{"id":1408,"date":"2025-06-11T02:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:25:18","slug":"bird-dr-william-c-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/06\/11\/bird-dr-william-c-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird, Dr. William C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><br>\nBiographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of\nClark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and\nWashington.\nJohn M. Gresham &amp; Co.  Chicago 1889\n\n\nDr. William C. Bird was born in Smith county, Tenn., March 14, 1883, and is a son of \nM. B. and Nancy (Mitchell) Bird-the former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of\nSmith county, Tenn.  Dr. William C. Bird worked on the farm until he was 21 years old, when \nhe entered a store in English, Ind., and clerked for four years.  He was married to Mary\nNewkirk in 1854, who bore three children, Mina B., John K. and Charles J., and then died.\nHe entered the army in 1861, in Forty-Ninth Indiana Volunteer infantry, and served three years.\nHe began the study of medicine in 1866, and left the medical college in Indianapolis in 1870,\nentering upon practice in Brownstown, Ind., where he remained two years, and then came to \nEnglish; here he is the leading practitioner.  In 1869 he married Melissa Turner, of Crawford \ncounty.  She had three children: Dora M. Bird (deceased), James W. and Queen Victoria.  Dr.  \nBird has served as township trustee and township treasurer.  He has been a member of the \nMasonic Order since 1866, and has filled all the offices in the lodge.\n\n\nData Entry Volunteer:  Dee Floyd-Pavey  \"dee1234@aye.net\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington. John M. Gresham &amp; Co. Chicago 1889 Dr. William C. Bird was born in Smith county, Tenn., March 14, 1883, and is a son of M. B. and Nancy (Mitchell) Bird-the former a native of North Carolina, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}