Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 129-132.  Carlisle Co.

WILLIAM L. MOSBY, M.D.

     So great has been the advance made in the science of medicine that the
results accomplished by representatives of the profession seem almost
phenomenal, but the broader knowledge has been acquired only after the most
painstaking, thorough and comprehensive investigation and research, and
to-day the man who is a successful practitioner must be a most earnest and
appreciative student, continually adding to his professional knowledge
through wide reading, and assimilating this knowledge for the benefit of
his fellow men.  One of the most capable and successful physicians and
surgeons of Carlisle county is Dr. William L. Mosby, who for almost twenty
years has practiced in Bardwell.
     He was born upon a farm near Bardwell, in Carlisle county, November
30, 1861.  His paternal grandfather was Daniel Mosby, a native of Virginia,
and who when a lad accompanied his parents on their removal to Boone
county, Kentucky, where he was reared to manhood.  He became an early
settler of what is now McCracken county, this state, and afterward removed
to Carlisle county, where he spent his remaining days, dying at the
advanced age of eighty-five years.  He was a farmer by occupation, and was
active and influential in pioneer times, taking a helpful part in promoting
the best interests of the county and in shaping its early policy in accord
with principles of progress, improvement and permanent benefit.  The first
court ever held in Ballard county following the organization of the county
convened in his tobacco barn, and Mr. Mosby served as county sheriff.  His
children were as follows:  William W., the father of our subject; Robert,
of Missouri; Jack, who was killed in the Confederate army; Mrs. Betty
Ashworth, of Bardwell; James, deceased; Daniel, who is living in Arlington,
Kentucky; and Mrs. Sallie Elsey, of Carlisle county.
     William W. Mosby was born in McCracken county, Kentucky, near Paducah,
on the 19th of April, 1825, and has now passed the seventy-eighth milestone
on life's journey.  After arriving at years of maturity he was married in
Carlisle county to Miss Matilda F. Berry, who was born in this county in
1835 and is also yet living.  Her parents were early settlers of Carlisle
county, casting in their lot with the residents here when they were
surrounded by pioneer conditions and environments.  To Mr. and Mrs. Mosby
have been born the following named: James, who died about sixteen years
ago; Jackie, who died at the age of seventeen years; Robert, who is a
resident farmer of Carlisle county; William L.; Lee, who is a farmer of
Carlisle county; Bedford, who also carries on agricultural pursuits here;
Mrs. Sallie Elsey, [sic] of Bardwell, and Mrs. Minnie Stanley, of
Arlington. Throughout his business career William W. Mosby followed farming
and stock-raising, and in his work has been very successful, so that now in
the evening of life he has a comfortable competence which supplies him with
all the necessities and many of the comforts that go to make life worth the
living.  He and his wife are excellent people of the highest
respectability, and their lives are in harmony with their faith as members
of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.  They reside in Bardwell.
     William Lindsay Mosby was reared upon a farm and acquired his literary
education in the public schools of Carlisle county and in Milburn Academy.
He began the study of medicine when seventeen years of age, under the
direction of Dr. John R. Owen, of Arlington, Kentucky, and afterward
matriculated in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, where he was
graduated in the class of 1883.  He has since pursued post graduate work in
the same school and also in post-graduate schools of St. Louis and of
Chicago.  His first year's practice was spent at Arlington, Kentucky, and
in October, 1884, he came to Bardwell, where he has since lived.  He is a
member of the Carlisle County Medical Society, of which he has served as
president.  He also belongs to the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Society,
to the Kentucky State Medical Association, the American Medical Association
and the International Association of Railway Surgeons, being entitled to
membership in the last named organization because he is local surgeon for
the Illinois Central Railroad.  For years he has been a member of the
county board of health and has been medical examiner for a number of
insurance companies.  His private practice is extensive, and from the
beginning of his residence here his patronage has steadily increased and is
now of a most important character.  He is well versed in the science of
medicine in its various branches, and his large business is indicative of
the confidence reposed in him by the public.
     In 1885 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Mosby and Miss Mattie
Pauline Petrie, a daughter of Dr. J.S. and Lucy A. (Henderson) Petrie,
formerly of Cairo, Illinois, but now of Bardwell, Kentucky.  Her parents
were both natives of Kentucky, her father having been born in Todd county
and her mother in Ballard county.  Mrs. Mosby was also born in Ballard
county, and by her marriage has become the mother of two children:  William
Eugene and Hazel Petrie.  Both the Doctor and his wife hold membership in
the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is connected through membership
relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  His political support
is given to the Democracy, but he has not time or inclination to seek
public office, preferring to devote his energies to his chosen calling.
His deep interest in his profession arises both from a love of scientific
research and of his fellow men.  His sympathetic nature and genial manner,
combined with his broad and comprehensive knowledge, have won him
distinction as a most able practitioner.

Mosby Ashworth Elsey Berry Stanley Owen Petrie Henderson
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VA Boone-KY McCracken-KY Ballard-KY Alexander-IL Todd-KY

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