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M. F. Jerolds

M. F. Jerolds, M. D., was born June 8, 1823, in Kentucky. He received an academical education and began medicine when but eighteen, under Dr. I. N. Hodgin, and attended medical lectures at Louisville Medical College. He began practice in 1845 at James Cross Roads, Washington County, and has had an extensive practice ever since. He was a surgeon in the Second Tennessee Cavalry, United States Army, from 1862 to 1865.

In December, 1845, Lucinda, a daughter of Jeremiah Wells, a native of Sullivan County, became his wife. The children were Alice, Henrietta (deceased) and William (deceased). She died in September, 1854, and in December, 1855, be married Nancy A., a daughter of Benjamin Blackburn, native of Washington County, Tenn. Their children were Oliver (deceased), John C., Frank M. (deceased) and Fannie H. He and his wife are Presbyterians, but his first wife was a Methodist. He is a Republican, and in 1877-78 represented his county in the legislature. He has been a Mason for about thirty-eight years.

He is the second of six children of Jesse and Nancy A. (Quinby) Jerolds, natives of Washington and Sullivan Counties, respectively. He was a farmer, the son of George Jerolds of Ireland, who was one of the leading pioneer farmers of Washington County.

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