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C. M. Sebastian, M. D., of Martin, Tenn., was born in Centerville, Tenn., March 16, 1850. His father, Dr. J. P. Sebastian possesses the tradition that his grandfather Sebastian came from Marseilles, France. The mother of our subject, Marcia Raymond Sebastian, is descended from a Scotch nobleman, the Earl Raymond. C. M. Sebastian began the study of medicine at seventeen years of age, and began practicing at the age of nineteen. When twenty years old he graduated from the University of Louisville, and has been noted for tireless industry in the profession, and has for ten years done the leading practice in Martin and vicinity. He has for several years been the medical examiner of the K. of H., of which he is a charter member. He is local surgeon to the Illinois Central Railroad, and in politics is an ardent Democrat, casting his first vote for Horace Greeley. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Chartie Montgomery, and they lived happily together for ten years. She died of Bright’s disease, March 22, 1881. The Doctor wedded Miss Jessie L. Warren, of Brookhaven, Miss., March 8, 1883, who was, at the time of her marriage, a member of the faculty of the Whitworth Female College. Dr. Sebastian has given much attention to society work, having taken a leading part in the organization of the West Tennessee Medical Society, and has been for many years a member of the West Kentucky Medical Society. He is the author of several papers on medical subjects which were read before the above societies, the following being an incomplete list of them: “Hot Tar Poultices in the Treatment of Croup and Diphtheria;” “Hay Fever Prevented by the Wearing of a Veil;” “The Nature and Treatment of Pneumonia;” “Typhoid Fever,” “Syphilis,” “Vaginismus,” “Surgical Notes”—comprising the history of three cases of amputation of the thigh—and “ Paracentesis Thoracis.”