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Ashley, William F.<\/sa>, a popular and successful physician of Shaw, was born in Holmes county. Miss., in January, 1866, his parents, William F.<\/al> and Elizabeth (Grace) Ashley<\/sa>, both being natives of that county. The son was educated in the common schools of his native county, and in 1889 graduated in the literary department of the University of Mississippi. In 1891 he entered the medical department of Tulane university at New Orleans, La., and after a course of lectures there served as interne in the Mississippi State charity hospital at Vicksburg for one year. He then took the examination prescribed by the State board of medical examiners and secured a license to practice. He located at Sidon, Leflore county, on the Yazoo river, where he practiced until 1899. In the fall of that year he reentered the medical department of Tulane university and graduated on May 1, 1901, standing high in his class and receiving the compliments of the faculty on his graduating thesis, which was upon the subject of \u201cMalarial Haematuria.\" In 1902 he went to Naples, Tex., on account of failing health, and practiced there for about a year, locating at Shaw in the fall of 1903. Here he has been in constant practice since and has built up a successful business, many of the best people of the locality being among his patients. Dr. Ashley is a close student of current medical literature and keeps in touch with all the recent discoveries and remedies of the medical profession. It is no disparagement to his brother physicians to say that none are more progressive in their ideas, or more earnest and conscientious in the discharge of their professional duties than he. Although an ardent Democrat in his political opinions he has never sought or held office, with the exception that he was appointed by the board of aldermen of Shaw as city health officer, and this came to him unsolicited. He is a member of the Bolivar county medical society and Mississippi State medical association, and is the examiner for a half dozen or more of the leading life insurance companies. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. On Feb. 27, 1897, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida<\/sa>, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Jones, both of whom are natives of Holmes county, Miss. Two daughters have been born to this union, Lucile<\/sa> and Marie Elizabeth<\/sa>, both at home with their parents. Mrs. Ashley is a member of the Baptist church."},{"bio_id":2,"bio_name":"Beall, Brook","bio_title":"Brook Beall","bio_source":"The Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, 1889","bio_page":"59","bio_text":"

BROOK BEALL<\/sa> was born in Holmes county, Mississippi, August 16, 1830. His father, Josiah Beall<\/sa>, was a native of Cobb county, Georgia, was born in 1805, and when a small boy was taken by his parents to Mississippi, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1887. He was a farmer and never gave his attention to public affairs. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Dent<\/sa>, a daughter of Thomas Dent, was born in Carroll county, Georgia, and died in 1877.<\/p>\r\n

Brook Beall, the subject of this brief memoir, received his early training at the district school near his home in Mississippi. He lived in that State until coming to Texas in 1862. He enlisted in 1862 in Company C, under Captain Dougherty, De Moss' Regiment, Confederate Army, and served two years, when he was discharged. In 1851 he married Miss Angelina<\/sa>, a daughter of Archibald Green. Angelina Green was born January 5, 1837. They now have one child, named Thomas D.<\/sa> Mr. Beall owns 320 acres of land, mostly under cultivation.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":3,"bio_name":"Cole, William Qualls","bio_title":"William Qualls Cole","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"145","bio_text":"

Cole, William Qualls<\/sa>, of Water Valley, Miss., was born June 28, 1856, at Woodlawn Plantation, Holmes county, Miss., the son of William Ferguson Cole<\/al> and Aurelia Quallf (Walton) Cole<\/al>. His father was a native of Prince Edward county, Va., and settled in Mississippi in 1843. Mr. Cole attended the public schools of Lexington under the instruction of John L. Dyson, and obtained a practical education in bookkeeping and accounting under the tutorship of his father, W. F. Cole. He was a practical printer from 1870 to 1878. He entered the service of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans railroad (now Illinois Central) in 1878; was appointed traveling auditor for the Illinois Central railroad in 1883 from which position he resigned Jan. 1, 1898. He was a member of the Water Valley city council from 1894 to 1898; was elected auditor of public accounts in November, 1899, for the term beginning Jan. 15, 1900, and ending Jan. 18, 1904. He became ex-othcio insurance commissioner upon the creation of the department, March 5, 1902, and was elected insurance commissioner by the people, Nov. 3, 1903. He is the author of the insurance law of Mississippi, and was instrumental in the establishment of a department of the State government devoted to insurance. Mr. Cole is a member of the First Methodist church of Jackson, Miss., and a member of the fraternal orders of Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, Elks, and Knights and Ladies of Honor. On Dec. 13, 1882, at Water Valley, Miss., Mr. Cole was married to Miss Alice May West<\/sa>, daughter of Thomas Jefferson West. Mrs. Cole is a descendant of Rev. John Prewitt Boydston, a pioneer Methodist minister of north Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Cole have four children: William West<\/sa>, Alice Williams<\/sa>, George Welling<\/sa> and Wilfred Qualls<\/sa>.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":4,"bio_name":"Cook, Sam C.","bio_title":"Sam C. Cook","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"158","bio_text":"

Cook, Sam C.<\/sa>, of Clarksdale, the able and popular judge of the circuit court of the eleventh district and recognized as one of the leading members of the bar of Coahoma county, was born in Oxford, Lafayette county. Miss., July 13, 1855, and is a son of Milas J.<\/sa> and Martha (Bumpass) Cook<\/sa>, both natives of North Carolina. Judge Cook was graduated in the law department of the University of Mississippi as a member of the class of 1818, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws and being duly admitted to the bar of his native State. He began the practice of his profession in Holmes county, where he remained about one year, having removed to Batesville, Panola county, in 1880, and having there been successfully established in the practice of law until 1888, when he located in Clarksdale, where he soon built up a large and representative professional business. In 1886 he represented Panola county in the State legislature, and in 1890, 1892 and 1894 he represented Coahoma county in the same body, proving an able and active member of the legislative body. Judge Cook held the position of attorney for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board from 1900 to 1902 and was chairman of the judiciary committee of the house, sessions 1892 and 1894. In 1902 he was appointed to the bench of the circuit court of the eleventh judicial district, and he has since served in this capacity, being reappointed in 1906, gaining uniform commendation for his careful and discriminating discharge of his judicial duties. Few of his opinions or decisions have been reversed and he shows the true judicial acumen, fortified by broad and exact knowledge of the law. He is a stanch supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. On Oct. 25, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Cook to Miss Elizabeth Murphy<\/sa>, daughter of Dr. Charles T. and Ann Eliza (Harrington) Murphy, of Durant, Holmes county, and the four children of this union are: Charles<\/sa>, Edwin<\/sa>, Marjorie<\/sa> and Sam, Jr.<\/sa>"},{"bio_id":5,"bio_name":"Eskridge, William Scott","bio_title":"William Scott Eskridge","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"226","bio_text":"

