Jackson County IL Archives Biographies.....Harral, W. J. 
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Author: Biographical Publishing Co. (1894)

DR. W. J. HARRAL is a well known and rising young physician now engaged in the
practice of medicine in Elkville. He claims Tennessee as the state of his
nativity, and in its schools he received a liberal education. Determining to
take up the practice of medicine and make it his life work, he entered the
college at Memphis, Tenn., and was graduated with honor from that institution
with the degree of M. D.

  Mr. Harral is a doctor of the old school. He began practice in 1883 and has
continued it uninterruptedly up to the present time, in the early part of 1894.
His ability to properly diagnose difficult cases soon brought him conspicuously
before the public and made him well known to a wide territory. His practice from
the beginning steadily increased and in a few years extended throughout the more
densely populated districts of the western part of Middle Tennessee.

  Shortly after beginning practice, as he was now starting out for himself, Dr.
Harral chose as a companion and helpmate on life's journey Miss Eugenia
Thompson, a daughter of J. N. Thompson, a native of North Carolina. The parents
of our subject, Baker and Rebecca (White) Harral, were also natives of North
Carolina, and from that state some sixty years ago emigrated to Tennessee, where
the father carried on agricultural pursuits. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Harral have been
born two children, a son and daughter, Carl Rivers and Lonera.

  For about ten years our subject continued to practice in his native state and
then came to Illinois, locating in Elkville in 1893. He has for about a year
been engaged in practice in this place and is already doing a successful
business. He is a close student of his profession, and his skill and ability
have won for him a high reputation, not only among his patrons, but also among
his brother physicians. He is a wide-awake and enterprising young man, and this
community finds in him a valued citizen who manifests a commendable interest in
everything pertaining to its welfare and its advancement. He possesses many
excellencies of character, and he and his estimable wife have gained many
friends in this community.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Randolph, Jackson, Perry and Monroe
Counties, Illinois
Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the
Counties
Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United
States and the Governors of the State of Illinois

Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co.
1894


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