Biographies, Adair County KY; Dr. Thomas H. CURD          1849-

Submission Date: 13-Nov-2001
Source: "Kentucky - A History of the State"; W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle, &
G.C. Kniffin; 4th edition, 1887

Thomas H. CURD, M.D., was born in Murray, Calloway County KY on 03-Jan-1849 and
is the third in a family of eight children born to James H. and Elizabeth L.
(FRAZER) CURD, the former a native of Wadesboro, Calloway County, and the latter
of Columbia, Adair County. They are of Irish and Scotch-Irish descent
respectively. James H. CURD was married in Adair County and immediately returned
to Calloway where he followed tailoring until about 1861, with the exception of
a few years he engaged in merchandising at Murray. During a part of the time he
was also engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his other business,
on a farm of 360 acres which he inherited from his father and still owns. For
several years also he was a jailer of Calloway County. In 1872 he moved to Adair
County where he bought another farm of 140 acres one mile north of Columbia on
the Campbellsville Pike upon which he now resides and is successfully cultivating.
He belongs to no church or secret order but Mrs. CURD has been from early life a
devout member of the Old School Presbyterian Church. Dr. CURD received a good
classical and scientific education in the schools of his native county and at the
Columbia College. For the first two years after attaining his majority he was
employed on the home farm, after which he was engaged as salesman in a drug store
at Columbia for another two years.  He was then elected marshal of the town 
of Columbia, and held that position for something over a year.  He then commenced
the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Melvin RHOEL of Columbia, and
in 1877 commenced his medical course at the Medical Department of the University
of Louisville, graduating with distinguished honors in the spring of 1879. He has
since practiced with success at Columbia, with the exception of fourteen months
when he was located at Camp Knox, Green County. Dr. Curd married, 17-Dec-1884,
Miss Mattie, daughter of William MOSES of Louisville where she was born in 1680.
The Doctor is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church and his wife of the
Missionary Baptist Church; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a
Democrat.

Surnames: CURD, FRAZER, MOSES, RHOEL

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