Biography of J W Breedlove, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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J. W. Breedlove. M. D., practicing physician of the regular school of
physicians, at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in  New Orleans, La., and is the son
of J. W., Sr., and Maria E. (Winchester) Breedlove. The father went to New
Orleans from Virginia in 1814, was a commission merchant, and was also a
collector of customs at New  Orleans under Gen. Jackson. He was the father of
seven children, three now living, J. W., Jr., being the youngest of the family.
He received a good classical education in the University of Nashville, Tenn.,
and  afterward pursued the study of medicine, graduating from the University of
Louisiana in 1849. He was for  twelve years house surgeon of the United States
Marine Hospital of New Orleans. He served four years in the  Confederate army,
and was medical inspector under Gen. Breckenridge. At the close of the war he
returned to  New Orleans, and became assistant physician in the quarantine
station below New Orleans. After this he went  to the “Lone Star State.”
remained two years, and then in the fall of 1869 he came to Sebastian County,
Ark.,  locating in Greenwood, where he practiced his profession until April,
1886, when he moved to Fort Smith. He  has been a copartner with Dr. Southard
two years. Dr. Breedlove was married in New Orleans to Miss Emma  Rawlings, who
was born in Kentucky, and whose father was a Mexican soldier. Dr. and Mrs.
Breedlove are the  parents of one child, Charles T., who is now in Baltimore
pursuing dental studies. Dr. Breedlove is a Democrat  in his political views,
and is a member of Lodge No. 20 of the F. & A. M.