Biography of Robert Booth Moore, White County, Arkansas

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From "A Centennial History of Arkansas", edited by Dallas T. Herndon, the Director of the Dept.
of Archives & History, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Little Rock, 1922.

ROBERT BOOTH MOORE, M. D.

Dr. Robert Booth MOORE, an ear, nose & throat specialist of Little Rock, of marked capability & with
large practice, was born in Searcy, Ark., July 23, 1888. His parents, Dr. Luther E. & Martha (BOOTH)
MOORE, still reside in Searcy, where the mother was born, but the father's birth occurred in Tenn.
in 1851. They were married in Searcy, Feb. 22, 1886, & Dr. MOORE continues in the active practice of
medicine & surgery there. In politics he is a democrat. To him & his wife have been born 3 sons & 2
daughters, but the latter have departed this life.  Dr. MOORE, spending his youthful days under the
parental roof, attended the public & high schools of his native city until graduated with the class
of 1904. He was afterward for 4 years a student in Hendrix College of Ark. & later went to the
Vanderbilt University, in which he spent 3 years, devoting 2 years of that time to medical study. He
next matriculated in Columbia University of New York Polyclinic as an interne & subsequently was
interne at Bellevue Hosp. for a year. In Dec., 1917, he came to Little Rock, where he opened an
office & entered upon the active work of the profession. On the 18th of August of that year, he had
been commissioned a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps and was at Camp Pike, Ark., until Sept.
25, 1918. In Oct. of the same year he went overseas & was assigned to Base Hospital, No. 65, at
Brest, France, there remaining until Feb., 1919, when he was assigned to Field Hospital, No. 2, at
Dernbach, Germany, remaining at that place until Aug. 20, 1919, when he returned to Little Rock &
resumed the active practice of his profession. He specializes on the ear, nose & throat as a member
of the firm of Scarborough, Ogden, Zell & Judd, one of the best known & most promising firms of the
state.  Dr. MOORE belongs to the Little Rock Country Club & his social qualities have gained for him
many friends. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and his religious faith is
indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He neglects no duty nor
obligation of citizenship but concentrates the greater part of his time & attention upon his
professional interests, which are becoming increasingly more important as the years pass.