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While watching Who Do You Think You Are TV show, Season 4, Episode 8, about Jim Parsons, I saw this man's name. Jim Parsons was exploring his 3rd great grandfather Hacker and had gone to Tulane University where he was shown a book of graduates of the Medical College of Louisana. There just below his ancestor was listed Jno M. Haden, from Mississippi, graduated in 1847 as the 131st graduate of the College. His younger half-brother Richard D. Haden, from Texas, had graduated in 1857.

Found in Historical Register & Dictionary of the US Army p.485 [www.ancestry.com]
John M. Haden, Mississippi. MS Asst. surgeon 13 Dec 1847; resigned 25 Apr 1861. Surgeon Confederate State Army 1861-1865.

Senate Executive Journal, Thursday, December 30, 1847
Appointments: Medical Department.
John M. Haden, of Mississippi, to be assistant surgeon, to fill an original vacancy, to rank from 13 Dec 1847.

1850 Census: Lewis Co, Territory of Oregon; p.57; household #103. John M. Haden, age 25, born in MS; Surgeon USA.

An Index to the U.S. Serial Set, 827, Senate Executive Document 96 suggests a report from Fort Steilacoom, Assistant Surgeon, J.M. Haden, p.478, which apparently reports on diseases occurring among the troops in Oregon & Washington Territories.

http://fortsteilacoom.com/
Historic Fort Steilacoom website has some of the following data. The U.S. Army founded Fort Steilacoom on Puget Sound in late August of 1849.
On October 29, 1855, Indians attacked several white settlers in response to the lopsided treaty of Medicine Creek signed the previous year. During the "Indian War" of 1855-56, the fort served as headquarters for the 9th Infantry Regiment. About 80 settlers stampeded from around the Sound to the fort for safety.
In 1861, the Civil War changed everything. Regular Army officers stationed at the fort chose their sides and some tendered their resignations to join seceding states. Fort Steilacoom was left to the territorial militia in 1861, while blue fought gray during the next four years in the east.
Fort Steilacoom was abandoned as a military post in 1868.

1860 Census. Ft. Bliss, El Paso Co, TX. El Paso P.O. Hh 189
Household of Lt. J. G. Whistler.
J. M. Hayden, age 35, Surgeon US A., b. Mississippi

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Vol 1]
Thirty-third Day - Tuesday, 27 Aug 1861
...Also a communication from the President, nominathing, for the advice and consent of Congress, in the Army of the Confederate States:
Medical Department: Surgeons
[included] John M. Haden, Mississippi
Ninth Day - Friday, Nov 29, 1861
Confederate States of America, War Department,
Richmond, November 27, 1861
Sire: I have the honor to recomment the following nominations for appointment in the Army of the Confederate Sates of America:
Medical Department.
[among others] John M. Haden, of Mississippi, to rank from March 16, 1861.

WAR of the REBELLION; Series 1, Vol.15; p.1121
Hdqrs. Dept of S. Miss & E. LA, Jackson MS, 26 Jun 1862
The major-general commanding announces the following-named officers as members of his staff .... Surg. John M. Haden, medical director .... Signed: Earl Van Dorn, Major-General

WAR of the REBELLION: Series 1, Vol 34 [Part II]; p.1882
General Orders: Hdqrs. Trans-Mississippi Dept; Shreveport LA 25 Mar 1864
Surg. John M. Haden, C. S. Army, is announced as chief of the Medical Bureau, Trans-Mississippi Department.

Senate Executive Journal - Monday, July 13, 1868
....graduates of the Military Academy for appointment in the Army of the United States, to rank from Jun 15, 1868:
Ordance Department
Eight Regiment of Cavalry:
Cadet William H. Coombs to be second lieutenant, vice Haden, resigned.

1870 Census. Galveston, Ward 2, Galveston Co TX. Hh 47
Jno M. Hadden, age 44, physician, b. MS
Sarah B., age 28, b. LA
Bessie, age 1, b. Texas
Several boarders were also in the household.

