Background
Tackett, John Robert was born on December 18, 1868 in Richland, Holmes Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Doctor John and Elizabeth Anne Tackett.
Tackett, John Robert was born on December 18, 1868 in Richland, Holmes Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Doctor John and Elizabeth Anne Tackett.
Educated Richland, Mississippi, public schools, University of Mississippi, 1884-1886 (through junior year). Graduate Tulane University, Louisiana, Doctor of Medicine 1889. Post-graduate studies New York Policlinic.
Secretary Mississippi State Medical Association, member American Medical Association, Mississippi Valley Medical Association. Lauderdale Company Medical Association. Assistant superintendent East Mississippi Insane Asylum, 1894-1897.
Commissioner to Havana, Cuba, to investigate yellow fever for the State board of health, 1897.
Acting assistant surgeon United States of America, 1898. Stationed in yellow fever hospital across Santiago Harbor, Santiago de Cuba.
Served in Cuba and Porto Rico during Spanish American war. Company health officer Lauderdale Company.
Member American Medical; member Mississippi
Married Columbus, Mississippi, October 16, 1902, Juanita H. Ayres.