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John Perkins Barratt

Greenwood County, South Carolina
· May 11, 1795 - September 29, 1859
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John Perkins Barratt was a physician, naturalist, versatile intellect, and agricultural leader who served as president of the Abbeville District Medical Society in 1835. A friend of Agassiz, Audubon, and other major scientists, he used his own advanced thinking to outline a theory of serial evolution and to foresee airplanes and trips to the moon. His home stood across this road.
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