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Dr. A. M. McCrary has practiced the medical profession since 1884, and although he has only been in Nashville since 1889, he has become well and favorably known. His birth occurred in what is now Howard County, then Sevier County, in 1860, he being the fifth of ten children born to Dr. E. W. and Parmelia (Young) McCrary, who were South Carolinians. The father was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Penn., when he was but twenty-one years of age, and practiced his profession at Clinton, of his native State, marrying soon after his return from college. In 1856 he came to Arkansas, and made a settlement near Centre Point, where he purchased a large plantation, and followed both farming and the practice of medicine. At the breaking out of the war, he sent his family back to South Carolina, and he enlisted as a surgeon in the Confederate service, shortly after which he was transferred east of the Mississippi River. For a time he had charge of the hospital at Fort Gaines, Ga., and Charleston, S. C., and remained in the service until the close of the war, when he returned to Arkansas, and sold his property at Centre Point, buying property in Mineral Springs, and thereafter gave his attention solely to his profession. In December, 1885, he moved to Nashville, and there passed from life October 26, 1888, having for many years been a member of the Baptist Church and the Masonic fraternity. He was one of the best known men in the country, and he was especially well known in political circles as an ardent Democrat. His widow survives him. Dr. A. M. McCrary was reared at Mineral Springs, and educated mostly in the State University at Fayetteville. He began his medical studies under his father in February, 1882, and two years later graduated from the Missouri Medical College, of St. Louis. His first practicing was done at his old home at Mineral Springs, with his father, and there he continued until 1889, when he came to Nashville, and is here now living. He was married in 1886 to Miss Augusta Short, a native of the State, and a daughter of J. T. Short, one of the early settlers of Hempstead County. To them were born two children: Lena and Pauline. Mrs. McCrary is a member of the Baptist Church. The Doctor has a younger brother, R. D. McCrary, who has recently started a general grocery store in Nashville.