Goodspeed Publishing Co.’s 1889 History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri includes profiles of prominent citizens. The History‘s forward said the subjects of the profiles had read them for accuracy.
J.P. Brasher MD, who is one of the successful practicing physicians of Jerico Springs, Mo., is a native of Christian County Ky., born May 6, 1850. He has been identified with the interests of Cedar County since 1856, at which time he came with his parents I. S. and R.E. Petty Brasher to Missouri.
The father(was) of Irish ancestry a prosperous farmer and was born on Kentucky soil in 1810. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1814 and died in Cedar County Mo., on the 20th of June 1887. Five of their nine children grew to maturity and are yet living, of whom J.P. Brasher is the third.
He resided with his parents until he reached his majority and received his education in the public schools of Kentucky and Missouri. In 1871 he took a course of lectures in the Missouri Medical College of St Louis and afterward entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, Tenn., from which he was graduated as an MD in 1874 and in 1881 received a diploma from the Missouri Medical College at St Louis.
He resided on a farm and practiced his profession near where Jerico now is till the village was established when he moved to his present residence. He is one of the successful physicians of the county and keeps thoroughly posted in his profession and in social as well as his professional capacity is a genial and accommodating gentleman.
He is a Democrat in his political views and is a member of the IOOF and the Masonic fraternity. In 1876 he was married to Miss Laura L. Mitchell, who was born in Missouri in 1856 and is a daughter of M. W. and Mary Mitchell. Mrs. Brasher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Jerico Springs on parade 