From Rick B
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
"St. Joseph Valley Register", Thursday, December 28, 1871, page 3
Dr. Ham's Counterfeit Presentment--An Excellent Portrait by a South Bend Artist.
Dr. L. J. Ham, of this city, recently received a notice from the President of the
Erie County Medical Society, of Buffalo, New York, that the society had passed a
resolution that life size, oil portraits of all the Ex-Presidents of the institution be
secured to hang in its hall, with the request that he should forward his, he having been
President of the Society some twenty years ago. Dr. Ham sat for his portrait in the
studio of Mr. J. H. Roberts, of this city, and the picture was finished last week and
forwarded to the Society. It is life size, represents the Doctor sitting at a table with
MSS upon it, a library of books to the right, and is a most excellent likeness of him.
The pose of the figure is easy and natural, the accessories are carefully studied and the
picture as a whole does credit to Mr. Roberts who has no superior in the West as a
portrait painter.
The painting which is on a canvas four by five feet, is mounted in an elegant gilt
frame, and will be opened at the annual meeting of the Society on Tuesday next.
It may be of interest to Dr. Ham's former associates in the Society to know that
he he is hale and hearty, in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice and good for many more
years of active life.