Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Whitby, Thomas Porter February 24 1815 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    THOMAS PORTER WHITBY, D. D. S., a leading practitioner of dental surgery of
the state of Alabama, was born at Fayetteville, Fayette county, Ga, February 24,
1815. His father, Rev. Thomas H. Whitby, was a native of South Carolina, in
which state he was reared, educated and married. His wife, E. M. Porter, was
born in South Carolina, and died in Georgia in 1856. She was the mother of six
children, and after her death, Rev. Mr. Whitby removed to Alabama, where he
married, for a second wife, a Mrs. E. M. Gunn, by whom he had one child. While
he was a farmer by occupation throughout life, he is also a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south. In this church he was well known as an able
minister and a devout, pious man. He remained in connection with the Alabama,
conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, until his death, which
occurred in October, 1870, when fifty-nine years of age. Dr. Thomas P. Whitby
was raised in Auburn, Ala., and was educated in the East Alabama Male college,
and was in attendance there when the Civil war came on. In January, 1862, he
enlisted as a private soldier in company D, Thirty-seventh Alabama infantry,
with which regiment he remained as a private soldier until the end of the war,
surrendering with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, at Greensboro, in 1865. In every
skirmish or battle in which his command was engaged, Dr. Whitby participated. He
was in the battles of Iuka, Corinth, Hatchet Creek, Vicksburg, in January, 1863;
Fort Pemberton, siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Dalton,
Rocky Face Ridge, the other battles down to Atlanta; and so on down to the last
great battle, at Bentonville, N. C. He was three times wounded, but never
disabled. After the war Dr. Whitby again attended the East Alabama Male college,
at Auburn, for one year, and then began the study of dental surgery under a
private preceptor, who was then a practitioner at Auburn. In 1887 he was located
at Wetumpka, Elmore county, engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. He
remained here until January, 1888, when he located at Selma, Ala., and has since
then been located at this place. While at Wetumpka he acquired the reputation of
being a first-class dentist, and became prominent in the state, and became a
member of the Alabama state board of dental examiners, of which he is still a
member, and is its secretary at the present time. He is a member of the Alabama
State Dental association, and has been its president. On February 24, 1870, he
married Miss Eliza J. Campbell, of Wetumpka, where she was born and reared,
being educated at the Female college at Tuskegee. Dr. and Mrs. Whitby have eight
children. Mrs. Whitby is a member of the Presbyterian church, while Dr. Whitby
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He is a royal arch Mason,
has filled the most important offices in his lodge, and is now past master. He
is also a member of the Odd Fellows and has passed all the chairs. His practice
in dentistry is such that he may be safely considered a leading practitioner.
Dr. Whitby sustains the reputation of being a perfect gentleman, a respectable
citizen, and a faithful Christian.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 927-928
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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