Houston-Montgomery-Stewart County TN Archives Biographies.....McFall, Robert J. 1866 - 
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Author: Will T. Hale

   R. J. McFALL, M. D. To mental endowments of a high order, Dr. Robert John

McFall, of Erin, Tennessee, has added such persistence of application and well

ordered method of procedure as to make the most of the time which the pressure

of ordinary professional service has spared to him, thus gaining a widespread

reputation among the physicians of Houston county and a large and representative

clientele. Although handicapped to some extent by a breakdown caused by too

constant devotion to his calling, during the past twenty years he has labored

assiduously in alleviating the ills of his fellow-men, and the general

confidence and high esteem in which he is held give evidence that his labors

have not been in vain. Robert J. McFall was born December 31, 1866, in District

No. 19, Montgomery county, Tennessee, and is a son of Robert Henry McFall.



   Dr. McFall's preliminary studies were prosecuted in the common schools of

Montgomery county, following which he became a student in Cloverdale Academy, in

Dickson county, and Pleasant View Academy, in Cheatham county. Having decided to

enter upon the practice of medicine and surgery, he began the study of these

sciences in the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, and was

graduated from the latter institution in 1892, with the degree of Doctor of

Medicine. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at Sailor's

Rest, Tennessee, but after two years there changed his field of labor to

Cumberland City, there being one of the city's leading practitioners from 1894

to 1909. It was in the latter year that he was compelled to temporarily retire,

owing to the failure of his health, and for two years he lived a quiet life,

with the result that his health was regained and he was again able to take up

the duties of his exacting profession. Dr. McFall came to Erin in 1911, and the

success which has attended his efforts here has given him no reason to regret

his choice of locations. In various complicated eases the doctor has

demonstrated his skill and sympathetic nature, gaining the gratitude of his

patients and the respect of his professional brethren. He has interested himself

actively in the work of the various medical organizations, and at this time is a

member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Middle Tennessee Medical

Society, the Tennessee State Medical Association, the Southern Medical and

Surgical Association and the American Medical Association, the national body,

and an honorary member of the "West Tennessee Medical Society. Fraternal work

has also interested him for some years, he being a member of Charity Blue Lodge

No. 370, F. & A. M., of Cumberland City; Armstrong Chapter No. 98, E-. A. M.;

Cumberland Council No. 67, S. M., all of the Masonic fraternity, and Erin Lodge,

I. O. O. F.



   In June, 1894, Dr. McFall was married to Miss Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of

Major Thomas Wilson of Stewart county, and to this union there has been born one

daughter: Zanie Washington, who is attending school. Dr. McFall is a Democrat,

but cares little for public life and has been no aspirant for positions of

preferment. However, he takes a good citizen's interest in all that affects his

community, and can be relied upon to lend his aid to any movement which promises

advancement along the lines of education, morality or good citizenship.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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