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Dr. J. N. Barnett. Few men are better known in Pulaski County or have attained a higher degree of perfection in their profession than has Dr. Barnett. He was born in Alabama in 1834, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Holingshad) Barnett, of North Carolina and South Carolina, respectively. The Doctor received his education in the city of New Orleans, and also graduated from the University of Louisiana in that city in 1857. He first commenced to practice medicine in Noxubee County, Miss., during the same year, and continued to reside there until 1875, when he moved to Argenta, Ark., where he has been practicing ever since. In 1853 he was married to Miss Anna Bayakin, a talented young lady of Mississippi, by whom he has had three children, and after the loss of his first wife he was married to Miss Louisa Slocum, who has made the Doctor’s home one of the most attractive in Argenta. Dr. Barnett is a member of the Masonic order, I. O. O. F. and Knights of Honor. His charitable disposition, unimpeachable character and integrity have made him a valued and popular citizen, and as a professional man his practice at one time was one of the largest in Pulaski County. Of late years, however, he has relinquished not a little on account of failing health, and now enjoys a lucrative office practice, in connection with which he carries a select stock of drugs. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate army, and joined Company C, Wright Invincibles, Fourth Mississippi Regiment, and served for some time. In politics he is a strong Democrat, having first voted for Buchanan.