CRITTENDEN CO, AR - ROBERT W. BARTON, M. D. - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Robert W. Barton, M.D., considered among the profession as one of the leading 
physicans, and an upright and honest citizen of Crittenden County, was born in 
this county, March 17, 1860, to the union of James F. and Frances (Edmonds) 
Barton. [See sketch.] Robert W. Barton spent most of his youth in Memphis, 
Tenn., and was educated in the common schools of Louisville, Ky., and the 
Lincoln public school of St. Louis, Mo. In 1876, during the big strike in St. 
Louis, he volunteered as a soldier and served throughout that affray in that 
city, the youngest of 3,000 volunteers, and did active and honorable service for 
eleven days while quelling the riot. He was requested and urged by his officers 
to become a West Point cadet at large from Missouri, but owing to the fact that 
he was a son of a Confederate soldier he could not be appointed, although 
endorsed by Capt. Elerby, Lieut. Barlow and other officers, and quite a number 
of prominent men of both Nashville and Memphis, Tenn. In 1879 he entered the 
State University of Tennessee, and owing to his ill health remained for [p.405] 
only two years, and commenced the study of medicine in Memphis with Dr. Rogers 
as his preceptor, in 1882, and later he assisted R. D. Murray, United States 
army surgeon for four months. In 1883, he was appointed interne in the city 
hospital of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, Md., from which school he 
graduated in 1884, and returned to Memphis, Tenn., where he commenced the 
practice of his profession. In July of that year he came to this county, where 
he has since practiced. While in Memphis he was a member of the State Medical 
Association of Tennessee, and is now of the Tri-State Medical Society of 
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and president of the board of medical 
examiners of this county. Dr. Barton was married to Miss Mamie G. Grasty, who 
was born in Danville, Va., and was reared in Baltimore, Md., where she graduated 
from the Western Female High School, taking the Peabody medal. She then 
graduated from the Maryland Musical Institute, under Prof. May. Mrs. Barton is a 
very highly educated lady and is in every way an estimable woman. She is the 
mother of two children: Phebe Housen and Francis Edmunds. She is an active and 
prominent member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis, Tenn.