Biography of Sterling P. Gammill, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Sterling P. Gammill, M. D., of Sub Rosa, was born in Franklin County,
Ark., March 28, 1862. His parents are Chesley M. and Margaret S.
(Milam) Gammill. Sterling P. Gammill grew up and received his early
education in the common schools of his native county, and afterward
attended school at the White Oak Academy. He began the study of
medicine at the age of seventeen, and two years later began reading
with Dr. C. W. Talliaferro, continuing his reading while clerking for
his uncle, C. J. Milam, at Sub Rosa, and teaching school. October 6,
1885, he entered the Arkansas Medical College, at Little Rock, where
he was an industrious student for one year. He entered upon the active
practice of his chosen profession at Sub Rosa in 1886, where he has
since enjoyed a liberal patronage. Dr. Gammill owns a farm of forty-
four acres, and in 1887, in partnership with James S. McGee, he
engaged in general merchandising at Sub Rosa. March 8, 1885, our
subject married Miss Anna B. McGee, daughter of J. S. McGee, Dr.
Gammill's mercantile partner, and one of the leading farmers of
Franklin County. Mrs. Anna Gammill was born December 10, 1868, and is
the mother of two children, Roscoe and Mabel. Dr. Gammill belongs to
the F. & A. M.