Eskridge, William Scott<\/fg>, who is living practically retired on his fine plantation, near Charleston, may consistently be designated as the Nestor of the bar of Tallahatchie county, where he was actively and successfully engaged in practice for nearly a half century, and he is now enjoying that otium cum digiiitatc<\/em> which is the just reward for years of earnest, fruitful and worthy endeavor. Mr. Eskridge has passed the age of four score years but his mental powers are unimpaired and his physical prowess would be creditable to a man many years his junior. To him is accorded unequivocal confidence and esteem and it is consonant that a brief review of his career be entered in this work. He was born in Albemarle county, Va., Jan. 15, 1825, and is a son of James Wood Eskridge<\/sa>, who was born at Winchester, that State, May 26, 1797, and of Jane Jefferson (Peyton) Eskridge<\/sa>, who was native of Albemarle county, both families having early been established in the historic Old Dominion. James W. Eskridge continued his residence in Virginia until 1834, in October of which year he removed with his family to Mississippi and located at old Shongelo, Carroll county, one mile west of the present thriving town of Vaiden. There he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, also operating a large plantation, until 1845, when he removed to Lexington, Holmes county, where he was engaged in the hotel business for the following decade. He passed the closing years of his life in the home of his son William S., of this review, near Charleston, where he died April 2, 1882, his cherished and devoted wife having preceded him into eternal rest. Both were earnest and consistent members of the Presbyterian church and they made their lives count for good in all relations. William S. Eskridge was afforded the advantages of the excellent academy formerly conducted in the vicinity of Shongelo, in Carroll county, where the late General George was his classmate for five years. At Lexington, this State, he read law under the preceptorship of Walker Brooke, an able and very successful member of the bar of Holmes county, and he thoroughly fortified himself in the science of jurisprudence, being duly admitted to the bar. In February, 1847, he initiated the practice of his profession, in Greensboro, Miss., and from that time forward to the present he has never entirely withdrawn from the work of the profession, in which he has attained to so high a prestige and success. For four years he was located in Coffeeville, Yalobusha county, and Dec. 27, 1855, he took up his professional work in Charleston, near which thriving little city he now owns a fine plantation, which has long been his home. He became one of the most influential members of the bar of Tallahatchie county and at Charleston, the county seat, built up a large and representative practice, having for many years been concerned in much of the important litigation in the courts of that section of the State. Within recent years he has lived semi-retired, and since 1867 he has been successfully identified with agricultural pursuits, his homestead plantation, near Charleston, being one of the model places of the county and one whose attractions he fully enjoys in the declining years of his long, honorable and useful life. Mr. Eskridge manifested the most insistent loyalty to the Confederacy when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. In 1861 he enlisted for service in the cause, having personally organized the Tillatoba Grays, a company in Pinson\u2019s regiment, First Mississippi cavalry, and later he organized a second cavalry company, which was assigned to Ballentine\u2019s regiment, Armstrong\u2019s brigade, in Gen. W. H. Jackson\u2019s division of the Western Army. He was made captain of this company, known as Company I, and continued in active service with his command until the close of the war, having taken part in the battle of Shiloh, the spirited engagement at Coffeeville and in many other conflicts marking the progress of the war. He has given an inviolable allegiance to the Democratic party, of whose principles he has been an effective exponent. He was a member of the lower house of the State legislature from 1861 to 1864, inclusive, during the critical period of the war, and again became a member of the same body in 1886. He was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1890, and has ever shown a lively interest in all that touches the material, civic and political welfare of his home city, county and State. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the United Confederate Veterans, and for many years has been a member of the Presbyterian church, with which his wife also was prominently identified. On March 29, 1848, was solemnized the marriage of Captain Eskridge to Adeliza Deolva Platner<\/fg>, daughter of Seth C. and Emily (Frazier) Platner, of Choctaw county, and of the six children of this union five died in infancy. The only living child, Addie S.<\/sa>, is the wife of Carter J. Robinson, and they reside on the old homestead plantation with her father. Mrs. Eskridge, a woman of noble and gracious character, remained as the devoted companion and helpmeet of her husband for more than half a century and was summoned to the life eternal July 6, 1902. Her gentle consideration and sympathy gained to her the affectionate regard of all who came within her sphere of influence.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":6,"bio_name":"Foster, Thomas Walter, M.D.","bio_title":"Dr. Thomas Walter Foster","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"253","bio_text":"

Foster, Thomas Walter, M. D.<\/al>, a leading physician of Tchula, was born near Canton, Madison county, Miss., Jan. 18, 1852, a son of John M.<\/sa> and Emily (Jones) Foster<\/sa>. The father was born in Franklin county in October, 1825, and the mother near Terry, in Hinds county, in 1832. The paternal grandfather, John A. Foster, was one of those who fell in the Alamo in the thirties. Dr. Foster, the subject of this sketch, was the recipient of what educational advantages the schools of Madison county offered. During the Civil war he found employment in a foundry in Alabama making arms for the Confederate cause. In 1874 he was graduated at the University of Mississippi with a degree in chemistry and two years later received a degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Louisville, Ky. He located first near Canton, in Madison county, and remained there until 1883 and then taking a course of lectures at Tulane medical college, in New Orleans, La., moved to Yazoo county. In 1900 he came to Tchula and has since been most successful in the practice of his profession in that city. In political matters the doctor is a most ardent Democrat, but aside from filling an appointive position, he has never held office. Fraternally he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Honor, the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and Woodmen of the World. In a professional affiliation he is identified with the Holmes county, the Mississippi State and the American medical associations. On Oct. 11, 1876, was solemnized Dr. Foster\u2019s marriage to Miss Augusta A. Thompson<\/sa>, daughter of L. P. and Caroline (Davis) Thompson, of Madison county, Miss. To this union nine children have been born. John M.<\/sa>, the eldest, died at the age of twenty-five years. Margaret B.<\/sa>, the first daughter, is a graduate of the Industrial institute and college at Columbus, Miss., also a graduate of Scarritt bible training school at Kansas City, Mo., and is now a student in a medical college in Philadelphia. She has been elected president of her class, and when she completes her studies she expects to go to Soochow, China, as a medical missionary. The other children are: Carrie L.<\/sa>, Tommie A.<\/sa>, Spivey V.<\/sa>, Cordell L.<\/sa>, Rebekah Mhoon<\/sa>, Roy<\/sa> and Otis C.<\/sa> The family are all members of and devout workers in the Methodist Episcopal church of Tchula. Dr. Foster is recognized by the members of his profession and his fellow townsmen as one of the most substantial and valuable citizens of the community.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":7,"bio_name":"Gordon, William Scott","bio_title":"William Scott Gordon","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"300","bio_text":"

