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

ROBERT A. HILTON, M. D.
    Dr. Robert A. Hilton, deceased, was for a long period a prominent physician
and surgeon of El Dorado and enjoyed in large measure the confidence, esteem and
high regard of those with whom he came into contact. He was born in Simpson
county, Mississippi, October 8, 1868, his youthful days being spent on the home
farm on which his birth occurred. He early began work in the fields and soon had
acquired practical knowledge of all phases of crop production. He attended the
public schools and afterward had the benefit of a course in the Mississippi
College at Clinton, that state. In young manhood he determined upon the practice
of medicine as a life work and with that end in view he began studying
privately, while later he attended the Louisville Medical College and the Tulane
Medical College, now the medical department of Tulane University at New Orleans,
Louisiana. Later in life Dr. Hilton took postgraduate work two different times
at Tulane University, New Orleans. Having qualified for the profession he came
to Arkansas, settling first at Lisbon, where he remained from 1893 until 1895.
He then returned to his home town in Mississippi, and there practiced for about
six years, or until January, 1901, when he came to El Dorado, residing here to
the time of his death. He was in partnership with Dr. Thompson in the early
years of his practice here and later became a partner of Dr. Mahoney. His
ability was recognized by his professional colleagues and contemporaries and by
the general public as well and during the years of his residence in El Dorado
his practice steadily increased in volume and importance. He was acknowledged a
prominent member of his profession and he did important service on the health
board.

    On the 14th of February, 1898, Dr. Hilton was married to Miss Nannie E.
Butler, a native of Simpson county, Mississippi, and reared in that locality.
Besides a pleasant home in El Dorado Dr. Hilton owned a very fine fruit farm six
miles south of the town, whereon he had a large peach orchard. His place
comprised several hundred acres of land and in addition to his horticultural
pursuits he raised corn and cotton. His life's labors were ended in death on the
24th of June, 1916, and his demise was the occasion of deep regret to his many
friends. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, in which he attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and he also had membership with the
Mystic Shrine. He likewise belonged to the Knights of Pythias and to the modern
Woodmen of America, while along strictly professional lines he was connected
with the Union County and the Arkansas State Medical Societies, the Southern
Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He thus kept apace
with the onward trend of the profession, being thoroughly familiar with modern
thought and investigation as related to the science of medicine and surgery.


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


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