Register of Physicians and Surgeons
Montgomery County ARGenWeb Project
Doctors are divided into those who could ride and those who could
not!
Buying and keeping a good horse was expensive and riding long distances to see patients
was dangerous.
Name Residence Date registered Specialty
Alexander, R.M. Garland Co. 1884 physician Alford, John E. Black Springs 1900 physician/surgeon Arnold, J.H. Black Springs 1900 physician/surgeon Baggs, John R. Sims 1889 physician Bates, John C. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Bates, John R. Black Springs physician Bates, S.C. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician Barker, A. Hot Springs Co. 1883 physician Barker, Abraham Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician Bigelaw, H.A. Hot Springs 1889 physician Birch, J.C. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician Black, Marcus Montgomery Co May 31 1881 physician Burns, J.N. Sims 1888 physician Burton, Squire N. Cedar Point 1889 physician/surgeon Bush, John W. Black Springs 1903 physician Chitwood, Joel Crystal Springs May 31 1881 physician Clingman, C.C. Clark Co. 1882 physician Cole, John, H. Story 1898 physician Collier, A.M. Ophir 1903 physician Croak, Wayman C. Oden 1900 physician/surgeon Crockett, John V. Oden 1923 physician/surgeon Cubage, W.R. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician Davis, W. S. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician/surgeon Dickinson, W.N. Black Springs 1885 physician Emory, F.L. Valley, AR 1892 physician Falleson, E.C. Washita 1895 physician Flassada, Benjamin Black Springs 1901 physician Flood, G.W. Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician Frevell, M.H. Theodore Mount Ida 1892 physician Freeman, J.N. Washita 1895 physician Gabbert, Jesse T. Gabbert 1899 physician Gray, G.W. Black Springs Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Greeson, William R. Cedar Point 1889 physician Goodner, William B. Oden 1883 physician/surgeon Hargrove, W.W. Oden 1892 physician Herriott, J.W. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician/surgeon Hull, T.A. Mount Ida 1892 physician Johnson, Benjamin Hickory Station May 31 1881 physician Johnson, B.A. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Johnson, C.F. Montgomery Co. 1882 physician Johnson, John Marzen 1892 physician Jones, A. Caddo Gap Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Jones, H.T. Yell Co. May 31 1881 physician & minor surgery Jones, Isaac J. Amity 1887 physician Jones, W.A. Mount Ida Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Kennedy, John E. Hickory Station May 31 1881 physician Kennedy, L.S. Mount Ida 1901 physician King, J.H. Black Springs 1884 physician Knight, Jack B. Oden 1903 physician Lankford, Charles H. Montgomery Co. 1882 physician Logan, A.S. Caddo Gap May 31 1881 physician Markham, W.N. Hickory Station May 31 1881 physician Maxwell, Henry Silver City 1902 physician Mayo, Joseph B. Walnut City 1882 physician/surgeon McLean, John H. Caddo Gap 1902 physician Meredith, H.D. Ophir 1896 physician Milholen, J.T. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician/surgeon Miller, W.A. Montgomery Co. 1882 physician Mogisek Montgomery Co. 1913 dentistry Moore, R.H. Harold May 31 1881 physician Neardy, N.T. Pinelance, AR 1888 physician Owen, J.P. Mount Ida May 31 1881 physician Parchman, William L. Harold 1882 physician/surgeon Partain, F. Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician & minor surgery Phillips, James Point Cedar 1891 physician Pinkerton, J.F. Stappher 1899 physician Pittman, H.T. Wiggs 1890 physician Pool, Marcus V. Washita 1890 physician Powell. G.R. Montgomery Co. 1913 pharmacist Powell, J.D.M. Hickory Station 1890 physician Protor, John M. Hot Springs 1903 physician Roberts, C.S. Black Springs 1883 physician Robert, R.C. Black Springs May 31 1881 physician Roberts, W.D. Oden 1891 physician Robins, J.D. Manfred 1897 physician Shaw, Angus D. Cedar Glades 1891 physician Shaw, Joseph B. Buckville 1900 physician Skaggs, G.E. Silver City Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Smith J.C. Marzen 1887 physician Smith John C. Hopper 1888 physician Smith, Moses Crystal Springs May 31 1881 physician Stanlee, T.H. Amity 1887 physician Stewart, John B. Luckey 1901 physician Tacket, J.J. Marzen 1893 physician Thompson, Lewis S. Harold 1883 physician Wasson, H.L. Black Springs Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Weaver, G.D. Valley, AR 1892 physician Wilkinson, Lt. M. Crystal Springs Mar-Apr 1881 physician/surgeon Wilkes, S.J. Bear 1897 physician/surgeon Wilson, D.M. Montgomery Co. May 31 1881 physician Womack, Isham P. Montgomery Co. 1891 physician Womar, W.W. physician Wright, Edmund Montgomery Co. 1882 physician
Check Register at the Clerk's office, Montgomery Co. Courthouse for more details. Record of professional licenses shows title of examining board, date of examination, name of licensee and date license issued, Signature on file. Gives an idea when they came to the county except year 1881 when registration commenced. Register of Physicians and Surgeons 1881-1935 1 Vol. 80pp 14 x 8 x 2
State Medical Board of the Arkansas Medical Society Little Rock Ark.To whom it may concern: A sworn statement having been presented to this board that on or before May 17, 1903, M M Evans was legally qualified to practice medicine, therefore in accordance with section 6..................................this certificate is issued to him attesting the entry of his name upon the register of Accredited Physicians...............dated 18 Aug 1903
Doctors in the bigger towns generally earn more than those in rural areas.
