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EDWARD OSCAR TINSLEY, M. D.

The subject of this sketch is a physician and surgeon
of Bent Mountain, occupying a beautiful home at Air
Point overlooking the valley and situated directly
on the Roanoke-Floyd
Turnpike. Dr. Tinsley
was born in Franklin
County, Virginia, on
February 7th, 1868, his
parents being Reuben
Joseph and Miranda
(Crumpecker) Tinsley,
and is the eldest of a
family of ten children,
nine sons and one daughter.
He received his
early education in the
the country schools and
an academic course at
Hale Ford, Franklin
County. He afterwards
studied medicine and
surgery at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons,
Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated in the
spring 1897, and passed the Virginia Medical Board in
the summer. In September of the same year he
located on Bent Mountain for the practice of his profession.
In the past fourteen years he has drawn
around him a large and ever growing clientele. His
practice extends for a radius of a dozen miles from
his home in every direction, and frequently he is called
in consultation by other physicians in severe cases of
illness. As a physician, Dr. Tinsley has been eminently
successful, although he has had some time to devote
to agricultural and horticultural pursuits. He is a
member of the Medical Society of Virginia, and also
of the local Medical Society of Roanoke County. As
a progressive farmer Dr. Tinsley has adopted modern
methods, "intensive farming" being his motto. Besides
his Bent Mountain farm, he owns a valuable tract of
land in Franklin County. Being a firm believer in the
future of fruit culture in this section he has planted
one thousand apple trees of leading varieties such as
Winesap, York Imperial, and Rome Beauty. On October
23d, 1901, Dr. Tinsley married Miss Alien
Turnbull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Turnbull,
of Roanoke, formerly of Franklin County.