Biographical Sketch of Dr. R. Z. R. Wall, Johnson County, Missouri,
Chilhowee Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Dr. R. Z. R. Wall, a late prominent pioneer physician of Johnson county,
was one of the leading and most prosperous of the early settlers in 
this part of Missouri.  Dr. Wall was born March 29, 1810 in North Caro-
lina on his father's plantation in Rockingham county.  He was a son of
Richard Wall, who was born in Maryland, a member of one of the best
colonial families.  Dr. Wall was a graduate of Chapel Hill College of
North Carolina and also of the Medical College of Pennsylvania Univer-
sity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  After completing the medical course,
Dr. Wall began the practice of his profession first in his native state
and in Rockingham county.  In 1837, he moved to Missouri and located
temporarily in Henry county, coming thence to Johnson county, where he
began the practice of medicine in the West.  For many years, Dr. Wall
was one of the leading physicians of this county.  He was a man of 
invincible spirit and determination which combined with a fine mind,
well trained, made success easy and sure.  At one time, he was the own-
er of five thousand acres of valuable, choice land in Johnson and the
adjoining counties.  Dr. Wall was very fond of hunting and it was no
unusual sight to see him on horseback carrying his gun and dashing out
across the open prairie on a deer chase.  It became a fixed habit of 
his to take his gun with him everywhere, even when he was visiting his 
patients.  He kept the family larder well provisioned with venison.
One winter, the doctor brought home in all fifty deer he had killed. He
would often take his young son, R. W. R., of whom he was very fond, 
with him, when he went on a deer chase or fishing.  Dr. Wall was a 
lover of nature and the great freedom of the thinly settled prairies.
He enjoyed the companionship of his countless friends and few men are
as fond of home life as was he, but he liked most of all to be out in
the open, out under the broad, blue canopy of Heaven, with his gun on
his shoulder and a deer ahead.  The forest was an open book to him and 
he knew not what fear meant.  Dr. Wall has long been deceased.

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