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Below is a family biography included in The History of East Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Dr. A. L. Courtney, a practicing physician in Jefferson County, and a druggist at White Pine, Tenn., was born in Hamblen County, Tenn., July 22, 1856, being the son of George W. and Rebecca (McPheron) Courtney, natives of Tennessee and residents of a Hamblen County farm. Our subject added to his rural advantages attendance at the Greeneville and Tusculum Colleges, finishing in 1876, and for two years thereafter was a public school teacher. Dr. S. Matthews, of Rogersville Junction, was his preceptor in medicine for two years, when he began practice in Hamblen County, and in October, 1880, he located at his present home. By dint of hard study and close attention to business, he has established himself in the confidence of the people, and gained an enviable reputation, professionally, morally and socially. It should be mentioned, however, that he took a course of lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, in 1881-82. Since March, 1887, he has been dealing in drugs and medicines, etc., also. He has made himself largely what he is, and has been successful, both in his business life and as a medical man. H. Rowe, a daughter of Maj. B. A. McFarland, became his wife in January, 1884, and Mary (deceased) and Tessie were their only children. Our subject is a Master Mason, and an earnest Democrat.
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