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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada 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. A. D. Wren, the subject of this sketch is a prominent physician and farmer of Albany Township, Nevada County. He is a son of G. D. Wren and was born in Louisiana in 1841. In that State his youth was passed, and it was there that he received an excellent education, and laid the foundation for his prosperous life. While quite young he enlisted in the Civil War in 1861, Company D, Nineteenth Louisiana State troops. His first general engagement was at Shiloh, then at Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, and in many engagements under Joseph E. Johnston, while he was trying to check Sherman’s march on to the sea. He was wounded at Jonesboro, and disbanded at Meridian, Miss. Immediately after the war he commenced the study of medicine, and took the degree of M. D. at New Orleans, in 1873, practicing at Emmet and Centreville, Ark., before locating at his present home. Besides medicine, the subject of this sketch devotes considerable attention to agriculture, owning 340 acres of valuable land, upon which he raises enormous crops of corn, cotton and other produce. February 14, 1866, he married Miss Georgia Vickers, daughter of James J. Vickers, a prominent citizen of Georgia. They have had nine children, four of whom are dead: Alonzo G. (married Miss Jennie Woodle), E. Edgar (died at the age of thirteen), Willard W., Maggie, Samuel Scott, Carrie C. (who died in infancy), Aline A., Fred M. (who is dead), and an infant daughter (who is dead). Dr. Wren is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a Democrat in politics, and a very influential man.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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