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Doc holiday biography
Doc Holliday
(1851-1887)
Who Was Doc Holliday?
A dentist by trade, Doc Holliday became an icon of the American West and was close friends with fellow gunslinger Wyatt Earp.
They were the two most famous faces in what is regarded as the most legendary battle of the West: the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which cemented Holliday's status as a legend.
Early Years
John Henry ("Doc") Holliday was born August 14, 1851, in Griffin, Georgia.
His birth was a celebrated event for his parents, Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane Holliday, who just a year before had buried their first child, an infant daughter.
He hailed from middle-class stock. His father made his living as a druggist in Griffin, a booming Georgia city that had become a central point for the South's most important export: cotton.
Holliday was adored by his parents, particularly his mother.
Born with a cleft palate, Holliday had undergone corrective surgery, but his speech needed considerable work. Ever