Dekalb County AlArchives Biographies.....McWhorter, Horace P. September 6 1859 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. HORACE P. MCWHORTER, an eminent young practitioner of Collinsville,
DeKalb county, Ala., is a native of Gaylesville, Cherokee county, Ala., and was
born September 6, 1859. His grandfather, Allen M. McWhorter, came of an old
South Carolina family and was born in Anderson district, that state, whence he
removed, when a young man, to Carroll county, Ga., where he reared a family and
where he passed the remainder of his years. His son, Dr. A. M. McWhorter, was
there married about 1852, and in 1857 came to Alabama, stopped for a short
period in Lebanon, De Kalb county, and then located in Gaylesville, Cherokee
county, where he resided until 1890, when he removed to Collinsville for the
purpose of making his home with his son, Dr. Horace P. In January, 1892,
however, he made a trip to Selma, Cal., to visit a son, and while there sickened
and died. He was a graduate of Atlanta Medical college and always enjoyed a
lucrative practice; in politics he was a democrat; he was also a royal arch
Mason, but not a member of any church, although he died a Christian. His wife
bore the maiden name of Mahala J. Davis, and she bore her husband nine children,
who were named, in order of birth, as follows: Milton, who is a Methodist
Episcopal minister of Selma, Cal.; Dora, the wife of Col. Charles Rattrey, of
Gaylesville, Ala.; Della E., now Mrs. Joe R. Roberts, of Collinsville; Horace
P., the physician with whose name this sketch opens; Zachariah D., president of
the high school at Greenville, N. C.; Robert L., a physician of Gaylesville,
Ala.; Jessie L., married to T. C. Banks, cashier of Attala bank, Attalla, Ala.;
E. H. McWhorter, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman at Gadsden, Ala.; and Bershie
F., deceased. Mrs. Mahala J. (Davis) McWhorter now resides with her son, Dr.
Horace P. She was born in Anderson district, S. C., and was taken, when a girl
of fourteen, to Carroll county, where her parents made settlement. Dr. Horace P.
McWhorter received his literary education at the high school in Gaylesville and
read medicine in the office of his father, and after this course of preparatory
study passed the session of 1879-80 at the Atlanta Medical college, and then
attended the Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn., from which he graduated
in the spring of 1881, having devoted his especial attention to chemistry. He at
once located at Collinsville for the practice of his profession, and has met
with an abundant success. He stands high in the estimation of his
fellow-practitioners in his section as well as in that of the general public,
being a member of the State Medical society and member of its examining board.
In politics, the doctor is a democrat, and under the auspices of that party
holds the position of county health officer. In religion he is a Methodist and
is a trustee of the church. The first marriage of the doctor took place in
January, 1882, to Miss Fannie C. Newman, at Collinsville; this lady bore one
child, Thomas E., now deceased, and on June 6, 1885, she herself passed away. On
June 24, 1886, Dr. McWhorter married, for his second wife, Miss Naomi J. Beeson,
and this union has been crowned by the birth of three children: Marcus B.,
deceased, Horace L. and Jerome Cochran.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 931-932
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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