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

J. L. CLEMMER, M. D.
    Dr. J. L. Clemmer, a successful physician and surgeon of Gentry, where he
has been located since January, 1920, has continuously followed his profession
in Benton county during the past two decades and has enjoyed an extensive and
lucrative practice. He is numbered among the worthy native sons of Arkansas, his
birth having occurred at Springdale on the 6th of September, 1877. His parents,
J. G. and Hettie (Mosher) Clemmer, are natives of eastern Tennessee. John
Clemmer, the paternal grandfather, was also born in Tennessee, his parents
having emigrated to this country from Germany about 1789. The maternal
grandfather was Phillip Mosher, likewise a native of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Clemmer were married in eastern Tennessee and came to Arkansas after the
close of the Civil war. Mr. Clemmer served with the Confederate army as a member
of a Tennessee regiment from 1862 until the cessation of hostilities, being
captured twice and beging in prison when peace was declared. His time and
energies throughout the period of his active business career were devoted to
general agricultural interests, in the capable conduct of which he met with a
gratifying and well deserved measure of prosperity. He and his wife now make
their home in Spring-dale, where he has lived retired for the past three years.
Their religious faith is indicated by their membership in the Lutheran church,
while in politics Mr. Clemmer is a stanch democrat. They have been residents of
Arkansas for more than a half century and have become well known and highly
esteemed for their many estimable and admirable qualities. Their family numbered
thirteen children, seven of whom are yet living.

    J. L. Clemmer, who was the fourth in order of birth, was educated in the
Springdale high school and then entered the University of Kansas Medical College
at Kansas City, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of M. D.
as a member of the class of 1901. He at once opened an office at Springtown,
Arkansas, from which point he traveled over the surrounding district and thus
continued in practice until January, 1920, when he removed to Gentry, where he
has remained to the present time. Well merited success has attended his
professional labors, for when he settled at Spring-town he was entirely without
financial resources and during the period of his practice there accumulated
sufficient capital to enable him to become possessed of considerable property.
He has ever kept in close touch with the progress of the medical profession,
pursued a special course in Tulane University in the fall of 1920 and in 1908
did four weeks' postgraduate work in St. Louis. His high standing among his
professional colleagues and contemporaries is indicated in the fact that he was
chosen to the presidency of the Benton County Medical Society and he likewise
belongs to the Medical Association of the Southwest, the District Medical
Society, the Arkansas State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

    In 1900 Dr. Clemmer was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Wasson, a native
of Springtown, Arkansas, and a daughter of David Wasson, a prosperous merchant
of Springtown. They have become parents of three children: Vira E., who was
educated in Galloway Female College of Searcy, Arkansas; Franklin, who is a high
school graduate and will enter the University of Arkansas in the fall of 1921;
and Iva May, a high school student.

    Dr. Clemmer gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and
fraternally is identified with the Masonic lodge at Gentry and with the Modern
Woodmen of America. His wife and children are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South. Both the Doctor and his wife have spent their entire lives in
Arkansas and have become widely and favorably known throughout the northwestern
part of the state, winning the warm regard of all with whom they have come in
contact.


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


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