Many doctors give up medicine or get other part time jobs because patients couldn't afford to pay.
The Montgomery County Herald
Friday Sept. 25 1891 Mt. Ida, Arkansas
Dr J. D. Wingfield
Resident
Physician & Surgeon
All Calls attended promptly day or night
Office at the residence of Mrs. G.W. Golden, for the present.Dr. J.C. Bates
Resident, Physician & Surgeon
Silver City, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Female Disease A Specialty
Office at ResidenceThe Montgomery County Herald
Jun 8. 1894 Mt. Ida, Arkansas
Dr. A. Hutchinson a former practicing physician of Nashville, this state, has hung out his shingle at Caddo Gap, and hereafter will be a citizen of Montgomery County.
The Montgomery County Herald
Vol. 2. No. 50 Mount Ida, Arkansas Thursday June 16 1927
Mr. J.C. McFadden
Physician & Surgeon
Calls answered day and night
Office in the Outler Building, Mount Ida, Ark.
John Ewing ALFORD (1871-1842) Buried in Murfreesboro Cemetery. Article in 'Centennial History of Arkansas', 1933, Dallas T. Herndon, Vol. 3, pgs 114-115.
Dr. John E. Alford, physician and surgeon, was born near Kirby, in Pike county, this state, May 22, 1871. His father, Dr. W.D. Alford, was born in Alabama and came to Arkansas with his parents when a small boy. Dr. John E. Alford, the eldest of the family, was educated in the common schools of Pike county and in the high school at Murfreesboro, after which he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in Hempstead and Pike counties for four or five years, or until 1894. In that year he began studying medicine in the Barnes University of St. Louis, MS and later was graduated from the Gate City Medical College at Texarkana, Texas winning his M.D. degree in 1906. From the time when he began the study of medicine in 1894 he was engaged in practice in Pike, Montgomery and Clark counties, although he did not obtain his professional degree until 1906. His medical education was acquired through his own efforts, his earnings supplying him with the money necessary to meet his tuition and other expenses of his college course. In 1906 he opened an office in Black Springs, Montgomery Co. AR where he remained until 1908 and then went to Polk Co. AR. A little later he located at Caddo Gap, where he continued from 1909 until 1918, successfully practicing medicine there. In the latter year he came to Okolona where he has remained and here he is successfully and extensively engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery. He is also serving as health officer of Okolona and during the World War he was a member of the Volunteer Medical Corps.Dr. J.J.J.C. BIRCH was killed at Mt. Ida May 22, 1883. His remains were sent to Illinois by his wife with the assistance of the Gross Mortuary of Hot Springs. Arkansas.
Dr. William Riley CUBAGE was born may 10, 1825 in Buncombe Co., NC, eldest son of John and Elizabeth Cubbage. John and Elizabeth moved to Clar, IN where their four other children were born. In 1845, the family migrated to Ouachita Co., AR, where records indicate, their name changed from Cubbage to Cubage. William R. was granted a land patent in Ouachita Co, and he married Martha Caroline Dodd (b. c1835 TN), daughter of Capt. James and Martha Grayson Dodd. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1862 in Camden, AR, where he served on a hospital ward and as a field nurse out of Monroe, LA. After the Civil War, he attended medical school in KY and moved his family to Montgomery Co. and began practice with Dr. Alfred Jones of Caddo Gap and Mount Ida, AR. Dr. and Mrs. Cubage's children were Leander Cubage b. 1852; James Dodd Cubage b. March 10, 1855 (m. Melinda Ann Jones in May 1878, in Caddo Gap, AR, dau. of Dr. Alfred Jones); William Riley Cubage, Jr. b. 1857; John B. Cubage b. 1859; Emma D. Cubage, b. 1861; Julia J. Cubage b. 1863; Theodore Edward Cubage b. 1867(m. Frazar Estep of Corpus Christi, TX), Martha E. Cubage b. April 1870; and Cora Cubage b. October 1873 (m. Willus Claude Lee Dec 26, 1890 in Mount Ida, AR, son of Joel and Malissa Ann Lindsey Lee of Drew Co., AR). Dr. Cubage was shot to death on main street of Mount Ida, AR on July 12, 1881, by a Mr. Burnett, husband of one of Dr. Cubage's patients. Information courtesy of Geneva Cole. Geneva has the Cubbage family history back to 1600's, if anyone is interested. Posted 2 Dec. 1999.
