TX BIOS:  Dr. W. A. Wood, Waco TX.
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   Data & copy FOLKLORE -- WHITE PIONEERS
   
   Miss Effie Cowan, P. W.
   
   McLennan County, Texas
   
   District No. 8.
   
   No. of Words - 450
   
   Page No. 1.
   
   File No. 240.
   
   Reference:
   
   Interview with Dr. W. A. Wood, Waco, Texas
   
   Dr. James C. J. King, M. D., White Pioneer, (Waco)
   
   "James C. J. King, (deceased), was born in Wilson County, Tennessee,
   March 4, 1842, son of Adam C. King, a native of Tennessee, and a
   prominent business man. In 1846, his father settled in Washington
   County, Texas, remaining only a short time when he moved to Crockett.
   At the latter place the subject of our sketch spent his boyhood days
   and received a good common school education.
   
   In April 1861, young King left the school room and entered the
   Confederate service as a member of Company A, Second Texas Cavalry,
   Trans-Mississippi Department. He was first mustered at San Antonio, in
   the state troops. His first service was in the campaign to Arizona and
   New Mexico, where he spent one year, being in Texas and Louisiana
   during the remainder of the war.
   
   After the surrender he went to Henderson County, and taught school one
   term and afterwards went to Milford, Ellis County, Texas where he
   attended school eleven months, and then began reading medicine with
   Dr. W. E. Buie of Milford. He then took a medical course at Tulane
   University, New Orleans, graduating in 1871. He began the practice of
   medicine in Milford, but located in Waco in November of that same
   year, where he has since been engaged in the active practice of his
   profession, having met with eminent success.
   
   He was one of the leading physicians of the city, and was held in high
   esteem as an able careful and successful physician.
   
     NOTE: C[?]12 - Tex
     
   00022He was a member of the Waco Medical Association, the Central
   Texas Medical Association, and the State Medical Association./ Of the
   first named he has served as president, and of the last as first vice
   president.
   
   He was a member of the K of H, A. L. of H. of the Knights of the
   Maccabees, and of Pat Cleburne Camp of Confederate Veterans. He was
   medical examiner of the two former and surgeon of the camp; was also
   medical examiner for the Provident Life Insurance Company, of New
   York, and local surgeon of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
   Company.
   
   Dr. King was married in Milford, March 3, 1868 to Mrs. Bettie L. T.
   Zollicoffer, a native of Tennessee. They have five children, four sons
   and one daughter; Rosa; James C. J. Jr.; William E. B.; Lacy H.; and
   Collins T. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church, of
   which he was an elder. The doctor's father was a resident of Ennis,
   this state, his mother having passed away in 1864.
   
   Dr. James C. J. King passed away in Waco, Texas, March 21, 1906."

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