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Dr. Ripley E. Woodard, the young and rising practitioner of Chickalah, and graduate from Vanderbilt College, at Nashville, Tenn., was born in this county March 4, 1863. His parents, Ripley J. and Mary (Robinson) Woodard, were born in Mississippi and North Carolina, respectively, but were united in marriage in Yell County, where were born their family of six children. The senior Woodard is a merchant of Danville, and for the past twenty years has successfully conducted a general merchandise business, and for fifteen years has been Danville’s popular postmaster. He enlisted in 1862, and served until 1865, as a soldier in the late Rebellion; is an enthusiast in politics, always voting for the best man in his party. Himself and wife worship with the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he belongs to the society of Masons. Dr. Woodard (our subject) began his medical studies in 1886, under the direction of Drs. Stafford and Capshaw, of Danville, subsequently matriculating at Vanderbilt College, and taking two courses of lectures, received his diploma in 1889, and in 1890 opened an office and began his practice, which bids fair to become a most extensive and lucrative profession in the near future. The Doctor is full of energy, and by his courteous manner and kindness of heart is bound to rise to the topmost round in the ladder of medical fame.