BIOS: AMIS, John DR.       BELL COUNTY KENTUCKY

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Western Arkansas Biographies & Historical Memoirs

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
[p.41] BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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Dr. John C. Amis, physician and surgeon, at Springfield, was born in Knox
County, Kentucky, in 1859. He is the son of Wilkerson and Mary J. (Hopper)
Amis, who were born in Clay and Knox Counties, Kentucky, respectively;
married and have since lived in Knox County. Mr. Amis is about 74, and Mrs.
Amis about 61 years of age. Both have been members of the Missionary Baptist
Church for nearly forty years. He was all through the war in the Federal
army, first in the 7th Kentucky Infantry, for a short time in field service,
and then on special duty as a courier during the remainder of the war.
Served in Kentucky, East Tennessee and West Virginia on many dangerous
undertakings. [p.43] He was the son of Thomas Amis, who was born in East
Tennessee, and died in Clay County, Kentucky, when Wilkinson was but two
years old. He was a successful teacher and planter; was very wealthy and was
of English descent. His father, Judge John Amis, born in North Carolina, was
of the first generation born in America, and was a successful lawyer, Was
Circuit Judge in Kentucky, and was shot by an outlaw while holding the first
Circuit Court ever held in Clay County of that State. Maternal grandfather,
Harris H. Hopper, was a Tennesseean by birth; moved to Knox County,
Kentucky, at an early day. He was of English descent. Our subject was the
second of eight sons and four daughters, only one of whom is dead. He was
educated in the schools at home, and at Union College in Knox County for one
year, and one year at the State College at Lexington. He began the study of
medicine nights, and during spare time while clerking in a store for some
eighteen months and in 1880 entered the medical department of the University
of Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated in 1882, in a class of seventy-six He
soon located at Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky, where he practiced till
1885, when he came to Arkansas and located at Springfield, this county. Here
he has built up a most successful practice. He was married in 1883 to
Lizzi****, daughter of Rufus M. and Mary Moss, natives of Bell County,
Kentucky, and Lee County, Virginia, respectively. Mr. Moss now lives in
Garrard County, but Mrs. Moss died at her daughter's birth, in Lee County,
Virginia, in 1862. To the union of the Doctor and his estimable wife have
been born one son and two daughters. The Doctor is a member of the Conway
County Medical Association. He is a public-spirited citizen, and any
enterprise that has a tendency to elevate and enhance the interests of
Springfield and the general public, will receive his most earnest support.
Soon after his arrival at Springfield the people began to agitate the
subject of establishing an Academy at that place, and the Doctor at once
became an active advocate of the undertaking. The success of this movement
was largely due to his earnest work He served three years as secretary, for
two years has been president and acting president of the organization.