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JAMES A. NORTH, M. D., is the son of H. B. and Martha J. North, who were natives of Virginia. The North family came to Tennessee at a very early day and settled in Williamson County. H. B. North was a Methodist minister and belonged to the Tennessee Conference and was preaching the gospel in Montgomery County when he married our subject’s mother, and nine children were born to their union: R. H., James A., Ann W., Margaret S., Thomas B., Alice, Ida, Elizabeth and Lucy. The father died about 1878 and the mother March 4, 1882. James A. North was born in Williamson County, January 4, 1838, and was educated in Thompson Academy, and in 1859 entered the medical University at Nashville and graduated in 1861. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in First Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, and participated in the battle of Fishing Creek, after which his command went to Mississippi under Col. Bartow and later were united with Gen. Forrest’s force and was in all its exploits. In 1879 he was married to Miss Eliza Baker, and five children have blessed their union: Jesse W., Henry B., Garrick H., Eloise and Robert J. Dr. North began practicing his profession at Harpeth Station in 1865. He owes 150 acres of fine land and is one of the prosperous farmers of the county.