CROSS CO, AR - ALONZO A. BERRY, M. D. - Bio

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Submitted by: Jason Presley <daclyde@usa.net>
        Date: 1 Jan 2004
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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     Alonzo A. Berry, M. D., numbered among the rising young medical
practitioners in this portion of Arkansas, is a worthy son of Bartlett
A. and Elmira (Hennasu) Berry, natives of North Carolina.  The former,
now in his fifty-seventh year, has held a public office since twenty-
one years of age.  He was first sheriff of his county (Burke), which
position he held during the war, and was again elected in 1887, dis-
charging his duties of trust at the present time.  He was a represent-
ative to the State legislature two terms in the Lower House, and also
represented his district in the State senate from 1880 to 1884.  Mr.
and Mrs. Berry are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the
parents of ten children: Lenore, Letitia (wife of Dr. Flow, of North
Carolina), Alonzo A. (our subject), Clara E. (wife of Dave Berry, of
North Carolina), Robert B., Lillie P., Bartlett A., Jethroe W., 
Forrest C. and Marvin G.  A. A. Berry was born in North Carolina in 
1865, and was educated in the common schools of his county, attending
Rutherford College, and Finley High School, at Lenoir, N. C., from
which he graduated at the age of eighteen years.  Following his literary
course, he entered the Louisville Medical College, and the Kentucky
School of Medicine, at Louisville, Ky., graduating in 1887.  He then
returned to North Carolina, where he commenced practicing, but remained
only a short time, coming the same year to Arkansas, and locating in
Bay Village, Cross County, where he now enjoys a large and lucrative
practice.  He is rapidly becoming one of the leading physicians of the
community.