Biography of Henry C. Brannon, Pine Castle, Orange County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
II, page 179, 1923.

BRANNON, M.D., HENRY C.  One of the busiest physicians and surgeons in Orange County, Doctor 
BRANNON has been an earnest worker in everything he has ever undertaken.

Doctor BRANNON, whose home and practice has been centered at Pine Castle for a number of 
years, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, October 25, 1851, son of FRANKLIN and ELIZABETH 
(CRISWELL) BRANNON, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Virginia.  They were 
married in Ohio, and spent their lives in that state on a farm.

Oldest of ten children, HENRY C. BRANNON grew up on the old homestead, was privileged to 
attend the common schools, also was a student in a Presbyterian Academy, and in the National 
Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1869.  Following that he was 
a teacher and took up the study of medicine while teaching school.  In 1887 he graduated 
from the Hospital College of Medicine of Central University at Louisville, Kentucky.  During 
the World war Doctor BRANNON was acting assistant surgeon in the United States Public Health 
Service.  For several years he practiced medicine at Sardis, Ohio, and at West Union, in 
that state, and then moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where as a result of the heavy burdens 
assumed by him his health broke down and in 1905, an invalid, he was carried to St. Augustine, 
Florida.  After a serious illness of six weeks he recovered his health, and has since remained 
a permanent resident of Florida.  He practiced in Tampa, until 1915, when he removed to Pine 
Castle.

In 1872 Doctor BRANNON married CATHERINE MACAULEY, who died in Florida in 1908.  They reared 
five children:  HERBERT, who attained the rank of major in the United States Regular Army, 
and was in the service until 1921 when he resigned and now lives in California; ETHEL, wife 
of J. A. LIGEOUR, of Brunswick, Georgia; EDITH, wife of MAX KAHN, of New York City; VIRGINIA, 
who married J. B. HIGH, of Arco, Georgia; and HELEN, wife of J. A. BROWN, of Lee County, Florida.  
While living in the North, Doctor BRANNON took an active part in republican politics, though 
he never held office.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.