Gordon, William Scott<\/al>, of Pickens, is one of the sons of the South who have shown that enterprise and ability which have brought about its rejuvenation since the close of the War between the States and through his personal efforts he has gained a success of noteworthy order, having been in the most significant sense the architect of his own fortunes. He is the president of the Bank of Pickens, the oldest in Holmes county, and has other important business and capitalistic interests. He was born at Pickens, his present home, Feb. 14, 1856, and is a son of John F. and Mary E. (McEachern) Gordon, both of whom were likewise born and reared in this State. The father died in 1860 and the mother now lives in the city of Jackson. After the death of her first husband she married Peter James, who is now deceased. Two children were born of the first union and three of the second, and of the number the only two living are the subject of this sketch and his half-brother, Thomas W. James, who is a prosperous planter of Holmes county. The original representatives of the Gordon family in Mississippi came hither from North Carolina. The subject of this sketch secured his education in the common schools of Pickens, Centenary college, at Jackson, La., and Emory and Henry college, Emory, Va. In 1874 he became a salesman in the mercantile establishment of St. John Pope, of Pickens, and in the following year was promoted to the position of bookkeeper. In 1880 he engaged in business for himself, becoming associated with S. L. James and establishing a general merchandise business in Pickens. The enterprise grew to be one of the most important of the sort in the county and he is still a member of the firm. In 1888 Mr. Gordon was one of the organizers of the Bank of Pickens, of which he was cashier until 1890, when lie was elected its president, a position of which he still remains incumbent. The bank was originally incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000, and in 1890 the stock was increased to $30,000, Mr. Gordon now having a controlling interest. From its inception the bank has never failed to pay annual dividends of ten per cent, and in 1903 a forty per cent, dividend was paid. Loans are made largely to planters, and the bank has never yet foreclosed on a mortgage. With ample capital and conservative management the institution has taken rank among the most popular and substantial banks of this part of the State. Mr. Gordon is a director of the Yazoo Bank and Trust Company and a stockholder in the Citizens\u2019 Bank of Hattiesburg. He is manager of the Pickens Cotton Oil Company, is the owner of valuable plantation property and buys and ships annually about 5.000 bales of cotton. He is held in unqualified esteem in the community and has been the administrator of a large number of estates and guardian of minor children. He is progressive as a business man and public-spirited and loyal as a citizen. He is independent in his political attitude and has never sought or held public office. In a fraternal way he is identified with the Knights of Pvthias. In 1885 Mr. Gordon was united in marriage to Miss Ella Beamon<\/sa>, daughter of Nathan P. Beamon, of Kosciusko, Miss., and she died a few years later, leaving no children. In 1895 Mr. Gordon married Miss Lelia Beamon<\/sa>, a sister of his first wife, and they have one child, Rudolph<\/sa>.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":8,"bio_name":"Gresham, William F., M.D.","bio_title":"Dr. William F. Gresham","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"303","bio_text":"\"William\r\n

Gresham, William F.<\/al>, a prominent physician of Durant, was born at Ebenezer, Miss., July 19, 1851. His paternal grandfather, William Gresham, was a pioneer planter of Yazoo county, where the father, Rufus R. Gresham<\/sa>, was born. The latter was a physician who graduated at the University of Louisville about 1851 and practiced his profession at Ebenezer, Holmes county, until his death. Three of the father\u2019s brothers. R. R., S. H. and Harrison, served in the Confederate army until the close of the Civil war. The mother was formerly Miss Salina Shipp<\/sa>, a native of Holmes county. The subject of this sketch received preliminary educational advantages in the common schools of Ebenezer, the Birkhead school at Yazoo and the Bingham school then at Mebane, now at Asheville, N. C. In 1876 he was graduated at the Louisville Medical college of Louisville, Ky., with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He located first at Vaiden, in Carroll county, and then was at West, in Holmes county, for a year. Just after his marriage he removed to Durant, and has since been most successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. In politics he is a firm believer in the principles of the Democratic party, but has never held nor aspired to office. Fraternally the doctor is identified with the order of Masons and the Knights of Pythias, and professionally with the Holmes county and the Mississippi State medical societies. On Nov. 15, 1881, Dr. Gresham was united in marriage to Miss Belle King<\/al>, daughter of William A. and Eliza (Shipp) King, living near Durant. To this union were born four children\u2014Harvey<\/sa>, Salina<\/sa>, who is a graduate of Grenada college, Eliza<\/sa> and Mary Powell<\/sa>. On Sept. 14, 1899, some time after death had severed the first union, Dr. Gresham led to the altar Miss Lelah Landfair<\/al>, a native of Holmes county. Two sons have blessed this marriage\u2014William F. Jr.<\/sa>, and Paul<\/sa>. The family are all communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church of Durant, of which the doctor was for many years a trustee.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":9,"bio_name":"Gwin, Samuel Donnell","bio_title":"Samuel Donnell Gwin","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"306","bio_text":"\"Samuel\r\n

Gwin, Samuel Donnell<\/al>, is one of the leading business men and influential citizens of Holmes county and he now maintains his residence in the city of Lexington, the county seat, though his principal interests center in the town of Tchula. He is a native of the county which is now his home and represented the same as a valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the States. He was born in Holmes county, Nov. 18, 1842, and is a son of James N.<\/sa> and Susannah Van Houten (Davis) Gwin<\/sa>, the former of whom was born in Tennessee and the latter in Holmes county, Miss. The earlier education of Mr. Gwin was received in the schools of his native county and he then entered the University of Mississippi where he remained as a student until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he at once withdrew to go forth in defense of the cause of the Confederacy. In 1861 he enlisted in the Eighteenth Mississippi infantry, with which he served during the first year of the war, his regiment having been a part of the Army of Virginia. After the expiration of his original term he enlisted in Company A\u201e Thirty-eighth Mississippi infantry, in which he was promoted to a lieutenancy and with which he continued in active service until the close of the war. He participated in many sanguinary engagements, among which may be mentioned Leesburg, Chickamauga, Corinth, Iuka and Harrisburg. At the close of the great struggle he returned to Holmes county and bravely assumed his part in rebuilding the prostrate industries of the State. He engaged in farming and merchandising and remained on his plantation until 1878, when he located in the village of Tchula, where he has since conducted a successful general merchandise business, also having extensive plantation interests in the county and being a large cotton grower. In 1897 he was one of the organizers of the Bank of Tchula, of which he has since continued president. During Governor McLaurin\u2019s administration he was appointed treasurer of the county to succeed John T. Walton, and he gave a most able administration of the fiscal affairs of the county, having taken up his residence in Lexington at the time of assuming the duties of the office. He is a stalwart in the camp of the Democratic party, and is affiliated with the United Confederate Veterans, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Honor, and the Delta Psi college fraternity. In May, 1865, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gwin to Miss Martha R. Durden<\/al>, daughter of John A. and Matilda (Seltzer) Durden, of Warren county. The children of this union are as follows: John D.<\/sa>, who married Annie Kelly; Rosa<\/sa>, who is the wife of James B. Hutton and who has five children; John E.<\/sa>, who married Maylie Wyett and who has one son; Walter P., who married Mary T. Wolfe and who has two children; and William W.<\/sa> and Mary S.<\/sa>, who remain at the parental home. Mr. Gwin\u2019s influence is always on the side of progress and he is esteemed as one of the substantial and worthy citizens of the county which has ever been his home.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":10,"bio_name":"Hamilton, Joel G.","bio_title":"Joel G. Hamilton","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"364","bio_text":"\"Joel\r\n

