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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

OSCAR ABSALOM CARRUTH, M. D.
    Dr. Oscar Absalom Carruth, physician of Little Rock, was born February 19,
1883, in Parkdale, Ashley county, Arkansas. His parents were Benjamin Franklin
and Emma (Harris) Carruth and the family comes of Irish ancestry but was
established in America in early colonial days by the great-grandfather of Dr.
Carruth, who, with two brothers, came from the Emerald isle to the new world
prior to the Revolutionary war. The brothers separated, the Doctor's branch of
the family being established in Mississippi, whence a removal was afterward made
to Arkansas. The grandfather became one of the pioneers of this state at a
period which antedated the building of the railroads. In proving up his title to
his lands he rode a mule into Little Rock. He shared in the hardships and trials
of frontier life and aided in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which
has been built the present progress and prosperity of this section.

    Benjamin F. Carruth, the Doctor's father, was a small boy when the family
home was established in Arkansas and in this state he was reared and educated.
He became one of the prominent farmers of the state and departed this life in
1923. He wedded Emma Harris, whose people were pioneer residents of Alabama, her
father, William Harris, being long numbered among the leading merchants of
Talladega, that state.

    Dr. Carruth obtained his early education in the public schools and afterward
attended the University of Arkansas and the University of Tennessee, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1902 with the degree of M. D. Later he took a
postgraduate course in Tulane University at New Orleans as a member of the class
of 1904. He first practiced his profession in Ingalls, Arkansas, for a period of
eighteen months and afterward removed to Warren, Arkansas, his home town, where
he spent the succeeding ten years in active practice. In 1913 ho pursued a
postgraduate course in the Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in
diagnosis. On his return to his native state he took up his abode in Little
Rock, where he has since followed his profession, and from 1913 until 1919 he
served as chief of the medical clinic of the University of Arkansas. In the
latter year he became diagnostician in St. Luke's Hospital at Little Rock and
remained in active connection with that institution until 1921, when he became
associated with Dr. A. G. McGill in the private practice of his profession. Dr.
Carruth confines his practice to diagnosis and is regarded as an eminent
specialist in that field. During the World war he served as medical examiner of
Local Board, No. 2, and he also took part in all drives and activities for
upholding American interests.

    In October, 1903, Dr. Carruth was united in marriage to Miss Rena Harding, a
daughter of William H. and Lee Eiler (Morris) Harding, both representatives of
old Alabama families. Dr. and Mrs. Carrnth have three children: Margaret
Elizabeth, James Anthony and William Franklin. The daughter is a senior in the
Little Rock high school and is an honor pnpil in mathematics. She contemplates
taking a university course, majoring in mathematics. The elder son is a student
in the Junior high school, while the younger son has not yet reached school age.
Mrs. Carruth is regarded as a model mother and charming housewife and this is
one of the representative families of the city. Dr. Carruth has never been
prominent in fraternal relations, confining his membership to the Masonic order
and to the Phi Chi, a medical fraternity. He has ever been actuated by a most
high purpose and laudable ambition in his professional career, putting forth
every effort that will promote his knowledge and advance his efficiency that his
labors shall be of the greatest possible service to his fellowmen. He has thus
made steady progress and is today one of the eminent diagnosticians of the
southwest.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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