Biographical Sketch of Alfred Randolph Craven, M.D., Texas County, MO

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Alfred Randolph Craven, M. D., one of the successful practitioners of
Texas County, is a native of Randolph County, N. C., born January 3,
1854, and is the son of John W. and Henrietta R. (Johnson) Craven.  He
was reared to farm life, and educated in the old subscription schools.
At the age of twenty he entered a store as salesman, where he continued
for ten years.  When about twenty-five years of age he commenced read-
ing medicine, and in 1887 and 1888 he took a course of lectures at
Missouri Medical College.  In the spring of 1888 he took a post gradu-
ate course, and in 1888 he opened an office five miles north of Licking.
In 1879 he married Miss Alice Arthur, a native of Dent County, and the
fruits of this union are four children: Mildred B., Mattie E., Ashbury
F. and an infant.  In connection with his profession Dr. Craven carries
on farming, and is the owner of 100 acres of land, besides property in
Licking.  He is a pleasant, agreeable gentleman, and has a good prac-
tice for so short a residence in the vicinity.  He is a Democrat in his
political views, and both he and Mrs. Craven are members of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South.  He has been a resident of Texas County
for thirty-two years, and has the confidence and esteem of all who know
him.

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