Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Cross, William C. July 31 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM C. CROSS, M. D., a prominent physician of Newbern, Hale county, Ala.,
was born in Colbert county, July 31, 1856. He is a son of Dr. William C. and
Mary (Harris) Cross, the former of whom was an eminent physician in his day. He
was one of five brothers, four of whom were physicians. The Cross family is of
English ancestry. On coming to America they settled in Northampton and Gates
counties, N. C. William C. Cross, M. D., was educated at Verulam high school and
at Randolph-Macon college, in Virginia, and afterward graduated from the
University of Alabama and from Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn. He
began the practice of his profession in Bibb county, remaining there six years,
and then removing to Tuscaloosa. Here he remained until 1892, when he removed to
Newbern, where he still resides. He ranks as senior colonel of the Alabama state
troops, and is a senior counselor of the Alabama Medical association. He is a
member of the American Microscopical association, of the order of the Knights of
Pythias, is a master Mason, and a member of the Psi Kappa Psi fraternity.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1057-1058
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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