{"id":864,"date":"2015-09-20T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=864"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:02","slug":"thomas-lipscomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/thomas-lipscomb\/","title":{"rendered":"LIPSCOMB, Thomas (Dr.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

DR. THOMAS LIPSCOMB<\/strong>, one of Bedford County’s oldest and best citizens, was born in Louisa County, Va., July 22, 1808, to the marriage of William Lipscomb and Ann Day Cook<\/strong>, natives of Spottsylvania and Louisa Counties, Va., respectively.\u00a0 The father was killed by a falling tree in January, 1829, having been a farmer.\u00a0 The mother attained the ripe age of ninety years, and her old age was marked with great vitality.\u00a0 With her own hands she knit over 100 pairs of socks for the Confederate soldiers after she had passed eighty years of age.\u00a0 She lived nearly forty years a widow.<\/p>\n

The subject of this sketch was reared with his parents on a farm, and received a common school education.\u00a0 At the age of twenty-one he went to Winchester, Tenn., and began the study of medicine.\u00a0 Thence he attended the Medical University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, whither he proceeded and returned the most of the way on horseback.\u00a0 After one course of lectures he returned to Franklin County, Tenn., where his parents had moved in 1826.<\/p>\n

In 1831 he came to Shelbyville, where he has spent a lifetime in the practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics, and has attained eminence in his profession.\u00a0 He has been president of the Medical Society of Tennessee, of the Bedford County Medical Society and of the Female Institute at Shelbyville.\u00a0 Since entering into the practice of his profession the honorary title of M. D. has been conferred upon him by the University of Louisville and by the University of Tennessee.\u00a0 He has been successful financially.\u00a0 Since 1855 he has carried on farming.\u00a0 He is the president and largest stockholder of the Victor Mills, of Shelbyville, and was the president of the Branch Bank of Tennessee at Shelbyville at the opening of the war.\u00a0 The advancement of the schools and churches is due greatly to him.\u00a0 For two years he held the Shelbyville post office, the emoluments of which he allowed to the widow of a former postmaster.\u00a0 He is not now actively engaged in the practice, but at the age of seventy-three he successfully performed the difficult ovariotomy operation for the first time in his life.<\/p>\n

He was married, May 22, 1832, to Rebecca Stevenson,<\/strong> who bore him ten children, all of whom were raised.\u00a0 This wife died December 6, 1880, and he then wedded, October 26, 1882, Miss Mary A. Cowan.<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr. Lipscomb and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, as was his first wife.\u00a0 Politically he is a Democrat, and wields large influence as a worthy citizen of the county.<\/p>\n

Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n

Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford & Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DR. THOMAS LIPSCOMB, one of Bedford County’s oldest and best citizens, was born in Louisa County, Va., July 22, 1808, to the marriage of William Lipscomb and Ann Day Cook, natives of Spottsylvania and Louisa Counties, Va., respectively.\u00a0 The father was killed by a falling tree in January, 1829, having been a farmer.\u00a0 The mother … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,435],"tags":[2744,2746,2742,2743,2745],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-franklin","tag-cook-ann-day","tag-cowan-mary-a","tag-lipscomb-thomas","tag-lipscomb-william","tag-stevenson-rebecca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}