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

SAMUEL C. VAN LEER, M. D.
    There is no city which can claim so many able and prominent physicians as
Hot Springs and among those who are successfully following the profession in
this city is Dr. Samuel C. Van Leer, who comes to Arkansas from Texas, his birth
having occurred in Bonham, on the 4th of April, 1861. He there resided to the
age of seventeen years and laid the foundation of his education in attendance at
the public schools. He then entered the Milwaukee Medical School, at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, wherein he was a student for a year and on the expiration of that
period he went to New York, where he remained for three years. He had been
reared on a ranch, so that his early experiences made him familiar with various
phases of outdoor life. The old home property is located in the great oil
districts of Texas. He was seventeen years of age when his parents died and it
was then that he became a student in a boarding school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
while later he spent three years in a boarding school in New York city. He is a
postgraduate of the Post Graduate Hospital Medical College and has taken
postgraduate work in other hospitals in New York. Having qualified for the
practice of medicine he came to Hot Springs in 1895, opened an office and has
since given his attention to his professional duties, which have constantly
grown in volume and importance. He specializes in skin and blood diseases and
has splendidly qualified for work of this character by reason of his
postgraduate studies in the polyclinic of Chicago and in the hospitals of the
east. He did postgraduate work on skin and cancer in New York.

    Dr. Van Leer married Nora Paxton and they have two daughters: Ava, the wife
of Dr. William H. Deaderick of Hot Springs; and Gladys, the wife of Cecil Parker
of Hot Springs,

    Twenty-six years have been added to the cycle of the centuries since Dr. Van
Leer came to Hot Springs and throughout the intervening period he has made
steady progress in his profession, ranking extremely high as a specialist in
skin and cancer diseases. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and all who know him appreciate the social qualities of
his nature, which make for popularity among his many acquaintances.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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