Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Kendrick, James E. 1855 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. JAMES E. KENDRICK, practicing physician and surgeon of Luverne, Ala.,
was born in Warren county, Ga., in 1846. He is a son of Aaron T. and Eleanor
(Nesbitt) Kendrick, the former born in Wilkes county, Ga., in 1808, and the
latter in Macon county, Ga., in 1828. Aaron T. Kendrick was liberally educated
and came to Barbour county, Ala., in 1856, where he lived fifteen years. He then
removed to Butler county and later to Crenshaw county, where Mrs. Kendrick died
in 1884. Mr. Kendrick is still living, but is very feeble. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Kendrick were Methodists for many years. He has been a prominent Mason and has
always taken an active part in politics and in all other public matters, though
he never aspired to office. He has always been industrious and energetic and
accumulated a handsome property. He is one of a large family born to Jacob
Kendrick, who was also a Georgian by birth, and died in his native state. He was
of Irish descent and was a farmer all his life. Dr. J. E. Kendrick is the fifth
of eleven sons and two daughters, viz.: Dr. Joel C., a practicing physician of
Greenville and a graduate from the medical department of Vanderbilt university;
he was captain of a company in the Thirty-seventh Alabama infantry, and served
in the Tennessee army; William B. was captain of company B, Forty-sixth Alabama
infantry, served in the army in Virginia and is now connected with the National
Book Co., of Virginia; John A., was a prominent attorney, but went to New Mexico
and has not been heard of in ten years; Jones, died young; J. E.; Aaron T., Jr.,
a merchant in Texas, spent last two years of the war as a cadet of the state
university; George P.; Edward N., died young; Susie, died when two years old,
and Texas, died at eleven years of age. Dr. J. E. Kendrick was reared on a farm,
with a good common school education, spending the last two years of the war as a
cadet of the state university by appointment of Gov. Watts. While in the
university the cadets were frequently called into active service in different
parts of the state, which greatly interfered with their school work. After the
war he read medicine with his brother, and in 1867 and 1868 attended Washington
university, now the college of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, Md. In
1869 he graduated at the medical college of Alabama at Mobile. He then practiced
medicine at Leon until 1889, when the town of Luverne was founded, since which
time he has lived and practiced at Luverne, being the leading physician of the
place. He is also largely interested in farming. He has served as president of
the Crenshaw Medical society, and is now its secretary. He has been president of
the board of censors since its organization, and is a prominent member of the
State Medical association. He is a member of Luverne lodge, No. 488, F. & A. M.;
is P. C. C. and prelate of Luverne lodge, No. 84, K. of P. He is also one of the
most prominent politicians of the county, always taking an active part in the
politics of the day, and of all other public matters. In 1868 he married Miss
Fannie Riley, who was born and educated at Leon, in this county. She is a sister
of Judge Malachi Riley, of Andalusia, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this
volume.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 782-783
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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