Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 510-512 [Caldwell]

     CHARLES J. POLLARD M.D.  Dr. Charles Jackson Pollard is
numbered among the medical practitioners of Caldwell county,
practicing successfully in Princeton, where he has gained a
reputation and a patronage that many an older member of the medical
fraternity might well envy.  He was born upon a farm in this county
on the 27th of October, 1873.  His paternal grandfather, Wilson
Pollard, was a native of Tennessee and of Irish lineage; was born in
the year 1803 and in early life came to Kentucky, establishing his
home in Caldwell county, where he spent his remaining days, reaching
the advanced age of eighty-four years.  He was an influential
citizen, prominent and progressive, and in the year 1876 was elected
to represent his district in the general assembly.  He proved an
active working member of the legislature, and gave to each question
which came up for settlement his earnest consideration in order that
he might be able to advocate that which would be most beneficial to
his state.  He had extensive farming interests, and at one time
owned and operated a tannery on the road between Princeton and
Hopkinsville.  In his business affairs he prospered and won success,
and also gained the honorable name which is rather to be chosen than
great riches.
     His son, Wilson Lee Pollard, became the father of Dr. Pollard. 
He was born in Caldwell county, where he has always lived, his home
being upon a farm ten miles southeast of Princeton, near the little
town of Cobb.  He married Miss Martha White, also a native of this
county, and the doctor is their only child.  Mr. Pollard has always
carried on agricultural pursuits, meeting with a fair measure of
success in this undertaking.  He and his wife are members of the
Harmony Baptist church, and both are representatives of well-known
and honored families of the county.  Their own circle of friends is
extensive, and they receive from them the warm regard and esteem
which is ever accorded sterling worth.
     Dr. Pollard was educated on the old homestead near the village
of Cobb, and after obtaining his preliminary education in the public
schools continued his studies in the Bethel College at Russellville,
Kentucky.  He then took up the study of medicine in Southwestern
Homeopathic Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, and was
graduated therefrom on the 6th of April, 1897.  He spent one year in
the Louisville City Hospital, thus adding to his theoretical
knowledge by broad and practical experience.  He afterward practiced
for one year in the vicinity of his parental home, and on the 1st of
January, 1899, opened an office in Princeton, where he has since
gained a good and growing patronage.
     Dr. Pollard was married in 1897 to Miss Mallie Groom, a
daughter of Gus Groom, of Caldwell county.  They now have two
interesting children: Laurine and Gladys.  Both the Doctor and his
wife hold membership in the Baptist church and take an active and
commendable interest in its work.  He is associated with a number of
societies formed to disseminate knowledge concerning the science of
medicine, and in this way he keeps in touch with the advanced
thought and progress of the profession.  He belongs to the Caldwell
Medical Society, to the Southwestern Kentucky Homeopathic Medical
Society, of which he was twice honored with the presidency, the
Kentucky State Medical Association, and the Kentucky State
Homeopathic Society, in which he was elected vice-president in 1903. 
He is a young man, but has already attained prominence in his chosen
calling.  With a nature that could never content itself with
mediocrity, he has steadily advanced until he has left the ranks of
the many to stand among the successful few.

Pollard White Groom
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TN

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