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

HENDRICK A. ROSS, M. D.
    It was in December, 1918, that Dr. Hendrick A. Ross opened an office and
began practice in Arkadelphia. He had previously had several years experience in
the active work of the profession and had received thorough preliminary training
in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. He was born in Okolona,
Arkansas, February 21, 1884, and is a son of Dr. James S. Ross, a practicing
physician, who for forty years has followed his profession in Okolona. He
married Miss Sallie Winfield, a daughter of the Rev. Sandy Winfield, one of the
pioneer circuit riders of Arkansas and a brother of the Rev. Gus Winfield, in
whose honor the Winfield Memorial Methodist Episcopal church of Little Rock was
named. Dr. James S. Ross is a graduate of the medical department of Tulane
University at New Orleans and throughout his professional career he has made
steady progress, keeping at all times in close touch with the trend of
professional thought and investigation, so that his labors have been of great
benefit to his fellowmen.

    Dr. Hendrick A. Ross completed his preliminary education as a high school
student in Okolona and then took up the study of pharmacy, being graduated in
1908 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In the same year he entered upon
the study of medicine, matriculating in the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia, which conferred upon him his M. D. degree at his graduation with
the class of 1912. He then accepted the position as junior assistant physician
in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane and continued there for seven
months, on the expiration of which period he resigned in order to return home.
In January, 1913, he entered upon the private practice of medicine in Okolona,
where he continued until December, 1918, when he sought a broader field of labor
and removed to Arkadelphia. Here he has built up an extensive practice, which is
steadily growing and he is recognized as one of the ablest physicians and
surgeons of his adopted city. He belongs to the Clark County Medical Society,
also to the Arkansas State Medical Society and the Southern Medical Association.

    On the 23d of July, 1916, Dr. Ross was united in marriage to Miss Pamelia
Potts, a native of Pottsville, Arkansas, and they have become parents of two
children: Wallace A. and Pamelia B. Dr. Ross and his wife are consistent and
faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church and fraternally he is
connected with Arkadelphia Lodge, No. 1149, B. P. O. E. He is serving as city
health officer and he is also a member of the state medical hoard of the
Arkansas State Medical Society. Throughout his professional career he has done
everything in his power to promote a knowledge of sanitary conditions and thus
prevent the spread of disease. In his practice he is most thorough, diagnosing
his cases with the greatest care and is seldom, if ever, at fault in foretelling
the outcome of disease.


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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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