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Dr. John M. McHenry is one of the foremost professional men of the county, and his merit and skill is acknowledged by all. He has been a practitioner in Union County, Ark., since 1871, and his skill and talent have already become well known. He was born in Macon County, Ala., September 4, 1841, being the eighth of eleven children born to R. W. and M. L. (Brown) McHenry, who were natives of Virginia and Alabama, respectively, their marriage taking place in the latter State. In 1844 they emigrated to and settled in Union County, Ark., where the father, who was a physician, practiced his profession until his death. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was agent for the Cherokee Indians, in Alabama, for three years. Dr. John M. McHenry was reared in Union County, and after studying medicine with his father, entered college at New Orleans, in 1860, and took one course, afterward taking one course at Richmond, Va., this being during the war, and in 1868 graduated from the Medical Department of the Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1865 he commenced his practice in the State of Florida, then returned to his old home in Union County, Ark., and here has since been. He was married, September 20, 1865, to Miss Georgia V. McNair, of Sumter County, Fla., and to them a family of eleven children have been born: Thomas B. (who was married, in 1888, to Miss Lulu Warrick), Martha L. (who was married, in 1887, to R. M. Deason, a farmer of this county), Parrie V., Lillian M., John M., Blanche, Lionel L. (who died in 1889), Nic B., Robert S., William B. and Clinton E. Dr. McHenry is a member of the A. F. & A. M., which he joined in 1865, at Normansville, Fla., and at present time holds membership in Polk Lodge, in Union County, Ark. He is a Democrat, although not active, and in every respect is a public spirited man. He has been fairly successful in the accumulation of worldly goods, and is at present the owner of 230 acres of land, forty of which are under cultivation. During the war he enlisted as a private in Company A, First Arkansas Regiment, with which he served until the close of hostilities, being in the first battle of Manassas, Shiloh, Bragg’s raid in Kentucky, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Johnston’s campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, Jonesboro, Perryville, Franklin (in which battle he was captured and carried to Camp Douglas, Ill., being released and paroled at the end of four months). He received a flesh wound in the side, at Atlanta, Ga., but was not seriously injured.