BIO:  ACHOR, James M., M.D., s/o Abraham & Nancy (Ellis) Achor

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

ACHOR   ELLIS   GALBRETH

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana Chicago:  The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Bogard Twp., page 884

JAMES M. ACHOR, M.D., of Daviess County, Ind., residing at Cornettsville,
is the eighth of a family of eleven children born to Abraham and Nancy
(Ellis) Achor.  The father was born in Virginia in 1791.  He married the
mother in Kentucky, where they lived about twenty-five years, and then
moved to Daviess County, and located near Raglesville, where the father
died in 1876. He was a farmer, and a soldier in the war of 1812.  The
mother resides with a daughter at Cornettsville.  Our immediate subject
was born in Owen County, Ky., December 31, 1843.  He was brought to
Indiana when quite young.  He was raised on a farm, and remained with his
parents until twenty-three years old.  He taught school two terms, and had
also begun the study of medicine when the war broke out.  April 23, 1861,
he enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth Indiana Volunteers, and served until
March, 1865, when he was discharged on account of a serious wound,
received in 1864 at Spottsylvania Court House. He also received four
gun-shot and shell fragment wounds.  Coming from the army he studied
medicine for three years, and during the years 1874-75 attended the
medical college at Louisville, Ky.  After graduating he began practicing
his profession in Cornettsville.  He has been very successful, and has a
large practice.  December 8, 1870, he was married to Margaret Galbreth, a
native of Daviess County, born in 1848.  To them were born three children,
two of whom died in infancy.  The one living is Alice J.  Dr. Achor is a
member of the I.O.O.F., and has always been an ardent and uncompromising
Republican.  His wife is a member of the Methodist Church.


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