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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WHITLEY THOMAS EWING, M.D., was born in Washington County, Va., December 28,
1823, and is a son of Samuel and Mary (Davis) Ewing, of that State.

  The senior Mr. Ewing was a teacher by profession; reared a family of seven
children, and died in 1825 at the age of about forty-five years.

  Dr. Ewing was reared in the country; went West at the age of fifteen years,
stopping first at Rogersville, Tenn.; from there traveled through Alabama to
Memphis, and down the river to Arkansas. He was accompanied by his brother when
he left home; they, it appears, having ran away from a disagreeable step-father.
From Arkansas he drifted into Louisiana, where he worked a while as a common
laborer for seven dollars a month. From home his brother William Ewing went
almost directly to Illinois, and at Quincy, that State, Whitley Thomas joined him.

  He worked four years in Quincy at the Manual Labor School, and from there
entered the Marietta, Ohio, College, from which institution he received his
education. To pay his expenses, while at college, he kept books and taught
school in the neighborhood of Marietta. Leaving college he returned to Quincy,
and, with Dr. Stahl, began the study of medicine. He received his first course
of lectures at Jacksonville, Ill., and graduated from the St. Louis Medical
College in 1848. In 1849 he began practice in the city last named, remained
there one year, and in 1850, accompanied again by his brother, went, over-land,
to California. There he entered into a good practice, made money, ran a hospital
for a time between Hangtown (now Placerville) and Cold Springs.

  Doctor Ewing returned to St. Louis in 1855, and there, on the 24th day of
August, that year, married Hannah I. Pettengill, a native of Massachusetts. From
St. Louis, at the end of eight months, he went to Cass County, Georgia, and
practiced medicine eight years. He was a strong Union man, which accounted for
his leaving the latter State in 1862, at which time he came to Gadsden. Here he
has since given much of his attention to the practice of medicine. He was a
member of the Reconstruction Conventions of 1867 and 1868, and has been more or
less in politics ever since. He has been several times a candidate for office,
and he is the most popular Republican in this part of the State.

  Doctor Ewing was appointed postmaster in 1866, and held the office until 1885.
He was the chairman of the executive committee of the Republican party for the
Seventh Congressional District during almost that entire period. Notwithstanding
his radicalism, he was a popular official, and, by his courtesy and gentlemanly
treatment of everybody, gained and held the respect of the people. His chief
deputy, during his entire incumbency as postmaster, was an old line Whig, now
acting with the Democrats. His wife died in June, 1886, leaving five children:
Arthur E., graduate of Dartmouth College, finishing his education in Germany,
now of the firm of Green, Post & Ewing, oculists and aurists, St. Louis; Munetta
J., wife of Wm. P. Shahan, merchant of Atalla. Ala.; Charles W., in company with
J. S. Paden, merchant of Gadsden; Stella M.; and Thomas G., broker, Gadsden.

  The family is identified with the Baptist Church, but the Doctor, himself, is
an Old School Presbyterian Church member, and is also a member of the Masonic
fraternity.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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