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Below is a family biography included in The History of Smith County, 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. L. H. Davis was born in 1813 in Surry County, N. C., one of ten children of Jacob and Winifred (Herring) Davis. The father was born in 1779 in Virginia; a farmer by occupation, and after 1783 lived in Surry County, N. C., until his death in 1838. The mother, born in Surry County, died in 1865. Our subject, educated in a Surry County academy, became one of the foremost teachers of the county. In 1840 he removed to Overton, Tenn., and the same year began studying medicine under Dr. W. R. Vawter of Salina, Tenn., and in three years began practice. In 1847 he took a course in the Botanical Medical Institute of Memphis, and in 1867 entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati. He has been a successful practitioner in the counties of Smith, Jackson, Putnam, Macon, Warren, DeKalb, Wilson, Overton, Clay, Sumner, Tenn., and Allen, Trousdale and Monroe, of Kentucky. Now about seventy-four, his work is chiefly office prescribing. He is a Democrat, and is a member of the F. & A. M. order, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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This family biography is one of 62 biographies included in The History of Smith County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Smith County was included within The History of Sumner, Smith, Macon & Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties of Tennessee
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