Biography of William H Oglesby, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

William H. Oglesby, M. D. Since Dr. Oglesby's location in
Mississippi County, Ark., he has shown himself eminently worthy of the
confidence and trust reposed in him by all classes, and has proved
himself to be a physician of decided merit. He was born on Blue-Grass
soil in 1854, and up to 1860 resided on a farm in the country, but at
that date his father, W. A. Oglesby, departed this life, and the
family then took up their abode in Owensboro, where William H.
attended school until about fifteen years of age, making good use of
his time while opportunity offered. Imbued with a determination to
secure a good education, he entered the Kentucky Wesleyan University
at Millersburg, which institution he attended two years, and then
clerked for two years in a store, his leisure moments being given to
the study of medicine, for which science he had a predilection. The
years of 1875-76 were spent in Slanghtersville, [p.542] where he
pursued his medical researches, and he then entered the medical
department of the University of Louisville, taking lectures during the
winter of 1876-77. In the latter year he came to Mississippi County,
Ark., and began clerking for J. B. Tisserand; but some five months
later he entered upon the practice of his profession, which he has
continued with a rapidly increasing practice, up to the present time.
In the winter of 1884-85 he attended lectures at the Memphis Hospital
Medical College, graduating from that institution in March, 1885. Dr.
Oglesby is a hard student, and keeps thoroughly apace with the strides
which are being constantly made in his profession, and takes a number
of leading medical journals. He has a very pleasant and comfortable
home in the village of Blythesville, his residence being erected in
1881; and in addition to this has eighty acres of arable land, of
which sixty are under cultivation. The Doctor is a married man, Miss
Cullie Waggoner becoming his wife in 1879. She is a daughter of James
Waggoner, an old settler of the county. She is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and she and the Doctor are the parents of
two children, Gipsy and Mary Lorine. Dr. Oglesby has always been a
patron of education, and is at present a member of the school board of
Blythesville. His parents, W. A. and Katie (Harding) Oglesby, were the
parents of five children, of whom he was the fourth. Both parents were
Kentuckians, the father being a planter of that State, which
occupation he followed throughout life.