Marion County, KY - Bios:  Dedman, Phil T.
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Phil T. DEDMAN 3331, Marion Co. 

Surname: Dedman, Timberlake, Duke, Adams

Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Marion County.

PHIL. T. DEDMAN, D.D.S., is a native of Virginia, born in Washington, Rappahannock County, 
August 27, 1850; his father, Robert Dedman, was also a Virginian, born in 1781. He married 
Miss Elizabeth Timberlake of Spottsylvania [sic] County, and to them were born ten sons and 
two daughters, of which number Phil. T. is the youngest. Five of this family are yet living: 
Annie M. (Duke), Wm. D., Samuel L., James O. and Phil. T. The mother died in 1854; the father, 
Robert, survived until 1870. He was, during the greater part of his life, a merchant of 
Fredericksburg, Va., from there he removed to Rappahannock and carried on business until the 
beginning of the war in 1861, when he retired to a farm in Loudoun County near Leesburg, where 
he remained until his death. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and also of the 
Masonic fraternity, and held the office of postmaster for many years. His father of Scotch 
and English extraction. Phil. T. Dedman was reared in the town of Washington, Va., where he 
received a good common English education, and in 1867-68 was a student in Westminster College 
of Fulton, Missouri. He returned to Virginia, where he was two years in the merchandise trade 
with G. W. and W. H. Adams of Middleburg, after which he was in the same business with 
Henderson, Stone & Co., of Fulton Mo., until 1872, when he came to Harrodsburg, Ky., and 
began the study of dentistry. He remained here two years, then after two years' residence in 
Springfield, Ky., in 1876 entered the Pennsylvania Dental College of Philadelphia, from which
institution he graduated in 1877, and in the following year located in Lebanon, where he has 
for eight years been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. The 
Doctor in unmarried. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and vice-president of the 
State Dental Association; also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a K.T., of Marion 
Commandery, No. 24; also a member of the I.O.O.F. Politically he is a Democrat, and takes 
a lively interest in political affairs.