Doc HolidayDoc Holiday may be known as the sharpest gambler, the nervousest, fastest and deadliest man with a six-shooter. John Henry Holiday was born on August 14, 1851 in Griffin, Georgia. His father was Henry Broughs and mother Alice Jane Holiday. Their first daughter, Martha Elenore, died at the age of six months on January 8, 1889. Holidays' father was a pharmacist by profession and later became a wealthy planter, lawyer and during the civilian period was a Confederate major. Holiday suffered a terrible loss when her mother Alice Jane died on September 16, 1886. This was a tragedy for Doc, due to her bond with her mother. Holiday's father remarried three months later to Rachel Martin on December 18, 1886. Then the family moved to Valdosta, Georgia. Because of her father's high status, Holiday chose the profession of dentistry. In 1872 Holiday enrolled in the Pennsylvania College of Dental and Surgery on March 1. He graduated with a class of twenty-six other men, and soon opened a practice with Dr. Arthur C. Ford in Atlanta. After Holidays' practice he soon discovered that he had contracted tuberculosis. The doctors he consulted with said he had only a few months to live and suggested moving to a drier climate. Doc packed his bags and headed west to Dallas, Texas. Holiday found work with a Dr. John A. Segar and prepared for business. The disease soon overwhelmed him and as a result his dental activity gradually declined...