Biographical Sketch of Dr. Alfred W. Titterington, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Dr. Alfred W. Titterington, a practicing physician and surgeon of
Richland, is a native of Christian County, KY., and was born in 
1837.  His father was Adam Titterington, who was born in Yorkshire,
England, about 1784, and when thirteen years of age immigrated to
the United States, where he was engaged in teaching forty-five
years, and was one of the leading educators of Kentucky; he was 
twice married, his first wife, whose name was Sarah Smith, being
the mother of ten children, of whom our subject Alfred W., was the
tenth.  Adam Titterington was also a well-to-do farmer, and died in
1857.  Mrs. Sarah Titterington was born in Virginia in 1794, and 
died in Christian County, KY., in 1837.  She was a daughter of
Moses Smith, whose birthplace was England.  He served during the
Revolutionary War, and died in Cumberland County, KY., at the
advanced age of ninety years.  Alfred W. Titterington, received
his education in the common schools of his native State, and when
a young man spent two years flat-boating on the Cumberland River,
after which he returned home, and the following three years was
engaged in the study of medicine with his brother, Richard M., in
Crittenden County, KY.  He was there actively engaged in the prac-
tice of his chosen profession until 1858, when he removed to 
Laclede County, MO., where he was a successful practitioner for 
thirty years.  He located in Richland in 1880, where he also has 
an extended practice.  The Doctor owns 151 acres of land on the
river, twenty acres near Richland and forty acres in another tract.
In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Eighty Missouri Infantry,
Confederate Army, and served three years, spending one year as a
hospital steward at Little Rock.  In 1879 he married Clara Wilson,
daughter of Samuel Wilson, a farmer and stock raiser of Laclede
County, MO., who died during the war.  Mrs. Titterington was born
in Laclede County, MO., and is the mother of two children.  She is 
a member of the Christian Church.  Mr. Titterington is a member of
Richland Lodge No. 382, A.F. & A.M., and is also a member of the
A.O.U.W.

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