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William Thompson, M. D. In addition to some private study, which Dr. Thompson devoted to his profession, he, in 1856, graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, Tenn., and a long experience in the practice of his profession has made him very efficient and a thorough master of the “healing art.” His first experience as a physician was at Thompson’s Station, Tenn., but at the end of three years he came to Arkansas and settled ten miles south of Little Rock, remaining here until the opening of the Rebellion. During hostilities he was surgeon of the Ninety-first Regiment of Arkansas Calvary, eighteen months of his service being in the State of Arkansas, but the regiment was disbanded in Texas. In 1865 he resumed practice at his country home, but in the year 1867 removed to Little Rock, and has since been identified with the city’s interests, and is one of its oldest and most respected citizens. He is a member of the Pulaski County Medical Society, and also of the American Medical Association. His wife, Sallie (Dortch) Thompson, was a native of Middle Tennessee. He is a son of Joseph and Martha (Wade) Thompson. Both were Virginians, the former a tobacco manufacturer by occupation, who died in Alabama, in 1864. The paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, and was one of the early emigrants to the United States. Dr. Thompson was born in Virginia, in 1830, and when a child removed with his parents to Georgia, in this State growing to manhood and receiving his literary education.