Dr. J. N. Bragg, Ouachita County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Betsy Mills.
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Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

p. 656:
Dr. J. N. Bragg is the oldest medical practitioner of Ouachita County,
Ark., and has, during his long years of practice, proven himself to be
of more than ordinary ability, and fully deserves the confidence which
is accorded him by all.  He was born in Lowndes County, Ala., May 4,
1838, and is a son of Peter N. and Martha W. (Crook) Bragg, who
were born in Spartanburg District, S. C., and where there reared and
married.  They soon emigrated to Alabama, thence to Arkansas in
1843, and located in what is now Camden, in Ouachita County, the
place being then known as Ecore Fabre, name in honor of a
Frenchman, but Mr. Bragg and a number of other men named the
place in honor of Camden, S. C., there being only four or five houses
in the place at the time.  Mr. Bragg entered a tract of land four miles
west of the town, and here resided until his death in 1855, at the age
of fifty-five years.  His wife died in 1879, having borne a family of
seven children: Walter L., Virginia C., Junius N., Florence M., Anthon
V., Albert P. and John M.  The paternal grandfather, Peter N. Bragg,
entered the American army during the Revolutionary War, when only
sixteen years of age, and was in the battle of Camden, S. C.  Dr. J. N.
Bragg has been a resident of Arkansas since he was five years of
age, and his name has become a familiar household word.  He was
educated at Fayetteville, Ark.  The year 1861 witnessed his graduation
from the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, and he
immediately began practicing at Camden, but the breaking out of the
Civil War caused him to give up this work and become a member of
the Confederate army.  He enlisted as a private, but was soon
appointed assistant surgeon by the medical board of Little Rock, in the
Eleventh Arkansas Infantry, and served in this capacity until the close
of the war.  He then returned to his old home in Camden, where he
has since been an active practitioner.  He has never been an aspirant
for office, but has paid strict attention to his profession, and is classed
among the experts of Southern Arkansas.  He was married, in 1863,
to Miss Anna J. Goddard, and of four children born to them only one
survives Helen J.