Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - George V. Poynor, M. D.

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George V. Poynor, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Carrollton, Ark., 
is a native of the State, who was born in Madison County on May 9, 
1856. He is a son of G. G. Poynor, a native of Tennessee. The latter 
was reared in his native State, and was married in Georgia, after 
which he removed to Illinois. Residing in the latter State until about 
1838, he removed to Arkansas and located near Carrollton, in Carroll 
County. For about six years he resided there engaged in farming, and 
then removed to Madison County, where he resided until his death in 
1879. His wife died in April, 1887. Dr. George V. Poynor grew to 
manhood in Madison County. He spent his early life on his father's 
farm, and received a good education in the higher schools. After 
finishing his education he taught two years in the public schools, and 
commenced the study of medicine in 1879, under the direction of Dr. B. 
Priddy, of Magazine, Logan Co., Ark. He took his first course of 
lectures at Little Rock, in the medical department of the Arkansas 
Industrial University, in 1882-83. After completing the course there 
he located in Yell County, and began practicing his profession, and 
continued until 1886, when he removed to Carrollton and resumed 
practicing. In the fall of 1887 he entered the Missouri Medical 
College at St. Louis. graduating from the institution in the spring of 
1888. Since coming to Carrollton he has built up a good practice and 
has been very successful. The Doctor was married in Johnson County, 
Ark., on February 11, 1880, to Gulie Ogilvie, a native of Arkansas, 
who was reared in Texas. She is a daughter of W. S. Ogilvie, of 
Johnson County. They are the parents of one [p.1070] daughter, 
Sedalia, and two children who died in infancy Dr. Poynor is a Royal 
Arch Mason, and is the present secretary of his Chapter.