Washington Co., AR - Biographies - William Allen Mccord *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** William Allen Mccord, M. D., was born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 6, 1858, the son of Thomas N. and Tabitha (Hight) McCord. The father was born in Tennessee December 20, 1836, and was of English descent. He was reared in his native State, and there he has always lived. He engaged in merchandising in early life, sold goods at Rover, Tenn., before the war, and at Unionville after that event. He also followed farming. He was in the Confederate service during the war, and had the misfortune to lose a leg. He is now trustee of Bedford County, Tenn. The mother was a native of Tennessee, born in 1839, and died in 1862. William Allen McCord was the elder of two children born to his parents. He was reared and educated in Bedford County, Tenn., and later read medicine under Dr. W. F. Clary. He entered the Vanderbilt University, medical department, in 1881, and graduated from the same in March, 1883. He then located at Goshen, Ark., in June, of the same year, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice, and has been eminently successful in whatever he has undertaken. He has one-third interest in the store of Slaughter & Co., and owns property, etc., in Goshen. He was married February 28, 1884, to Miss Tennie Shofner, of Wesley, Madison Co., Ark., and who died June 9, 1885. Dr. McCord then married Miss Fannie Hastings, of Chapel Hill, Marshall Co., Tenn., and this union resulted in the birth of one daughter, Alice Hastings. Dr. McCord has been a member of the county medical association since 1885, was vice-president one term, and a delegate to the State association, but did not attend. From his meager start, and from being thrown upon his own resources at an early period, Dr. McCord has made an unusually good beginning, and a bright and prosperous future is before him. He is a Democrat in politics, is a Master Mason. and both he and Mrs. McCord are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.