Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

HENRY ARTHUR DUVALL, M.D., was born in Louisville, August 18, 1847, and is
a son of Claudius and Julia (Mercer) Duvall.  The former was born near
Annapolis, Md., May 27, 1814, and came to Louisville in 1836.  For years
he was a prominent merchant but is now retired, and for the past twenty
years has enjoyed in case the fruits of an industrious and well spent life.
In early life, with his mother and brother, when visiting her relatives on
Kent Island, on the eastern shore of Maryland, he was taken prisoner by
the British when their fleet came up the Chesapeake Bay for the purpose of
attacking North Point, near Baltimore, Md., where occurred one of the most
desperately contested actions of the war of 1812.  After coming to
Louisville, Claudius Duvall, who had a military education, was commissioned
colonel of the militia of the State and assisted in organizing the old
Louisville Legion, which went to the front during the war with Mexico, but
the colonel was obliged, by reason of his large and increasing business,
to decline going with the Legion to engage in that war.  Henry Duvall,
the grandfather of our subject, was born in Maryland, and was a captain
while his brother Lewis Duvall was a colonel in the United States army.
Carver Mercer, maternal grandfather of Dr. H. Arthur Duvall, was a native
of Virginia, came to Louisville at a very early day, owned 300 acres in the
western part of the city, and also built the first brick house in its
limits.  He was a relative of Gen. Mercer, the famous Revolutionary hero.
Dr. H. Arthur Duvall received his rudimentary education in the best schools
of Louisville, Ky.; began the study of medicine in 1877, under Drs. Foree
and Bolling, and graduated from the Hospital Medical College in 1880.  He
engaged in the general practice of medicine until 1885, when he made a
specialty of nose, chest and throat disorders, in the treatment of which
he has made a great success.  He was married, in 1875, to Miss Anna B.
Crowfoot, a daughter of Frank Crowfoot of Louisville, and to this marriage
has been born one child, William T. Duvall, who, by the death of his mother
when he was three months old, was left to the care of his grandmother
Duvall, and by her was reared, and is now a promising youth of more than
usual intelligence and vigor of constitution.  The doctor was also
successful in the introduction of the mechanical massage in the city of
Louisville, Ky., which process is regarded by some of the most eminent
medical men of the day as a curative agent of extraordinary power, and a
remarkable improvement or manual massage.  While Dr. Duvall does not claim
to be the pioneer in the introduction of massage treatment of various
diseases, he does claim to have brought this treatment not only to a high
degree of perfection but to have met with unusual success in relieving
suffering humanity, especially all those cases amenable to massage
treatment.  Many chronic as well as stubborn cases have readily yielded to
massage treatment in the skillful hands of Dr. H. Arthur Duvall, and it is
destined at an early day to become one of the most important factors in the
medical profession for the relief of diseases to which man is subjected.

Duvall Mercer Crowfoot
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Annapolis-Anne_Arundel-MD VA

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