Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - John W. Poynor, M. D.

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John W. Poynor, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Fairview, Arkansas, 
is a native of Carroll County, born December 3, 1848. He is a son of 
George G. Poynor, who removed his family to Madison County, Ark., in 
1851. There Dr. John W. Poynor grew to manhood, spending his early 
youth on his father's farm. His literary education was finished by 
taking a complete course at Clarke's Academy at Berryville, after 
which he taught school in Carroll and adjoining counties for twelve 
years. While teaching he began the study of medicine, and in the fall 
of 1883 entered the medical department of the Arkansas University at 
Little Rock, and took one course of lectures. The following April he 
located at Fairview, and began the practice of his profession, which 
he has continued with good success. During the winter of 1887-88 he 
attended the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, graduating from 
that institution in the spring of 1888. On February 9, 1873, he was 
married to A. F. Meek, a daughter of Samuel S. Meek. of Carroll 
County, and to them have been born six children, viz.: Nora E., Cloe 
Amo, Erton E., William Herbert, Edgar A., who died at the age of 
fourteen months, and an infant, deceased. The Doctor is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, and is a Royal Arch Mason. He is a member of 
the Carroll County Medical Association, and is president of the County 
Medical Board. In 1884 he was appointed postmaster of Osage Post-
office, at Fairview, and is the present incumbent. In 1887 he engaged 
in the drug business, which he has continued, and in 1888 also put in 
his store a stock of groceries. His wife was born in Carroll County, 
and was educated at Clarke's Academy.