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J. W. Carmichael, M. D., was born in Jefferson County, two miles from Dandridge, September 11, 1849, and is the son of Lemuel and Susanah (Miller) Carmichael. The father was born in Jefferson County in 1817, and was the son of Lemuel Carmichael, a native of Buncombe County, N. C, who immigrated to Tennessee at a very early day, and was one of the pioneers of Jefferson County. The father was a farmer by occupation, and lived a long and useful life, being in his seventieth year when he died April 29, 1887. He was an honest and upright citizen, a believer in and of the Baptist faith, and was universally respected by all who knew him. The mother was also born in Jefferson County, in 1819, She is a pious, Christian lady, a woman of great social and moral worth, a member of the Baptist Church, and lives near Sevierville, Tenn. Our subject was reared on the farm, and acquired his literary education at French Broad Academy, in Sevier County, and at Mossy Creek College, Jefferson County. He then taught school at Catlettburg, Sevier County, for two years, and then took up the study of medicine under Dr. J. C. Cawood, of Dandridge. In 1883 he attended the medical department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and graduated from that noted institution in February, 1887. He began practicing, however, in August, 1877, and continued, with the exception of time spent in attending lectures, up to the present. He is a well-read physician, and has built up one of the best practices in the county, and established for himself a fine professional standing. He is a member of Jefferson Medical Association, and also of Brazelton Lodge No. 190, F. & A. M. He is a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, broad and liberal in his views, and always encourages public enterprises of a worthy nature, and has always taken an interest in school and church matters. He has prospered in his practice, and from nothing has worked his way up to influence and affluence, and is now in very good circumstances. He is progressive in spirit, and is always to be found in the front rank in all public movements in his neighborhood, and is universally esteemed and respected. He was married May 1, 1877, to Ellen V. McClary, who was born in Sevier County, Tenn., on January 24, 1861, and is the daughter of Jacob and Eliza A. (Henderson) McClary, of Sevier County, one of the oldest families of East Tennessee. To this union two boys have been born: Cawood, born on April 3, 1878, and Henry Newman, born December 2, 1882. Both our subject and wife are members of Dumplin Baptist Church.