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DANIEL GERMAN, M. D., was born near Franklin, March 19, 1831; son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Rounsaville) German, and is of French-Dutch extraction. The father was born in North Carolina in 1787, and when quite young came with his parents to Tennessee and settled near Nashville, but subsequently the family removed to Williamson County, and here the father of Dr. German died in 1858. The mother of our subject was a Tennesseean, born in this county in 1805 and died here in 1882. The early life of Dr. German was spent on the farm and in getting an education in the Franklin schools. He began studying medicine in 1830, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. He then located in Franklin and practiced his profession until the beginning of the war. During that conflict he was a surgeon in the Confederate Army, and as such was one of the very best. In 1863 he was transferred from the Eleventh Tennessee Infantry, Cheatham’s division to Roddy’s division of cavalry, of north Alabama, as chief surgeon. He surrendered May 20,1865, at Decatur, Ala. Since the war he has been actively engaged in his profession in this town, and has won for himself an extensive and lucrative practice. He was married, in January, 1869, to Miss Adalitia McEwen, daughter of John B. and Cynthia (Graham) McEwen. They have five children, the two eldest being daughters, Misses Graham and Alice, the other three boys, Daniel, Richard McEwen and Horace Bright German. He is a man with many friends, and stands high in the estimation of the best people of this and adjoining counties; he is a Democrat, a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.