 1908, Dr. Lamkin was married at Academy, Cal., to Mrs. 
Annie Sample Tipton, an accomplished daughter of D. C. Sample, the promi- 
nent cattleman and banker mentioned elsewhere in this historical work, and 
built a handsome residence at 975 Yale Avenue. He belongs to the Fresno 
Commercial and University Clubs, and is one of the most popular of Scottish 
Rite Masons. 

Dr. Lamkin divides his time and energies between his patients and the 
work of the State and national medical associations, in whose programs he 
takes an active part. He takes a deep interest in both the civic and commer- 
cial progress of Fresno, and foresees great prosperity for Central California's 
metropolis.