William J.J. Paris, M.D. is a resident of Elizabethtown, Hardin County,
and a son of Dr. J.L. Paris, who was born in Smith County, Tenn., January
30, 1830. Dr. Paris, Sr., was reared on the farm and at the age of ten years
he removed with his father to Crittenden County, Ky., with an ox-team and
wagon, and settled down on a farm. Young J.L. Paris then worked on the farm
summers and attended school during the winter months, obtaining, however,
but a limited education in his youth. He studied medicine and gradually
drifted into practice. In 1871 he removed to Hardin County, Ill., and
continued in the practice of his profession, and was a very successful
practitioner, remaining there until 1889, when he returned to his old home
in Kentucky and has since made that his home. He was married in May 1852, to
Nancy S. Smart, daughter of John Smart, a native of North Carolina, and by
her had fourteen children, five of whom are still living, viz: William J.J.,
A.M., a farmer in Hardin County; W.S., a farmer in Crittenden County, Ky.;
and Louisiana E., wife of E.J. Oxford, a farmer in Hardin County. William
J.J. Paris, the subject of this sketch, was born in Crittenden County, Ky.,
April 27, 1853, and spent his early days in assisting his father in summer
time and attending school in the winter months. At the age of nine years he
met with an accident in a sorghum mill, which caused the loss of the entire
right hand, and also the loss of the two first fingers on the left hand. He
began the study of medicine while yet a boy, and as he grew up gradually
established a good practice and is to-day one of the leading physicians of
Hardin County, graduating from the Nashville Medical College, February 23,
1882. He was marreid April 6, 1875, to Elizabeth F. Lee, a daughter of A.J.
and Caroline Lee, of Tennessee. By this marriage he has five children
living, namely: James Ernest, Maud Ethel, Allen DeWitt, Bessie and Augustus
Green. Dr. Paris is a member of Empire Lodge No. 54, I.O.O.F., at
Elizabethtown, and of Hardin Lodge No. 3,133, K. of H. He is a member of the
Democratic party, and both he and wife are members of, and earnest workers
in, the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a practical business man of
integrity, and as a citizen is ever ready to do his share in the promotion
of local advancement. Genial in manner, sympathetic in expression, he has a
host of sincere friends. [1898. The Biographical Review of Johnson, Massac,
Pope and Hardin Counties, Illinois, Chicago, Biograhical Publishing Co. 617]
Submitted by Wanda (Patton) Reed
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