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Dr. D. C. Summers whose birth occurred in Marion County, Ark., in 1856, is a son of Calvin and Lucinda H. (Porter) Summers. The father was born in Rutherford, Tenn., in 1819, and was by occupation a farmer and tanner, and followed the latter occupation for many years. He enlisted in the Mexican War, but peace was declared before he entered service. He also enlisted in the late war, but was sent home by the Government to tan leather for shoes, etc. He was one of the very early settlers of Northern Arkansas, and is now living at Sylva, Marion County, engaged in merchandising. Dr. D. C. Summers received a rather limited education in Marion County, and later attended the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis one session. At the age of twenty-four he began practicing his profession in Marion County, but at the end of two years he moved to Benton County, and from there to his present property in Washington County. He located at Elm Springs, where he has his share of the practice, and is succeeding very well. In 1877 he married Miss Lida Dingle, daughter of Judge W. B. and Nancy Dingle, of Madison County, Ark., and to them have been born two children, both of whom are deceased. Dr. Summers became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1872, and after a membership of one year he was ordained a minister of that church and an elder in 1879. He at present occupies the position of local preacher, and for five years he was pastor of the church and in charge of the Mountain View Circuit, also other circuits, and spends a goodly portion of his time in ministering to the spiritual wants of his fellow-men.