Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hancock Co.

CHARLES C. NORMAN, M. D., was born July 15, 1842, in Henderson County, Ky.
He is a son of Rev. Joseph C. and Virginia Norman; the former a native of
North Carolina and the latter of Hopkins County, Ky.  Dr. Norman's
grandfather, Wesley Norman, was a native of North Carolina and a descendant
of an old Huguenot family.  He came to Kentucky about 1824, and settled in
Henderson County, near the city of Henderson.  He was a farmer and miller,
and a very successful business man.  His death occurred in 1845.  Rev.
Joseph C. Norman was born in 1819 in Caswell County, N. C., and came to
Kentucky with his parents when but five years old.  He was a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and sustained the reputation of being one
of the most successful and popular pulpit orators of that denomination in
northern Kentucky.  He was in the active work of the ministry for
twenty-five years, and died at Hawesville, November 21, 1878.  He was
married in 1841 to Miss Virginia Brooks, daughter of Col. William Brooks.
Col. Brooks was a native of Prince Edward's County, Va., and of Irish
descent, his father coming from the old country at an early day.  Mrs.
Norman was born in Hopkins County, Ky., in 1820, and is still living with
the subject of this sketch in Hawesville.  Joseph and Virginia Norman
reared a family of eight children, seven of whom are living: Charles C.,
George W., Nancy V., Joseph C., L. A., Benjamin H., and Mary R.  The subect
of this sketch remained in his native county until his twentieth year,
receiving a good education in the common schools and under the instruction
of his father, who was a very brilliant scholar.  In 1862 he commence
studying medicine with Dr. R. Linthicum, and the same year entered the
Confederate service, enlisting in Col. Adam Johnson's regiment at
Madisonville, with which he served three months.  He remained with his
preceptor about one year, and at the end of that time, in 1863, he entered
the Medical University of Louisville, which he attended one session.  The
following year he prosecuted [sic] his studies in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
attending the Long Island Medical Hospital, from which he graduated in
1864.  After graduation the Doctor located in Henderson County, and
commenced the practice of his profession at Long's Landing, opposite Mt.
Vernon, Ind., where he remained until 1866.  In the latter year he went to
New York City, and attended the Bellevue Hospital one session, after which
he returned to his native county, and resumed the practice in the town of
Corydon, where he remained five years, meeting with flattering success in
the meantime.  In 1871 he went to the State of Mississippi, and located at
Friar's Point, where he practiced his profession one year, returning to
Henderson County in 1872.  He practiced medicine in partnership with his
brother, Dr. G. W. Norman, for three years, at Smith's Mills, Ky., and in
1878 he located at Hawesville, where he has since resided.  He was elected
county physician of Hancock County in 1879, and held the position two
years.  In 1883 he was appointed a member of the State board of health, a
position which he still retains.  The Doctor is a close student, a most
competent and trustworthy physician, and a refiined and polished gentleman.
He has never been married and is living with his mother, seeing after her
interests.

Norman Brooks Linthicum Johnson
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Henderson-KY NC Hopkins-KY Caswell-NC Prince_Edward-VA MS


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