Biography of Needam Harvey Grady - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 333

Needam Harvey Grady, M. D., a successful medical practitioner on
Buffalo Island, also engaged in merchandising and farming, was born in
Gibson County, Tenn., March 5, 1852. He is the son of William Grady, a
native of North Carolina, who was reared and married in that State. He
moved to Tennessee and engaged in farming for several years, and when
our subject was about ten years old, went to Pemiscot County, Mo.,
where the father and mother both died. Dr. Grady, then a boy of
fourteen, returned to his old home in Tennessee, where he remained
until he was twenty-five years of age. He had superior educational
advantages, and has taught school several terms. In his profession he
is well posted, began the study of medicine with Dr. James, of Gibson
County, Tenn., and has attended lectures at both St. Louis and
Louisville, Ky. He practiced in Butler County for three years, then in
Independence County, Ark., and after trying Greene County, Ark., and
Dunklin County, Mo., settled in Craighead County, Ark., in the fall of
1884. In 1886 he began merchandising, keeping a general stock, and at
this has been quite successful. He owns several good farms, aggregating
600 acres, with over 200 under cultivation. In October, 1872, he was
united in marriage with Nancy A. Keith, a native of Indiana, and
daughter of Isom Keith, an early settler of Missouri. During the five
years Dr. Grady has been on Buffalo Island, he has built up a wide
practice, and has won the esteem and confidence of the people.