Biographical Sketch of John Q. Titterington, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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DR. John Q. Titterington, physician, farmer and stock dealer, of Lac-
lede county, Mo., is a native of Cumberland county, Ky., where he was
born February 12, 1826.  His parents, Adam and Sarah (Smith) Titter-
ington, were originally from Belfast, Ireland and Virginia, respective-
ly.  The father, who was born in 1783, was educated in his native city,
and when eighteen years of age came to the United States, and located
in Kentucky, where he was married to Miss Smith, who had moved there
with her parents at an early day.  He was engaged in farming and school
teaching for a number of years, and was a graduate in medicine, but 
never practiced that profession.  On coming to America he took an 
active interest in politics, and was a Jacksonian Democrat.  He was a
member of the Christian Church, and died August 17, 1856, at the age of
seventy-six years, his wife dying in 1837.  She was born in 1794. Their
union was blessed in the birth of twelve children, all of whom grew to
maturity, and five are now living: James (the eldest of the family, was
a graduate of the Louisville, Ky., Medical College, and was one of the
oldest practitioners of Laclede county, but is now a resident of Pul-
aski county), John Q., Daniel (a house carpenter, of Dallas, Tex.),
Alfred W. (a practicing physician, of Richland, Mo.) and Elizabeth
(widow of Mr. Merrit).  The father was married twice, and by his second
wife became the father of two children: Caroline (Mrs. Hamilton, of 
Clarksville, Tenn.) and a son, who is deceased.  Their mother died in
1864.  Dr. John Q. Titterington grew to maturity in Christian and Cald-
well counties, Ky., and received his education at Princeton, Ky., and
in 1850 began the study of medicine under Dr. Young, two years later
entering the St. Louis Medical College, and the following year began
practicing his profession in Laclede county, Mo., and the next year 
located in Marionville, Lawrence county.  After residing in this place
for seven years he entered the Confederate army as second surgeon, and
served four years, after which he located in Greene county, Ill.  Here 
he resided only ten months, when he again settled in Missouri, taking 
up his residence in Franklin county, and in 1869 came to Laclede county
where he has since made his home.  He has a very extensive practice,
and is one of the acknowledged leaders of the medical profession in
Laclede county.  June 1, 1854, he was married to Elizabeth Wilks, who
was born in Alabama March 9, 1836.  She came to Missouri with her 
parents when a child, and located in Lawrence county, on Buck Prairie,
where descendants of the family are still living.  Two of their five
children are living: Jesse M. (who is a graduate of the Nashville
Medical College, and is now one of the leading physicians of Marion-
ville, Mo.), and Mary (Mrs. Smith of St. Louis).  Those deceased are
James H. (who died in infancy), Sarah A. (whose death occurred at the
age of about two years) and Robert D. (who died when twenty-two years
of age).  He was a graduate of the Christian Biblical College, of St.
Louis, and the St. Louis Medical College before he was twenty-one years
of age; was one of the most promising young men of the county, and gave
promise of becoming one of the leading physicians of the State.  He had
built up a good practice, and was respected and esteemed by all who 
knew him.  He died on the 27th of October, 1888.

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