Biography of Calvin Wall, Greene Co, AR

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

page 179

Dr. Calvin Wall, president of the Bank of Paragould, and physician, was born in
Spartanburg District, S. C., October 12, 1824, and is the son of Zachariah and Oney
(Clement) Wall, the father a native of Wilkes County, N. C., and the mother of South
Carolina. The parents were married in South Carolina and remained there until their
deaths, the father devoting himself to agricultural pursuits. Their family consisted
of ten children, only one now living, Dr. Calvin Wall. He was reared and educated in
South Carolina, assisted on the farm until nineteen years of age, and then taught
school until twenty-six years old, when he began the study of medicine. He graduated
at the Medical University of Lexington, Ky., in 1854, and in July of the same year
began practicing in Polk County, N. C., where he remained until the latter part of
1857. He then returned to the homestead in South Carolina, where he stayed until
February 7, 1859, when he started for Greene County, Ark., coming through on
horseback and arriving March 26, of that year. He located at Gainesville and entered
upon the practice of his profession. In 1860 he went to Greensboro, Craighead County,
remained there six months and then returned home, where he practiced until 1886, when
he came to Paragould. Here he has since continued to follow his profession. In March,
1889, he was elected president of the Bank of Paragould, which position he now
occupies. He is also president of the Building and Loan Association, served two terms
as county treasurer while living at Gainesville, and has been notary public for over
twelve years. He owns several thousand acres of land in the county, with about 200
acres under cultivation. He was married March 13, 1860, to Miss Emily A. Gentry, a
native of Tennessee, and to them have been born six children: Ona J., wife of Dr.
Kitchen; Elmer S., wife of W. S. Ellis; Melvin C., Ethel M., Arthur G. and Ernest N.
Mr. and Mrs. Wall are members of the Baptist Church. He is a member of the Masonic
Fraternity, also belongs to the I. O. O. F., and is one of the oldest physicians, in
point of residence, in the county.