Benton Co., AR - Biographies - James Enterkine

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James Enterkine, analytic chemist and druggist, of Springtown, Ark., 
was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 1st of May, 1864, and was reared 
and educated in his native land. He attended the Jaynefield British 
Government Academy, taking a classical course, and graduated from that 
institution. At the age of seventeen years he entered the 
Belleviewdaur Hospital, where he studied chemistry and pharmacy under 
Prof. Noble, the great chemist of Glasgow, and completed his course at 
the end of two years. On June 6, 1883, he sailed for the United 
States, and went almost directly to Eureka, Kas., where he has an 
uncle by the name of Joseph Enterkine. He had an interest in a drug 
store at that place until 1886, and during the winter of that year and 
1887 and 1887-88, he took two courses in the National Institute of 
Pharmacy on [p.833] Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. He came to 
Springtown, Ark., in February, 1888, and engaged in the drug business 
in partnership with Dr. N. Sewell, and is the junior member of that 
firm. Mr. Enterkine has had to make his own way in the world, and has 
been exceptionally successful in accumulating property. He is now 
worth about $4,000, all of which he has made by his own energy and 
good management and, as he is a young man, his future prospects are 
very bright. His parents are John and Ellen (Smilie) Enterkine, both 
of whom were born and reared in Scotland. The father was a woolen 
manufacturer and designer, and was connected with the firm of Lord 
Napier & Co., woolen manufacturers, of Glasgow, Scotland. The father 
died in July, 1888, the mother October 14, 1888.