MILLER CO, AR - DR. R. L. GRANT - Bio

From _The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas_, 
Published 1890 by Goodspeed.  Chicago, Nashville, and St. Louis:  
The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1890

Submitted by: Becky Hargett <bhargett@cityscape.net>

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Dr. R. L. Grant, physician and surgeon, Texarkana, Ark.  This clever and 
scientific practitioner was born in Boone County, Ky., on September 10, 1860,
and his parents, William H. and Elizabeth J. (Willis) Grant, were natives also 
of the Blue Grass State.  The father has cultivated the soil all his life, has 
been unusually successful, and now resides on the old homestead in Kentucky.  
He was a first cousin to the late Gen. Grant, but is a Southern sympathizer, 
and is still active and strong.  The mother is deceased.  They were the parents 
of ten children - seven sons and three daughters - Dr. R. L. Grant being next to 
the youngest child in order of birth.  The latter was reared to manhood in Boone 
County, Ky., received his education at Danville Centre College, Danville, Ky., 
And graduated in the literary school at Oxford, Ohio, in 1880, being the  
valedictorian.  He attained his growth on the farm but his ambitions were above 
that work, and with a good education he started out to fight life's battles when 
but a boy.  He began the study of medicine and entered college at 
Philadelphia in September, 1880, graduating at Jefferson Medical College in 
1882.  After this he located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was there for sometime 
before he built up a practice.  He taught clinical medicine in the Medical 
College of Ohio from September, 1883, to November, 1886 when he resigned on 
account of a serious throat trouble, and placed himself under a specialist at
Philadelphia until the following March.  After that he resumed his practice in 
Cincinnati, and continued there until October, 1887, when he abandoned his 
profession and traveled for a year along the coast.  He visited many places of 
interest, and feeling very much recruited, decided to enter his profession 
again.  On October 13, 1889, he opened up an office over J. A. Lightfoot & Co.'s 
drug store, at Texarkana, Ark., where he has built up a very lucrative practice.  
He is classed as a No. 1 physician and surgeon, and has obtained a liberal  share, 
of public favor, the best proof of his skill and care.  he has performed 
several very difficult operations, which have gained him considerable notoriety, 
and is examining physician for the Knights of Macabees.  Although a resident of 
Texarkana but for a few months, he already has a large practice and numerous
friends.
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