Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Huggins, Jacob July 13 1836 - liiving in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JACOB HUGGINS, M. D., physician of Newbern, Ala., was born near Newbern,
July 13, 1836. He is a son of Jacob and Ann I. (Bryan) Huggins, both of whom
were born and reared in Jones county, N. C., the former born in 1806, the latter
in 1802. He was a son of Jacob Huggins, also a North Carolinian. The Huggins
family is believed to have been originally from Normandy, and to have gone into
England with William the Conqueror. The members of it that came to America, came
from England, and settled in North Carolina, in which state the family is well
known and well connected. Mrs. Ann I. Huggins is a daughter of Joseph Bryan, a
North Carolinian of Irish ancestry, and both the paternal and maternal
grandfather, of Dr. Huggins, were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Dr.
Huggin's parents were married in North Carolina and had born to them six sons
and two daughters. They came to Alabama in 1835 and settled near Newbern, but in
Perry county, and in 1846 removed to Newbern, where they both died. Mrs. Huggins
died in 1852 and then. Mr. Huggins married a Mrs. Mary Paul, who bore him two
daughters, and is now deceased. He died in 1867. He was a farmer by occupation.
Dr. Jacob Huggins was reared at Newbern, and received a classical education at
Newbern and at a high school in Sumter county. After teaching school about two
years he entered Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia, where he took one
course of lectures and then spent eight months at New York city, taking there a
private course in medicine under T. Gaillard Thomas, M. D., and also attended a
summer course of lectures in the university of New York. Returning to
Philadelphia he entered the university of Pennsylvania and graduated from that
institution in 1860. While attending the university of Pennsylvania he took a
private course in anatomy under D. Hayes Agnew, M. D., and after his graduation
from the university he returned to Newbern and practiced medicine one year. In
1862 he entered the Confederate army as a private soldier, but soon, upon
examination, he was promoted to the medical department, and as surgeon served
through the entire war, being sometimes in the hospital and sometimes in the
field. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of medicine at Newberne,
and has ever since been thus engaged at this place, and now enjoys a large and
profitable practice both as a physician and surgeon. He has long been a member
of the Alabama Medical association, and of the Hale county Medical society, and
holds official connection with each. He is now senior counselor and senior
vice-president of the Medical association of the state of Alabama, and he is
also health officer of Hale county. He has contributed a number of articles to
medical journals and has read a number of papers relating to the profession
before meetings of the state association. He is a master Mason and is a member
of the order of Knights of Pythias. He has been active in politics as a
democrat, and. has served as chairman of the county convention four different
times. While he has been thus active and deeply interested in politics he has
never sought office for himself. In 1866 he married Miss Ann J. Christian of
Greensboro, who died February 2, 1892, leaving no children. The doctor is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and is steward of his church.
In addition to his practice, he is interested in farming, and owns a fine
plantation near Newbern. He is also a member of the board of control of the
Canebrake Experiment Agricultural station, near Uniontown, Ala., a reporter for
the Agricultural and Weather bureau, at Washington, and a trustee of Marion
Female seminary, a female college of high standing at Marion, Ala. The Bryan
family, from whom Dr. Huggins descended on his mother's side, is one of the
largest families in the United States, and have had many distinguished members
of that name during the past 100 years of our national history. Several
distinguished jurists, prominently, John H. and James W. Bryan of North
Carolina, Drs. Joseph Bryan, father and son of Philadelphia, Dr. Joseph Bryan of
Lexington, Ky., Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, authoress, etc., of Georgia, Gen. Joseph
Bryan of Georgia, and Gen. Nathan Bryan of North. Carolina, of Revolutionary
fame. Daniel Boone, the great pioneer, married Rebecca Bryan of North Carolina,
a great-great-aunt of Dr. Huggins. Several towns and counties in the United
States are named after the family. O'Brian is said to be the original name of
the family, and Edward O'Brian, who figured prominently in Irish history about
800 years ago, is said to be the progenitor of the family. Ann Jordan Christian,
the deceased wife of Dr. Huggins, is also a descendant of a large and
distinguished family. One of the family, Letitia Christian, married President
John Tyler. Another member of the family, Rev. William Christian, of Richmond,
Va., married Julia Jackson, only child of the famous Confederate general,
Stonewall Jackson.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1063-1864
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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