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

J. C. CLEVELAND, M. D.
    Dr. J. C. Cleveland, a physician and surgeon for more than a third of a
century. practices at Bald Knob, where his capability has again and again been
demonstrated in his successful handling of important and involved medical cases.
Dr. Cleveland is a native son of Arkansas, his birth having occurred in
Independence county, November 19. 1852. his parents being Joseph and Elizabeth
(Butcher) Cleveland, who were natives of Georgia and Alabama, respectively,
their marriage being celebrated in Tuscaloosa. Alabama. The father was a son of
Joseph Cleveland, a native of Georgia, who served with the rank of colonel in
the Seminole war. In days of peace he engaged extensively in farming in Georgia,
where he owned many slaves, and he also carried on merchandising there.
Sustaining many losses- on account of the ravages of war, he removed to Texas
and there died ere the war had been brought to a termination. The maternal
grandfather of Dr. Cleveland was T. J. Butcher, a native of Alabama, who carried
on farming on a large scale. He removed to Hempstead county. Arkansas, after his
son-in-law removed with his family to this state and his death there occurred.

    It was in the year 1851 that Joseph Cleveland came with his family to
Arkansas, settling in Independence county, having made the journey across the
country with horse team and wagon. He purchased a preemption near Oil Trough and
had to clear most of the land. For three years he served in the Confederate army
and was captured while participating in the General Price raid in Missouri. He
was sent to Port Monroe, where he was incarcerated for ten months, and then
being paroled, returned home, walking from Chattanooga. Tennessee, and crossing
the Mississippi river on a raft, which he and his companions made. He had three
brothers who were in the battle of Shiloh. Joseph Cleveland had his gun shot out
of his hand, and his trousers were on one occasion pierced by bullets, but lie
escaped injury. With his return home he resumed farming and he also took an
active interest in public affairs, serving as a member of the state legislature
during the time of the Brooks-Baxter war. He was in the legislature during the
extra session called by Governor Brooks and in various ways aided in shaping the
destiny of the state during that momentous period. Returning to Independence
county, he resumed farming and also operated a mill and steam cotton gin near
Oil Trough. Later he retired and removed to Newport, where he departed this life
in 1867, at the age of sixty-three years. His widow long survived him. her death
occurring in 1910 at the age of eighty years. In their family were eleven
children, six of whom are living. Those who have died are: Thomas J.. Mary,
John, Frank and Susan. The others are: J. C. H. P.. an attorney of Judsonia:
Mary, who is the widow of J. B. Cantrell of Chicago. Illinois: C. E. of Memphis,
Tennessee; Samuel, living in Van Buren, Arkansas, and Edward L. of North Little
Rock. The parents were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
South, and Mr. Cleveland was a Royal Arch Mason. His political endorsement was
given to the republican party and he served for many years as justice of the
peace and also filled the position of county commissioner in Independence county.

    Dr. Cleveland pursued his education in the public schools of his native
county and also through private instruction at home. He taught in the rural
districts and in the town schools for several years, and afterward began reading
medicine, while for a time he was employed in the drug business. He afterward
attended the Kentucky School of Medicine and later the Louisville Medical
College, while later he was graduated from the Missouri Medical College of St.
Louis, winning the M. D. degree in 1888. Previous to this time he had practiced
at Russell, Arkansas, and following his graduation he went to Newport, Arkansas,
where he opened an office. In 1888 he came to Bald Knob, where he established an
office and has since devoted his attention to medical and surgical practice. He
has taken postgraduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic, and in 1919 he opened a
private sanitarium, which he has since conducted. He devotes practically all of
his attention to his professional interests, which are of an important
character, and his ability is demonstrated in the excellent results which follow
his labors in the treatment oŁ disease. For thirty-two consecutive years he has
been local surgeon and dispenser of medicine for the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company. He belongs to the White County Medical Society, the Arkansas State and
Southern Medical Societies, the American Medical Association and the Southern
Railroad Medical Association. He enjoys the high respect and confidence of his
colleagues and contemporaries in medical practice and his position has long been
a creditable and enviable one.

    Dr. Cleveland was married to Miss Eleanor Vick, and they had three children,
two of whom died in infancy. The surviving daughter, Vina E., is the wife of C.
E. Preston, a linotype operator on the paper of Memphis. For his second wife Dr.
Cleveland chose Nannie E. Goad, and they became parents of three children:
Estella, the wife of Perdy Spriggs of Cairo, Illinois; Hattie May, the wife of
Dr. J. B. Crawford, a practicing physician of Benton, Arkansas, and one who died
in infancy. For his third wife Dr. Cleveland chose Mrs. Dora (Winfield) Webb,
and by a former marriage Mrs. Cleveland has a daughter, Cecile, who is the wife
of B. J. Perharn, a bookkeeper with the Fruit Exchange of Bald Knob.

    Dr. Cleveland is an exemplary representative of Masonry, having takeu the
degrees of the Blue Lodge at Newport, the chapter and the council at Bald Knob
and he has served as high priest of the chapter. He also belongs to the Woodmen
of the World, the Knights of Pythias, is examining physician of the former and
passed through all of the chairs of the latter. His political endorsement has
always been given to the republican party, and he stanchly advocates its
principles. His entire life has been passed in Arkansas and thus for almost
seventy years he has been a witness of the growth, progress and development of
the state. He served as a member of Baxter body guard during the Brooks-Baxter
war, although but a boy in his teens at the time. Many events which are to
others matters of history are to him matters of personal knowledge and
experience, and his reminiscences concerning the early days in Arkansas are most
interesting and instructive. All who know Dr. Cleveland, and he has a wide
acquaintance, speak of him in terms of high regard by reason of his splendid
professional attainments and, moreover, by reason of the sterling traits of his
character.


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


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