Hamilton, Joel G.<\/al>, a retired citizen of Durant, was born March 27, 1834, in Holmes county near Durant. He is a son of John<\/sa> and Sarah (McGraw) Hamilton<\/sa>, both natives of Abbeville, S. C., the former born in 1796 and the latter in 1798. The grandfathers were Alexander Hamilton, of Scotch descent, and Nathan McGraw, whose ancestors hailed from the Emerald Isle. Both were participants in the Revolutionary war as members of the Continental army, McGraw serving as a major and Hamilton as a captain. Both families moved from South Carolina at an early date to Humphreys county, Tenn., where they located on Duck river. After twenty-three years they went to Pike county, Miss., and ten years later John and Sarah (McGraw) Hamilton settled in Holmes county. It was here that Joel G. Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, was born. His early education was such as afforded by the common schools of the time, a rather limited training as it was frequently necessary to go many miles to attend the sessions. Later, academies and colleges were established in different portions of the State, among the latter an institution at Sharon, Madison county. At the head of it was Dr. T. C. Thornton, a man of fine scholarly attainments and great executive ability, who was assisted by an able corps of instructors, and at this institution young Hamilton took two years of scholastic work, leaving to matriculate at Emory and Henry college at Emory, Va. At the end of three years, in 1859, he graduated and returned to Durant. There for two years he was engaged in pedagogic work. On Jan. 9, 1861, Mississippi withdrew from the Union by the adoption of the act of secession and the somber cloud of war which had already appeared on the horizon of national unity daily became larger and darker. Mr. Hamilton enlisted early in the struggle in the Nelson Grays, an organization which eventually became Company G of the Fourth Mississippi infantry, of the Confederate army. The regiment was brigaded at Grenada and ordered from there to Union City, Tenn., whence it was moved to become a part of the garrison of Fort Henry on the Tennessee river. After Foote with his gunboats had forced a passage past the batteries of the fort on Feb. 6, 1862, the Fourth Mississippi with the rest of the infantry retreated to Fort Donelson and there fought with distinction until the surrender of that post to General Grant. The prisoners were placed on transports and sent to St. Louis, and after two days in which the transports were anchored in the middle of the river, the commissioned officers were sent to Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, and the others to Indianapolis, Ind. Subsequently the officers were removed to Johnson\u2019s island in Lake Erie, and were there confined for a period of eight months. At the end of that time an exchange of prisoners was agreed upon and the Confederates were taken to Vicksburg, where the exchange was consummated. On the passage down the Mississippi river many of the prisoners succumbed to exposure and disease incurred by the drinking of river water and by the excessive heat. Upon returning to the confederate service Lieutenant Hamilton entered a different branch, becoming identified with Wofford\u2019s battery, a company of Withers First Mississippi light artillery. He participated in the battle of Champion\u2019s Hill or Baker\u2019s Creek and two days later, when Grant had invested Vicksburg, he was made adjutant, by appointment, of Baldwin\u2019s brigade and served in that capacity throughout the forty-seven days and nights of the investment. All the hardships of that memorable struggle about Vicksburg\u2014excessive heat, scant rations of mule meat and ground peas, drinking water from the river\u2014were borne by Adjutant Hamilton with the same fortitude and cheerfulness that characterized the remainder of the beleaguered army and made it possible for them to hold out for so long a period as they did. On the first day of the bombardment his horse was shot from under him and this was but an incident of the many which befell. When Vicksburg fell his battery was sent to the parole camp at Enterprise and there remained until his exchange was effected. Then he went to Mobile, and shortly after arriving there was chosen junior first lieutenant of Wofford\u2019s battery. He was given charge of a picket boat used in guarding the inlets and bayous of Mobile Bay, and subsequently was placed in command of a battery situated in the main channel leading to the city. There he remained until the surrender of Lee and Johnston blasted the hopes of a Southern Confederacy. After the cessation of hostilities he returned to his home and with others put his best endeavors into the rebuilding of the wrecked homes, restoring desolated farms and the re-establishment of civil government. In the re-adjustment of these affairs he was always prominent, especially in the organization and establishment of a new free school system made necessary by changed conditions, having been appointed a school director soon after the close of the great internal struggle. For more than half a century he has been a zealous and influential member of the Methodist church, South, and has served for many years as a lay delegate to the conferences of his church. The North Mississippi conference selected him as its delegate to the great missionary convention held in New Orleans in 1901 and in 1906 he served in a like capacity at the general Methodist conference at Birmingham, Ala. He has always given unqualified allegiance to the Democratic party and has had numerous honors conferred upon him by that party. For twelve years he was an able and influential member of the upper house of the State legislature and in 1872 was one of Mississippi\u2019s delegates at the national Democratic convention at Cincinnati. Ohio, which nominated Horace Greeley for president of the United States. In 1890 he was one of the delegates to the Mississippi State Constitutional convention. On Jan. 9, 1861, the day on which Mississippi withdrew from the Union, Mr. Hamilton was united in marriage to Miss Emma Victoria Lockhart<\/al>, a daughter of Thomas and Minerva Lockhart. After an active, useful career Mr. Hamilton has retired from participation in business and now makes his home amid the scenes of his usefulness, respected and honored by all and crowned by the glory of an unsullied life.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":11,"bio_name":"Hooker, Henry S., Jr.","bio_title":"Henry S. Hooker, Jr.","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"395","bio_text":"\"Henry\r\n

