BYERS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BYERS, John W. - b: 1829 Sullivan Co, TN
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 690
residence: Bogard

John W. Byers, physician and surgeon, section 17, was born in Sullivan County, 
Tennessee, April 5, 1829. His father, Benjamin Byers, a native of Maryland, was a 
cabinet maker by trade. He removed to Tennessee and was married there to Mary 
Owen. They raised a family of six children, the subject of this sketch being the 
third. His youth was spent in Tennessee, and he received his education in the 
schools of that state and Virginia. When nineteen years old he entered the office 
of Dr. A. C. Maxwell, of Washington County, Virginia, with whom he read medicine 
for about three years, when he began the practice of his chosen profession. In 
1855 he went to Kentucky and practiced there until 1865, then becoming an 
attendant at the Bellevue Medical College. After one term, in June, 1866, he 
graduated at Long Island Medical College. Returning to Kentucky, he resided there 
until 1867, when he came to Missouri, stopped in Johnson County a short time and 
then removed to Henry County. In 1873 he went to Arkansas and stayed until 
1876, when he returned to Henry County. Here he has since been having a 
successful practice. His farm contains eighty. acres of choice land well 
improved. The doctor is a member of the Presbyterian Church. June 23, 1859, he 
married Emila J. Bofferd, a native of Kentucky. She died February 6, 1863. They 
had lost two children. He was again married May 7, 1867, to Sarah J. Bankinship, 
also of Kentucky. They have three children: Herschel M., John M. and Benjamin 
Owen.

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