Centennial History of Arkansas, Vol. II, pg. 114-115. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922
Biography of Dr. John E. Alford, M.D.
Dr. John E. Alford, physician and surgeon, successfully practicing in Okolona, Arkansas, 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. The grandfather, the Rev. Ewing Alford, after serving in the Mexican war, being on active duty in Texas, came to Arkansas. In the early '40's he had removed from Texas to Pike County, this state and east in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that locality. The family comes of English ancestry and was established on American soil before the War of 1812, the first representative of the name settling in Virginia taking part in the battle of New Orleans. Thus for considerably more than a century the Alford family has been found on this side of the Atlantic and for more two- thirds of a century has been represented in Arkansas. Dr. W.D. Alford, father of Dr. John E. Alford, is still living at the notable age of eighty-seven years, his home being in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, where he formerly engaged in the practice of medicine for a long period but is now retired. He was at one time county treasurer of Pike County for two terms and during the Civil War he served as head steward in a hospital in Little Rock, where he was stationed when the city was captured by the Federal troops under General Steele. He was the army throughout the four years' period of the war. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca Sharp, died in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1898, at the age of fifty-eight years. She was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, and the Sharp family removed from that state to Pike County, Arkansas in 1840, being also numbered among the early pioneer settlers of that locality. The Sharp family is Irish lineage, the grandfather of the Doctor having come from Ireland to America in the '30s. He fought under General Jackson in the Seminole Indian war in Florida. It was near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1870, that Rebecca Sharp became the wife of Dr. W. D. Alford and to them were born three sons, all of whom are living.
Dr. John E. Alford, the eldest of the family, was educated in the common schools of Pike County and in the high school of 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, Missouri, 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 the 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 the other expenses of his college course. In 1900 he opened an office in Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas, where he remained until 1908 and then went to Polk County, this state. 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 his 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. Alford was united in marriage to Miss Occo Mauney, a daughter of M.M. Mauney of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, the wedding being celebrated July 21, 1897. They are parents of a son and a daughter: Millard Williams, nineteen years of age, who is attending the Henderson-Brown College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree and is also editor in chief of the Star, a college manual; and Alice Dell, who graduated from the Okolona high school in 1922.
Dr. Alford is a Mason, belonging to Rob Mori Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M., of Okolona, of which he is past worshipful master, while at the present time he is serving as secretary. He was raised a Mason in Pike Lodge, No. 91 at Murfreesboro in 1899. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and along professional lines he is connected with the Clark County Medical Society and the Arkansas State Medical Society. He has reached high standards in his profession and his ability is constantly increasing as the result of his experience, his wide study and thorough investigation. He holds to the highest ethical standards of the profession and he commands the respect of his professional brethren and of the laity as well.
Contributor: Fay Alford (48604674)
Biography of Dr. John E. Alford, M.D.
Dr. John E. Alford, physician and surgeon, successfully practicing in Okolona, Arkansas, 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. The grandfather, the Rev. Ewing Alford, after serving in the Mexican war, being on active duty in Texas, came to Arkansas. In the early '40's he had removed from Texas to Pike County, this state and east in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that locality. The family comes of English ancestry and was established on American soil before the War of 1812, the first representative of the name settling in Virginia taking part in the battle of New Orleans. Thus for considerably more than a century the Alford family has been found on this side of the Atlantic and for more two- thirds of a century has been represented in Arkansas. Dr. W.D. Alford, father of Dr. John E. Alford, is still living at the notable age of eighty-seven years, his home being in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, where he formerly engaged in the practice of medicine for a long period but is now retired. He was at one time county treasurer of Pike County for two terms and during the Civil War he served as head steward in a hospital in Little Rock, where he was stationed when the city was captured by the Federal troops under General Steele. He was the army throughout the four years' period of the war. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca Sharp, died in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1898, at the age of fifty-eight years. She was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, and the Sharp family removed from that state to Pike County, Arkansas in 1840, being also numbered among the early pioneer settlers of that locality. The Sharp family is Irish lineage, the grandfather of the Doctor having come from Ireland to America in the '30s. He fought under General Jackson in the Seminole Indian war in Florida. It was near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1870, that Rebecca Sharp became the wife of Dr. W. D. Alford and to them were born three sons, all of whom are living.
Dr. John E. Alford, the eldest of the family, was educated in the common schools of Pike County and in the high school of 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, Missouri, 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 the 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 the other expenses of his college course. In 1900 he opened an office in Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas, where he remained until 1908 and then went to Polk County, this state. 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 his 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. Alford was united in marriage to Miss Occo Mauney, a daughter of M.M. Mauney of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, the wedding being celebrated July 21, 1897. They are parents of a son and a daughter: Millard Williams, nineteen years of age, who is attending the Henderson-Brown College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree and is also editor in chief of the Star, a college manual; and Alice Dell, who graduated from the Okolona high school in 1922.
Dr. Alford is a Mason, belonging to Rob Mori Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M., of Okolona, of which he is past worshipful master, while at the present time he is serving as secretary. He was raised a Mason in Pike Lodge, No. 91 at Murfreesboro in 1899. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and along professional lines he is connected with the Clark County Medical Society and the Arkansas State Medical Society. He has reached high standards in his profession and his ability is constantly increasing as the result of his experience, his wide study and thorough investigation. He holds to the highest ethical standards of the profession and he commands the respect of his professional brethren and of the laity as well.
