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From the book: William G.
Cutler's 'History of the State
of Kansas' was first published
in 1883 by A. T. Andreas,
Chicago, IL.
Harvey County, Part 6
Biographical Sketches
'MILBURNE E. McCARTHY, M.D., was
born in Lebanon, Ky., June 5,
1828. He was educated in the
public schools and at St. Mary's
College in Nelson County, Ky. He
attended a course of lectures at
the Louisville Medical College,
then University of Kentucky, in
1852, and entered the American
Medical College of Cincinnati,
Ohio from which he graduated in
1855. The following year he
attended hospital lectures at
Commercial Hospital, Cincinnati.
He also graduated from Fallon
Medical College, St. Louis, and
commenced practice at Wilberton,
Fayette Co., Ill., remaining
there and in that vicinity for
eighteen years. Subsequently
lived in Minoka, Woodford Co.,
Ill., nine years and from thence
moved to Peru, Neb., whence he
came to Kansas in April 1880,
and has since resided in Emporia
and Newton, being at the present
time largely interested in
farming. Dr. McCarthy was
married in Wilberton, Ill., May
17, 1858, to Mary A. Wilborn,
daughter of Judge Willis Wilborn,
and a native of Crittendin
County, Ky. They have three
children - John S. and the
twins, Milburn P. and Mary D.
Dr. McCarthy is a member of the
Baptist Church and the A. F & A.
M.
(Milburn
[JR.] McCarty was the son of
Milburn & Catherine Kinnett
McCarty)
*John C. McCarty son
of Milburn & Catherine
Kinnett McCarty:
John - he was the first of 3
brothers to go to Texas
where he married. He left
Ky. because he thought he
had T.B. and the western
climate would benefit him.
He lived to be an old man,
his children also kept in
contact with their Kentucky
relatives.
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