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

BURTON O. GEORGE.

    Burton O. George, vice president of the First National Bank of Berryville.
was born November 24, 1872, in the house in which he now resides, his parents
being William Patrick and Mary (Burton) George, both of whom were natives of
Barry county, Missouri. The father was born near Cassville in 1846 and died on
the 13th of October, 1915. The mother's birth occurred in the same neighborhood
in 1850 and she now makes her home in Berryville. They were the parents of four
children, of whom two are living, Burton O. and Charles A., the latter a
physician of Berryville who is mentioned on another page of this work. William
Patrick and Mary (Burton) George were reared and educated in Missouri, the
father coming to Berryville, Arkansas, in 1868, a year or two before they were
married. Here he engaged in the practice of medicine to the time of his death
and he died in the faith of the Baptist church, of which he had long been a
devoted member. Fraternally he was a Knights Templar Mason and politically a
democrat. He enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of fifteen years and
served as a member of Parson's Brigade for a period of three years and while at
the front was captured and imprisoned at Memphis. With his return home he
studied medicine and graduated from the St. Louis Medical School. He was a most
capable and successful physician, recognized as well as one of the foremost
surgeons of northern Arkansas. The first amputation which he made was with a
Disston saw. As the years passed and great improvements were made in the methods
of surgery he kept in touch with these and was ever abreast with the times in
his professional work. He also was one of the foremost builders and promoters of
Berryville. He assisted in organizing the First National Bank and remained
president of the institution to the time of his demise.

    The George family has long been represented in the south. The grandfather of
Burton O. George was David O. George, who was born in Tennessee and in an early
day removed to Missouri, where he spent the remainder of his life, devoting his
attention to the occupation of farming. The Burton family, of which Burton O.
George is a representative through the maternal line, was also an old family of
Tennessee. His grandfather died when Mrs. Mary (Burton) George was but a young
girl and thus much of the family history has been lost.

    Burton O. George was educated in Clarke's Academy at Berryville, one of the
old, substantial schools of the state. His first commercial venture was in
connection with the drug business, in which he engaged for twenty years,
associated with his father. He made a success in that line but eventually sold
his drug store in 1912 and became actively identified with the First National
Bank as cashier. Later he was elected to the position of vice president and has
been the active vice president of the institution since that date. The First
National Bank was organized by his father in 1889 and is one of the strong
financial institutions of Arkansas. It is capitalized for sixty thousand dollars
and has a surplus of thirty thousand dollars, with average annual deposits
amounting to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He was also at one time a
director of the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Green Forest but sold his interest
in that institution, which, however, he conducted for six months in 1915. He now
acts as guardian for the children of his deceased brother.

    Mr. George is a member of the Masonic fraternity, loyal to the teachings and
purposes of the craft. His political allegiance is given to the democratic
party, but the honors and emoluments of office have no attraction for him. He
devotes his time to the hank and to the management of his father's estate and is
thus leading a busy, active and useful life.


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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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