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Submitted: 4/14/11 • Approved: 4/14/11 • Last Updated: 7/30/12 • R508013-G340107-S3
1847 - 1927
John W. Poynor, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Fairview, Arkansas, is a native of Carroll County, born December 3, 1848. He is a son of George G. Poynor, who removed his family to Madison County, Ark., in 1851. There Dr. John W. Poynor grew to manhood, spending his early youth on his father's farm. His literary education was finished by taking a complete course at Clarke's Academy at Berryville, after
which he taught school in Carroll and adjoining counties for twelve years. While teaching he began the study of medicine, and in the fall of 1883 entered the medical department of the Arkansas University at
Little Rock, and took one course of lectures. The following April he located at Fairview, and began the practice of his profession, which he has continued with good success. During the winter of 1887-88 he attended the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, graduating from that institution in the spring of 1888. On February 9, 1873, he was married to A. F. Meek, a daughter of Samuel S. Meek. of Carroll County, and to them have been born six children, viz.: Nora E., Cloe Amo, Erton E., William Herbert, Edgar A., who died at the age of
fourteen months, and an infant, deceased. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a Royal Arch Mason. He is a member of the Carroll County Medical Association, and is president of the County
Medical Board. In 1884 he was appointed postmaster of Osage Post office, at Fairview, and is the present incumbent. In 1887 he engaged in the drug business, which he has continued, and in 1888 also put in
his store a stock of groceries. His wife was born in Carroll County, and was educated at Clarke's Academy.
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