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Dr. J. W. Day

Dr. J. W. Day is an able and a highly successful medical practitioner of Dykesville and the surrounding country. He is a Georgian, born in 1834, to Nathan and Martha E. B. (Cole) Day, both of whom were born in South Carolina, the birth of the former occurring about 1806. He was a son of Jonathan Day, who is supposed to have been born in England, but who came to America in early life and afterward took sides with the colonists in their struggle for liberty with the mother country. The wife of Nathan Day was a daughter of Samuel Cole of South Carolina, and to her union with Mr. Day two children were born: Sarah M, (who became the wife of John L. Hurst, of Rosston, Arkansas, and died in 1887, leaving a family of ten children), and Dr. J. W. Day.

The latter attained manhood in this parish, and was given the advantages of the common schools, in which he made rapid progress in his studies, as he was quick to grasp at new ideas, possessed a retentive memory, and at all times applied himself to his tasks. In 1857 he graduated from the Augusta Medical College, but prior to this had been married in 1853 to Miss Nancy J. Galloway, of Georgia, and with her came to Claiborne Parish in 1860, where they have reared two of three children that have been born to them; James N. (a planter of Webster Parish) and Montrose (a practicing physician in partnership with his father). Bonnie Z. is deceased.

The Doctor was an old-line Whig until the opening of the Rebellion, since which time he has been identified with the Democratic Party. Socially he belongs to the A. F. & A. M., the K. of P. and L. of H., and Mrs. Day is a worthy member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890