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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Drew County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Dr. D. T. Hyatt, druggist, Monticello, Ark. With the drug trade of Southern Arkansas the name of Hyatt & Hann are identified. The senior member, Dr. D. T. Hyatt, owes his nativity to Monticello, where his birth occurred May 2, 1852, and is a son of Benjamin C. and Levina A. (Fee) Hyatt, who were early settlers of Drew County. Benjamin C. Hyatt was about the first hotel-keeper in the town. He was a physician professionally, but the country being so sparsely settled he had but little practice, and so turned his attention to other pursuits, learning the carpenter’s trade, which he carried on in connection with the hotel business for several years. Dr. D. T. Hyatt was educated in Monticello, began the study of medicine at an early age, and graduated at Louisville Medical College in 1874. After this he was in active practice for eight years in Monticello, and then clerked in a drug store until 1887, when he, with his present partner, bought out the drug store, and this they have since continued. The house is in every way a first-class one, and no name does more honor to the drug profession. Here may always be found a complete assortment of drugs, chemicals, toilet articles, patent medicines, perfumery, and druggists’ sundries. Mr. Hyatt was married, in 1875, to Miss D. M. Lewis, and to them have been born six children: W. Floyd, Robert F., Ethel, Lizzie C., Hannah and David T., Jr. Dr. Hyatt is a member of the K. of P. and the K. of H. He is an excellent business man.

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This family biography is one of 83 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Drew County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Drew County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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