"Dr. A. D. Wren, the subject of this sketch is a prominent physician and farmer of Albany Township, Nevada County. He is a son of G. D. Wren and was born in Louisiana in 1841. In that State his youth was passed, and it was there that he recieved an excellent education, and laid the foundation for his prosperous life. While quite young he enlisted in the Civil War in 1861, Company D, Nineteenth Louisiana State troops. His first general engagement was at Shiloh, then at Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, and in many engagements under Joseph E. Johnston, while he was trying to check Sherman's march to the sea. He was wounded at Jonesboro, and disbanded at Meridian, Miss. Immediately after the war he commenced the study of medicine, and took the degree of M.D., at New Orleans, in 1873, practicing at Emmet and Centreville, Ark., before locating at his present home. Besides medicine, the subject of this sketch devotes considerable attention to agriculture, owning 340 acres of valuable land, upon which he raises enormous crops of corn, cotton and other produce. February 14, 1866, he married Miss Georgia Vickers, daughter of James J. Vickers, a prominent citizen of Georgia. THey have had nine children, four of whom ared dead: Alonzo G (married Miss Jennie Woodle), E. Edgar (died at the age of thirteen), Willard W., Maggie, Samuel Scott, Carrie C. (who died in infancy), Aline A., Fred M. (who is dead), and an infant daughter (who is dead). Dr. Wren is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Democrat in politics, and a very influential man." (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890)