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

NOBLE ROBERT TOWNSEND, M. D.
    Dr. Noble Robert Townsend, a physician and surgeon, who is now senior member
of the firm of Townsend & Townsend, practicing successfully at Arkadelphia, has
been a lifelong resident of Arkansas, his birth having occurred in Lawrence
county, February 28, 1866. His parents were John Woods and Anna E. (McGee)
Townsend, natives of Alabama and of Tennessee, respectively. The father came to
Arkansas some years prior to the Civil war, settling in Lawrence county. He was
twice married, the mother of Dr. Townsend being his second wife. The father was
also a physician and for some years after coming to Arkansas he practiced his
profession but on account of failing health he gave up active work of that
character. Later he entered the ministry of the Baptist church and was one of
the pioneer preachers of that faith in the state. He became one of the founders
and the moderator of the Spring River Association. He was also the editor and
publisher of a small newspaper at Smithville for many years, this paper being
known as the Sketch Book. Rev. Dr. Townsend was a man of broad education and
liberal culture for his day and wielded a wide influence for good in the
communities in which he lived and labored, his efforts being most effective in
connection with the intellectual and moral progress of the state.

    Dr. Noble R. Townsend was educated in the public schools of Smithville and
in the La Crosse Collegiate Institute and in 1888 he took up the study of
medicine, being graduated from the Hospital School of Medicine at Louisville,
Kentucky, as a member of the class of 1889. Following his graduation he located
at Black Rock, Arkansas, where he remained in active practice until 1903. He
then came to Arkadelphia, where he has continued and through the intervening
period has built up an extensive practice of a most important character. In 1892
he took up a special course of study at Louisville, Kentucky, covering six
months and in 1896-7 he pursued a course in the medical department of Tulane
University at New Orleans, Louisiana. He was graduated from the medical
department of that institution in 1897. For some years he was associated in
Black Rock with Dr. C. E. Witt, now of Little Rock, and for a considerable
period was in partnership with Dr. J. C. Wallace of Arkadelphia, who is
deceased. Dr. Town-send has always held to high professional standards and his
capability is widely recognized. He is a member of the Clark County Medical
Society, also of the Arkansas State Medical Society and belongs to the Southern
Medical Association.

    On the 16th of October, 1887, Dr. Townsend was married to Miss Roxie
Creekmore of La Crosse, Arkansas, and they became parents of three children, a
daughter and two sons, but the daughter died in infancy. The sons are: Dr.
Charles Kennard Townsend and Ernest Witt Townsend, the latter now a senior in
the medical department in Tulane University.

    Like his father, Dr. Noble R. Townsend is not only a physician for the body
but also for the soul as he is an ordained minister of the Baptist church and at
the present writing is doing supply work for a small suburban church.
Occasionally he fills the pulpit for a brother minister and in all possible ways
aids in the promotion of the church work. His life is characterized by high and
lofty ideals and as a representative of the medical profession he holds to the
most advanced professional ethics and standards. In 1919 Dr. Townsend
established a private sanitarium in association with his son and Dr. Rowland and
Dr. Doane. He is continually extending a helping hand where aid is needed and he
is prominently known as one of the representatives and honored residents of
Arkadelphia.


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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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