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

DUKE W. VINCENT, M. D.
    Dr. Duke W. Vincent, physician and surgeon of Holly Grove, is one of the
younger representatives of the profession in Monroe county, but already has
attained a creditable reputation and standing, his ability having won him place
by the side of many older representatives of the profession. Dr. Vincent was
born in Vici, Oklahoma, December 26, 1892, his parents being Hiram J. and Nellie
(Connelly) Vincent, the former a native of the state of New York, while the
latter was born in Urbana, Illinois. The father is now engaged in merchandising
at Vici, Oklahoma, and is also a well-known ranchman, having for many years
engaged extensively in raising and selling cattle. He has likewise figured
prominently in connection with public affairs in his community and has served as
county judge. To him and his wife were born six children: Duke W., Albert, Myrl,
Hazel, Olive and Ella, the last named being the wife of Ernest Davis.

    Dr. Duke W. Vincent pursued his education in the schools of Oklahoma, at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, and in the University of Oklahoma. In the last named
institution he pursued his medical course and was graduated with the M. D.
degree as a member of the class of 1917. He then became first assistant to the
dean of the Medical College of Oklahoma and continued in that connection until
later in the year, when he joined the Medical Corps, U. S. A., in which he was
commissioned a first lieutenant. However, he was permitted to study surgery for
a year longer and was then assigned to duty at Camp Greenleaf. Later he was
transferred to Camp Pike and afterward was stationed at the Evacuation Hospital
No. 27, serving in France for twelve months, while for six months he was with
the Army of Occupation at Coblenz, Germany. He won promotion to the rank of
captain and as such was mustered out in October, 1920. When his military duties
were over he did postgraduate work in surgery in Oklahoma City, but in July,
1921, he came to Holly Grove, Arkansas, where already he has gained a liberal
practice. He is surgeon to Holly Grove Hospital, a private hospital which was
established in 1921 by Drs. Sylar and Vincent.

     Dr. Vincent was married in 1921 to Miss Marie Andreskowski oŁ Buffalo, New
York. She went overseas with a private Boston unit as a Red Cross nurse prior to
America's entry into the World war and worked in this capacity in Austria for
six months in collaboration with the Austrian Red Cross. She returned to this
country just before the United States entered the struggle and subsequently
again served overseas with the American Red Cross, coming home soon after the
signing of the armistice. It was while serving as assistant superintendent of
nurses in the State University Hospital of Oklahoma City, where Dr. Vincent was
doing postgraduate work, that she formed the acquaintance of her future husband.

    Dr. Vincent belongs to the Masonic fraternity, to the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks and to the national medical fraternity of Phi Beta Pi, while along
the line of his profession he is connected with the Oklahoma State Medical
Society and the Arkansas State Medical Society. Actuated by a laudable ambition,
he is improving every opportunity that will promote his efficiency and advance
his skill in the treatment of disease and already he has gained a most
creditable position, while his present-day achievements argue well for the future.


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


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