LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

Dr. W. R. McDowell Graduated From Louisville Medical College in 1883

DR. W.R. McDOWELL, Muhlenberg County, was born July 31, 1852, in Jefferson
County, TN, and is the eldest of eight boys and three girls born to Mahlon P.
and Harriet (Tally) McDowell, natives of Jefferson County, TN.  Mahlon P.
McDowell is the son of William McDowell who married a Miss Pierson, of
Tennessee; she died in Alabama.  William McDowell was a soldier in the war of
1812, was a farmer of Scotch-Irish origin.  Dr. W.R. McDowell was reared on a
farm, attended the common schools, and lived with his father until the age of
twenty-four.  He moved with his father to Ohio County in 1860, where the
father still lives.  In 1878, Dr. McDowell engaged in the drug business at
McHenry, with his brother; in November, of the same year, he moved his stock
to Central City, where he has since been engaged; a part of the time he sold
goods through the country.  In the meantime he studied medicine; attended the
Medical College at Nashville, TN, in 1879-80, and graduated in the spring of
1883, from the Louisville Medical College.  He has been since in Central City
in the practice of his profession, meeting with much success; he has also an
interest in a drug store.  He married December 2, 1883, to Bettie Clagett, of
Grayson County, KY, a daughter of Thomas and Jane (Dewels) Clagett.

McDowell Tally Pierson Clagett Dewels
=
Jefferson-TN, AL, Ohio, Grayson

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