Hooker, Henry S., Jr.<\/al>, senior member of the legal firm of Hooker & McBee of Lexington, was born at Lexington, Dec. 22. 1878. a son of H. S. Hooker, Sr.<\/sa>, and Mary Ella (Bell) Hooker<\/sa>. He received early educational advantages in the public schools of Lexington, and upon the completion of his labors there he matriculated in the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. In 1900 he was given a degree of Bachelor of Laws by the faculty of that institution and located at once at Vicksburg, where he embarked in his profession. In May, 1902, he returned to Lexington and formed a partnership with R. C. McBee, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. The clientage of the firm has increased from year to year until now it is among the best in the county. Mr. Hooker\u2019s political relations are Democratic and as the candidate of that party he has twice been elected to fill offices of public trust. The first honor of the kind was his election to the office of mayor of Lexington and the other was his elevation to the office of representative of his district in the lower branch of the Mississippi legislature. Fraternally Mr. Hooker is widely and popularly known. While at college he became a member of Delta Psi fraternity and is now actively identified with the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias (of which he is a past chancellor), the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Free and Accepted Masons. On Dec. 16, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Wille Evelyn Baldwin<\/al>, a daughter of W. O. and Lucy (Whitney) Baldwin of Canton. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Hooker are devout and conscientious members and attendants of the Baptist and Episcopalian churches, respectively.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":12,"bio_name":"Hughston, Sanford R.","bio_title":"Sanford R. Hughston","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"360","bio_text":"

Hughston, Sanford R.<\/fg>, a representative attorney and counselor-at-law at Ackerman, where he is associated in practice with J. Lem Seawright, under the firm name of Hughston & Seawright, has been a member of the bar of Choctaw county since 1879 and has been admirably successful in his professional endeavors. He was born in Emory, Holmes county, Miss., Aug. 10, 18581<\/sup>, and is a son of John P.<\/sa> and Emaline (Burkhead) Hughston<\/sa>, the former of whom was born in Tennessee and the latter in Pike county, Miss. The father was a soldier of the Confederacy, having served four years as a member of a Mississippi regiment during the great civil conflict. Sandford R. Hughston completed the curriculum of the high school at French Camp, Choctaw county, and later attended the literary department of the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, while he was graduated in the law school of this institution as a member of the class of 1878, receiving his well earned degree of Bachelor of Laws and being duly admitted to the bar of his native State. He has been engaged in practice of a general order ever since his graduation, and Choctaw and the surrounding counties have been the scene of his professional labors. He has been associated with Mr. Seawright since 1903. In 1880 Mr. Hughston was appointed county superintendent of public education, serving two years and giving a most discriminating and able administration. In 1884 he was elected to represent Choctaw county in the State legislature, in which he served one term. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he was chairman of the Democratic central committee of the county for several years. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian church. On Dec. 22, 1886, Mr. Hughston was married to Miss Ada Amason<\/fg>, daughter of Edward D. and Mary (Rogers) Amason, and they have two children\u2014Mary Emma<\/sa> and Sandford Rogers<\/sa>.<\/p>\r\n
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1<\/strong> - his tombstone marker shows his birthdate as Aug 12, 1857.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":13,"bio_name":"Johnson, Eugene Joseph, M. D.","bio_title":"Dr. Eugene Joseph Johnson","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"406","bio_text":"

Johnson, Eugene Joseph, M. D.<\/sa>, is one of the able and successful representatives of the medical profession in Yazoo City, where he has an excellent practice as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Johnson was born in Tchula, Holmes county, Miss., July 13, 1875, and is a son of Joseph Eugene<\/sa> and Pallie (Bradley) Johnson<\/sa>, the former of whom was likewise born in Tchula and the latter of whom was born in Clinton, Hinds county. The father was a loyal soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil war, having served in the Thirty-second Mississippi infantry. Dr. Johnson\u2019s earlier educational training was gained in the public schools of Holmes and Yazoo counties, and in preparing for the work of his chosen profession he entered the Memphis Hospital medical college, in Memphis, Tenn., where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated, as a member of the class of 1897, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Holding as demanded only the most extended knowledge of his profession possible to attain, he later took effective post-graduate work in the celebrated Rush medical college, in the city of Chicago, and also in the medical school at Rochester, Minn. After his graduation Dr. Johnson located in Evans, Yazoo county, where he remained six months, at the expiration of which he removed to Eden, same county, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession four years, since which time he has followed his professional work in Yazoo City, where his ability has gained him distinctive prestige and where he has attained to marked personal popularity. He is surgeon in chief of the Yazoo sanitarium, is examiner for several insurance companies and is local surgeon for the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad, having also rendered effective service as health officer of the county. He is a member of the American medical association, the Mississippi State medical association and the American railway surgeons\u2019 association. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, and Woodmen of the World, having attained to the Knight Templar degree in the first named order. On April 2, 1897, Dr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Anna Yowell<\/sa>, daughter of Captain Yowell, a prominent citizen of Leflore county, and they have three children, Pallie<\/sa>, Mary J.<\/sa> and Eugenia<\/sa>.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":14,"bio_name":"Jones, William B.","bio_title":"William B. Jones","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"426","bio_text":"

Jones, William B.<\/al>, is a representative business man of Holmes county and is now cashier of the Bank of Tchula, of which he is also a leading stockholder. He is a member of one of the old and honored families of this county, where he was born Jan. 8, 1849. and is a son of Henry K.<\/al> and Seignora (Archer) Jones<\/sa>, both of whom were native of the State of Virginia. Both families were early founded in the Old Dominion State, where they were prominent and influential in the colonial days as well as after the Revolution, in which various representatives took part. The father of the subject of this review became one of the successful and influential planters of Holmes county, Miss., and here he and his wife continued to reside until their death. William B. Jones was afforded the advantages of the common schools of Holmes county and was reared to maturity on the home plantation. In 1865 he took a position as clerk in a mercantile establishment and he continued to be thus engaged until 1870. He then engaged in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibility, in this county, and he built up a large and prosperous business. He continued to be actively identified with the same until 1897, when he disposed of the business and assumed the office of cashier of the Bank of Tchula, of which he was one of the organizers. He has been liberal and progressive as a business man and as a citizen, and has ever commanded the confidence and esteem of the people of his native county. In political matters he is found arrayed as a loyal supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party; he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church. On April 3, 1872, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Mary G. Meade<\/al>, daughter of Richard E. and Fanny F. (Smith) Meade, of Holmes county. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones were born nine children, namely: William B. Jr.<\/sa>, Virginia M.<\/sa>, Henry K.<\/sa>, Seignora B.<\/sa>, Charles J.<\/sa>, James M.<\/sa>, Anna S.<\/sa>, Frank A.<\/sa>, and Letchford G.<\/sa> William B., Jr., married Anna F. Jones and they have one son, William B. (3d); Virginia M. is deceased; Henry K. married Louisa Poursine and they have one son. Robert S.; Seignora B. is the wife of Dr. Oliver H. Swayze, of Yazoo City; Anna S. is deceased. The wife of the subject of this review is a direct descendant of Col. Thomas Tabb and Gen. Everard Meade, both of whom were gallant soldiers in the Continental army during the War of the Revolution. Thomas Tabb was born in Amelia county, Va., Feb. 27, 1710, and he became one of the richest planters and merchants of the colony and one of its influential citizens. He was representative of Amelia county in the house of burgesses from 1748 until his death. He took part in the early colonial wars and rose to the rank of colonel. He married Rebecca Booker, and their daughter, Mary Marshall Tabb, married Robert Bolling. Of this latter union was born Thomas Tabb Bolling, who married Seignora Peyton; their daughter, Frances Cook Bolling, married Richard Everard Meade, and they had a son, Richard Everard, Jr., who married Fanny F. Smith. Richard E. and Fanny F. (Smith) Meade became the parents of Mary Gordon Meade, wife of the subject of this review. Everard Meade, great\u00acgreat-grandfather of Mrs. Jones, entered the Continental service at the opening of the War of the Revolution. On March 8, 1876, he received his commission as captain in the Second Virginia battalion, and was afterward promoted to the rank of general, continuing in active service until the cause of independence was won. He signalized his zeal and patriotism by exhausting his patrimony in defraying the expenses and assuming the payment of the troops under his command. General Meade married Mary Thornton, and their son, Richard Everard, married Fanny C. Bolling. Richard E. (3d) a son of this couple, married Fanny F. Smith and they became the parents of Mrs. Jones, wife of him to whom this article is dedicated.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":15,"bio_name":"Jordan, Jason Walter, M.D.","bio_title":"Dr. Jason Walter Jordan","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"421","bio_text":"\"Jason\r\n

