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Dr. Pleasant H. Pendleton, practicing physician and surgeon, is a son of Dr. Samuel H. and Anna (Baker) Pendleton, and was born in Salisbury, N. C, in 1853. The father, originally from Amherst County, Va., attained celebrity by his skill and learning in Virginia, North Carolina and Arkansas, and was well prepared to guide the mind of his son in a channel that could not fail to lead to good results. In 1859 the family moved to Arkansas, settling in Pendleton, a place named in his honor. But death soon claimed the beloved wife and mother, and after mourning her loss, the father was married again to Miss Ellen Douglas, who survived him. The Pendletons are an old and highly respected family for many generations back, being of English descent, and after coming to this country, making a reputation for strict integrity and natural ability in all communities where they resided. The maternal grandfather, George Lloyd Baker, was of English descent, and upon his arrival in America, settled in Virginia. Dr. Pleasant Pendleton was educated in a most thorough and comprehensive manner, first in North Carolina, then spending several years at schools in Philadelphia, and graduated at Calvert College, near Baltimore, Md., with the degree of A. B. In 1875 he graduated from the Louisville Medical College, and received degrees at Central University at Louisville, Ky. In the meantime he had served in the city hospital of that city, receiving this honor in competitive examination with the brightest intellects of the three schools of the city. In 1876 Dr. Pendleton returned to his home in Lincoln County, at which point he has continued to practice most successfully up to the present date. He married Miss Fannie Moore, of Mound Grove, Ark., in November of 1877, a granddaughter of Mr. Robert J. Moore, of Nashville. Dr. Pendleton and family are Catholics in religion, Democrats in politics, and rebels by tradition and instinct.