Biography of Wm. M. Scarborough - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 116

Dr. Wm. M. Scarborough, a successful and prominent druggist of
Morrilton, was born in Sumpter County, S. C., in 1839; he was the
oldest of a family of three children born to W. H. and M. E. (Miller)
Scarborough. Parents were natives of Tennessee and South Carolina,
respectively; father was an artist and followed portrait painting. He
died at Columbia in 1871, but mother is still living, and resides at
Spring Hill, S. C. Our subject was reared and educated in Columbia, at
the South Carolina College, and in 1859 commenced the study of
medicine at the University of Nashville, (Tenn.), and graduated there
March, 1861. He at once enlisted in the Confederate army, in the
Company of "Columbia Grays," and made the campaign of Virginia,
participating in all the engagements of General Lee's army. After an
examination at Richmond, in 1862, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon
in the Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, in General Lee's army, and
was in all the engagements of those troops, till, the end of the war.
He then returned to Columbia, where he at once engaged in the practice
of his profession, and where he remained till 1872, when he came to
Arkansas and located at Lewisburg, where he at once opened a drug
store, and carried on business till 1880, when he removed to
Morrilton, and erected the building in which he has since conducted
his business. He carries a complete stock of about $2000 of everything
in the line of a first-class drug store, and with his knowledge and
skill has acquired a large and successful patronage. Mr. Scarborough
was married in 1871 to Miss Effie Metzger, of Little Rock, and to this
union have been born six children, all boys, three of whom are dead.
Wm. M. died at the age of 2 years, in 1875, and George H. died in
infancy, at the same time; Du Bose; Frank E.; Andrew, died at the age
of three years; Martin Audley. The family are members of the
Episcopalian Church, and Mr. Scarborough is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, Hermion Lodge, No. 28. In 1881 he erected a pleasant
residence at Morrilton. In 1889 he purchased forty acres on the summit
of Petit Jean Mountain, where he has erected a summer residence, and
where he spent the summer of 1889, and from the enjoyment and comfort
of his family there, he hopes to spend the summers of the future.