Jordan, Jason Walter, M. D.<\/al>, county physician for Holmes county for twelve years and still a leading member of his profession in Lexington, was born in Holmes county, Miss., on June 11, 1857, a son of Francis Asbury<\/sa> and Martha Elizabeth (Mozart) Jordan<\/sa>. The father was born at Huntsville, Ala., on Dec. 25, 1824, and the mother at Petersburg, Va., in June, 1839. A family tradition maintains that the original Jordans to come to this country were from the north of Ireland and settled in Virginia. Although no record has been preserved some members of the family undoubtedly participated in the Revolutionary war as soldiers of the Continental army. Francis Asbury Jordan was a member of a Mississippi infantry regiment in the Confederate army in the great internal struggle of the sixties, and when the organization to which he belonged reached Corinth he was discharged because of ill health. He walked barefoot from Corinth to Lauderdale Springs through snow and suffered terribly from frost bitten feet. Dr. Jordan, after due preliminary discipline in the Yazoo district high school at Black Hawk, matriculated in the medical department of the University of Louisville, Ky., and on Feb. 25, 1881, was graduated at that institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine and has since taken a post graduate course in the medical department of Tulane university at New Orleans, La. He did not enter into the active practice of his profession at once, but located on a plantation near his boyhood home and remained for a number of years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Then he came to Lexington and in December, 1892, became associated in practice with Dr. Shepherd but is now practicing alone. In his political affiliations the doctor is a member of the Democratic party, and an active worker in its cause in both city and county. For ten years he was a member of the common council of Lexington, for twelve years was county physician and for another ten years was a member of the board of health. He is now the incumbent of the office of president of the Holmes county medical society and a prominent and influential member of the Mississippi State medical association. In religious matters the doctor is connected with the Methodist Episcopal church and is a conscientious member of the Durant congregation of that society. On Nov. 15, 1885, Dr. Jordan married Miss Emily Frances Hobbs<\/al>, daughter of David M. and Emily (Sandidge) Hobbs of Holmes county. Colonel Sandidge, an uncle of Mrs. Jordan, served two terms in the United States congress from Louisiana prior to the Civil war, and after the close of that conflict served in both the House and Senate of Louisiana for a period of about sixteen years. His father served in the legislature of Alabama for several terms in the early part of the Nineteenth century. The maternal forebears of Mrs. Jordan were valiant soldiers in the War of the Revolution, a grandfather of Colonel Sandidge, mentioned above, together with seven of his sons having participated side by side throughout the entire war, in which one of the sons met his death. They were lineal descendants of Gen. Daniel Morgan of Revolutionary fame. Doctor and Mrs. Jordan became the parents of four children: Jason W., Jr.<\/sa>; Hattie Lucile<\/sa>; Francis Laurie<\/sa>, and Emily Olivia<\/sa>. The wife and mother died Oct. 27, 1902, leaving, beside her family, a large circle of friends to mourn her loss.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":16,"bio_name":"Land, John R.","bio_title":"Hon. John R. Land","bio_source":"Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 1892","bio_page":"486","bio_text":"

Hon. John R. Land<\/fg>, attorney at law and legislative representative of Caddo parish, was born in Lexington, Miss., July 9, 1862, a son of Judge Thomas T.<\/sa> and Mary E. (Dillingham) Land<\/sa>, natives, respectively, of Tennessee and Mississippi. Judge Land was born December 7, 1815, and is the eldest son of Charles and Sarah (Bass) Land. His father was a native of South Carolina and his mother of North Carolina. Both were of English descent, their ancestors having immigrated to the southern colonies prior to the Revolutionary war, in which Capt. John Land, the great grandfather of Judge Land, was killed in battle in South Carolina. While Judge Land was an infant his parents moved from Tennessee to north Alabama, and after a residence there of ten years emigrated to Yazoo county, Miss., where Charles Land died in his early manhood, in 1834. Afterward his wife resided in Tchula, Holmes county, Miss., for many years, and there died, in the summer of 1862, at an advanced age. Judge Land was thoroughly educated in the University of Virginia, and also attended the law school there. He was married September 25, 1839, to Miss Mary E. Dillingham, of Washington county, Miss. Mrs. Laud, who is a lady of culture and refinement, is still living. She numbers among her distinguished relatives the late Governor Runnels and the late Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi. The year of his marriage Judge Land was elected a member of the Mississippi legislature from Holmes county; and was reelected at the expiration of his term. At the end of his four years\u2019 service he declined a nomination for the state senate tendered him by the Whig party, of which he was a member. In 1846 he came to Shreveport, La., where he engaged in the practice of law. In 1854 he was elected judge of the judicial district composed of the parishes of Caddo, De Soto and Bossier, to fill a vacancy, and declined reelection. In 1858 he was elected associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Henry M. Spofford, who had resigned. After his election Judge Land purchased a home in New Orleans and resided there until the second year of the war. In 1861 he was reelected associate justice of the supreme court, without opposition, for the full term of ten years, and remained on the bench until 1865. He then resumed the practice of law in Shreveport. In 1879 he was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, and was appointed chairman of the judiciary committee, which was composed of twenty-one able and experienced lawyers, to whose painstaking labors the people of Louisiana are indebted for their present judiciary system. Judge Land has never been a politician or office seeker. Three sons of Judge Land, Alfred D., David T. and John R. Land, reside in Shreveport and follow their father's profession of the law. The fourth son, Charles A. Land, is a planter, residing in Caddo parish. In 1884 Judge Land retired from the practice of law, and his two younger sons succeeded him in the law firm of Land & Land. Since then he has supervised his planting interests. On December 7, 1890, Judge Land reached his seventy-sixth birthday, and is still in the enjoyment of good health, with the love of a devoted wife, children and grandchildren to brighten and cheer the sunset of his life. His son, Hon. John R. Land, was educated at Washington University, Lexington, Va., and at an early age began the study of law, being admitted to the bar in 1884. He has gained an honorable place among his brother practitioners, and in the prosecution of his professional duties is meeting with encouraging success. He is the junior member of the firm of Land & Lund, which is one of the prominent legal firms of Shreveport. In 1888 he was elected to represent Caddo parish in the legislature, and the same year he was a member of the state convention to nominate delegates to the presidential convention, and a member of the congressional convention. He is one of the prominent young men of Caddo parish, and his career thus far has been both successful and honorable. He is a member of the Elks.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":17,"bio_name":"Land, Thomas Thompson","bio_title":"Judge Thomas Thompson Land","bio_source":"Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 1892","bio_page":"485","bio_text":"

