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Author: Will T. Hale

   FRANK J. RUNYON, M. D. Well established vantage place as one of the

representative physicians of northern Tennessee is that held by Dr. Runyon, who

is engaged in the successful practice of his profession, at Clarksville, the

thriving capital and metropolis of Montgomery county, and in his profession he

is honoring the vocation which was dignified also by the life and services of

his father. He is a liberal and public-spirited citizen and during a residence

in Clarksville for a quarter of a century he has not only built up a large and

important practice but has gained and retained the confidence and esteem of the

entire community.



   Dr. Runyon was born in the village of Trenton, Todd county, Kentucky, on the

9th of October, 1862, and is a representative of old and honored families of the

fine old Bluegrass State, within whose borders both his father and mother were

likewise born. He is the younger of two children, and his brother, Chas. D., is

now a resident of Clarksville, Tennessee, where he is engaged in the tobacco

warehouse business. The Doctor is a son of Dr. Freeman Runyon and Susan B.

(Ware) Runyon. both of whom passed the closing years of their lives at Trenton,

Kentucky, where the father was long engaged in the practice of his profession,

in which he achieved marked success and in which his ministrations were accorded

with all of self-abnegation and devotion, so that he gained the affectionate

regard of all who knew him, as did also his loved and gracious wife, both having

been zealous members of the Baptist church and he having signalized his

convictions by close adherence to the cause of the Democratic party. Dr. Freeman

Runyon was graduated in the medical department of old Transylvania University,

at Lexington, Kentucky, and was a man of fine intellectual and professional

attainments, as well as one whose deep humanitarian spirit prompted him to

faithful service in his chosen calling. His field of professional endeavor was

in Todd county, Kentucky, from the beginning of his practice until the close of

his long and useful life.



   In the public schools of his native .town Dr. Frank J. Runyon gained his

preliminary education, and there after he pursued higher academic studies in

Bethel College, at Russellville, Kentucky. Entering the University of

Louisville, in that excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the

class of 1884 and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. The

greater portion of the succeeding year he passed in New York City, where he took

a post-graduate course in the celebrated Bellevue Hospital Medical College,

which likewise conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1885, and

in this connection he also gained most varied and valuable clinical experience,

so\that when he engaged in the practice of his profession he was specially well

fortified for its exacting duties. He was engaged in practice at Trenton,

Kentucky, until 1887, when he came to Tennessee and established his home at

Clarksville, where he has continued his earnest and effective labors as a

physician during the long intervening years, and where he has won and retained

the confidence and good will of all with whom he has come in contact in the

varied relations of life. He is an appreciative and valued member of the

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

Tennessee State Medical Society, and also holds membership in the Tri-State

Medical Association and the American Medical Association.



   In politics the Doctor is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the

Democratic party, though in local affairs of a public nature he does not hold to

strict partisan lines, preferring to give his support to the men and measures

meeting the approval of his judgment. Both he and his wife are devout members of

the Baptist church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and the

Sigma Alpha Epsilon College fraternity. Reverting to the family history, it may

be stated that Absolom Runyon, grandfather of the Doctor, was a native of

Kentucky and became a prosperous farmer near Richmond, that state, the lineage

of the family being traced back to French origin, and that of the Ware family,

of which the Doctor's mother was a member, being of staunch English derivation.

The original progenitor of the Runyon family in America came from France in 1763.



   On the 23d of June, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Runyon to Miss

Brenda Vineyard, who was born and reared in Kentucky and who is a daughter of

the late Professor Bryce W. Vineyard, of Trenton, that state, an able and

distinguished educator. The two children of this union are: Bryce Freeman, M.

D., who was graduated in Louisville in 1882, and who is now serving as interne

in the New York Polyclinic Hospital of New York; and Charles Vineyard, who was

graduated in the law department of University of Virginia, and who is now

engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.



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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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