James A. Reagan (1825-1909, Weaverville, NC)
REAGAN, James Americus, Weaverville, N.C., born October 20, 1825, in East Tennessee, is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Scruggs) Reagan, and grandson of Darby Reagan; a Revolutionary soldier. His father was an officer in the War of 1812, and was a messmate of General Waller. Dr. Regan was educated at Oak Grove Institute, East Tennessee, and was graduated from Weaverville College in 1878, with the degree of A.M.; commenced the study of medicine in 1846, at Cleveland, E. Tenn., under William Harle, M.D.; took a regular course of lectures at Shelby Medical College, Nashville; Tenn., and was graduated in 1859; later he attended a course of lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, from which he was graduated in 1877. Dr. Reagan has practised medicine in Weaverville, N.C., since 1859, and had charge of a hospital in the Confederate Army during the War of the Rebellion. He is a member of Buncombe county (N.C.) Medical Society, and was its president three years; North Carolina Medical Society; American Medical Association; honorary member of the Cliosophic Literary Society. He was state medical examiner, 1884-'90; commissioner of Buncombe county, 1882-'90; president of Weaverville College, 1872-'77; and has been president of the board of education of the Western North Carolina Conference, M.E. Church, South, since 1890. He has been consulting; physician in the Asheville Hospital, female department, since 1893, and has performed nearly all the major surgical operations.
Married, September 9, 1851. Miss Mary A. Weaver, of Buncombe county, N.C., who died in 1890, 1eaving seven children: Bettie Jane, Tennie C., Dr. William Latta, Prof. James Jerome, Jehu Arthur, Lucie M., and Annie May. He married, second, Mary K. Parks, Hil1sboro, N.C., February 28, 1891; she died August 4, 1892. He married, third, January 9, 1894, Mrs. Fanny Neely, of Cartersville, Ga.
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