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OCCU Physician
John received his medical education at New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. He was Chief of Clinics at the Charity Hospital, New Orleans and a Clinical assistant in the New York, Eye, Ear and Throat infirmary. In 1881 he moved to his home in Selma where he engaged in the practice of his profession in partnershipo with his brother until his death. He was a member of both the Alabama State and Dallas County Medical Societies and served as the heqad of each. he has taken appropriate rank as not only one of the foremost physicians ans surgeons of Alabama but the South as well.
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OCCU Contractor
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EVEN Democrat
William H Tipton was born in Tennessee, in 1841, and remained there with his parents until 1861. Up into that date he worked the plantation and attended school. He enlisted in Company K, Second Tennessee Cavalry, as a private. In 1862 he was promoted to First Lieutenant, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. He participated in Murfreesboro, Richmond, and Perryville. He was sent to assist Morgan and was captured as Lancaster, Kentucky. He was imprisoned at Camp Chase and Delaware for nineteen months. After the close of the war he returned to his parents in Tennessee, and from there went to Middle Tennessee, where he rented a farm and remained until coming to Texas in 1870. Here he first located on a rented farm in Johnson County. In 1873 he bought a tract of land and developed it into a fine farm. Mr Tipton began life with nothing, and at the time he came to Texas had only $500. He gained a good farm of 300 acres, town property, and stock that ranged in western Texas. He was a Democrat. He served one tern as Representative of Hill County, during which time he was a member of the committees on Stock Raising and County Boundaries. In 1866 he married Miss Frances C Tolley, a native of Tennessee and daughter of William and Mary Tolley, natives of Kentucky and N Carolina respectively. Four children came from this union. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he was associated with the Masonic fraternity.
Still born
Marshall and Sarah moved to Texas from Tennessee, right after they were married and all their children were born in Texas.