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R.w. Haselwood April 11, 1839 - unknown
Green County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A, History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed.,

R. W. HASELWOOD, M. D., was born April 11, 1839, and is a son of Richard and Nancy (Cowherd) Haselwood, to whom three sons and six daughters were born, six of whom lived to be grown. Richard Haselwood was born in Virginia, and July 25, 1797, when nearly grown, came to Green County, Ky., with his parents. In early life he was a carpenter, and made the first two panel doors ever used in Greensburg, and received for the work $50. In later years he followed farming and died in June, 1859. He was a son of Clifford Haselwood, who married a Miss Towler, both of Virginia, and early settlers of Kentucky at a time when land was offered at Lexington for $1.25 per acre; but they settled in Green County, where the father died soon after. He was of English origin. Mrs. Nancy Haselwood was born in Virginia, March 17, 1807, and was a daughter of Maj. James Cowherd, who was also one of the early settlers of Green County, Ky., now Taylor County. He was a large farmer and slave-holder; was also a great hunter. The name Cowherd is said to have originated from the finding of a boy by some cowboys. The boy, it is supposed, had been captured by Indians and afterward was lost and found, hence the name. Dr. R. W. Haselwood, who was the eighth child, as born on a farm four miles south of Greensburg. At the age of eighteen he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. B. T. Marshall and later attended the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, from which he graduated in March, 1860, and located in Greensburg. March 15, 1860, he was united in marriage to Emma J. Rickets, of Lebanon, a daughter of Moses and Elizabeth M. (McAfee) Rickets. Moses Rickets was born in Marion County in 1809 where he became a leading merchant. In 1862, when Gen. Morgan was making one of his raids through Kentucky, Moses Rickets was with the Home Guards, who were trying to defend the town against the enemy. In the fight that ensued Mr. Rickets was killed. Dr. Haselwood and wife had born to them ten children: Jane H., who married a Haselwood, Mary E., Susan L., Richard M., Emma McAfee, William H., Alfred H., George M., Lovelace and Thomas P. The Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In November, 1863, the Doctor enlisted as assistant surgeon in the Thirty-seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry; was wounded at Salina, Tenn., in the left hand, but never lost a day from sickness while in the service and was discharged in December 1864. Afterward he resided in Louisville one year; thence removed to New Market, Marion County. In December, 1868, he located where he now resides on 286 acres of good land, eight miles northeast of Greensburg, on the Taylor County line. He has a large and extensive practice and makes a speciality of piles and fistula. In politics he is a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for John C. Breckenridge.



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