Contributor: Fay Alford (48604674)
Centennial History of Arkansas, Vol. II, pg. 114-115. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922
Biography of Dr. John E. Alford, M.D.
Dr. John E. Alford, physician and surgeon, successfully practicing in Okolona, Arkansas, 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. The grandfather, the Rev. Ewing Alford, after serving in the Mexican war, being on active duty in Texas, came to Arkansas. In the early '40's he had removed from Texas to Pike County, this state and east in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that locality. The family comes of English ancestry and was established on American soil before the War of 1812, the first representative of the name settling in Virginia taking part in the battle of New Orleans. Thus for considerably more than a century the Alford family has been found on this side of the Atlantic and for more two- thirds of a century has been represented in Arkansas. Dr. W.D. Alford, father of Dr. John E. Alford, is still living at the notable age of eighty-seven years, his home being in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, where he formerly engaged in the practice of medicine for a long period but is now retired. He was at one time county treasurer of Pike County for two terms and during the Civil War he served as head steward in a hospital in Little Rock, where he was stationed when the city was captured by the Federal troops under General Steele. He was the army throughout the four years' period of the war. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca Sharp, died in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1898, at the age of fifty-eight years. She was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, and the Sharp family removed from that state to Pike County, Arkansas in 1840, being also numbered among the early pioneer settlers of that locality. The Sharp family is Irish lineage, the grandfather of the Doctor having come from Ireland to America in the '30s. He fought under General Jackson in the Seminole Indian war in Florida. It was near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1870, that Rebecca Sharp became the wife of Dr. W. D. Alford and to them were born three sons, all of whom are living.
Dr. John E. Alford, the eldest of the family, was educated in the common schools of Pike County and in the high school of 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, Missouri, 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 the 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 the other expenses of his college course. In 1900 he opened an office in Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas, where he remained until 1908 and then went to Polk County, this state. 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 his 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. Alford was united in marriage to Miss Occo Mauney, a daughter of M.M. Mauney of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, the wedding being celebrated July 21, 1897. They are parents of a son and a daughter: Millard Williams, nineteen years of age, who is attending the Henderson-Brown College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree and is also editor in chief of the Star, a college manual; and Alice Dell, who graduated from the Okolona high school in 1922.
Dr. Alford is a Mason, belonging to Rob Mori Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M., of Okolona, of which he is past worshipful master, while at the present time he is serving as secretary. He was raised a Mason in Pike Lodge, No. 91 at Murfreesboro in 1899. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and along professional lines he is connected with the Clark County Medical Society and the Arkansas State Medical Society. He has reached high standards in his profession and his ability is constantly increasing as the result of his experience, his wide study and thorough investigation. He holds to the highest ethical standards of the profession and he commands the respect of his professional brethren and of the laity as well.
Contributor: Fay Alford (48604674)
Biography of Dr. John E. Alford, M.D.
Dr. John E. Alford, physician and surgeon, successfully practicing in Okolona, Arkansas, 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. The grandfather, the Rev. Ewing Alford, after serving in the Mexican war, being on active duty in Texas, came to Arkansas. In the early '40's he had removed from Texas to Pike County, this state and east in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that locality. The family comes of English ancestry and was established on American soil before the War of 1812, the first representative of the name settling in Virginia taking part in the battle of New Orleans. Thus for considerably more than a century the Alford family has been found on this side of the Atlantic and for more two- thirds of a century has been represented in Arkansas. Dr. W.D. Alford, father of Dr. John E. Alford, is still living at the notable age of eighty-seven years, his home being in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, where he formerly engaged in the practice of medicine for a long period but is now retired. He was at one time county treasurer of Pike County for two terms and during the Civil War he served as head steward in a hospital in Little Rock, where he was stationed when the city was captured by the Federal troops under General Steele. He was the army throughout the four years' period of the war. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca Sharp, died in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1898, at the age of fifty-eight years. She was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, and the Sharp family removed from that state to Pike County, Arkansas in 1840, being also numbered among the early pioneer settlers of that locality. The Sharp family is Irish lineage, the grandfather of the Doctor having come from Ireland to America in the '30s. He fought under General Jackson in the Seminole Indian war in Florida. It was near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1870, that Rebecca Sharp became the wife of Dr. W. D. Alford and to them were born three sons, all of whom are living.
Dr. John E. Alford, the eldest of the family, was educated in the common schools of Pike County and in the high school of 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, Missouri, 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 the 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 the other expenses of his college course. In 1900 he opened an office in Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas, where he remained until 1908 and then went to Polk County, this state. 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 his 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. Alford was united in marriage to Miss Occo Mauney, a daughter of M.M. Mauney of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, the wedding being celebrated July 21, 1897. They are parents of a son and a daughter: Millard Williams, nineteen years of age, who is attending the Henderson-Brown College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree and is also editor in chief of the Star, a college manual; and Alice Dell, who graduated from the Okolona high school in 1922.
Dr. Alford is a Mason, belonging to Rob Mori Lodge No. 106, A. F. & A. M., of Okolona, of which he is past worshipful master, while at the present time he is serving as secretary. He was raised a Mason in Pike Lodge, No. 91 at Murfreesboro in 1899. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and along professional lines he is connected with the Clark County Medical Society and the Arkansas State Medical Society. He has reached high standards in his profession and his ability is constantly increasing as the result of his experience, his wide study and thorough investigation. He holds to the highest ethical standards of the profession and he commands the respect of his professional brethren and of the laity as well.
Contributor: Fay Alford (48604674)
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