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H. F. Ferguson, M. D., of Dyersburg, Tenn., was born in Franklin County, Va., in 1834, and is a son of Daniel and Jemima (Sanders) Ferguson. The father was of English-Scotch descent, and was a native of Virginia, and a farmer by occupation. Sometime after his marriage (1856), he moved to Mississippi, where he resided until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. Of his thirteen children, five are living: Albert G., Daniel Alex, Cynthia (widow of Wyatt Robinson), Clarkie P. (widow of Mr. Blair), and our subject, whose mother was born in Virginia, and died in 1834. H. F. Ferguson was two months old when his mother died. He was educated in Mississippi, and Dyer County, Tenn., coming to the latter place at the age of thirteen. He attended school for a few years, and at the age of fifteen years began clerking for his brother, continuing about one year. At the age of seventeen he began studying medicine, his preceptor being Dr. J. C. White, and also assisted the latter in his drug store. In 1854 he entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, and graduated as an M. D. two years later. The following year he took a course of lectures in the New Orleans Medical College, and received his diploma from that institution the same year. He then returned home, and has for years been one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Dyer County. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Masonic, I. O. O. F., K. of H. and K. & L. of H. fraternities. June 17, 1856, he married Miss Mary Wynne, daughter of John Wynne. Mrs. Ferguson was born in Dyer County, In 1841, and became the mother of the following children: Montieott (Mrs. James A. Foster), Ula (Mrs. George A. Fay), Wynne, Forrest, Albert, Gallitan, Henry F., Charles A., Day, Stella and Lida Otell. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.