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Dr. William Newton Warren, physician and surgeon, Buckner, Ark. Dr. Warren is one of the county’s most successful physicians, and has built up a patronage highly complimentary to his skill and ability as a practitioner. He is a native of this county, his birth occurring January 25, 1851, and is a son of John M. and Sophronia Gardner (Clark) Warren, natives of Alabama and Mississippi, respectively. The father was born August 14, 1815, and is now residing in this county, respected and esteemed by all who know him, as is also the mother who is, too, a resident of this county. The parents moved from Mississippi to Arkansas in 1848, settled in this county and here they have since made their home. Their family consisted of eight sons and four daughters, six sons and two daughters now living: Robert C, J. M., Jr., A. J., R., Jane, Sophronia G., J. H. and C. F. The paternal grandfather, Robert H. Warren, was in the battle of New Orleans under Gen. Jackson. Dr. William Newton Warren, the fourth in order of birth of the above mentioned children, was reared in this county and received his literary education here. He attended lectures at Louisville Medical College at Louisville, Ky., and graduated from that far-famed institution February 25, 1887. He immediately returned to Columbia County as the scene of his future labor, and began practicing in the neighborhood in which he was reared. In January, 1889, he came to Buckner, where he has been ministering to the physical wants of his fellow-men ever since. He was married February 26, 1873, to Miss Annie B. Griffin, who was born in Mississippi in 1851, and who has became the mother of three sons and four daughters: Otho A., William Newton, Susan G., Mary Ann, Minnie, John and Ivy D. Dr. Warren has carried on farming in connection with his practice, and is the owner of 100 acres of land, and also is the owner of town property in Waldo and Buckner. He is a member of Lamartine Lodge No. 90, and is a Master Mason. His wife is a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.