Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

DR. JOHN F. STROTHER is one of the respected citizens and leading 
physicians of Butler County, Ky., and a son of John Strother, a native 
of Virginia, who was born in 1784, and who married a Miss Kilgour of 
Culpeper County, in 1807; she died in 1809, leaving one child, Solomon.  
After the death of his wife, Mr. Strother removed to Robertson County, 
Tenn., where, in 1812, he married Miss Tabitha Chick.  This marriage was 
blessed by the birth of five children, of which number, Dr. Strother is 
the youngest, and was born September 2, 1824.  John Strother was engaged 
in the war of 1812-14, in which he held the rank of captain, and fought 
in the battle of New Orleans, where he received several wounds.  After 
being discharged from service, he returned to his farm in Robertson 
County, where he resided until his death.  After the death of his father 
in 1840, Dr. Strother lived with his elder half-brother, and attended 
school for about three years; then was under the tuition of a Mr. Thomas 
for two years.  In 1846 he engaged in the clothing trade, and read 
medicine for three years with Dr. Yost, in Greenville, Ky.  In 1854, he 
became a student in the Medical University of Tennessee, at Nashville, 
from which he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1857; in the same year 
began practice in Butler County, Ky., where he was one of the pioneers, 
and did all the medical practice in a territory that is now occupied by 
sixteen regular physicians.  The Doctor is a member of the Greenville 
Lodge, of the fraternity of Ancient Masonry, in which order he has passed 
through all the orders of the ancient rite.  Politically, the Doctor is a 
Democrat, but has never taken any active part in politics, nor aspired to 
any political office.  He owns a farm of 600 acres of good land, 300 
acres of which are in cultivation and well improved.  He has devoted his 
time to his profession and to the improvement of the county.  He is a man 
of liberal views, and as a progressive and public-spirited citizen, 
commands the respect of all who know him.

Strother Kilgour Chick Thomas Yost
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Culpeper-VA Robertson-TN Greenville-Muhlenberg

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