Judge Thomas Thompson Land<\/sa>, on associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., December 7, 1815, and is the oldest son of Charles Land<\/sa> and Sarah Bass<\/sa>. His father, who was a planter, was a native of South Carolina, and his mother, who was the daughter of a planter, was a native of North Carolina. Judge Land received his education at the University of Virginia and also attended the law school there. On September 25, 1880, Judge Land married Mina Mary E. Dillingham, of Washington county, Miss. Mrs. Land, who in a lady of great culture and refinement, is still living. Among her distinguished relatives are numbered the late Governor Runnels and the late Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi. In the year of his marriage Judge Land was elected a member of the Mississippi legislature from Holmes county, and was reelected at the expiration of his term. At the end of his four years\u2019 service in the Mississippi legislature, he declined a nomination for the state senate, tendered to him by the whig party, of which he was a member. In November, 1845, Judge Laud emigrated from Mississippi, and after visiting and prospecting for some months in Texan, before the admission of that state into the Union, he returned in 1846 to Shreveport, La., where be established his |permanent domicile and commenced the practice of law. In 1851 he was elected judge of the judicial district composed of the parishes of Caddo, De Soto and Bossier, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Judge Henry M. Spofford associate justice of the supreme court of the state. At the end of his term Judge Land declined a reelection. In 1858 Judge Land was elected associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana to fill the unexpired term of Judge Henry M Spofford, who had resigned. After his election to the supreme bench. Judge Land purchased a home in the city of New Orleans, and resided there with his family until the second year of the war. In 1861 Judge Land was reelected associate justice of the supreme court without any opposition for the full term of ten years, and remained on the bench until the end of the war in 1865. He then resumed the practice of law at his domicile in the city of Shreveport, where he had taken refuge after the fall of the city of New Orleans in 1862. In 1879 he was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, and was appointed chairman of the judiciary committee, which was composed of twenty one able and experienced lawyers, to whose painstaking labors the people of Louisiana are indebted for their present judiciary system. The union of Judge and Mrs. Land was blessed with fourteen children. Seven children and eighteen grandchildren are still living. Three sons\u2014Alfred D.<\/sa>, David T.<\/sa> and John R. Land<\/sa>\u2014reside in Shreveport, and follow their father\u2019s profession of the law. The fourth son, Charles A. Land<\/sa>, is a planter, residing in Caddo parish. The three daughters are married; the eldest, Sallie<\/sa>, to General Leon Jastremski, of New Orleans; the second, Maggio May<\/sa>, to the Hon. George A. Wilson, of Lexington, Miss.; and the third, Carrie<\/sa>, to Col. James H. Hollingsworth, of Kosciusko, Miss. In 1881 Judge Land retired from the practice of the law, his two younger sons succeeding him in the law firm of Land & Land.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":18,"bio_name":"McGee, Gentry Richard","bio_title":"Gentry Richard McGee","bio_source":"Who's Who in Tennessee, Memphis, 1911","bio_page":"191","bio_text":"

McGEE, GENTRY RICHARD<\/fg>, educator, public official; born Ebenezer. Miss., Sept. 17, 1840; Scotch-Irish-English and French descent; son of James Gentry<\/sa> and Marian (Ford) McGee<\/sa>; father's occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Richard and Elizabeth (Gentry) McGee, maternal grandparents Rufus and ________ (Harland) Ford; educated at Andrew College; entered the Confederate service in May, 1861, before receiving A. B. degree, which would have been given in June, 1861; served in the army May, 1861, to April, 1865, in Co. B, 12th Tenn. Infantry, C. S. A.; was Lieut, of his company while in the army and is now Lieut.-Col. in the U. C. V.. also Adj. to Camp No. 37; married Sallie Valentine Prentiss<\/fg>, Richmond, Va., Feb. 6, 1872; Mason (Past Master), Knight of Pythias (Past Chancellor); began his business career as a teacher and taught three years at Miller's Chapel. Dyer Co., Tenn., and one year at Bells, Crockett Co., Tenn., 26 years at Trenton, Tenn., and has been twelve years in Jackson, four years as principal of the high school and the last eight years as Superintendent of the city schools; has been a member of Tenn. Stale Teachers\u2019 Association since its organization in 1872; aided in founding Monteagle Sunday School Assembly July 1, 1883; author of School History of Tenn., published Oct., 1899; author of many articles for school journals and teachers\u2019 assemblies; has worked in instructing in teachers\u2019 institutes and summer schools for the past twenty-seven years; member of Christian church.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":19,"bio_name":"Olliphant, Samuel Rutherford, Jr.., M.D.","bio_title":"Dr. Samuel Rutherford Olliphant, Jr.","bio_source":"Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 1892","bio_page":"291","bio_text":"

