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N.T. Thomasson, physician, Murfreesboro, Ark. In presenting in this work
brief biographical sketches of representative citizens of the county, among
those in the medical profession is very properly given a short review of the
life of Dr. Thomasson, and of his identification with the town of
Murfreesboro. His parents, W.B. and Mary A. (Stewart) Thomasson, were
natives of South Carolina and New Jersey, respectively, and the father was a
lawyer by profession. He moved to Clark County, Ark., in 1873, then to Pike
County in 1875, and in 1876 was elected circuit clerk, which position he
filled in an able and satisfactory manner for seven years. He has now
retired to his farm, five miles south of town. Dr. N.T. Thomasson was reared
in Georgia until fourteen years of age, and received a good practical
education in the common schools. He came with his parents to Clark County in
1873, but in 1875 went to New York, and attended school at Watkins, where
he remained until the fall of 1877. He then went to Michigan, entered Hope
College at Holland, where he remained six months, and then returned to
Arkansas. Here he at once began reading medicine under Dr. McKethan, and
after a certain length of time he went to Arkadelphia, where he was in a
drug store until the spring of 1879. In the fall of that year he entered the
Medical College at Little Rock, and graduated in March, 1881. He then
returned to Murfreesboro, and at once began the practice of his profession.
He was married, in 1885, to Miss Mollie Bryant, of Bingen, Hempstead County,
Ark., and to them were born two children - Annie Pearl and May. The Doctor
has gained a widespread reputation as a faithful and skillful practitioner,
and as a physician, and personally is highly esteemed.
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, 1890, Pike County,
pages 341-342.
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