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Benjamin L. Stovall, M. D. Among the younger members of the medical fraternity in Lonoke County, and one of its rising practitioners, is Dr. Stovall, the son of James M. and Angeline (Richey) Stovall. They were natives of Alabama, and were married in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in the same year moving to and locating in Attala County, Miss., which locality claims them as early settlers, In 1859 they came to Arkansas and settled in Pulaski County, where Mrs. Stovall died, in 1888, at the age of fifty-four years. Benjamin L. was born in Attala County, Miss., December 14, 1857, and from his earliest boyhood the ambition and aspiration of his life was to be a physician. In his twentieth year he entered St. John’s College, at Little Rock, and the next year was enrolled as a student of the University of Arkansas. He also read medicine at Jacksonville under the instruction of Dr. Q. W. Granberry, at the same time being engaged in teaching in the public schools. In 1882 Dr. Stovall entered the Memphis Hospital Medical College, from which he graduated, in March, 1884, with honors. Following his graduation he located in Lonoke Township, where he has since resided, and has established a large and lucrative practice. January 20, 1889, witnessed his marriage with Miss Wilma Hicks, a native of Lonoke County and a descendant of one of the county’s pioneer families. Mrs. Stovall is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is active in all charitable and benevolent works. In his political views the Doctor sides with the Democrats.