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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 8a by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1888. 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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ADAM GIVEN, M. D., was born in Bath County, Va., October 15, 1829, and is a son of Henry and Nancy (Mustoe) Given, natives of Virginia, and the former a soldier in the war of 1812. The Mustoe family is of English origin, Anthony Mustoe, subject’s grandfather, having emigrated from England to Virginia in an early day. Dorothea Chambers, wife of Anthony, was of German descent. The Givens are Scotch-Irish. The grandmother (Miss Bratton) was Scotch. The subject was reared on a farm, and educated at Little Levels Academy in Virginia, where he took a regular course. He read medicine, and coming West, attended his first course of lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1858-59, and graduated at Chicago Medical College in 1864. He located at Woodstock, Ill., in 1859, and practiced there until 1865, when he came to Louisville. At the close of the war he was acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A. Since 1879 he has taken up the practice of homoeopathy, and is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He was married July 19, 1853, to Miss Caroline Benson, of Highland County, Va. They have two children — Mustoe Bratton and Elmer Benson.
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This family biography is one of 195 biographies included in the Jefferson County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 8a published in 1888 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company. For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 8a
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