Dr. Thomas S Orr
Kentucky: A
History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
1887, Campbell Co.
Dr. Thomas S. Orr, of Alexandria, Campbell Co., Ky., was born July 27, 1848, and
is a son of Dr. John and Maria (Spilman) Orr. John Orr, a native of
Virginia, immigrated to Bracken County, Ky., when a boy, and afterward
moved to Alexandria, Campbell County, where he lived until his death,
which occurred in 1877.
The mother of our
subject was born in Campbell
County, and was a daughter of James Spilman, a farmer and large land owner.
Dr. Thomas S. Orr was educated at Cold Springs, Campbell County,
and at Danville College, where he graduated in 1866. He taught school
for one year, when he began the study of medicine, and subsequently
attended the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, where he graduated in
1871. He first located in Newport, where he practiced two years.
From
there he went to Alexandria, and then to Augusta, but returned to
Alexandria in 1877.
In 1887 he was united in
marriage to Miss Anna White, daughter of H. Clay White, of Williamstown, Grant
County. The Doctor is a Democrat in politics, and as a physician,
enjoys a large practice, standing high in his profession.
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