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Below is a family biography included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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William Allen McCord, M. D., was born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 6, 1858, the son of Thomas N. and Tabitha (Hight) McCord. The father was born in Tennessee December 20, 1836, and was of English descent. He was reared in his native State, and there he has always lived. He engaged in merchandising in early life, sold goods at Rover, Tenn., before the war, and at Unionville after that event. He also followed farming. He was in the Confederate service during the war, and had the misfortune to lose a leg. He is now trustee of Bedford County, Tenn. The mother was a native of Tennessee, born in 1839, and died in 1862. William Allen McCord was the elder of two children born to his parents. He was reared and educated in Bedford County, Tenn., and later read medicine under Dr. W. F. Clary. He entered the Vanderbilt University, medical department, in 1881, and graduated from the same in March, 1883. He then located at Goshen, Ark., in June, of the same year, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice, and has been eminently successful in whatever he has undertaken. He has one-third interest in the store of Slaughter & Co., and owns property, etc., in Goshen. He was married February 28, 1884, to Miss Tennie Shofner, of Wesley, Madison Co., Ark., and who died June 9, 1885. Dr. McCord then married Miss Fannie Hastings, of Chapel Hill, Marshall Co., Tenn., and this union resulted in the birth of one daughter, Alice Hastings. Dr. McCord has been a member of the county medical association since 1885, was vice-president one term, and a delegate to the State association but did not attend. From his meager start, and from being thrown upon his own resources at an early period, Dr. McCord has made an unusually good beginning, and a bright and prosperous future is before him. He is a Democrat in politics, is a Master Mason, and both he and Mrs. McCord are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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