YELL CO, AR - DR. A. H. MCKENZIE - Bio

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. 
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

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 Dr. A. H. McKenzie. In 1832 Arthur A. McKenzie, a native of York 
County, S. C., born in 1808, was united in marriage to Rachel E. 
Barnett, also of that county and State, and born in 1810, and they 
became the happy parents of eight children, of whom Dr. A. H. McKenzie 
is the youngest [p.167] son, having been born in his parents' native 
county April 18, 1849. 

The senior McKenzie was a farmer, miller and stock-dealer by 
occupation, and in 1861 enlisted in Company B of the Fifth Regiment of
the South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Capt. W. H. Bowen, and in
1862 was discharged on account of old age. He died in his native State
in 1875 a believer of the Presbyterian faith, being an elder in the 
Old School Church of that denomination. His widow also died in this 
State in 1889 a member of the Presbyterian Church. 

The Doctor was educated in the Kings Mountain Military School, and 
acquired his professional knowledge in the medical department of the 
University of Maryland. Graduating March 4, 1872, he chose as his 
first place of settlement his native county, where he opened an office 
and began his practice. 

He came to Arkansas in June, 1872, and January 9 of the succeeding 
year married Miss Mary J. McKenzie, who was born August 31, 1854, and 
is the daughter of David U. and Rebecca (Nolen) McKenzie. To Dr. A. H. 
and M. J. McKenzie have been born ten children: David A., Samuel A., 
Joseph B. (deceased), Carrie R., Walter M., Bergie H., Hattie E., 
Irvin A., Archie S. and James I. 

Soon after he settled in this county the Doctor bought 170 acres of 
land and has improved seventy. He is a Mason of high degree, being 
worshipful master of Centerville Lodge No. 462, scribe of Dardanelle 
Chapter No. 64, and a member of the Eastern Star. 

He and wife worship with the Presbyterian Church, and as a physician 
he is the trusted friend of his many patrons, and his influence for 
good is felt throughout the community. He has recently taken up his 
residence in Dardanelle to educate his children and practice his 
profession.