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

HARRY NORWOOD STREET, M. D.
    Dr. Harry Norwood Street, a physician of Lonoke, was born at Street,
Mississippi, in 1868, the town having been named in honor of the family of which
he is a representative. His parents were Thomas Parke and Emily Kate (Norwood)
Street and the former was a son of Henry G. Street, of Hanover county, Virginia,
and of Revolutionary war stock. The mother was a daughter of Abel J. and Emily
(Stanley) Norwood. The former lived at Norwood, Louisiana, and was a son of Abel
Norwood, who was born in South Carolina. Thus in both the paternal and maternal
lines Dr. Street is descended from old and prominent southern families. He is
related to the Curtis and Parke families of Virginia. His father was a Civil war
veteran, serving as a major sergeant for four years, and following the close of
hostilities between the north and the south he owned and developed a large
cotton plantation.

    Dr. Street pursued a common school education and afterward continued his
studies in a preparatory school at Port Gibson, Mississippi. He determined upon
the practice of medicine as his life work and to this end became a student in
the medical college of Tulane University at New Orleans in the fall of 1887,
being graduated April 1, 1890. He then located for practice in his native town
and in 1892 removed to Gloster, Amite county, Mississippi, where he followed his
profession until 1907. He afterward traveled for two years before locating in
North Little Rock in 1909. Later he took up his abode in the city of Little Rock
and made for himself a creditable position in professional circles of the
capital. He became a member of the faculty of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons and his power in the educational field as well as in the practice of
medicine and surgery was widely acknowledged. On leaving Little Rock he took up
his abode in Lonoke in 1914 and has here remained throughout the intervening
period. He has gained a liberal practice here and is most conscientious and
capable in the performance of his professional duties. Aside from his practice
Dr. Street has been interested in a railroad project, building a short line, and
he is now general manager of the Pine Bluff & Northern Railway Company and
president of the Central & Gulf Railroad Company, which is under construction
into the city of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

    Dr. Street was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Robinson, a daughter of L.
B. Robinson, president of the Bank of Gloster, Mississippi. Their children are
two in number: Thomas N., who is a student of Batesville College; and Helen K.,
who is a graduate of the Lonoke high school and also of Belhaven College of
Jackson, Mississippi. She held the chair of Latin and English in the high school
of Arkansas City and is now teaching in the Fordyce high school at Fordyce,
Arkansas.

    Mrs. Street is very active in church work and is now Bible instructor in the
Young Women's Christian Association of Little Rock and is likewise well known
throughout the entire south as an instructor in Bible work. Fraternally Dr.
Street is a Mason of high degree, having become a member of the Mystic Shrine,
and is a loyal follower of the teachings and high purposes of the craft. The
Doctor and his wife occupy a very prominent position in social circles and their
influence has been a potent force for good in the field of general development
and progress.


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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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