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Edgar W. Hungate, M. D., a practicing physician in Jefferson County, Tenn., was born in Mercer County, Ky., May 13, 1845. He is the son of Jesse H. and Mary D. (Hale) Hungate. Both parents were natives of Kentucky, and removed to Indiana when our subject was six or seven years of age. Here he was reared on the farm and received a high school education in Knox County, and taught school in Indiana public schools for two years. In 1873 he entered the Medical College, at Indianapolis, took one course of lectures, returned to his native county, and began the practice. In 1879-80 he graduated from the medical college of Indiana, and returned to practice in his native county; and in 1883 immigrated to Tennessee and located at White Pines, in March of the same year; here he formed a partnership in the practice with Dr. A. L. Courtney (in April), and at once began a good practice, and has been very successful since that date. He had no capital with which to begin, but has been a success in his undertakings, and is a self-made man. In 1862 he enlisted in the Eighty-fifth Indiana Infantry, Company K, and on account of disability was discharged. January 29, 1872, he married Sarah J. Hill, of Indiana. Two children (sons) blessed the marriage, and in 1875 the youngest child and the mother died. The eldest, Lewis H., is living with his father. In 1877 he was married a second time, this time to Alice Purdy, of Edwardsport, Ind. Two sons and two daughters have blessed this second marriage: Vernie V., Harry P., Ethel E. and Edgar W. He is a member of the Christian Church, also of the I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Democrat.