Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

JOSEPH N. McCORMACK, M. D.,  was born in Nelson County, Ky., November 9,
1847.  His father, Thomas McCormack, emigrated from Ireland in 1836, and
settled in New York where he remained for several years, and then removed
to Nelson County, where he died in 1881.  His mother, Elizabeth Brown, was
born in Hardin County, Ky., in 1824. Her ancestors were from Virginia and
Maryland and were among the earliest settlers of Kentucky.  Dr. McCormack
is the third of fourteen children, and although his father was a man of
considerable wealth, in the labor and hardships of farm life he acquired
habits of industry and a power of endurance invaluable to him in after
life.  He received his early education in the neighborhood schools, but
this was supplemented by private instructions from his father, who was a
man of extensive travel, varied knowledge and large capacity, which had a
value far in excess of any ordinary school course.  He began the study of
medicine in 1866, and shrotly after went to Cincinnati to become the
private pupil of Dr. John A. Murphy, and at the same time attended
lectures at the Miami Medical College.  He graduated from that institution
in 1870, and after a competitive examination was appointed a resident
physician to the Cincinnati Hospital, where he remained during 1870 and
1871, and then returned to his native county to engage in the practice of
his profession, and while there had the ad eundem degree conferred upon
him by the University of Louisville.  He came to Bowling Green in 1875,
and formed a partnership with Dr. L. C. Porter.  He went to Europe in 1882
to prosecute his professional studies, and on his return formed a
partnership with Dr. A. C. Wright, which still continues.  In 1871 he
married Miss Corrine Crenshaw, of Glasgow, Ky., to which union there has
been born one child, Arthur T.  Dr. McCormack was appointed a member of
the State Board of Health of Kentucky in 1879; was elected secretary of
the same in 1883, which latter position he continues to fill.  He was
elected president of the Kentucky State Medical Society in 1883, and
Secretary of the National Conference of the State Boards of Health in
1884, and was made president of that organization in December, 1885.  He
is also an active member of the American Public Health Association, and
the American Medical Association.

McCormack Brown Murphy Porter Wright Crenshaw
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Nelson-KY Ireland Hardin-KY VA MD OH Louisville-Jefferson-KY
Glasgow-Barren-KY

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