Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

HUGH ROBERT VANZANT, M. D., was born in Barren County, Ky., December 19, 
1855.  He is a son of William and Nancy (Dougherty) Vanzant, natives of 
Barren County, Ky., and born in 1826 and 1832, respectively. They are 
the parents of one son, Hugh R., and one daughter, Rachel E.  Mrs. 
Vanzant was a devout Christian, and a member of the Baptist Church; she 
died in 1873; her husband, William Vanzant, is yet living, aged fifty-
nine years; he united with the Presbyterian Church in 1883; he has 
during life been engaged in agricultural pursuits, with excellent 
success, and has resided all his life on the farm where he was born.  
his father, Hugh Vanzant, was of German discent, and born in Kentucky.  
He married Decie Wilson, of Adair County; she departed this life in 
1876. Hugh Vanzant resided in Barren County, Ky., until his death; his 
father, Garrett Vanzant, was a native of Holland; he came to America and 
settled in the Virginia colony; he was engaged in the war of the 
Revolution, in which he held the rank of a captain; he served with Gen. 
Washington until the close of the war. Hugh R. Vanzant was born and 
reared  on a farm; his early education was obtained in the common 
schools, where he mastered the ordinary English branches, and became 
proficient in mathematics.  At the age of seventeen he became a student 
in the Edmonton Male and Female College, where he remained for two years 
and applied himself diligently to the study of the higher branches of 
English. In 1876 he began reading for the medical profession, under the 
direction of Dr. B. F. Taylor, of Bridgeport, Ky., and in 1877 he 
attended his first course of lectures at the University of Louisville, 
at Louisville, Ky. Since 1878 he has practiced his profession with 
uniform success.  June 16, 1877, he was united in marriage with Mattie 
E., daughter of David and Annie Robinson, of Scott County, Ind. They are 
blessed in their union by the birth of two sons:  William D. and Walter 
S.  The Doctor and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which 
he is a deacon.  He is a member of the I. O. G. T., and his influence is 
for the cause of temperance.  Politically he is a Republican.  He is a 
patron of churches and schools, and is known as a generous, public-
spirited citizen, and is one of the rising young physicians of the 
county.

Dougherty Robinson Taylor Vanzant Washington Wilson
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Adair Barren Bridgeport-Franklin Holland Louisville-Jefferson Scott-IN VA

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