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

WILLIAM L. NEWTON, M. D.
    Dr. William L. Newton, who is now filling the position of postmaster of
Camden, Arkansas, and has for the past twenty-two years been numbered among the
foremost physicians and surgeons of Camden, was born in Atlanta, Texas, July 22,
1876, a son of Andrew J. and Frances A. (Chamblee) Newton, who were natives of
Georgia, in which state they were reared and married. Immediately after their
marriage they removed to Cass county, Texas, where Mr. Newton engaged in farming
to the time of his death, at the age of forty-five years. His widow survives and
has reached the age of eighty years, making her home with her son, William L.

    In the public schools of Texas Dr. Newton pursued his early education,
completing a high school course at Atlanta, that state, while later he entered
the Georgetown College at Georgetown, Texas, and became a student in the Memphis
Hospital Medical College in 1895, receiving therefrom his M. D. degree as a
member of the class of 1898. He served for one year as interne in the City
Hospital at Memphis and in 1899 he entered upon the private practice of his
profession in Camden, where he has remained, winning a position among the
leading practitioners of the state. He has always kept apace with the onward
march of professional thought and progress and his ability has been demonstrated
in his careful diagnosis of his cases and the splendid results which follow his
professional labors. In 1914 he was appointed postmaster of Camden and is now
serving for the eighth year in this important position. He discharges his duties
with marked capability and promptness.

    In 1900 Dr. Newton was united in marriage to Miss Eula L. Morriss of
Atlanta, Texas, and they have become parents of three children: Kate C, who is a
graduate of the Camden high school; Jack J, a junior in high school: and Evelyn
P., a pupil in the seventh grade. Dr. Newton belongs to Eagle Lodge. No. 540, A.
F. & A. M„ of Eagle Mills, Arkansas, and is also identified with the Royal Arch
Chapter. He has membership iu Camden Lodge, No. 1140, B. P. O. E., is identified
with the Woodmen of the World and with the Camden Chamber of Commerce. Along
strictly professional lines his connection is with the Ouachita County Medical
Society and the Arkansas State Medical Society and throughout his life he has
made it his strong purpose to qualify to the greatest extent for professional
duties and responsibilities, his conscientious service giving him high
professional rank.


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


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