Dr. J. N. Bragg, Ouachita County, AR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. Contributed by Betsy Mills. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas p. 656: Dr. J. N. Bragg is the oldest medical practitioner of Ouachita County, Ark., and has, during his long years of practice, proven himself to be of more than ordinary ability, and fully deserves the confidence which is accorded him by all. He was born in Lowndes County, Ala., May 4, 1838, and is a son of Peter N. and Martha W. (Crook) Bragg, who were born in Spartanburg District, S. C., and where there reared and married. They soon emigrated to Alabama, thence to Arkansas in 1843, and located in what is now Camden, in Ouachita County, the place being then known as Ecore Fabre, name in honor of a Frenchman, but Mr. Bragg and a number of other men named the place in honor of Camden, S. C., there being only four or five houses in the place at the time. Mr. Bragg entered a tract of land four miles west of the town, and here resided until his death in 1855, at the age of fifty-five years. His wife died in 1879, having borne a family of seven children: Walter L., Virginia C., Junius N., Florence M., Anthon V., Albert P. and John M. The paternal grandfather, Peter N. Bragg, entered the American army during the Revolutionary War, when only sixteen years of age, and was in the battle of Camden, S. C. Dr. J. N. Bragg has been a resident of Arkansas since he was five years of age, and his name has become a familiar household word. He was educated at Fayetteville, Ark. The year 1861 witnessed his graduation from the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, and he immediately began practicing at Camden, but the breaking out of the Civil War caused him to give up this work and become a member of the Confederate army. He enlisted as a private, but was soon appointed assistant surgeon by the medical board of Little Rock, in the Eleventh Arkansas Infantry, and served in this capacity until the close of the war. He then returned to his old home in Camden, where he has since been an active practitioner. He has never been an aspirant for office, but has paid strict attention to his profession, and is classed among the experts of Southern Arkansas. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Anna J. Goddard, and of four children born to them only one survives Helen J.