Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 728-730 [McCracken]

     HENRY PRESTON SIGHTS, M. D., of Paducah, is one of the native
sons of Kentucky whose careers have reflected honor upon the grand
old state where they were born.  Although born of one of the old and
respected and substantial families of Kentucky, and with an honored
ancestry reaching back many generations in the history of our
country, he began life relying almost entirely on his own inborn
elements of strength to carry him to the goal of his ambitions. 
From a drug clerk he became interested in medicine, and a little
more than a decade ago he was given his degree of Doctor of
Medicine, since which time he has been rising rapidly to the front
rank of Kentucky physicians.  In addition to a private practice of
magnitude, he has filled one of the important public positions in
his profession, and has in many ways been identified with public
affairs in his community.  He has a thorough mastery of his
profession, gained from broad study before he began practice and
from post-graduate courses in one of the foremost schools of the
country.  Thus fortified with technical preparation he possesses the
sympathy and broad mindedness which make the ideal physician, and
the work which he has done among his patients has not only been
honorable to himself but has partaken of the nature of world-charity, a
factor in the alleviation of human suffering and the
assisting of a fellow creature to increased happiness in life.
     Dr. Sights traces his ancestry back to some of the early
settlers of America, and has just cause for pride in the worthy part
the various generations performed from colonial days to the present. 
Jacob Sights, in the fifty generation removed, was a native of the
colony of Pennsylvania, and bore a gallant part in the Revolutionary
war, and the maternal great-grandfather of Dr. Sight was also a
patriot soldier, so that members of the present generation are
entitled to membership in that great order of the Sons and Daughters
of the American Revolution.  David Sights, a son of Jacob Sights,
was the father of Preston Sights, a paternal grandfather of Dr.
Sights.  James J. and Annie R. (Sanderfur) Sights, the parents of
Dr. Sights, are both natives of Henderson county, Kentucky, where
they are still living and where the former has all his life been
engaged in agricultural pursuits.  Both the Sights and Sanderfur
families were early settlers on Henderson county.
     Dr. Sights was born on a farm in Henderson county, Kentucky,
near the village of Niagara, October 28, 1864, and is the second of
his father's family of five sons.  He was reared on the home farm,
receiving his early education in the schools of Niagara and Corydon. 
He became a drug clerk in Henderson and later a druggist in Corydon,
altogether spending about six years in the drug business.  This
experience in the drug store paved the way for him in the medical
profession.  He entered the medical department of the University of
Louisville, and graduated in 1893, after which he was for two and a
half years engaged in practice in Henderson.  He was then appointed
by Governor Bradley as first assistant physician for the Western
Kentucky Hospital for the Insane, at Hopkinsville, a position which
he creditably filled for nearly four years, from 1897 to 1900.  In
October, 1900, he came to Paducah, and in the short time he has
resided here he has established a good practice and enjoys the
confidence and respect of all who know him.  In addition to the
course in Louisville, he has taken three post-graduate courses in
the New York Polyclinic.
     Dr. Sights has identified himself with and takes a lively
interest in various medical associations, being a member of the
American Medical Association, Kentucky State Medical Association,
McCracken County Medical Society and the Southwestern Kentucky
Medical Society.  He has been initiated into the mysteries of
Free-masoury [sic], and is a worthy member of that ancient order.  In
politics he is a Democrat, and his religious views are those of the
Christian church.
     In 1886 Dr. Sights married Miss Virginia Niles, of Cario,
Kentucky, and they are the parents of two children, Warren and
Ethel.  Mrs. Sights was born in Henderson county, Kentucky, and is a
daughter of the Rev. A. A. Niles and Mary (Phillips) Niles.  Her
father is a native of Indiana and is a prominent minister of the
Baptist church and her mother was born in Virginia and is related to
the well known Swope family of the Old Dominion.

Sights Sanderful Bradley Niles Phillips Swope
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PA Henderson-KY IN

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