William T. Hoper

    William T. Hope, M. D., was born December 26, 1850, in Roane County, Tenn. He graduated from the literary department of Cumberland University in 1870. Having read medicine for two years, under Dr. B. B. Lenois, he took a course of lectures at the University of Virginia, and graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1873. After practicing two years in his home county, he came to Chattanooga, where he has remained ever since. He has been city physician, president of the board of health, and is a member of the Chattanooga Medical Society, State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association. For many years a member of the Masonic fraternity, he was elected Eminent Commander of Lookout Commandery of K. T. in 1887. In November, 1886, he was married to Miss Lizzie L. McIlroy, a native of Pike County, Mo. Both are members of the Cum­berland Presbyterian Church. His parents, W. B. and Mary A. (Foute) Hope, were both natives of Roane County, Tenn. They had three children of whom W. T. and M. M. Hope are now living. The father has generally followed farming and merchandising, was a major during the days of militia, and an enrolling officer during the late war. The mother died about 1855, and W. B. Hope was again married in 1862, to Mrs. Kate Welcker Robinson. Nine children have been the result of this union of whom seven are now living.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887