Bio: Dr. J. W. Day, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Dr. J. W. Day is an able and a highly successful medical practitioner of
Dykesville and the surrounding country.  He is a Georgian, born in 1834, to
Nathan and Martha E. B. (Cole) Day, both of whom were born in South Carolina,
the birth of the former occurring in 1806.  He was a son of Jonathan Day, who
is supposed to have born in England, but who came to America in early life and
afterward took sides with the colonists in their struggle for liberty with the
mother country.  The wife of Nathan Day was a daughter of Samuel Cole of South
Carolina, and to her union with Mr. Day two children were born: Sarah M. (who
became the wife of John L. Hurst, of Rosston, Ark., and died in 1887, leaving
a family of ten children), and Dr. J. W. Day.  The latter attained manhood in
this parish, and was given the advantages of the common schools, in which he
made rapid progress in his studies, and he was quick to grasp at new ideas,
possessed a retentive memory, and at all times applied himself to his tasks. 
In 1857 he graduated from the Augusta Medical College, but prior to this had
been married in 1853 to Miss Nancy J. Calloway, of Georgia, and with her came
to Claiborne Parish in 1860 where they have reared two of three children that
have been born to them: James N. (a planter of Webster Parish) and Montrose (a
practicing physician in partnership with his father).  Bennie Z. is deceased. 
The Doctor was an old-line Whig until the opening of the Rebellion, since
which time he has been identified with the Democratic party.  Socially he
belongs to the A. F. & A. M., the K. of P. and L. Of H., and Mrs. Day is a
worthy member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

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