Dr. S. R. Olliphant<\/fg>, president of the board of health, and a young physician whose reputation is second to none in the city, owes his nativity to Mississippi, his birth occurring in Holmes county, January, 1855. His father, Dr. S. R. Olliphant Sr.<\/sa>, now of Mobile, Ala., was a graduate of the University of Louisiana, and a prominent man in his profession. He was a surgeon in the confederate army and is now a member of the board of health of Mobile. He was at one time an extensive planter. Dr. S. R. Olliphant Jr. is the third in order of birth of six sons. He was reared at Enterprise, Miss., received his education in the primary schools and at Spring Hill college, that state, and began the study of his profession in the office of his father at Enterprise. He graduated from the Medical college, of Mobile, Ala., in 1876, and the following year from the University of Louisiana. He practiced his profession at Augusta, Perry county, Miss., two years prior to graduating and one year afterward, and then practiced at Whistler, Ala., during 1878, having an extensive practice during the yellow-fever epidemic. He was very poorly compensated, as nearly all business was suspended and the railroads were shut down. His next move in his profession was locating on Belloin plantation, lower coast, for one year, and in the fall of 1879 he located in New Orleans, La., where he now has an extensive and lucrative practice. He was for some time visiting physician for Charity hospital. On coming to this city he decided to locate in the heart of the city, thinking he could build himself up a practice here as well as in the suburbs. His success was assured from the beginning and he rose rapidly in his profession to a prominent position in the first rank of physicians and has maintained it up to the present. His first position of any prominence was quarantine physician at Rigolets, at Lake Pontchartrain, which he filled one season. The following year he occupied a position as medical inspector under national board of health, his duties being to issue certificates for vessel passengers. During the epidemic of small pox in New Orleans he was employed as one of the doctors to vaccinate. By this time he had become quite well acquainted, had a large practice, and his prominence as a medical man brought him before the public. On the reorganization of the board of health in 1881 he was elected a member of the board with Dr. Holt as president and himself as vice-president, acting at times as president. In 1890 he was appointed by the governor as a member of the board, and upon its organization he was elected its president, which position he now fills. His board thus far has been successful, he has a fine practice, and he deserves great credit for his integrity and enterprise. His administration has been to forward the progress of the system of health and quarantine. He is a member of the Orleans Parish Medical society, and an honorary member of Mobile Medical society. His office is at 114 Common street, and his residence at the corner of Partania and Euterpe streets. He represented the board of health at Washington City in 1886 and 1891.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":20,"bio_name":"Rape, Jacob Nathaniel, M.D.","bio_title":"Dr. Jacob Nathaniel Rape","bio_source":"Mississippi Biography Vol III, Published 1907","bio_page":"684","bio_text":"

Rape, Jacob Nathaniel, M. D.<\/fg>, is to be noted as one of the representative members of the medical profession in Jackson county and is located in practice at Mosspoint. Doctor Rape was born in Harperville, Scott county, Miss., Feb. 18, 1859, and is a son of Cyrus M. and Dorcas (Graham) Rape, the former native of Georgia and the latter of South Carolina. The father of the doctor enlisted in a Mississippi regiment of the Confederate forces at the outbreak of the Civil war, and he proceeded to the front with his command, while he died at Gainesville, Ala., just after the battle of Shiloh, as the result of an attack of pneumonia. Doctor Rape secured his early educational training in the schools of his native State, having been for a time a student in Centerville Institute, in Newton county, and he later carried out his well defined plans by entering the medical department of Tulane university, in the city of New Orleans, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, as a member of the class of 1891. Prior to having taken up his work as a student of medicine the doctor had devoted his attention to farming and teaching school. He began the practice of his profession in Tchula, Holmes county, where he remained until 1900, when he located in Mosspoint, where he has built up a representative practice, ramifying throughout this section of Jackson county. He is a member of the American medical association, the Mississippi State medical society and the Jackson county medical society, of which last mentioned he is secretary at the time of the preparation of this sketch. He is a stanch Democrat in his political allegiance and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, while his wife holds membership in the Missionary Baptist church. On Nov. 11, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Rape to Miss Bertha Amis<\/sa>, daughter of Capt. Albert and Augusta (Petty) Amis, of Gulfport, Harrison county, and of the children of this union we here enter the names with respective dates of birth: Cyrus<\/sa>, Jan. 12, 1900; Woodson<\/sa>, Aug. 28, 1902; Jacob N., Jr.<\/sa>, Aug. 12, 1904 and Alfonso Gallatin<\/sa>, June 12, 1906.<\/p>"},{"bio_id":21,"bio_name":"Taylor, John M.","bio_title":"Capt. John M. Taylor","bio_source":"Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 1892","bio_page":"500","bio_text":"

The subject of this sketch, Capt. John M. Taylor<\/sa>, Church Point, was born October 31, 1840, in Holmes county, Miss. He is the son of Job Taylor<\/sa>, an eminent physician of Richland. Miss., and Mathilda (Cotton} Taylor<\/sa>. Dr. Job Taylor was a native of South Carolina, and his wife of North Carolina. They were married in North Carolina and removed from there to Alabama, where they only remained, however, a short while, locating in Mississippi, where the Doctor engaged in planting and practicing his profession. There were born to them nine children\u2014six sons and three daughters. Mrs. Taylor died in 1871 and her husband in 1885. At the time of their death they were residing at Longview, Tex., where they had removed several years previous. Captain Taylor enlisted in the confederate states army in 1861. His field of operation was chiefly in Virginia. He participated in the battles of Second Manassas, Seven Pines and various others. In 1863 he was discharged on account of disability. He returned to Texas, remaining there only a short time, however, when he enlisted again in the army, joining the First Texas Rangers, under Col. W. P. Lane. At this time he was second lieutenant of the company, and was soon afterward promoted to captain and assigned to post duty the last six months of the war in Opelousas, La. After the war he engaged in the practice of law and subsequently became a school teacher, in which occupation he still continues, in connection with farming. He is a correspondent of the \u201cTimes Democrat,\" \u201cOpelousas Courier,\u2019\u2019 and the \"Crowley Signal.\" He has acquired considerable local distinction as a writer. He was married in January, 1865, to Miss Delia Garrigues<\/sa>, daughter of Judge Adolphe and Delia (Webb) Garrigues. To them have been born nine children\u2014four sons and five daughters, viz.: George G.<\/sa> (printer in the \u201cSignal\u2019\u2019 office, at Crowley), Delia<\/sa> (a public-school teacher in Acadia parish), John M.<\/sa>, Helen<\/sa>, Liso<\/sa>, Henry<\/sa>, Paul<\/sa>, Cecelia<\/sa> and Mary L.<\/sa> Their mother died in 1887, near Opelousas. She was a member of the Catholic church. The Captain owns thirty-two acres of land in the vicinity of Opelousas. He is a member of the Episcopal church. During Governor Nicholls\u2019 first administration he was elected superintendent of instruction of St. Laudry, Acadia at that time not being a parish. He has taken an active part in the improvement of the public-school system in the state by the contribution of many articles to the parochial newspapers, urging an efficient school system and the establishment of a liberal and ample school fund. He will continue his labors in behalf of popular education in the future and endeavor to place the school system on a solid basis in Acadia parish.<\/p>"}]}