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Dr. J. S. Corn. Among the people of Howard as well as the surrounding counties, Dr. Corn has become well and favorably known, both professionally and socially, and during his nine years' residence at Centre Point, he has built up a large and paying practice. He was born in Winchester, Tenn., December 11, 1849, being the eldest of a family of six children, born to B. W. and Elizabeth A. (Botick) Corn, who were Tennesseans, the paternal grandfather being a native of Virginia, an early pioneer to Tennessee and a minister of the Baptist Church. He was of Scotch descent, and died on Elk River in his eighty-ninth year. B. W. Corn studied medicine at Nashville, Tenn., and began the practice of that profession in his native State, continuing until 1857, when he came to Arkansas and settled at Pine Bluff, where he made his home until 1860, when he settled in what is now Austin, Lonoke County, making his home there until 1886. He has since been a successful practitioner of Lonoke. Dr. J. S. Corn attended the common schools at Austin in his boyhood days, and after having studied medicine and the drug business with his father for several years, he, in 1876, entered Vanderbilt University, and graduated from the medical department of that institution March 1, 1878, locating almost immediately at Austin. He has been a resident of Centre Point since 1881, is one of the leading practitioners of Howard County, and by education and experience is well fitted for the practice of his chosen profession. He has always supported the principles of Democracy, and socially belongs to Centre Point Lodge No. 87, of the A. F. & A. M. His marriage, which occurred in 1878, was to Miss Luella W., youngest daughter of Maj. I. C. A. Skillern, one of the oldest settlers of Austin and a merchant by occupation, whose death occurred in January, 1881. Mrs. Corn was born July 4, 1857, and has borne her husband one child: Nellie Barner (whose birth was March 17, 1881). Mrs. Corn belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.