Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....J. K. Battle August 25 1830 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    J. K. BATTLE, M. D., a physician of well known ability and extended
reputation, is a native of Barbour county, Ala., born in the city of Eufaula,
August 25, 1830. He is the son of J. K. and Sarah Battle. His education in the
common schools was supplemented by a course in Mercer university, Macon, Ga.,
which he attended from 1876 to 1880, and in the latter year began the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. P. D. L. Barker, under whose instructions he
continued for a period of twelve months. In the fall of 1880, he entered the
medical department of Tulane university, New Orleans, and, graduating from the
same in 1883, returned to Eufaula and engaged in the practice of his profession,
in which his superior abilities have won for him a prominent place. He has
distinguished himself in all departments of his chosen calling, and, though
still a young man, has made a reputation of which many older professional men
might well feel proud. Dr. Battle was married December 6, 1886, to Effie
Jennings, daughter of Robert and Flora Jennings. Mrs. Battle's people moved to
Barbour county, just after the late war, and she is one of a family of eight
children, all daughters. Politically, the doctor is a, democrat, and fraternally
belongs to the F. & A. M. and Pythian orders. In religion the Baptist church
represents his creed, while Mrs. Battle is a communicant of the Methodist
church. Dr. Battles' father, a native of Barbour county, was a man of scholarly
attainments and a graduate of Harvard college. He prepared himself for the
Baptist ministry, but shortly after entering upon the duties of his sacred
vocation was called away by death, leaving one son, Dr. J. K. His wife, Sarah
Hunter, is connected with the noted Hunter family, as are also many of Eufaula's
prominent citizens. The doctor's paternal grandfather, Cullen Battle, moved to
Eufaula, Ala., from Milledgeville, Ga., in the year 1837, but was a native of
North Carolina. In his last years he practiced the healing art, later followed
planting, and lived to the remarkable age of ninety-six years. Maj. J. L.
Hunter, the doctor's maternal grandfather, was a son of Gen. J. L. Hunter, who
for many years was a prominent man of South Carolina, where he served with
distinction in the state legislature as an opponent of Gen. Jackson's
administration, taking an active part in favor of the nullification ordinance.
He came to Alabama in 1835, and became quite prominent in the political affairs
of the state, having served a number of years in the general assembly. He
amassed great wealth, and was one of the largest slave-holders in Barbour
county, while he lived.



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