BRUMFIELD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BRUMFIELD, W. C. - b: 1854 Putnam Co, IN
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 774
residence: Leesville

W. C. Brumfield, M.D., is a native of Putnam County, Indiana, and was born May 16, 
1854, being the son of Hon. James B. Brumfield, a Kentuckian by birth, who went 
to Indiana when a young man with his parents and located in Putnam County. 
James Brumfield was married in that county to Sophia Ann Rogers also of 
Kentucky. The former improved a farm and carried on a blacksmith shop in 
connection and afterward was also engaged in merchandising. He early took a 
prominent part in political matters; was nominated and elected to represent his 
county, and served two terms in the legislature. W. C. Brumfield passed his youth 
in his native county upon the farm, receiving his primary education at the public 
schools, supplemented with three years' attendance at the Green Castle College. 
He came west in November, 1873, settling at Clinton, Henry County, and 
commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Britts and Jennings as preceptors in 
the fall of the same year. He attended his first course of lectures at the St. Louis 
Medical College in the winter of 1874-75, and was graduated in the spring of 
1877. He commenced the active practice of his profession at Colesburg where he 
has built up a successful and constantly increasing patronage. He is a close 
student and keeps well posted in the advanced theories of his profession.

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