Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 596-597 [McCracken]

     VERNON BLYTHE, M. D.  In the young physician whose name heads
this sketch the medical profession of Paducah, Kentucky, has a
member well equipped for the life work upon which he has entered. 
Dr. Vernon Blythe was born in Murray, Calloway county, Kentucky,
July 13, 1876, son of William and Martha (Wright) Blythe.  William
Blythe was a son of Zacariah and Nancy G. (Drake) Blythe, both
natives of Virginia and representatives of early families of that
state.  It was in Suffolk county, Virginia, that William Blythe was
born.  Some time in the forties the family left the Old Dominion and
came west to Kentucky, locating in Calloway county, William being
then a mere child.  Here Zacariah and Nancy G. Blythe passed the
rest of their lives.  William Blythe grew to manhood and married in
Calloway county, and here he, as also his father, had various
business interests.  He died in the prime of life, at the age of
thirty-seven years.  Martha (Wright) Blythe, Dr. Blythe's mother,
was a native of Tennessee, her people having removed from North
Carolina to that state, thence to Kentucky.  She died at about the
age of thirty-six years, leaving five children, of whom one is
deceased.
     Vernon Blythe is the youngest member of his father's family. 
He was reared in Murray and educated at Central University,
Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated with the class of 1896.  That
year he went to New York and entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, where he took the regular four years' course, and received
his diploma in 1900.  Immediately after his graduation he went west
to Colorado, and in Colorado Springs began the practice of his
profession.  He remained in Colorado, however, only a short time,
returning to Kentucky in 1901 and locating in Paducah, where he has
since practiced.
     Dr. Blythe is a member of the Kentucky State Medical
Association, the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Association and the
American Medical Association.  He is identified with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South.

Blythe Wright Drake
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Calloway-KY Suffolk-VA TN NC CO

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