Biography of: Nathaniel M. Scales  Laurel County, Kentucky

Source; Biographical Sketches from, "Kentucky, History of the State"
Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, Laurel County
    
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Submitted by: Vera Burnham vburnham@metrocast.net
Date: November 21, 2002

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Nathaniel M. Scales, a practicing physician of London, Laurel County, KY, 
was born in Henry County, VA, February 23, 1838. His parents, Nathaniel and
Jane (Hay) Scales, also natives of Henry County, VA, had ten children, viz:
Joseph, Nancy E., Ellen, Harriet, Nathaniel M., Peter H. and four infants,
of whom our subject is the only survivor.  Nathaniel Scales, father of our
subject, was born in 1800, and followed farming all his life.  Jane Scales
was a daughter of Peter and Lodosca Hay.  Nathaniel M. Scales was reared and
educated in his native county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits
until 1856, when he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. R.D. Hay and
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1860. He then practiced his
profession until the out break of the war, when he enlisted in the
Confederate army, Company B, First North Carolina State troops, and was soon
afterward promoted to surgeon, serving in that capacity until the close of
war. He then resumed the practice of medicine in Virginia, remaining there
until 1869, when he moved to Laurel County, KY where he has since been 
actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. September 21,1870,
he married Alvana Magee, a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Cotengin)Magee,
of Laurel County. They have six children, viz: Mattie, Austin F., Lucy, Cora,
Henry and Fannie. Politically Mr. Scales is a Democrat. He is a member of the
F. & A.M. fraternity, and also of the Baptist Church.