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John H. Pryor. Among the most important as well as popular drug stores in Hamburg, Ark., is that belonging to Mr. Pryor, who is acknowledged to be one of the most efficient druggists in the county. He was born in Little Rock, Ark., December 8, 1846, and is a son of Rev. John Pryor, a Methodist minister, and a Tennessean by birth who came to Arkansas, in 1846, and here reared a family of six children, three of whom are living. John H. Pryor spent his early life chiefly in Dallas, Howard, Hempstead and Ashley Counties, and succeeded in obtaining a good practical education. At the age of eighteen years he entered the Confederate army, enlisting in the Second Arkansas Cavalry, and took part in the battles of Mark’s Mill and Poison Springs, and was then with Price on his raid in Missouri, taking part in all the battles of that campaign. While on the east bank of the Trinity River, Texas, news came of the fall of the Confederacy and, accordingly, they disbanded and came home, his parents then residing in Nashville, Howard County. In January, 1867, he was married to Miss Nesson, of Hempstead County, and shortly after removed to Ashley County, farming, the first year, on Bayou Bartholomew, but purchasing the next year a farm on the hills. In June, 1869, he purchased the drug establishment of Dickinson & Co., in Hamburg, and has been the proprietor of the same ever since. He is a Democrat and belongs to the following social organizations: A. F. & A. M., K. of P., and K. of H. Two sons have blessed his union: Edwin W. and John H., Jr. Mr. Pryor’s store is tastefully fitted up, and is well stocked with a complete assortment of drugs, chemicals, etc., and he has become well known for the skill, exactitude and promptness with which he prepares prescriptions.