1880 Census. Galveston, Galveston Co TX. Page 2B, Hh 10, 270 East Broadway
John M. Haden, age 50, doctor, b. MS, father b. VA, mother b. GA
Sarah B., age 36, wife, b. LA, father b. GA, mother b. CT
Bessie, age 11, daughter, b. TX. John B., age 8, son, b. TX. Harry C., age 6, son, b. TX
Elizabeth Hughes, age 60, mother-in-law, b. CT, father b. England, mother b. CT
Four Black servants were also listed with the family.

Only a John Haden, born circa 1872, was found still in Galveston by 1900. He was probably the son listed above. He had a wife and two daughters.
John Haden, b. Aug 1872, age 28, married 4 years. b. Texas, father b. MS, mother b. LA. He was a physician.

Findagrave.com
Dr. John Miller Haden
b. 25 May 1825, Lowndes Co MS
d. 25 Oct 1892, Philadelphia, PA
Husband of Sarah Best Brannum
Buried Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, Tuesday, 1 Nov 1892, p.6
DR. HADEN DEAD
He Passed Away in Philadelphia Saturday.
Sketch of His Life.
Galveston, TX, Oct 31 - Dr. John M. Haden depareted this life at 1:40 am yesterday morning in Philadelphia, where he had been on a protracted visit to his sons, John and Harry, who are there studying medicine.
The deceased suffered a stroke of apoplexy about one week ago and lingered until death came as a happy relief at an early hour yesterday morning. His remains, accompanied by his sons, left Philadelphia yesterday and will reach here about Wednesday morning. Meanwhile a notice will be Published in The News informing his friends of the time and place of the funeral.... (story that follows is basically repeated next)

The Handbook of Texas
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/
HADEN, JOHN MILLER (1825-1892). John Miller Haden, physician, professor at the Medical Branch of the University of Texas (now the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston), and public-health specialist, son of Robert D. and Sarah (McGowen) Haden, Jr., was born on May 25, 1825, in Lowndes County, Mississippi. After attending Jackson College at Columbia, Tennessee, he graduated from La Grange College (Alabama) and in 1847 received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of the University of New Orleans. President James K. Polk commissioned him assistant surgeon in the United States Army in December 1847; Haden was assigned to duty under Gen. Winfield Scott and was with him at the fall of Veracruz. He remained in the army after the Mexican War as medical officer in the party that escorted the civil officials of Oregon Territory to their posts. When the Civil War began Haden was stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. He resigned his commission and entered the Confederate Army medical corps. In 1864 he became chief of the medical bureau of the Trans-Mississippi Department, the headquarters of which were at Marshall, Texas.
At the close of the war he went to Galveston and practiced medicine. In 1873, when the first board of trustees of the Medical Branch of the University of Texas appointed examiners for professorships at the new school, Haden was selected to teach materia medica and therapeutics. When yellow fever spread through many communities in the Gulf states in 1878, Haden, as president of the Galveston Board of Health, placed the city under such a strict quarantine that no case of yellow fever developed there even though thousands died in other places. Although the quarantine was very unpopular with some business people, the citizens of Galveston recognized Haden's contributions with a testimonial in 1880, when he retired from the health department.
On January 8, 1868, Dr. Haden married Sarah Best Brannum, daughter of Texas Navy officer William Thomas Brannum. The Hadens had three children. Haden died on October 25, 1892, in Philadelphia, where he had been visiting his sons, who were studying medicine there. Both Dr. and Mrs. Haden are buried in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery in Galveston.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Galveston Daily News, April 11, 1917. William Manning Morgan, Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Galveston (Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1954). William S. Speer and John H. Brown, eds., Encyclopedia of the New West (Marshall, Texas: United States Biographical Publishing, 1881; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978).
Mary Smith Fay

Birth	26 May 1825	Monroe County, Mississippi
Marriage	8 Jan 1868	Sarah Best Brannum
Death	25 Oct 1892	Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Spouse	Sarah Best Brannum (1839 - 1888)
Child	Elizabeth "Bessie" Haden (1869 - 1884)
Child	Dr. John Brannum Haden (1872 - 1931)
Child	Dr. Henry C. Haden (1873 - 1956)

Father	Hon. Robert Douglas Haden (1796 - 1879)
Mother	Sarah B. McGowan (1800 - 1830)
Sibling	Robert D. Haden III (1823 - )
Sibling	Mary Sophia "Sophie" Haden (1827 - 1886)