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Robert A. Clopton, M. D., of Milan, Tenn., was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., October 19, 1834. His parents, John M. and Mary W. (Terry) Clopton, were born in the same State and county as himself, and there the father, who was an able and experienced physician, died in 1868. Robert A. was reared in his native State, and received a fair English education. He began studying medicine under his father when quite young, and in 1852 came to Tennessee, locating in Carroll County, where he followed agricultural pursuits until the war broke out. He then enlisted in Company G, Col. Jackson’s First Kentucky Regiment Cavalry, and served in the Confederate Army until he was taken prisoner by the Federals, in 1863. He was paroled two months later, but did not again enter service. He resumed farming in Carroll County, and followed neighborhood doctoring until 1873, when he became a regular practitioner. In 1878 he graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Eclectic Medical Institute, after attending one course of lectures. In January, 1885, Dr. Clopton removed to Milan, and has since been a successful practitioner of that place. He has lost two wives by death, and in September, 1880, he married Martha A. Moore, his present wife, and by her is the father of one child. His second wife bore him six children, and his first wife three. He is a Democrat, and was one of the organizers, and was corresponding secretary, of the projected State Eclectic Medical Association.