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Isaac H. Read, a citizen and farmer of Haywood County, was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., August 14, 1838, and is the son of Dr. Charles L. and Elizabeth M. (Daniel) Read, both natives of Virginia. The father was born February 21, 1794. He was twice married; first, October 22, 1816, to Miss Jane Boyd, who died July 20, 1835, and August 10, 1836, he was married to Elizabeth M. Daniel. Dr. Read was a finely educated man. After completing his literary education, and while still young, he entered the medical college at Philadelphia, where he received his diploma. After graduating he returned to Virginia and commenced the practice of medicine, and for twenty years was regarded as the leading physician of his county. In 1838 he came to Haywood County and spent the rest of his life farming, dying December 20, 1869. The mother was born September 3, 1803, and died March 12, 1877. They were both earnest and prominent members of the Presbyterian Church. Isaac H. Read was the first of five children. He obtained a good education, and then commenced farming. December 1, 1863, he married Miss Mary L. Green, a native of Haywood County, born February 15, 1844. She died October 2, 1881, and he then married her sister, Martha J. Green. Four sons and four daughters were born to his first marriage; one son is dead. Mr. Read is a true Democrat, and for twenty-five or thirty years has been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and for several years has been an elder in the church. He is regarded by all as a man of the strictest integrity.