John Burnett was a native of N.C. He married Louise Eliza Jackson near Landrum S.C. in 1870. She was a daughter of Andrew and Catherine Gray Jackson. John Burnett, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, was an educator. He taught Latin and Calculus.
After the tragedy he was tried and sentenced to the State Prison which was in Little Rock at the time. He served a few months and then was pardoned. At the time of the pardon he had contracted pneumonia and expired in the prison. That was in a severe winter. He was buried "behind walls" and later the State Capitol Building was built there and, as I have been told, the graves were not disturbed.
He left his widow and two children, Louis Napoleon and Lillian Mable. Louis also taught and became an attorney. He married Lura Chapmond of Story. They made their home in Mena where he practiced Law. He died in the early 1940s. Lillian married James W. Wacaster who taught and was postmaster in the early 1900s. Louise is buried in the Mt. Ida Cemetery. Lillian and Jim are buried in Memorial Gardens near Hot Springs. Elmer Burnett Wacaster (1897-1983) was the eldest son of Lillian and Jim.In addition to Louis Napoleon (called Poley) and Lillian there was another daughter, Etta. She married Dr. Waymon Crook. The had one daughter and Etta died in childbirth. The daughter, also called Etta, was raised to the age of four by Lillian and Jim Wacaster. Her father remarried and took back his daughter.
In looking through the Census of Montgomery Co., 1900 Louis N. Burnett, Waymon Crook and Thomas C. Wacaster (a brother to James W. Wacaster) were enumerators. Both Burnett and Wacaster had more legible penmanship than DOCTOR Crook.
For more information on the Jackson family see the Jackson articles in "Montgomery County: Our Heritage" written by Mary D. Jackson and Brent Holcomb's "Jackson of North Pacolet". Information courtesy of Virginia Wacaster Curnow. Posted 21 August 2001.
Austin Stevens LOGAN was born November 21, 1849 in Clark County, Arkansas, the son of Jacob and Mary Logan. The Logan family lived in South Fork Township of Clark county, and the William Stevenson Sloan family lived near by. Julia Missouri Sloan was born October 28, 1853 in Clark County. Austin and Julia married about 1872, but a marriage record has not been located. They were parents of twelve children, two died in infancy. Julia Sloan Logan died January 24, 1923 and Dr. Logan died June 24, 1926. They are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Montgomery County, Arkansas. Some of their children came back to Clark County in their later years and died there.
Information courtesy of Wanda Sloan Karnes. Contact Wanda if you you would like information on the Logan and Sloan families or have further information. The Sloan family has been traced back to the immigrant from Ireland, who came to America about 1747. Posted Aug. 11 1999
Dr Andrew Jarrett "Jart" POOL b. Feb. 5 1852 in Dalton, GA to Dr. Marcus Lafayette Pool. Jart first settled in the Washita area. Marcus Velpeau Pool (1857-1925), a widow with five children came out from Georgia in the spring of 1891 to be near his older brother Jart. Marcus had married while in medical school in Altanta. Marcus m3 Julia Williamson Freeman and had six more children. The family lived at Buckville where he actively practiced medicine. Jart m 2 Sarah Ann Leonard in 1878 and the family was living near Oden in 1885. Eight children including daughters Clover, Molly, and Carrie (Elizabeth Caroline) and son C. Vell. Carrie married Dr. C.F. Johnson in 1900. Dr Pool had a saddle horse named Grey Buck and a buggy horse which died by a lightening strike one night. Dr Jart Pool died Nov. 30 1910 at Mena at age 58 Pinecrest Cemetery in Mena. Ref: "They Can't Go Home"
Dr Callie F. JOHNSON (1852-1935) b. in Illinois moved Allene, AR when he was a young man and engaged in farming. He wanted a profession so attended a small medical school in central Arkansas and was apprenticed to Dr. A. J. Pool, Mt Ida as was the custom of that time. A few years later Dr Johnson and Dr Pool moved to Mena and established a practice in the 1890s about the time the KCS railroad line was built. In 1900 Dr Johnson married Elizabeth Pool and moved to Hatfield establishing a practice. His practiced included south east OK and many Indian families. The nearest hospitals were in Ft. Smith and Texarkana. The Polk Co. Historical Society has bios of Dr's Pool and Johnson.
