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Dr John Milton Yarborough

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Dr John Milton Yarborough

Birth
Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, USA
Death
21 Sep 1928 (aged 49)
Burial
Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 30.3904071, Longitude: -96.1012553
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John Milton Yarborough, M. D., an able physician and surgeon of Goliad, was born at Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, April 18, 1879. He is a son of James Quincy Yarborough, who was born in Alabama, and about fifty years ago moved to a place fifteen miles northeast of Navasota, Texas, and three years later moved to Navasota. He was a farmer and merchant and was colonel of a regiment during the war between the states. He died in 1888. His widow, the mother of Dr. Yarborough, is still living in Navasota. Her maiden name was Fannie Huntington Milton, and she was a native of Florida, and a daughter of Governor John Milton, of that state.

Dr. Yarborough began his schooling at Navasota, attended the A. & M. College at Bryan one session, and two sessions at the University, of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. For his professional training he entered the medical department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and was graduated June 18, 1902. He began practice at Navasota, where he remained three years, and since 1905 has been located at Goliad. He is a member of the Goliad County Medical Society, the Texas State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the State Pharmaceutical Association. He is a Democrat in politics, and belongs to the Episcopal church.

He married, in 1904, Miss Bertha May Wagner. She is a daughter of Thomas Wagner, of Columbus, Texas. They have one child, John Milton, Jr.

Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 .

Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
John Milton Yarborough, M. D., an able physician and surgeon of Goliad, was born at Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, April 18, 1879. He is a son of James Quincy Yarborough, who was born in Alabama, and about fifty years ago moved to a place fifteen miles northeast of Navasota, Texas, and three years later moved to Navasota. He was a farmer and merchant and was colonel of a regiment during the war between the states. He died in 1888. His widow, the mother of Dr. Yarborough, is still living in Navasota. Her maiden name was Fannie Huntington Milton, and she was a native of Florida, and a daughter of Governor John Milton, of that state.

Dr. Yarborough began his schooling at Navasota, attended the A. & M. College at Bryan one session, and two sessions at the University, of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. For his professional training he entered the medical department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and was graduated June 18, 1902. He began practice at Navasota, where he remained three years, and since 1905 has been located at Goliad. He is a member of the Goliad County Medical Society, the Texas State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the State Pharmaceutical Association. He is a Democrat in politics, and belongs to the Episcopal church.

He married, in 1904, Miss Bertha May Wagner. She is a daughter of Thomas Wagner, of Columbus, Texas. They have one child, John Milton, Jr.

Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 .

Contributor: Sherry (47010546)


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