City: Memphis
MEWBORN, Joseph Lemuel, dentist; born Madison Co., Ala., March 3, 1838; English descent; son of Charlton Augusta and Mary Jane (Long) MEWBORN; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Joshua and Sarah (Charlton) MEWBORN, maternal grandparents Lemuel and Jane (House) LONG; educated Macon Masonic College, LaGrange Synodical College and New York College of Dentistry, graduated from latter with degree D.D.S., May 1871; reared on farm; mustered into the 13th Tenn. Infantry at Jackson, Tenn., May 28, 1861; re-enlisted for the war in Confederate States service at Corinth, Miss., May 28, 1862, elected Lieut., engaged in battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Richmond, Perryville, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga; captured on detached service Nov. 25, 1863; imprisoned for three weeks in “Irving Block,” Memphis, then sent to “Johnson’s Island,” on Lake Erie; released from prison June 13, 1865, after close of war, there being no further exchange of prisoners, and for pastime; during his imprisonment he mad his own implements and by practice became the prison engraver, from which he earned from $1.50 to $5.00 per day, all leisure being occupied with the study of dentistry under the direction of Col. BAXTER of New Orleans; on Aug. 1, 1865, he renewed the study of dentistry under Dr. W.R. JOHNS, Somerville, Tenn.; member Tenn. State Dental Assn. since 1867, serving one year as 1st vice-president of same and one as president; member of American Dental Assn., Southern Dental Assn., and the southern branch of the National Dental Assn., member of state board of dental examiners for 12 years and the organizer of the Memphis (Tenn.) Dental Society; member of Royal Arcanum, charter member of Tenn. Council No. 95; married Mary Anne MATTHEWS, Nov. 20, 1866; Jeffersonian Democrat (progressive).
