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

WILLIAM G. HODGES, M. D.
    Dr. William G. Hodges, who since 1912 has devoted his time and energies to
the practice of medicine in Malvern, was born in Hot Spring county, Arkansas,
October 21, 1878. His youth was spent on the home farm, seven miles from
Malvern, and in his boyhood days he became familiar with the work of the fields
from the time of early spring planting until crops were harvested in the late
fall. He acquired a common school education and attended high school at
Friendship, after which he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed
from 1900 until 1905. In this way he earned the money with which he met the
expenses of an advanced course. He taught the Gifford high school and eventually
qualified for the practice of medicine as a student in the Barnes Medical
College of St. Louis, Missouri. There he was graduated on the 17th of June,
1912. He had become a resident of Fallsville, Arkansas, in 1907, and through the
vacation periods in his college course he practiced to some extent at that place
and at Magnet. Following his graduation he opened an office in Malvern and
through the intervening years he has successfully engaged in the practice of
medicine and surgery. He pursued a postgraduate course in surgery in the
Illinois Postgraduate Medical School of Chicago, in 1919 and afterward attended
the Mayo Brothers' clinics at Rochester, Minnesota, in May, 1920. He also
specialized in surgery in the Illinois Postgraduate School, and in January,
1921, he took postgraduate work in the St. Louis clinics. He has thus at
intervals promoted his efficiency through wide study and experience under some
of the ablest physicians and surgeons of the country He has constantly advanced
in his profession and in large measure enjoys the confidence and good will of
his colleagues and contemporaries. Broad reading has also kept him in touch with
the onward march of professional progress and he has gained much valuable
knowledge through the proceedings of the Hot Spring County Medical Society, the
Arkansas State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society, the Southern
Medical Association and the American Medical Association, in all of which he has
membership. He has served as chairman of the city health board, and has also
been both city and county health officer. He stands with that progressive class
of physicians and surgeons who are ever attempting to prevent, disease by a
dissemination of knowledge that will promote sanitary conditions and thus check
epidemics or the ravages of disease of any kind.

    Dr. Hodges is a faithful follower of Masonic teachings and also of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and religiously is connected with the
Methodist church. His life has been spent in Arkansas, he is well known in
various sections of the state, and merits the friendship and kindly regard which
are uniformly tendered him.


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


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