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BIOGRAPHIES OF TIPTON COUNTY, TN "R"
Dr. T. J. Reid, a prominent citizen, druggist and physician of Covington, Tenn., was born in Macon, Tenn., in September, 1838, and is one of a family of eight children born to William B. and E. H. (Brown) Reid, both natives of North Carolina. The father was born about 1800, was married in his native State and about 1830 came to Tennessee, where he engaged in farming. He died in 1847. The mother was a few years younger than her husband, and departed this life about 1850. The subject of this sketch had the advantages of acquiring a good education, and in 1859 began reading medicine under Dr. Reamy, of Tulip, Ark. He remained with him one year, after which he took a course of lectures at the medical school known as the University of Pennsylvania, and from which institution he graduated in 1861. In April of the same year he enlisted in Company B, Thirteenth Tennessee Infantry, and served one year as private, after which he was commissioned assistant surgeon, serving in the Thirty-second Tennessee Regiment until the surrender. In the spring of 1865 he returned home and located at Macon, Tenn., and began the practice of medicine. In 1868 he married Kate M. Neal, who was born in Macon, Tenn., January 15, 1847, and who is the daughter of Thomas G. and Anna Neal. To Mr. and Mrs. Reid were born four children: E. L., Emma N., Grant and William B. In 1868 our subject came to Tipton County and located at Mason, where he remained until February. 1886, when he came to Covington, and is building up a flourishing practice. He is a man well known and much esteemed for his many good qualities, a Democrat in politics, a member of the order K. of H. and also a member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is a deacon.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
Dr. Thomas W. Roane, a well known physician of Tipton County, was born in Gloucester County, Va., May 17, 1830, and is a son of Robert and Emily (Davie) Roane, both natives of Virginia. The father was of Irish descent, born in 1797, and died December 31, 1872. The mother was Welsh descent, born in 1803, and died in 1871. Both were members of the Methodist Church. The father was a harness-maker. In 1836 he moved to LaGrange, Fayette Co., Tenn., and a year later to Tipton County, where he bought a farm, and followed farming the rest of his life. He was a Democrat, and very successful in farming. Dr. Roane received a good education at the Mount Carmel High School, under Rev. James Holmes, D. D., then read medicine a year under Dr. James Maclin. October, 1852, he went to the university of Virginia, entered the medical department, and received a diploma the next June, and after graduating at this university, in September, 1853, he went to the medical college of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in March, 1854. Dr. Roane then returned to Tipton County and located seven miles north of Covington, where he rapidly built up a large practice. In April, 1862, he entered the Confederate Army, and enlisted in Company K, Fifty-first Tennessee Infantry, and was made first lieutenant, and when the company was received into the regiment was made chief surgeon, and served in that capacity until the war closed. While acting as post surgeon at Brownsville, in April, 1865, he was captured and taken to the Irvin Block at Memphis, Tenn., and held as a prisoner until the surrender. He then returned home, after an absence of three years, and resumed the practice of medicine. November 17, 1858, he married Mary H. Somerville, who was born in Virginia in 1839. To this marriage thirteen children were born -- seven sons and six daughters; two sons have died. Dr. Roane is an emphatic Democrat, and with his wife and seven of the children belongs to the Presbyterian Church, contributing freely to the support of the church and to all charitable objects. He is a man of fine intellect and strict integrity.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
Robert H. Rose, general merchant at Mason, Tipton Co., Tenn., was born in Rushville, Ill., December 2, 1813, and is the son of Henry and Sarah J (Smith) Rose, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. He received a common-school education in early life, and has been engaged in the mercantile business from boyhood. In 1855 he came to Tennessee with his parents, and in 1859 he went to Mason and engaged in his present business. August 9, 1866, he was married to Maggie M. Fisher. She was born March 21, 1847, and is the daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Bowen) Fisher, of Rushville, Ill. To this union is born four children -- three daughters and one son, namely: Nellie N., born July 19, 1867; Belle, born August 19, 1870; Hugh F., born August 20, 1872, and Sadie M., born December 12, 1882.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee (1887)
D. W. Ruffin, an able attorney at Covington, Tenn., was one of a family of four children born to William and Sallie (White) Ruffin. The father was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., May 4, 1834, is a graduate of Oxford, Miss., also of the university of Virginia, is a man of fine literary attainments, and a lawyer by profession, practicing a short time, when he was elected secretary of the Memphis Gaslight Company, of which his grandfather, a very wealthy financier, was a charter member, and for many years its president. On his death William Ruffin was elected to the same position and for some years controlled the States of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, in the interest of the Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company. He has now retired from business and is residing at Courtland, Miss. Our subject's mother was born in Georgia, April 2, 1838; she was granddaughter of ex-Gov. Rucker, of Georgia, who was founder of the first cotton-mills of that State, also a great capitalist. Her father was born about 1815, and died in 1859. He was a graduate in the same class with Alexander H. Stephens, and was valedictorian. He was one of the largest stockholders of the Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad, and was offered the position of president of the company, but declined in favor of his cousin, F. M. White. Mrs. Ruffin departed this life April 16, 1864. Our subject was born at Memphis, November 1, 1858, and received his literary education mostly at the university of Tennessee, situated at Knoxville; he afterward received private instructions under Prof. W. Caldwell, and in February, 1879, began studying law at Memphis, with Taylor & Carroll, and also took lectures there. He was admitted to the bar, in May, 1880, and in October of the same year, he came to Covington, and began the practice of law. In June, 1880, he was united in marriage to Olie, daughter of Banyan and Nancy Payne. The marriage resulted in the birth of two children: Julius B. and William Carroll. Mr. Ruffin is an active and enterprising man and has built up a good practice in law, but for the past two years has been obliged to devote much time to other business, owning considerable real estate in and near Covington. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
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