PHILLIPS CO, AR - DR. G. D. JAQUESS - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Dr. G. D. Jaquess, physician and druggist, Helena, Ark. This prominent
business man was born in Posey County, Ind., January 5, 1834, and is a
son of Garrison and Mary (Smith) Jaquess, natives of Kentucky. The
parents immigrated to Indiana about 1811, located in Posey County, and
there passed their last days. The father was a farmer by occupation, and
was forty-eight years of age at the time of his death. Their family
consisted of seven children, six sons and one danghter, four now living:
James F., T. C., W. B. and Dr. G. D. The latter assisted the father on
the farm until twenty years of age, attending school during the winter
seasons, and at the age of eighteen years he began the study of
medicine, graduating from the Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky.,
in 1848. He then began practicing at Petersburg, Ind., where he remained
until the war broke out, when he was made surgeon of the Eightieth
Indiana Volunteers, and served in that capacity until the cessation of
hoetilities. He was married in 1848 to Miss Aurelia Hammond, a native of
Indiana, who bore her husband two living children: Mary J. (wife of L.
J. Wilkes) and Aurelia. Two sons were drowned in the Mississippi River.
In 1866 Dr. Jaquess and family moved to Tunica County, Miss., where the
Doctor was engaged in cotton growing for two years. Not being fitted for
this he gave it up, and in 1869 came to Helena, where he was appointed
postmaster by President Arthur, serving in that capacity for four years.
Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession,
and has also carried on the drug business in connection. He is a member
of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, and Knights and Ladies of Honor,
and Golden Rule. He owns considerable real estate in both the country
and city, and is a successful business man. He has been mayor of the
city three times, and is one of the prominent Republicans of Phillips
County.