Biography of Robert Edward Oliver, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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The life of Dr. Robert Edward Oliver, who died at the age of fifty-six, on Nov.
14, 1938, was one of unusual devotion and the highest dignity in his chosen
field of medicine and service to his beloved home community. A practitioner who
gained high honors as a graduate of the University of Tennessee Medical School,
he will be remembered for his highly skilled and blessed with sympathy for those
who suffer. He was born on Nov. 5, 1882, the son of Edward Palmer and Cordelia
Elizabeth (Stout) Oliver of the Newcastle Community. His great-great-
grandfather, was Judge John Johnson, one of the most distinguished pioneer
settlers of Eastern Arkansas since his arrival in 1824. He was remembered for
securing the passage of an act creating St. Francis County.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas