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James H. Lenow, M. D., occupies a chair in the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industrial University, his branch being the diseases of genito-urinary organs and syphilis. The only son in the family of James and Indiana (Leake) Lenow, he was born in Memphis, Tenn., on February 18, 1850. James Lenow died at Louisville, Ky., June 9, 1850, while enroute to Virginia to pay a last visit to his aged mother. His estimable wife survived him until July 17, 1865. They were the parents of one daughter, Josephine, whose birth occurred in Fayette County, Tenn., in 1844. She was twice married, first to Mr. Frank T. Cochran, who died in 1872, and the second time to Dr. John A. Watkins, of Tennessee. She died April 25, 1886, leaving two sons, one by each husband. Dr. James H. Lenow was educated in the Kentucky Military Institute, graduated from that institution in June, 1870, and received the degree of A. B., and in 1876 the degree of A. M. Having determined upon the practice of medicine, he immediately began its study in New York, and after a thorough course was graduated with high honors in the class of 1872, from the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia. In 1872 he located in Little Rock, and since that time has been actively occupied in the profession of his chosen occupation, administering carefully and with personal interest to the wants of suffering humanity. For seven years he was the physician in charge of the State penitentiary, and also held the position of city and jail physician for a number of terms, only resigning the position of city physician to accept a chair for two terms in the city council. In 1877 Dr. Lenow was health officer of the city, and is now medical examiner for both the Mutual Equitable and Manhattan Life Insurance Companies, of New York. In November, 1883, he was married to Mrs. Ella D. Fones. Two children have been born of this union: Jamie and Horace. The Doctor is liberal, and contributes largely to anything that tends to the advancement of Little Rock.