Thomas Denton Geoghegan (1810 - 1863)

Born 23 Aug 1810 in West Point, Hardin, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Louise (Young) Geoghegan — married 9 Dec 1833 in Hardin, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 9 Dec 1863 at age 53 in West Point, Hardin, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

"The oldest, Dr. Thomas D. Geoghegan, settled at West Point, Hardin county, and had a successful practice during his life. The Doctor's location favored an extensive practice, living at a point where Hardin, Jefferson, and Bullitt counties connect, and in four miles of Meade, on the Ohio river, the lines between Kentucky and Indiana. His practice extended largely over all the above-named counties, and in two counties in Indiana. This heavy practice, of course, kept the Doctor much from home. On one occasion a man came for the Doctor, and while waiting employed himself in reading the sign on the shop, "Dr. Thos. D. Geoghegan." The name is pronounced Go-ha-gan; and the man in waiting not being an apt scholar, made it read Dr. Thomas gone again. Becoming tired, he left for some two hours. On returning and looking at the sign, he exclaimed, 'There now, I'll swear he's gone again.'

He died suddenly on the 9th day of December, 1863, in the fifty-second year of his age, leaving a very respectable and intelligent family."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Haycraft, Samuel. A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky and its Surroundings. Elizabethtown, KY: Woman's Club, 1921 (Orig. 1869). Page 128-129. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Elizabethtown_Kentucky_and/7vkxAQAAMAAJ

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