Polk County, Missouri Biographies - John Benton WANN

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 708, 709,
Polk County Biographies Section

John Benton Wann, M. D., a native Missourian, was born in 
Lawrenceburg, Lawrence County, on the 27th of December, 1847,
and is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Hague) Wann, who were born,
reared and married in Tennessee. In 1824 they made a settlement
in Lawrence County, Mo., where the father engaged in tilling the
soil.  He served as a soldier from Tennessee in the Mexican War.
His father, William Wann, was a Virginian, who after the
Revolutionary War settled in Tennessee.  The Wanns were presumably
of Scotch extraction, and were of large stature, strong physique,
and long lived.  Dr. John B. Wann was the fifth child and second
son of seven children, and grew to manhood in Cass County, where
he obtained a good common school education, and farmed until his
twenty-third year.  He then gave up farming for a time, and spent
several years in traveling, trading, and otherwise occupying himself
throughout the Western States and Territories.  In 1876 he returned
from Oregon to his home, and began giving his attention to the study
of medicine, graduating from the Missouri Medical College, at 
St. Louis.  He had, in the meantime, practiced medicine, and after
graduating located at Humansville, Polk County, where he is regarded
as one of the leading members of the medical fraternity.  He is a
member of the Polk County Medical Society, is a stockholder in the 
Highland House property, and a member of the Blue Lodge in the 
Masonic fraternity.  He was married to Miss Julia McFall, in
Lawrence County, Mo., but she died in Oregon in full communion with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leaving him a son and daughter:
Addie and Elmer.  He married his second wife also in Lawrence County.
Her maiden name was Miss Susie A. Wilkerson, and she was born in
Arkansas, being a daughter of James and Lydia (Messick) Wilkerson.
They have one son, Homer.  Doctor, and Mrs. Wann and their two
eldest children are members of the Christian Church, in which he 
is an elder.
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