In Griffin Georgia on August 14, 1851 Henry B. Holliday a pharmacist who was a former major in the confederate army had his youngest son John Henry Holliday or better known as Doc Holliday, who would end up being a gun slinging legend of the wild west. Doc Holliday is well known for many events and spent a lot of his life fleeing and being a part of shot outs.
Looking back into his younger days, Doc Holliday had two siblings, an older sister who died as an infant and his father adopted an orphan named Francisco Hidalgo. In grade school he learned French, Latin and German. As a child his father became a leading citizen of the town serving two terms as mayor and as Secretary of the Agricultural Society in the County. His father was a well know and well respected man of the town. When he was only fifteen years old his mother died of Tuberculosis. His father remarried within a short three months. In 1872 he got a degree as a doctor in dental surgery not long after his graduation, Doc Holliday began work as a dentist in the office of Dr. Arthur C. Ford in Atlanta. Even though he Doc came from a well-respected family and he was very intelligent he was hot tempered and was very quick to pull a gun…once there was some colored people in one of his…show more content… Doc was in Hyman’s Saloon and Billy Allen entered Doc knew he was looking for trouble he shot just above his head. Allen tried to flee but tripped, Doc fired again hitting him in the arm. He faced a long legal progress but was found not guilty in March of 1885. There was one more scene of activity during the last week of October 1885. By the winter of 1885 Holliday got pneumonia, though he did not improve when he moved to Denver he was able to see his old friend Wyatt. Doc continued to grow sick and spent his last 57 days in bed at the hotel and was very delirious for 14 of those days. On November 8, 1887 he
