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

OLIVER W. CLARK, M. D.
    Dr. Oliver W. Clark, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Pine
Bluff and owner of the Clark Sanitarium and member of the Pine Bluff Clinic, is
regarded as a most valuable addition to professional circles here. He utilizes
the most advanced and scientific principles and at all times keeps abreast with
the progressive thought of the times bearing upon the treatment of disease.
Because of his wide and favorable acquaintance in Pine Bluff and this section of
the state his life history cannot fail to prove of interest to many of the
readers of this volume. Dr. Clark was born at Nashville, Arkansas, in 1875, a
son of George M. and Amelia (Anderson) Clark. His father was a captain of the
Confederate army during the Civil war and afterward devoted his life to
merchandising. He became a pioneer in the southern section of the state and
erected the first building in Texarkana, Arkansas. He was a native of Alabama
but removed to Arkansas sixty-four years ago and in various ways contributed to
the progress and upbuilding of this state, just as his father, William Clark,
had done in Alabama, where he was rated as a distinguished citizen. The mother
of Dr. Clark was a daughter of O. P. Anderson, representative of one of the old
families of South Carolina that was later established in Mississippi and thence
removed to Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. George Clark were parents of three children:
Oliver W.; A. B.; and Mrs. J. R. Hill of Texarkana.

    Dr. Clark enjoyed liberal educational opportunities. He attended the
Ouachita College, there completing his more specifically literary course, and
later he entered the Memphis Medical College, which constituted the initial step
to his further study in Tulane University, from which he was graduated with the
class of 1903. He then put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test by
serving in St. Joseph's Hospital at Memphis for a year, gaining that broad and
valuable experience which is never so quickly acquired in any other way as in
hospital practice. In 1904 he came to Pine Bluff, where he has continued in the
active work of the profession, enjoying a large general practice for a decade.
He toured Europe in 1914 with members of the American Clinical Congress of
Surgeons, visiting chief medical centers, and after returning he established the
Clark Sanitarium, in association with Dr. W. H. Simmons and Dr. J. S. Jenkins.
This institution is now devoted exclusively to the service of the Pine Bluff
Clinic, heing supplied with every modern surgical equipment and appurtenance.
The physicians in charge are all men of marked ability and progressiveness and
the work accomplished there is of a most advanced and highly satisfactory
character. In addition to his connection with the medical profession Dr. Clark
is well known as a successful oil operator, owning producing wells in Louisiana,
and he has sold oil acreage, owned in fee by him, for thousands of dollars. He
is now actively interested in the development of a part of his holdings and his
work in this connection is making substantial contribution to his annual resources.

    Dr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Willie Jean Atkinson of Pine Bluff
and they have become the parents of two children: William George and Sterling
Moore. Dr. Clark and his family are most widely and favorably known here,
enjoying the hospitality of many of the best homes, and their friends are legion.


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


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