My friends - I now have another file reworked and ready to announce. The Marshall County Medical Register for the years 1888-1900 is ready in both rich text format(which I recommend) and plain text format. To recapitulate for those half dozen new subscribers who have joined us over the past 36 hours, the KY Legislature began, in 1874, to pass laws which required more formal education for physicians, and, as time went on, these educational requirements became greater and greater. Beginning in 1888, all physicians had to register with the county clerk(s) in the county(ies) in which they practiced. Those physicians who had been practicing at least ten years prior to the 1874 Act were considered "grandfathered" and did not have to present a diploma from an accredited medical school facility. They did, however, have to file a certificate swearing to that fact. In some counties, the certificates themselves were also preserved with the Medical Register, as occurred in Carlisle and Calloway Counties(whose Medical Registers are available in file format and have been offered here earlier). These certificates often carried the history of the grandfathered physician's career, with places he had practiced and the years spent in those various places. unfortunately, Marshall County does not have those certificates extant - only the Medical Register itself. The information contained in the file includes the name of the physician, his age, where he was born, the medical system he uses (allopathic or eclectic), his "authority" to practice medicine(grandfathered by certificate or the medical school he attended and the date of his diploma) and the registration date. These registers can be valuable genealogical aids when the place of birth is unknown, and they are good historical adjuncts as well. This Marshall County Register includes the name of one female physician, perhaps the first one in the County - Martha Jane Baker Love. The physicians included in the Marshall County Medical Register to 1900 are: J.B.Wilson J.D.Warford Ben T. Frank Benjamin B. Griffith William Curd T.C.Coleman Wm N. Bailey E.C.Dycus E.G.Thomas Rufus H. Starks B.T.Hall J.M.Mooney William A. Givens Wm S. Stone Johnston Frank, Jr. Samuel Graham Lewis E. Finley Jonathan W.Johnson Thomas W. Dunn R.M.Jones J.A.Jones Van A. Stilley E.A.Henson Lee H. Tully Richard J. Neal Horace M. Robertson Wm J. Saling Charles E. Howard Albert H. Freeman Joseph Martin Woodall Thomas Blewitt Helm Thomas E. Russell John T. Crandell John W. Robinson James R. Seitz Martha Jane Baker Love If you would like a copy of this file, let me know and I will get it to you, and *please specify Rich Text Format or Plain Text* - I will send it in Plain Text if nothing is specified. You will receive the complete file, as time constraints will not permit me to go into the file and extract individual names. As always, your help in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. -B ===========================================================