Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Tipton, Frank November 11 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    FRANK TIPTON, M. D., was born in Dallas county, Ala., on the 11th day of
November, 1848. His parents were John Green Tipton and Elizabeth Tipton, nee
Turner. The father was a native of Georgia, while the mother was born in North
Carolina, and she, who recently died an octogenarian, was descended from among (
the prominent families of the Revolution. She distinctly remembered having seen
her immediate family and relatives as they departed from home to go to the seat
of war in 1812. After marriage Dr. Tipton's parents settled down in life on a
plantation in Dallas county, Ala., and here the father became both a wealthy and
influential planter. He was a man of sterling qualities and of strong force of
character and mind, and his wife, who survived him some thirty-nine years or
more; died recently in the city of Selma, where she will long remain in
affectionate memory as a pious and cultured woman, for she was a devout
Christian and a most excellent lady. Dr. Frank Tipton was reared upon a
plantation and received his scholastic education in the academical department of
the university of Alabama and university of Virginia. He received his medical
education at New York city and city of New Orleans, and began the practice of
his profession at the seat of his parental homestead in Dallas county, but in
1881 removed to Selma, the county seat of Dallas county, Ala., where he is now
engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1869-70 Dr. Tipton was chief of
clinics at the Charity hospital, New Orleans, and in 1880 a clinical assistant
in the New York Ear, Eye and Throat infirmary. Dr. Tipton has contributed to
various pamphlets and medical journals; among his contributions to the former
are the following : "The Negro Problem from a Medical Standpoint ;"
"Laryngology;" "Ophthalmology;" " Otology;" purposed for the general
practitioner of medicine and surgery. He takes appropriate rank among not only
the foremost physicians and surgeons of Alabama, but of the south as well. He is
a member of both the Alabama State and Dallas county Medical societies, and in
them has wielded a wide influence. He is not only skillful and learned as a
physician and surgeon, but his literary education is good, and he is gifted in
speech or conversation, while with the pen he writes with ease, grace and
learning. He has been twice married, his first wife having been Miss Gertrude
Riggs, daughter of Daniel M. Riggs, and sister of the late Dr. B. H. Riggs, of
Selma, Ala. His second wife, whom he married in 1884, was Miss Lewis, daughter
of the late Ivey Lewis, of Hale county, Ala.




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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 920-921
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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