Dr. Joseph Williams McCall

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Dr. Joseph McCall was educated in the Decaturville Tennessee Academy. He commenced his study of medicine by reading the medical books belonging to his brother, Dr. Henry McCall, and continued with Prof. Paul F. Eve, Sr. of Nashville, TN. He enrolled in the medical department of the University of Nashville, where he graduated with highest honors in a class of over 400. In 1869 he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York. He received an honorary degree from the medical department, University of Tennessee and did post-graduate work at Tulane University.

Dr. McCall is credited with advancing the first correct theory of the cause of malaria. He served as a field and staff assistant surgeon in the 7th TN Cavalry USA and was appointed assistant surgeon on Oct. 15, 1862. He was discharged Sept. 1, 1863. A picture of Dr. McCall along with his fellow 7th Tennessee soldiers, James Taylor, Ben Morgan, Albert Birdwell, Joe McCracken, and Arzo Gooch is in the 1972 Carroll County 150th anniversary book.

He applied for an invalid pension in 1892.

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Autobiography: Joseph W. McCall, M.D., is a native of Henderson County, Tenn., born January 20, 1832, son of Andrew McCall, who was born in South Carolina, September 2, 1790, and is a descendant of some of the immigrants who came to the United States in the Mayflower. He was one of the early schoolmasters of Tennessee, a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and was an old line Whig in politics. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in about 1830 or 1831 came to Tennessee, and located in Henderson County, where he died October 11, 1841. His wife was Jane Todd. She was born in Ireland, March 4, 1795, and was brought to America in 1798. She died in Henderson County, Tenn., in 1875. Our subject is the ninth of ten children, six of whom are living. He was raised on a farm and attended the early schools of the county. He began the study of medicine at Clarksburg, Tenn., in the office of his brother, Dr. Henry McCall He graduated from the medical department of the University of Nashville in 1857. In 1862 he became assistant surgeon in the United States Army for the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. Since 1865 he has been a resident of Huntingdon, and is the oldest physician in the town; in 1869 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York. June 16, 1858, he married Victoria A. Wilson, who was born in Henderson County, Tenn., October 15, 1841. They have four children: Lenora J., Emma J., Fannie J. and James H. Mrs. McCall died August 24, 1884. Dr. McCall is a Republican, and for the last eighteen years has been local examining surgeon of pensions. His most important case, perhaps, was the first authenticated case in Tennessee of trichinosis. He successfully treated the family of James Espey, seven in number, in 1885.

Joseph Williams McCall studied medicine under his brother, Henry McCall, at Clarksburg, Carroll County, Tennessee. Joseph served as a surgeon in the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, US, during the American Civil War.

On 16 Jun 1858 when Joseph Williams was 26, he married Victoria Adelaide WILSON, in Tennessee. Born on 15 Oct 1818. At the age of 65, Victoria Adelaide died on 24 Aug 1884. Buried in Aug 1884 in Clark Cemetery, Huntingdon, Carroll County, Tennessee.