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Below is a family biography included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Dryden Dold, M.D., retired physician and farmer, of Washington County, Ark., was born in Augusta County, of the “Old Dominion,” May 17, 1812, and was reared and educated in his native county. At an early day he began the study of medicine, and took two courses of lectures in the medical department of the University of Virginia, and one course of lectures in Philadelphia, Penn., in the winter of 1834-35. In the spring of the latter year he began practicing his profession in Middlebrook, Va., and at the end of twelve months came west, and located first in St. Louis, and then in Natchez, Miss., remaining in the latter place six months. He then returned to Virginia, and shortly after located near Knoxville, Tenn., where he made his home, and practiced his profession for about fifteen years. The following four years were spent in Georgia, and after a short residence in New Orleans he came up the Mississippi River as far as Cane Hill, Ark. (in 1848), where be located and practiced medicine for about thirteen years, his practice extending within a radius of from twenty to thirty miles. He became a resident of Benton County, Ark., in 1861, and owned considerable land where Siloam Springs is now located, but in 1874 he returned to Washington County, where he has since made his home, and where he has had an extensive and increasing practice. He was married while residing in East Tennessee, but about 1858 his wife died and he married his second wife, Nancy Reed, in Washington County. Ark. She is a native of the county, and a daughter of John R. Reed, one of the early settlers of Arkansas. Dr. and Mrs. Dold are the parents of the following family: William A., John Philip, Mary M., Sarah E., wife of Robert Simpson, and Laura Virginia. The family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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