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Dr. W. F. Landreth, physician and surgeon of the Eighth District, was born in Carroll County in 1844. His father, Newton F. Landreth, was born in North Carolina in 1807, and was of English ancestry. His grandfather was also a native of North Carolina, and when he came to West Tennessee to find a location, was killed by the Indians. In 1814 the family moved to McNairy County, and as Newton was the oldest child, the support of the family devolved upon him. His mother, being a cultured woman, she directed his studies, and he engaged in teaching for a number of years. He moved to Carroll County, and in 1836 married Miss Panina J. Hayes, and of four children, only Dr. W. F. Landreth remains. He engaged in the mercantile business, and then in farming, and died in 1844. Mrs. Landreth was born in North Carolina in 1817, and now lives with her son. Dr. Landreth was educated at home; at the commencement of the war enlisted in Company E, Thirteenth Tennessee Infantry, of the Confederate Army, and was at Belmont, Shiloh and Richmond, Ky.; was severely wounded at Shiloh, and then served in the hospital until the close of 1863, when he was sent home, on account of ill health, and in October of the same year he married Miss Mary, daughter of J. F. and Harriet Clay, eight children resulting from this union, six of whom are now living: William B., Robert N., Margaret, Panina J., Thomas and Capitola. Dr. Landreth then located near Trimble and engaged in farming. In 1866 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Fryer, of Newbern. In 1868 he entered the medical department of the University at Nashville, and graduated in 1870. He then located where he now resides, and has had a lucrative practice. Dr. Landreth also engages in farming, and owns a farm of 214 acres four miles southeast of Newbern. He was a magistrate in the Fifteenth District in 1871-72. He is a Democrat and a Mason. Mrs. Landreth was born in Wilson County in 1844; her parents were natives of Tennessee.