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Author: S. J. Clarke

W. A. CLARK, M. D.
    Dr. W. A. Clark, successfully following his profession in Bald Knob, was
born in Hardin county, Tennessee, on the 1st of January. 1868, and is a
representative of one of the old families of that state. His paternal
grandfather was also born in Tennessee and devoted his life to the work of the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He was the father of J. H.
Clark, whose birth likewise occurred in Hardin county, Tennessee, and who
obtained his early education in subscription schools there, while later he
continued his studies in the State Normal School at Carbondale, Illinois,
gaining a liberal education for that time. He afterward taught in the rural
schools and later was principal of a high school at Henderson, Tennessee, for
three years. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted under Colonel Williams
and served throughout the period of hostilities, being wounded at the battle of
Shiloh by a gunshot which terminated his military career. He then returned to
his home and resumed the profession of teaching. In 1881 he removed to Franklin
county, Arkansas, and taught in the rural districts near Ozark and Lonelm. In
December, 1888, he removed to Bald Knob and taught in district No. 63 during
1889 and 1890. Subsequently he engaged in the hotel business in Bald Knob for
several years, after which he returned to his former home in Tennessee, but died
in White county, Arkansas, when on a visit here in 1916, at the age of
seventy-five years. In young manhood he had married Harriett Alexander, who was
also born in Hardin county, Tennessee, and was a daughter of John Alexander,
whose birth occurred in South Carolina, whence he removed to Hardin county,
Tennessee, where he owned and conducted a large plantation. He was also the
owner of fifty-five slaves at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war and he
had an extensively and splendidly developed plantation but lost everything
during that period of strife. He died in 1877, at the age of seventy-eight
years. His daughter, Mrs. Clark, survived her father only until January, 1879,
and was but thirty-two years of age at the time of her demise. By her marriage
she had become the mother of six children: Jennie, who is the widow of S. H.
Rosseau and resides in St. Louis; W. A., of this review; R. C. proprietor of a
drug store at Bald Knob: Mollie, the wife of A. L. Stokes of Maiden, Missouri;
J. F., of Gallup, New Mexico; and Hattie, the wife of W. H. Worsley of
Paragould, Arkansas, where he is cashier in the Green County Bank. After losing
his first wife J. H. Clark was married to Mary E. (Alexander) Pickens and they
had two children: Anna, the wife of a Mr. Weber of St. Louis: and Edna, the wife
of S. H. Vandine of St. Louis. For his third wife Mr. Clark chose Miss Mary
Beard. He was a lifelong member and supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church
and he also belonged to the Masonic fraternity, while his political allegiance
was given to the democratic party.

    Dr. Clark mastered the branches of learning taught in the country schools of
his native state and at the age of eighteen years began teaching in the rural
schools of Franklin county, Arkansas, but he regarded this merely as an initial
step to other professional labor, as it was his desire to enter upon the
practice of medicine and he began reading for that purpose when nineteen years
of age. He afterward became a student in the Missouri Medical College and was
graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons with the class of 1892,
winning the M. D. degree. He opened an office at Bald Knob in 1889 and through
the intervening years, covering a third of a century, has here continued in the
general practice of medicine and surgery, his labors being of marked value and
benefit to his fellowmen. He has taken postgraduate work in the Chicago
Polyclinic and he is justly accounted a most skilled and able physician. He is
extremely careful in the diagnosis of his cases and is seldom, if ever, at fault
in his opinion. He devotes practically his entire time and attention to his
profession and yet is the owner oŁ farm lands, from which he derives a
substantial annual income.

  Dr. Clark was married to Miss Ollie Lumpkin, a native of Arkansas, and they
have two children: L. C, who is engaged in the confectionery business in Tucson,
Arizona: and Lucile, the wife of 0. J. Clark, proprietor of a variety store at
Bald Knob. Dr. Clark gives his political endorsement to the democratic party.
Fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason and is also a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He has membership in the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, while his wife is of the Baptist faith and both are held in high esteem
throughout the community in which they live. Along strictly professional lines
Dr. Clark is connected with the White County and Arkansas State Medical
Societies and the American Medical Association and thus keeps thoroughly
informed concerning advanced professional thought and modern research and
investigation.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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