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Americus V. Warr, M. D., a well known retired physician and citizen of Rossville, is a native of Wayne County, Tenn., born near Clifton, April 9, 1835, and is the son of James and Emily (Bishop) Warr, both natives of North Carolina. The father was born in 1800 and died in Fayette County in 1876. The mother was born in 1812 and died in Wayne County in 1849. They married in North Carolina and in 1825 moved to Tennessee and settled in Wayne County, sixteen miles from Waynesboro. In 1854 the father married again in North Carolina a younger sister of his first wife, and in 1855 moved to Fayette County and settled two and a half miles northwest of Rossville where he died at the age of seventy-six. He was a successful farmer and an old line Whig, and for thirty years was a class leader in the Methodist Church. Our subject is the sixth of eight children; he was educated chiefly at Bingham Classical School at Orange County, N. C. In the fall of 1856 he went to the Medical University of Louisiana and took his first course of lectures. In the fall of 1857 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania where he received his diploma in 1858. After graduating he commenced the practice of medicine in Fayette County and soon had an extensive practice, but declined practicing after his marriage, which occurred February 8, 1860, to Miss Geraldine Isbell, born in Fayette County April 28, 1842. She was an intelligent, cultured lady, educated at the Marshall Female Institute, at Marshall, Miss. Five sons and a daughter were born to them; the daughter, Geraldine, is the only one living. Since the war Mr. Warr has been engaged in farming and the mercantile business, and supplemented his collegiate education with extensive travel in the United States, having visited every State in the Union but four. From 1872 to 1879 he was a merchant at Rossville; since then he has been engaged in settling his business and looking after his extensive farming interests; he now owns 4,000 acres of land in Fayette County and nearly the entire town of Rossville. His reputation as a Free Mason is of a national character. He has taken all degrees in Masonry, and has filled all of the offices from Worshipful Master to Grand Master of Tenn. In his political views he is a Democrat but was a Whig before the war. Mr. Warr is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Warr of the Methodist. He contributes freely to both churches, and they are important factors in the social circle of their community, exerting a wide influence for good.