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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  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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Dr. William H. Dickinson, physician, Umpire, Ark. The name that heads this sketch is well known throughout this and adjoining counties, for it is borne by a prominent physician, and one who is ever welcome at the bedside of the sick and afflicted. Dr. Dickinson was born in Calhoun County, Ala., on February 12, 1854, received his education in that State, and attended the Eclectic Medical College at Atlanta, Ga., from which institution he graduated in March, 1880. He began the practice of medicine at Ragland Station, Ala., that year, and there resided for five years, when, on account of ill health, he moved to the mountains of Arkansas, and located where he now resides. He has been twice married; first, to Miss Martha J. Lowry, a native of Alabama, who bore him three children: Robert A., Andrew B. and Claud W., all residing with subject. Mrs. Dickinson died in 1884, and in 1887 the Doctor took for his second wife Miss Lou H. Morton, a native of this county, and whose parents were natives of Tennessee. One child, Ola V., is the fruit of this union. Dr. Dickinson is a Democrat, and is very active in political affairs, but does not aspire for office. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1883 at Pique Hill, Ala. His wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist and he of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Doctor is a liberal supporter of all public enterprises. His parents, W. H. and Nancy J. (Borden) Dickinson, were natives of Alabama, where they were married and reared a family of nine children. The father was a public-spirited citizen, was a Democrat in politics, and served as county clerk in Calhoun County. He was a captain in the Confederate army. He died in 1871, at the age of sixty-five years, but the mother is still living in this county and is sixty-five years of age. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which the father was also a member. Of their nine children eight are now living, six in Texas, and two, our subject and a brother, Rev. Joel W., a Methodist Episcopal preacher, in Arkansas.

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