Biography of James P Dorr, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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James P. Dorr. M. D., one of the progressive citizens of Black River
Township, and an eminent physician and surgeon of the same, is the son of Dr.
Francis A, and Mary J. (Powell) Dorr, natives of Selsea. Germany, and Ohio,
respectively. Dr. Dorr. Sr., came to Ohio at the age of twelve years, and spent
his boyhood days in musical and literary studies. In his early manhood he
entered a medical school in Cineinnsti, and later graduated at Keokuk Medical
College, Iowa. He was then married, and after living several years in Indiana,
Illinois and Iowa, in 1870 moved to Jacksonport, Jackson County, Ark., and
there practiced his profession. He remained there until the spring of 1889,
when he went to Hot Springs, opened an office, where he is at present
practicing. Dr. [p.663] James P. Dorr was born in Iowa on the 6th of December,
1856. and spent his school days in that State and in Arkansas. He began the
study of medicine in 1877, his father and Dr. Strauss (a doctor of natural
sciences) being his instructors. During the years of 1879, 1880 and 1881, he
attended the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, and graduated from that
institution in the class of 1881, but had practiced. however, several months
prior to his graduation. In the spring of the last mentioned year, he located
where he now lives, and has since been practicing in this section. He has built
up one of the largest practices in the county, and has been very successful. as
his many patients, yet living, can testify. He is the owner of eighty acres of
land on Dota Creek. but gives his entire time to his practice. He is the fourth
of a family of eleven children, nine of whom are living: J. F. Dorr (merchant,
whose present location is not known). Hattie (deceased, wife of Marion F.
Israel, a merchant of Richland and Keokuk, Iowa), T. B. R. (a farmer of Black
River Township), Samuel Ashton (a saddler, lives at Hot Springs), James P., R.
C. (an M. D., of Black River Township, and enjoys a locrative practice), A. P.
(is a successful practicing physician. at Sulphur Rock), B. J. (is also an M.
D., and is practicing his profession at Tupelo, Jackson County, Ark.), Grace G.
(lives with her mother at Sulphur Roek). Mary and J. P. (the eldest of the
family) died in childhood. James P. came from a longlived people, his parents
both surviving, his father nearly seventy, and the mother sixty-five years of
age. The latter's parents both lived to the extreme age of one hundred years.
Dr. Dorr, Sr., was an active Democrat, and his son, Dr. James P. Dorr, is also
a Democrat, and is quite an influential citizen in his county, politically. On
the 15th of November, 1888, the latter married Miss Mary E. Haddock, daughter
of Jordan Haddock, of Independence County, Ark. The Doctor takes a great
interest in the building of schools, and. in fact, in all public enterprises.