Autauga County AlArchives Biographies.....Dr. John E. Wilkinson 1847 - 0000
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. JOHN E. WILKINSON, the well known physician and druggist of Prattville
and an elder brother of Judge William F. Wilkinson, was born near Autaugaville,
Ala., in 1847, and was reared on the home farm and attended school at
Autaugaville until sixteen years of age, when he joined company A, Eighth
Alabama cavalry, of Gen. Clanton's brigade and was engaged mostly in scouting
throughout Alabama and on the coast, and surrendered about six months after the
surrender of his general at Meridian, Miss. After the war had closed he resumed
his studies, and after being duly prepared, read medicine with Drs. Davis &
McNeel, at Autaugaville and then took a course of lectures at the university of
Maryland, at Baltimore, and finally graduated from the university of Louisiana,
now known as the Tulane university, at New Orleans, 1869. He then practiced
twelve years at Gastonburg, Wilcox county, Ala., and since then at Prattville,
Autauga county, where he has also conducted a first-class drug store. He is one
of the counselors of the State Medical association, and was last year president
of the county Medical society. He is a member of Prattville lodge, No. 87, F. &
A. M., of K. of H. lodge, No. 2,828, and of Merrill Pratt lodge, K. of P. The
marriage of the doctor took place January 10, 1872, to Miss Eugenia, daughter of
Hon. David F. and Mary Gaston, both natives of Wilcox county, Mrs. Gaston being
now deceased. Mrs. Wilkinson is also a native of Wilcox county, which county her
father represented in the state legislature for several years. They have four
children, David L., Lena A., John E., and Genia. David L. has just finished a
four years' course in the Southern university of Alabama at Greensboro. He is
now at Tulane university (medical department) of Louisiana, and expects to make
a physician. Lena A. has recently graduated at the Alabama Female college. She
has just returned from the Conservatory of Music and Art at Boston. John E.,
Jr., is now in the academy at Prattville. Genia, age eight. Dr. Wilkinson is not
only a skillful and popular physician, but a practical buisness man, and stands
very high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. His genealogy, which is of the
brighest respectability, will be found in the sketch of his brother, Judge
William F. Wilkinson, and it is, therefore, not necessary to repeat it here.



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