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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Lafayette 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. J. P. Youman, practicing physician and surgeon, Lewisville. The people of Lafayette, as well as surrounding counties, are familiar with the name that heads this sketch, for many years Dr. Youman has been successfully occupied in the prosecution of his chosen profession. During that time his career as a practitioner and thorough student of medicine has won for him no less a reputation than have his personal characteristics as a citizen and neighbor. He was born in Steuben County, N. Y., March 7, 1832, and there his life up to the age of twenty two years was spent, receiving a fine literary education. His parents, Elijah and Edna (Stone) Youman, had a family of ten children—eight sons and two daughters—and he was the seventh child in order of birth. Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War, and they were both natives of Delaware, but removed from that State to New York at an early day. J. P. Youman took up the study of medicine in his twentieth year, and for the following three years he pursued his studies in his native State. In 1855 he went to Bureau County, Ill., and after spending a few months there, went to Wisconsin, and at the end of four months went to Minnesota, where he remained until 1859. He then went to Missouri, and from this State, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Federal army. He soon rose to the rank of hospital steward, and afterward assistant surgeon, in which capacity he was serving at the close of the war, and during his term of service he was stationed in Missouri. After the surrender he entered upon the practice of his profession, as a traveling physician, making a specialty of chronic diseases, and as such he came to this county in 1872. In 1878 he returned, and settled where he now resides, and his skill as a physician and surgeon has won for him a large and lucrative practice, in connection with which he conducts a merchandise business, carrying a general line of drugs and groceries. He also owns a valuable farm in this locality. He was united in marriage in 1857, in Minnesota, to Miss Mary Faust, a native of Hocastle, Germany, and to this union have been born three children: Frank A. (now a lawyer of Fort Smith, Ark.), F. W. (who is now attending Rush Medical College, Chicago), and G. F. (who is a graduate of the Missouri State University). Dr. Youman is an enterprising and influential citizen, and has held a number of local offices of trust. He has served as school director, and was once elected county treasurer, but refused to qualify, and he has also served on the Medical Examining Board of this county.

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This family biography is one of 44 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Lafayette County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Lafayette County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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