History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri  1889, 
published by Goodspeed, Page, 722, 723-Cedar County Section

J. P. Brasher, M. D. who is one of the successful practicing physicians of Jerico
 Springs, Mo., is a native of Christian County, Ky., born Mary 6, 1850.  He has 
been identified with the interests of Cedar County since 1856, at which time he 
came with his parents, I. S. and R. E. (Petty) Brasher to Missouri.  The father is 
of Irish ancestry, a prosperous farmer, and was born on Kentucky soil in 1810.  
His wife was born in Tennessee in 1814, and died in Cedar County, Mo., on 
the 20th of June, 1887.  Five of their nine children grew to maturity, and are yet 
living, of whom J. P. Brasher is the third.  He resided with his parents until he 
reached his majority, and received his education in the public schools of 
Kentucky and Missouri.   In 1871 he took a course of lectures in the Missouri 
Medical College of St. Louis, and afterward entered the medical department 
of the University of Nashville, Tenn., from which he was graduated as an M. 
D. in 1874, and in 1881 received a diploma from the Missouri Medical College 
at St Louis.  He reside on a farm and practiced his profession near where 
Jerico now is, till the village was established, when he moved to his present 
residence.  He is one of the successful physicians of the county, and keeps 
thoroughly posted in his profession, and in social as well as his professional 
capacity is a genial and accommodating gentleman.  He is a Democrat in his 
political views, and is a member of the I.O. O. F. and the Masonic fraternity.  
In 1876 he was married to Miss Laura L. Mitchell, who was born in Missouri in 
1856 and is a daughter of M. W. and Mary Mitchell.  Mrs. Brasher is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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