Goodspeed's Biographies Goodspeed's History of Greene County -- 1887

J. J. Howell, M. D.

J. J. Howell, M. D., the subject of this sketch, is a practicing physician at Rheatown, Greene Co., Tenn., and was born in Wilkes County, N. C., June 18, 1849. He is the son of S. S. and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Howell.

The father was a native of North Carolina and was of English descent, and was a farmer; he died November 11, 1880, at the age of seventy-two. He was a man of tact, social and religious, and was a well respected citizen. The mother is a native of Wilkes County, N. C., and daughter of John B. Ferguson, of North Carolina. She is the mother of five children--three sons and two daughters--all but one sister lives. The mother still lives in her native county.

Our subject was reared on a farm, and educated in the Greeneville and Tusculum Colleges. He began the study of medicine in 1874, and began practicing in Greene County, Tenn., in March, 1876. He graduated from the Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, in March 1884, when he returned to Rheatown, and resumed a successful practice. He is a self-made man. He had no advantage of money to educate himself, but by his own energy and perseverance earned enough to defray the expenses of an education. His work for securing money was selling books, and working in the harvest field.

In 1876 he was united in marriage with Sarah R. Leming, daughter of John Leming. To this marriage are born five children--three daughters and two sons: Flora, Rowland, Minnie, Wayland and Macie. Our subject is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is a Master Mason, and very temperate.

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