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Dr. W. S. Woolford, physician and surgeon, Arkansas City, Ark. The professional minds of physicians may be divided into two separate and distinct classes, aptly designated the perceptive and the memorative. To one class belongs those whose medicinal knowledge and perception depends upon memory, to the other, those who depend chiefly upon their own conscious resources and mingle with them their own judgment. To those acquainted with Dr. Woolford it is unnecessary for us to say to what class he belongs. He was born in Little Rock, Ark., July 8, 1856, and was left motherless at the age of six weeks. His parents, William and Susan (Jones) Woolford, were married in Arkansas, whither the father had emigrated from his native State, Tennessee, when a young man. After the death of his first wife he married her sister, and by her became the father of three children: Hunter (deceased, his death occurring in New Mexico in 1889), Lee (connected with the Iron Mountain Railroad), and Chester (who resides in New Mexico). William Woolford, father of our subject, was a printer by trade, and at one time was the editor of one of the leading papers of Little Rock. He died in that city in 1883. W. S. Woolford was reared by his grandparents in Kentucky, and received his education in the eastern part of that State in the common schools of his section. In 1882 he entered the medical college of Little Rock, graduating from the same in 1884, and later located at Lamar, on the Mississippi River, where he began practicing. He remained, there less than a year, and then came to Arkansas City as local surgeon of this branch of the Missouri Pacific system, which position he still occupies. The Doctor has a large and increasing practice, is a physician of more than ordinary ability, and does not stand second in local representation to any physician of the county. His practice requires not less than four horses in the traveling that he does. He was married, in June, 1884, to a young lady of Emmitsburg, Md., and they are the parents of two children: Willie W. and Wood. The Doctor is a member of the K. of P., Valley Lodge No. 21, and his wife is a member of the Catholic Church.