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

OTTIS GRADY HIRST, M. D.
    Arkansas numbers among her native sons Dr. Ottis Grady Hirst, a member of
the firm of Drs. Buchanan, Buchanan and Hirst of Prescott. He was born on a farm
in Nevada county, on the 4th of July, 1897, a son of Judge Jesse J. and Susan A.
(Alsobrook) Hirst, both natives of this county. The paternal and maternal
grandparents came to this state at the same time, in the '40s, the former
emigrating from Virginia and the latter from Georgia. Judge and Mrs. J. J. Hirst
are still living, making their home on the old farm in the southern part of
Nevada county. For four years the father held the office of county judge of this
county and he is one of the influential men here, having done much for the
development and improvement of both county and state.

    In the acquirement of an education Ottis Grady Hirst attended the public
schools of Cale, and after graduation from the high school there with the class
of 1914, entered the medical department of the University of Arkansas. He
received his M. D. degree on the 29th of May, 1918, and for the following year
he served as an interne in the Logan H. Roots Memorial Hospital at Little Rock.
In May, 1919, he came to Prescott aud formed a copartnership with Drs. Buchanan
& Buchanan, further mention of both being made on another page of this work, and
he has remained active in that association. Although Dr. Hirst is but
twenty-four years of age he has demonstrated his skill both as a practitioner of
internal medicine and as a surgeon.

    Along strictly professional lines, Dr. Hirst has membership in the Nevada
County Medical Society, Arkansas State Medical Society, American Medical
Association and Southern Medical Association and through these hodies lie keeps
in constant touch with the advancement being made by eminent members of the
profession. Fraternally Dr. Hirst is a member of Chi Zeta Chi, a Greek letter
college fraternity, and he is identified with the Order of the Eastern Star; the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he holds membership in Nevada Lodge,
No. 203; and Prescott Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. Dr. Hirst has many
friends in this community who have known him since boyhood and the consensus of
public opinion places him among the representative members of the profession in
the state.


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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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