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J. G. Scarborough, M. D., has been practicing in the city of Little Rock, Ark., since 1870, and from that time has carried the majority of his cases to a successful issue. He was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., in 1835, and in 1842 was taken by his father to South Carolina, where he grew to manhood and was educated, graduating with degree of A. B. from the South Carolina College, at Columbia, in 1855. The three following years of his career were spent in. instructing the young and reviewing collegiate course, obtaining, therefore, the degree of A. M. from South Carolina College; during this time he began the study of medicine. After attending college he graduated as an M. D. in the class of 1859-60, and located almost immediately in the town of Fayetteville, Ark., but only practiced a short time, when he offered his services to the Confederacy, and was surgeon of a company of cavalry. The year 1863 he spent in Greenwood, Sebastian County, Ark., but the latter part of the war he acted as assistant surgeon of Jamison’s regiment. Upon the proclamation of peace, he located at Washington, Ark., and during his four years residence at that place, in addition to practicing his profession, he was engaged in the drug business, his establishment being the second one of the kind in the place. Upon his arrival in Little Rock, he established a drug store, but gave this up to the management of his son, and now devotes his time exclusively to alleviating the sufferings of the sick and afflicted. Dr. Scarborough has been one of the State Board of Examining Physicians and Surgeons for years, and has also been long connected with the American Health Association. He is a man of high literary attainments, is scrupulously conscientious, and wields a wide-spread interest among his fellow-men. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Gaines, was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., but shortly after the birth of our subject, she passed to her long home, and her son was reared by his grandmother. Up on her deathbed she told her nearest female friend that she desired her son to be reared a Christian, and years afterward, when he had grown into a man, he found the request written by this friend in an old autograph album, and signed “His mother’s best friend.” So great an impression did this make upon his youthful mind that he immediately united with the church, and has ever since remained a consistent Christian. He was married in Tennessee, in 1857, to Miss E. J. Inge, and of a family of nine children born to them, five are yet living: W. Inge, John Strother, May, Earl and Guy. W. H. Scarborough, the father of the Doctor, was a Tennesseean, born in 1810. He was a natural artist, and received his instruction under the celebrated painter of New York City, Inman, and had he lived, would have become famous, but death closed his career while in the prime of life. The paternal grandfather was a native of England, and was an early pioneer to the State of Tennessee, being a resident of that State when the first steamboat ascended the Cumberland River. The maternal grandfather was John S. Gaines, a cousin of Edmund P. Gaines, and his wife was Letitia (Dalton) Moore, a relative of Lord Dalton, of England. She was a native of Virginia, and lived to be nearly ninety years of age, as did also her husband. The latter was a planter, and owned Holston Springs, on the north fork of the Holston River. Great grandfather Gaines was a Tennesseean, and was very highly educated, and wrote a valuable treatise on astronomy.