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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889. 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. J. L. Blakemore, Little Rock, Ark. Dr. Blakemore’s career as a practitioner is well and favorably known to the many who have tested his healing ability, and, although young in years, he has been unusually successful, promising a bright outlook for the future. At present he is the second assistant physician of the State asylum at Little Rock, which position he fills in a manner satisfactory to all. He was born in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1862, grew to manhood in that county, and supplemented his common-school education with a course at Emery & Henry College, Virginia, graduating in 1885. Having concluded to pursue the study of medicine, he attended his first course of lectures at Memphis, Tenn., and afterward was a student at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., from which he graduated in the spring of 1887, being appointed to his present position in July, 1888. He is the son of Dr. William and Nannie (Tramel) Blakemore, the former a native of Tennessee, and a physician of good standing in Greenwood, Ark.
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