Biographical Sketch of Joshua A. Gore, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Joshua Allen Gore, M.D., was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, November
27, 1823, and moved to Paris, Monroe County, Missouri, and practiced
for nine years, and then to Gentry County and practiced seven years.
In April, 1861, he came to this city, where he has since been in the
active practice of his profession.  He married Elizabeth E. Davis, of
Bloomfield, Kentucky, in January, 1846.  She died twenty-two months
after her marriage.  In October, 1848, he married for his second wife,
Zuelda Vaughn, of Kentucky.  they have three children living: Thomas 
A., Annie E. and Walter Ogden.  He received a good education at the
St. Joseph College, Beardstown, and studied medicine with Drs. Merry-
field and Beemis, of Bloomfield, Kentucky, and attended the medical
course at Louisville, Kentucky.  He was appointed Health Officer of
this city in 1870, and again in 1878-79.  He is a man of good judge-
ment and of great experience in his profession.  He is a member of
the State Medical Society.  Dr. Beemis, his honored preceptor is now
a Professor in the Medical College in New Orleans, and a member of
the National Board of Health.

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