DR. WILLIAM C. RUTLEDGEDR. WILLIAM C. RUTLEDGE, whose careful preparation for his chosen profession, native talents and acquired ability have made him one of the successful physicians and surgeons of Denison, was born in Kentucky in 1861, his parents being Milton and Nancy (Smith) Rutledge. In the paternal line he is descended from an old South Carolina family. His great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He is also descended from John Rutledge, one of five brothers who came from England to America at an early period in the colonization of the new world. The father, also a native of Kentucky, is now living in Collin county, Texas, where he is engaged in farming, and his wife also survives. In their family were four children, all of whom were born in Kentucky. Catherine, the eldest, is the wife of M. S. Smith, of Collin county, Texas, and has four children: Finis, Mattie, James and William. Dr. William C. Rutledge is the next of the family. Mary J. is the wife of W. G. Drake, of Collin county and has six children: Ermine, Catherine, Charles, Felix, Milton and Avery. Dr. James T. Rutledge, the second son, living in Silo Indian Territory, married a daughter of Robert Scott, of Collin county, Texas, and has three children: Clarence, Lewis and Ebra. Dr. Rutledge of this review remained a resident of his native state until twenty-three years of age and acquired his more advanced literary education in a school in Glasgow, Kentucky. He also engaged in teaching in that state and in 1884 he came to Texas, settling in McKinney, Collin county, where he followed the profession of teaching for four and a half years. During the last two years of that period he devoted his leisure hours to the study of medicine and then went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he entered the Louisville Medical College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. Having thus prepared for the practice of medicine and surgery he returned to Melissa and opened an office, remaining at that place for seven and a half years, when, seeking a broader field of labor, he came to Denison, where he has since practiced with excellent success. To further perfect himself in his chosen in general medicine and surgery at the New York Polyclinic Hospital in the summer of 1905. Dr. Rutledge was married in 1885, in Glasgow, Kentucky, to Miss Sally Myers, a native of that state and a daughter of Robert Myers, a prominent resident there. Unto the Dr. and his wife have been born four sons: Robert Milton, who was born in Collin county, Texas; James A. and Ben Tracy, who were also born in Collin county; and William Charles, who is living in Denison, Texas. |
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