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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita 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. N. Bragg is the oldest medical practitioner of Ouachita County, Ark., and has, during his long years of practice, proven himself to be of more than ordinary ability, and fully deserves the confidence which is accorded him by all. He was born in Lowndes County, Ala., May 4, 1838, and is a son of Peter N. and Martha W. (Crook) Bragg, who were born in Spartanburg District, S. C, and were there reared and married. They soon emigrated to Alabama, thence to Arkansas in 1843, and located in what is now Camden, in Ouachita County, the place being then known as Ecore Fabre, named in honor of a Frenchman, but Mr. Bragg and a number of other men named the place in honor of Camden, S. C., there being only four or five houses in the place at the time. Mr. Bragg entered a tract of land four miles west of the town, and here resided until his death in 1855, at the age of fifty-five years. His wife died in 1879, having borne a family of seven children: Walter L., Virginia C, Junius N., Florence M., Anthon V., Albert P. and John M. The paternal grandfather, Peter N. Bragg, entered the American army during the Revolutionary War, when only sixteen years of age, and was in the battle of Camden, S. C. Dr. J. N. Bragg has been a resident of Arkansas since he was five years of age, and his name has become a familiar household word. He was educated at Fayetteville, Ark. The year 1861 witnessed his graduation from the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, and he immediately began practicing at Camden, but the breaking out of the Civil War caused him to give up this work and become a member of the Confederate army. He enlisted as a private, but was soon appointed assistant surgeon by the medical board of Little Rock, in the Eleventh Arkansas Infantry, and served in this capacity until the close of the war. He then returned to his old home in Camden, where he has since been an active practitioner. He has never been an aspirant for office, but has paid strict attention to his profession, and is classed among the experts of Southern Arkansas. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Anna J. Goddard, and of four children born to them only one survives—Helen J.

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