Biography of J M Kelleam, 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. M. Kelleam, M. D., and coroner of Sebastian County, was born in Franklin
County, Ark., November 6, 1858,  and is a son of Dr. W. L. Kelleam, a native of
Johnson County, Ark., where he practiced over thirty-five years.  Our subject
lived in Franklin County until sixteen years of age, and then entered the
literary and scientific  course of the Cumberland University, in Tennessee.
Returning to Arkansas, he attended the University at  Fayetteville one term,
and then entered the University of Louisville, Ky. He graduated from the
medical  department of that institution in 1882, and then located at Fort
Smith, where he has been actively engaged in the  practice of his profession
since, and is meeting with well-deserved success. He is a member of the County
and  State Medical Society, and also of the Medical Association. In 1888 he was
elected coroner of the county, and  he is now filling that position with credit
to himself and the community. While in Louisville, Ky., he married  Miss Emma
Wier, a lady of education and ability.