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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

ALVIN LOUIS PETTER. D. D. S.
    Dr. Alvin Louis Petter, who has been actively engaged in the practice of
dentistry at Stuttgart for the past seven years, is widely recognized as an able
young representative of the profession in eastern Arkansas. He was born in
Paducah, Kentucky, in 1891, a son of Frank and Sophie (Mamman) Petter, his
father being also a native of Paducah. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Petter
fought in the Civil war.

    In the acquirement of an education Alvin L. Petter pursued a high school
course in his native city, while his professional training was received as a
student in the Indiana Dental College of Indianapolis. Indiana. It was in 1915
that he took up the work of his chosen profession at Stuttgart, Arkansas, where
he has remained to the present time and where a large and gratifying practice
has been accorded him. He displays marked skill in handling the many delicate
little instruments which constitute the equipment of the modern dentist and his
work is of a most satisfactory and commendable character. During the period of
the World war he became a member of the Dental Reserve Corps, remaining in camp
for two months.

    Dr. Petter married Miss Marie Grable, daughter of August Grable of
Stuttgart, and they are well known and highly esteemed socially. The Doctor is a
Scottish Rite Mason and an Elk, while his religious faith is that of the
Lutheran church. He has gained an extensive circle of friends during the period
of his residence in Stuttgart and enjoys an enviable reputation as one of the
successful young dentists and representative citizens of Arkansas county.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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