History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 192,
Pulaski Co.

     EUGENE F. BEARD, M. D.  A physician and surgeon whose talents and
abilities are particularly well known in the field of surgery, Dr. Beard
has an extensive private practice and is also proprietor of an infirmary
at Somerset.  His father is still engaged in the private practice of
medicine at Bradfordsville and his grandfather was an early day
physician of Adair County, so that the name has been familiarly
associated with the profession of medicine in Eastern Kentucky for a
great many years.
     Dr. Beard's great-grandfather was the founder of the family in
Adair County, coming from Virginia.  His grandfather, Dr. John Beard,
was born in Kentucky and spent the greater part of his active life as a
practitioner in Adair County.  He died at Columbia in 1888.  Dr. John
Beard married Mary McWhorter, who was born in Kentucky in 1828 and died
in Marion County  in 1918.
     Dr. J. C. Beard, of Bradfordsville, was born in that town in 1859,
and his entire life has been passed in that community, in a service
productive of good and of professional honor.  He attended the State
College Military School at Lexington, and has been in practice since he
graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville.  He has
always been very attentive to his duties as a member of the Christian
Church, is a democrat, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. 
Dr. J. C.  Beard married Miss Lou Gay, who was born in Bradfordsville in
1866.
     Their only son and child is Dr. Eugene F. Beard, who was born in
Marion County, Kentucky, December 31, 1881.  He attended public school
there, spent two years in the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and
in 1912 graduated M.D. from the University of Louisville.  After one
year as an interne in Columbus Hospital of Chicago he located at
Somerset, and from a general practice his abilities have been more and
more concentrated on surgery.  In the fall of 1917 he enlisted for
service in the Medical Corps, was commissioned a first lieutenant, for
six months was on duty at Fort Riley, Kansas, and thereafter was at the
Cantonment at Battle Creek, Michigan, until the signing of the
armistice.
     Dr. Beard in January, 1921, established his infirmary, located in a
fine brick structure on College Street.  Its present accommodations are
for twenty-three patients, and plans have been made for an additional
ten rooms.  It is a high class modern establishment, and has
accommodated patients from all over Kentucky and also from Tennessee. 
Dr. Beard is a member of the County, State and American Medical
Associations.  He is a democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and is affiliated with Marion Lodge No. 106, F. and A.
M., at Bradfordsville, Detroit Consistory of the Scottish Rite at
Detroit, Michigan, and Queen City Camp No. 11494, Modern Woodmen of
America.
     In May, 1920, at Somerset, Dr. Beard married Miss Velera Smith,
daughter of Beecher and Mary (Elliott) Smith, residents of Somerset,
where her father is a well known wholesale grocer.  Mrs. Beard is a
graduate of the Somerset High School.

Beard Elliott Gay McWhorter Smith
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Adair-KY Marion-KY VA

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