Biography of Robert Lovelady, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 156

Dr. Robert Lovelady, of Greene County, Ark., and an eminent physician of the
community, was born in Hamilton County, Tenn., in 1846, being the second of six
children born to Joseph and Deborah (Harris) Lovelady, both of whom are Tennesseeans,
who emigrated to Northeast Arkansas in 1852, where they entered 200 acres of wild
land, which was given Mr. Lovelady as a compensation for services rendered in the
Florida War. Here they made many valuable improvements, and resided until their
respective deaths, the father dying on the 12th of April, 1861. Dr. Robert Lovelady
remained with his parents until twenty-one years of age, attending the common
schools; later he began farming for himself, and taught school for a few terms. In
1872 he took up the study of medicine, under the instruction of Dr. C. Wall,
continuing with him three years, and then entered the Louisville University of
Medicine, at Louisville, Ky., which he attended for some little time. After
practicing his profession in Greene County for about three years he returned to the
college, and was raduated at the end of five months, being the second resident of
Crowley's Ridge to graduate in any profession. In 1879 he returned from college and
settled in Cache Township, [p.156] where he entered upon the practice of his
profession. During this time his patronage has been constantly growing, and he is
counted among the most successful professional men of the county. He is well fixed
financially, and deserves much credit for the way in which he has succeeded, for on
leaving college he had no capital whatever, save a good knowledge of his calling. He
is an active worker for the cause of education, and has done all he could to raise
the standard of the public schools. In 1879 he was married to Miss Maggie A. Morgan,
a native of Alabama, who came to Arkansas in 1871, with her mother and stepfather. By
her he has three little children: Ethel, Aden B. and Clifford. The Doctor is the
owner of a small tract of land near Walcott, on which he has erected a neat cottage
and out-buildings, and has set out a considerable number of fruit trees. He and wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.