Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Duggar, R. H. June 16 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    R. H. DUGGAR, M. D., physician, living at Prairieville, Hale county, Ala.,
was born in Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1837. He is the son of Henry and Alice
Goode (Vaughan) Duggar, both of whom were natives of Virginia. Henry Duggar was
a son of John Duggar, whose father, John D., came to this country from Wales,
and settled in Brunswick county, Va.; on land deeded to him by George the
Second. Said deed was signed June 2, 1760-in the thirty-third year of his reign,
by Francis Fauquier, Esqr. ("our trusty and well beloved lieutenant governor and
commander in chief of our said colony and dominion, at Williamsburgh"), under
the seal of said colony, etc. This deed on parchment, well preserved, even to
the signatures, is in the hands of Dr. Duggar. Mrs. Alice Goode Duggar, is
related to the well known families of Virginia-Goodes, Watkins, and Vaughans.
She and her husband were the parents of five sons and one daughter. They moved
to Alabama in 1844, and settled in Marengo county. Henry Duggar was a merchant
in Petersburg, Va., and came to Alabama to look after his planting interests,
which pursuit he followed till his death, in 1853, then being sixty-six years
old. Dr. Duggar was quite young when his parents moved to Alabama, however he
came by land with his father, making the trip in four weeks, bringing with them
carriage and horses, wagons, tents, servants, etc. His first scholastic training
was from private tutors at home. At the age of fifteen years he was sent to
Madison college, Pennsylvania. Before graduating, however, on the death of his
father, he returned home and commenced the study of his chosen profession, with
Dr. J. D. Browder, and then for more than a year with his uncle, Dr. Luke White,
a noted physician of Petersburg, Va. Entering the university of Pennsylvania, he
was a special student under Drs. D. Hodges, Agnew and Penrose, and graduated in
the class of 1857 and 1858. Returning home he practiced medicine for two years
before the war. After hostilities commenced he was appointed, by Gov. Shorter,
physician in charge of the Alabama state salt works. This position he soon
vacated, being appointed a member of the state medical examining board of the
Confederate army, at the same time acting assistant surgeon of the hospital at
Talladega, being stationed there, and was there with his wife at the time Gen.
Croxton, of the northern army, made his raid. When hostilities ceased he
returned home again, near Gallion, to practice medicine. He is a member of the
Hale county Medical society, being at one time its president, and is a
counsellor in the Alabama Medical association. In 1864, he was united in
marriage with Miss Margaret Louisa Minge, eldest daughter of David Minge, Esq.,
and related to the Adams and Harrison families of Virginia. To this marriage six
sons have been born, all but one of whom are still living. Three sons are grown;
the eldest, John F., has been assistant professor in agriculture in the Texas
and also in South Carolina colleges, and was for some time editor of the
Southern Live Stock Journal, of Mississippi, and is now in Washington city in
the agricultural department. Reuben H. is merchandising; Benjamin Minge is
assistant director in charge of the government experiment station, near
Uniontown, Perry county, Ala. I. F. and B. M., graduated at the Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical college with distinguished honor, under that noted
disciplinarian, Gen. Stephen D. Lee. Waverley Goode, the fourth son, is now at
Auburn, Alabama's Polytechnic school. Llewellyn Ludwick is at the Agricultural
and Mechanical college of Mississippi. Dr. Duggar has always been much
interested in agriculture, fine stock, and experimenting in horticulture, etc.,
and has endeavored to give his children an education fitting them for business
pursuits. He has but one brother living, W. W. Duggar, of Demopolis, Ala. By
appointment of Gov. Thomas Goode Jones, he has been recently made a trustee of
the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical college at Auburn. He has always been a
democrat in politics, and is a master Mason. He and his family are members of
the Protestant Episcopal church.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1059-1060
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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