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G. H. Sullivan, M. D., is a son of Nathan and Mary J. (Ross) Sullivan,
and was born in Shelby County in 1850. His father was of Irish ancestry,
born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1812. When about sixteen years of age
he removed to Tipton County, where he married when about twenty-nine. For
about forty years he was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and was presiding elder of the Paris district four years previous to the
war. He died June 14, 1879. His wife was born in South Carolina in 1817,
and is living with her children. Dr. Sullivan was educated in Gibson Wells
Seminary, and in 1861 began the study of medicine under Dr. J. J. Crisp.
In 1872 he entered the medical department of the University of Nashville,
and graduated in 1873. He has since practiced his profession in Crockett
County with commendable success, and is one of its leading physicians.
In January, 1881, he married Eleanor C., daughter of William and Lucy P.
(Grady) Tinder. She was born in Kentucky in 1861, and has two children:
Jodie Emmett and William Tinder. Dr. Sullivan is a Democrat and Mason,
and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His wife is a Missionary
Baptist.
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