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Below is a family biography included in The History of Obion 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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Hardy L. Park, M. D., is a Marshall County Tennessean, and was born April 15, 1855, and is one of six surviving members of a family of eight children born to George W. and Harriett (Brown) Park, who were born, reared and married in Marshall County, and there followed the occupation of farming until 1856, then came to Obion County. The father died in 1873, and the mother in 1880. At the age of twenty-four Hardy L. Park entered the medical department of the Vanderbilt University, attending one term, and then began practicing his profession at his present place of abode. During the sessions of 1885-86, he attended the college of physicians and surgeons at Baltimore, Md., and graduated from the same. He came into possession of his present residence, a farm of twenty-five acres, in 1884. The same year he married Emma Lewis, who has borne him one child—Vera. The Doctor is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and his wife of the First Presbyterian Church.
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This family biography is one of 179 biographies included in The History of Obion County, Tennessee published in 1887 by Goodspeed. The History of Obion County was included within The History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley & Lake Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties of Tennessee
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