Uncle Jimmie had 5 children James aged 13, John 11, Richard 8, Mary 4, and Lucy 1. Uncle Jimmie's wife Eliza Jarvis died a year or two after arriving in Ill. Father moved from the timber East of Peoria to Washington in the fall of 1841. With love to all I remain your brother . Richard Waughop T his is an excerpt taken from In Memoriam - Doctors of Hawaii about John Wesley Waughop and his son Phillip Rexford Waughop. His father was a builder of river and canal boats, and his grandfather, Captain James Waughop, was a daring blockade runner in the War of 1812.
H is early education was received in country schools.
Professor Rudd of the College organized and became captain of a full company of students, which became part of the 17th. As one of the volunteers, John took part in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh and the siege of Vicksburg. During the last 18 months of the war he served as a surgeon's assistant. A t the end of the war he entered the medical school of the University of Michigan but then transferred to Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, from which he graduated in 1865. The following year Dr. Waughop began his practice in White Cloud, Kansas, where he was made mayor.