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Dr. John H. Pinson, county treasurer and the second oldest practitioner in Union County, Ark., was originally from South Carolina, where his birth occurred in 1831, and is the seventh of eight children born to Abijah and Sarah M. (Arnold) Pinson. The paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the father was a soldier in the War of 1812. Dr. John H. Pinson was reared on the farm, and had but little educational advantages. In 1851 he began the study of medicine with a physician, and in 1853-54-55 he attended medical lectures at Charleston, S. C, graduating from the medical college of the State of South Carolina in the last named year. He then returned to Louisiana, where his mother was residing, his father having died in 1833, and he at once began practicing his profession. In 1858 he came to Arkansas, settled in the western part of Union County, and here he bought and entered a large tract of land. Then in connection with his medical practice he carried on farming, but soon gave up the latter and moved to Lisbon, where he devoted all his energies to his profession. In 1866 he bought a farm in the eastern part of the county, tilled the soil there for two years, and in 1873 moved to the town of El Dorado, where he has since practiced his profession. He has been very successful, and has acquired a large and steadily increasing practice, while he has gained the confidence of all as a clever and scientific practitioner. He was elected county treasurer in 1874, and has held this office ever since, with but a short interval of a few months. The Doctor was married in 1857 to Miss Fannie A. E. Ducker, a native of Mississippi, and they have four children—three sons and a daughter—Thomas M. (who is associated with his father in his practice), Willie G. (married, and is merchandising in El Dorado), Harriet E. (died in 1889 at the age of twenty-seven years), and Annie L. (wife of J. S. Alphin, a merchant of El Dorado). The family are members of the Baptist Church, and are esteemed and respected by all acquainted with them. The Doctor is also very popular outside of his profession, is pleasant and courteous with all and is a gentleman of the old school. He is a leader in the promotion of the county’s good, old in practice, hoary in years and a land-mark of the times. He has been quite active in the politics of the county since the war. His son, Dr. Thomas M. Pinson, of the firm of Pinson & Son, was born in Union County in 1858, is fast extending his reputation as a physician, is very popular with the public. He was reared on the farm, and divided his time between assisting on the same, and in attending the public schools of El Dorado, in which he remained for about eight years. He then began the study of medicine, first in his father’s office, and then attended lectures in Louisville. In 1880 he graduated at Little Rock, and at once commenced practicing with his father in El Dorado. In 1885 he went to Texas, located at Cookville, and here practiced his profession until December, 1889, when he returned and re-engaged in the practice with his father. He was married in 1881 to Miss Kate Newton, a daughter of Judge Isaac Newton, of Camden [see sketch], and to them have been born three children: Anna Lee, John Hooper and Fannie Courtney. The family are members of the Baptist Church.