My friends - Today we are reviewing another biography from the multi-volume "History of Kentucky" collection, published in 1922 by the American Historical Society. Our subject today is Dr. Charles Otis Gingles of Calloway County. As is customary, there will be no data posts per se tomorrow or on the weekend, although, if time permits, I will drop by with another "miscellaneous file". Just as an aside, the South Pleasant Grove file offering received just over 300 requests, making it one of the most popular of those that have been offered. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Calloway County - AHS "History of Kentucky" - Dr. Charles Otis Gingles "CHARLES OTIS GINGLES, M. D., is one of the eminent physicians and surgeons of Calloway County, whose practice in and about Murray has extended over some years, during which time he has acquired what is infinitely of more importance than the mere accumulation of money, the confidence and affection of all with whom he has been brought into contact. He was born in this county, June 1, 1874, a son of John T. Gingles, and a grandson of James A. Gingles, who was born in Scotland in 1809. He came to the United States and first lived in Marshall County, Tennessee, but soon moved to Calloway County, where he died in 1884, having spent his life as a farmer. He married Sallie M. Graves, who was born in North Carolina. She also died in Calloway County. John T. Gingles was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, in 1843, and he is now residing at Kirksey, Kentucky. From 1853, which marks the date of the family removal to Calloway County, John T. Gingles lived in that county, and he was graduated from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1872 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and was engaged in the practice of his profession until his retirement in 1892. He is a stanch democrat. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church holds his membership and receives his generous support. During the war between the North and the South he enlisted in the Confederate Army and fought until its close, serving under Generals Van Dorn and Price, and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Franklin and others of importance. He married Martha Alice Watkins, who was born in Calloway County in 1853, and their children were as follows: Dr. Charles O., who was the eldest; Onie, who married Tom Morris, a trader and capitalist, who resides at Murray; Maude, who married W. P. Dulaney, president of the Kirksey Bank, a druggist and merchant, resides at Kirksey; W. H., who is an attorney and lives at Clarendon, Arkansas; Guy L., who is in the railroad mail service, lives at Franklin, Kentucky; Hunter W., who is a physician and surgeon, lives at Jackson, Kentucky; Hugh, who is a farmer, lives at Kirksey, Kentucky; Fred, who is also a farmer residing at Kirksey; and Mabel, who married J[ames] V[ictor]Stark, a physician and surgeon of Kirksey. Doctor Gingles attended first the rural schools of Calloway County and later the Murray Male and Female Institute. Subsequently he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Since then he has taken post-graduate courses in the Chicago Polyclinic in 1900, 1907 and 1914, and in 1910 took a four-months course at his alma mater. In 1897 Doctor Gingles began the practice of his profession at Kirksey, but came to Murray in 1910, where he has since carried on a general medical and surgical practice. His offices are located in the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building on Court Square. Doctor Gingles is a democrat and has served in the City Council of Murray, on the Board of Trustees of the grade and high schools of the city, and is Government examiner for war risk insurance. He belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. A Mason, he is a member of Murray Lodge No. 105, A. F. and A. M., of which he is a past master, having been worshipful master of his lodge for two years. He also belongs to Murray Chapter No. 92, R. A. M. Professionally he is a member of the Calloway Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Southwest Kentucky Medical Association. For seven years he served as president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, which he helped to organize. This bank was recently merged with the First National Bank 0f Murray. Doctor Gingles owns a residence just west of the corporate limits of Murray, where he has a comfortable home with ample grounds of six acres. He also owns three dwellings in Murray and a farm east of the city. During the late war he took a keen interest in all of the local activities and helped in all of the drives. contributing generously of his time and money. In 1901 Doctor Gingles married at Farmington, Graves County. Kentucky, Miss Jessie Hudspeth, a daughter of T. F. and Catherine Hudspeth, residents of Farmington. Mr. Hudspeth has extensive farming interests in that vicinity. Doctor and Mrs. Gingles have four children, namely: Vivian, who was born July 27, 1902; Nell, who was born February 14, 1904; Hal, who was born November 22, 1906; and Harold, who was born June 21, 1910. A man 0f unusual abilities, Doctor Gingles has always possessed a clear and comprehensive knowledge of his profession and has combined with his skill and experience an intense humanitarianism which leads him to many times give his services without any prospect of remuneration. The breadth of his sympathies and his firm grasp of the large essentials of human progress have enabled him to render dependable aid in the economic and intellectual development of his locality, and he has long been placed in the foremost ranks among the worth-while citizens of Southwestern Kentucky." -History of Kentucky Charles Kerr, Editor Chicago: American Historical Society, 1922 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++