DR. HARMAN H. WHITSON was born June 24, 1834, in Wilson County, Tenn., where he lived until 1850, when he removed with his parents to Logan County, Ky.; remaining three years, he returned to Tennessee, and in 1857 came to Kentucky again. His father, John Whitson, a native of Coffee County, Tenn., removed with his parents to Wilson County in infancy, was a gallant soldier in the war of 1812, and died in 1869, at the age of seventy-five years. He was the son of Abram Whitson, a soldier of the Revolution. John Whitson married Susan, daughter of Isaac Green, of Tennessee. She died in 1850. Their offspring are James, Elijah, Elisha, Franklin and our subject. H. H. Whitson was married, August 19, 1857, to Miss Annie E., daughter of Robert and Ann (Dearing) Moore, of Muhlenburgh County, Ky. (born August 19, 1837), and to them have been born David W., Jennie (deceased) and Robert H. In 1854, Mr. Whitson commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Matthew Cowan, of Cole's Ferry, Tenn., and in 1857, graduated at Nashville, after which he located at Pond River Mills, Ky., where he soon established a good and lucrative practice, which he retained until 1882, when he located at Slaughterville, his present place of residence, where he is meeting with encouraging success. Dr. Whitson is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also of the K. of H. In religion he is a Baptist, and in politics a Democrat.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1051.