Charles Edward Meriwether, M.D. [
TMSI #2395]Charles
E. Meriwether, M.D., is descended from old Virginia families, who came
to Kentucky many years ago. He was born in Christian County, Ky., May
27, 1857, and is a son of Charles E. and Eliza (Golden) Meriwether. His
paternal grandfather came to Kentucky in 1801, and settled in what is
now Christian County. The father of our subject, at the beginning of
the civil war, raised a company of cavalry, joined Forrest's command,
and was killed in a skirmish at Sacramento, Ky., in 1861. After the
death of his father, subject went to live with his grandfather in Todd
County; in 1875 he entered Kentucky University at Lexington. He
remained there until the fall of 1876, when he went into the tobacco
trade at Clarksville, Tenn., but the next year came to Louisville, and
took charge of James Clark's tobacco business for one year. In 1879 he
entered the medical department of University of Virginia, graduating in
the spring of 1880. The following fall he graduated in the University
of New York. He remained in that State in 1881, taking a special course
in medicine, and returned to Louisville one of the best read physicians
of his age in the city. In 1884 he located at Twelfth and Broadway, and
has been there ever since. He is city physician in charge of public
dispensary in Western district. He is a member of the Louisville
Medical Society, and of New York State Medical Society.