{"id":884,"date":"2015-09-20T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=884"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:01","slug":"joseph-mcgrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/joseph-mcgrew\/","title":{"rendered":"McGREW, Joseph (Dr.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DR. JOSEPH H. McGREW<\/strong> was born February 13, 1826, in Bedford County, Tenn., being the youngest of eleven children of <strong>William McGrew.\u00a0<\/strong> The father was a native of Kentucky, and when young went to South Carolina, where he married <strong>Nancy Goodwin<\/strong>.\u00a0 In 1811 they came to Bedford County, where they lived and died, the father being a farmer. The father&#8217;s death occurred in 1852, and the mother&#8217;s in 1860.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was reared on a farm.\u00a0 When seventeen years of age he came to Shelbyville, and began the study of medicine in 1844.\u00a0 He attended lectures in Louisville in 1845-46, and in Philadelphia in 1846-47, graduating in March, 1847.\u00a0 He then returned to Shelbyville, and has since been engaged in the practice of medicine successfully.\u00a0 He was married, in 1851, to <strong>Letitia Cannon<\/strong>, who bore him two children: <strong>James H. and Samuel J.<\/strong>\u00a0 The wife died in 1857, and January 31, 1866, he was married to <strong>Mary B. Evans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Himself and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 He is a member of the F. &amp; A. M. and I. O. O. F. fraternities.\u00a0 Politically he is a firm Republican.\u00a0 Dr. McGrew is examining surgeon in the pension service, and ranks among the able practitioners of the county.\u00a0 He is now practicing with his younger son, <strong>Samuel J<\/strong>., who was born December 11, 1854.\u00a0 He (S. J.) studied medicine with his father.\u00a0 He attended lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1881, and has proven himself well-informed in his profession.\u00a0 He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.\u00a0 Politically he is a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; 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":"<p>DR. JOSEPH H. McGREW was born February 13, 1826, in Bedford County, Tenn., being the youngest of eleven children of William McGrew.\u00a0 The father was a native of Kentucky, and when young went to South Carolina, where he married Nancy Goodwin.\u00a0 In 1811 they came to Bedford County, where they lived and died, the father &#8230; <a title=\"McGREW, Joseph (Dr.)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/joseph-mcgrew\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McGREW, Joseph (Dr.)\">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],"tags":[2834,2837,2833,2835,2831,2836,2832],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-cannon-letitia","tag-evans-mary-b","tag-goodwin-nancy","tag-mcgrew-james-h","tag-mcgrew-joseph-h-dr","tag-mcgrew-samuel-j","tag-mcgrew-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}