Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Boyd County

John H. Wade, M.D., is a native of Carter County, Ky., was born June 18,
1848, and is a son of Alfred and Mary (Rucker) Wade, who were born in Prince
Edward County, Va., and Carter County, Ky., respectively.  His maternal
grandfather, Eliza Rucker, was born near Richmond, Va., came to Kentucky
after having served in the war of 1812, under Col. Croghan, at Fort
Sandusky, and died here in 1855.  Alfred Wade was born in 1825, was a
merchant and farmer, and died in 1848.  Dr. John H. Wade was reared in
Catlettsburg, to which place his widowed mother had removed about the year
1851, and at which place she still lives.  In his childhood years the Doctor
was taken care of by an uncle, John Clark, a Scotchman by birth, a merchant
and a pioneer of eastern Kentucky, whose death took place in December, 1863.
The Doctor received his elementary education in the schools of Catlettsburg,
and read medicine there under J.D. Kincaid.  Subsequently, in 1872, he
graduated from the Louisville Medical College; he began practice on the Big
Sandy, and in 1879 settled in Ashland, Boyd County, where he has since been
actively engaged in his profession.  May 11, 1876, he married Miss Kate
Geiger, daughter of William L. Geiger, of Ashland.  The Doctor is a Knight
Templar, and in politics is a Democrat.

Wade Rucker Kincaid Geiger Croghan 
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Carter-KY Prince_Edward-VA 

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