Orphaned at age three he was taken in by a maiden aunt; later lived with a sister and went to Medical College of Philadelphia; served his internship at Philadelphia Alms Hospital; practiced medicine in North Carolina for awhile but, when spurned by a lover, he moved to be near a sister in Georgia, owned land on Stone Mountain and practiced medicine there until, when visiting a friend near Memphis he met his future wife, Lucy Macon Green. They moved to rural Arkansas but Lucy missed the social life so much that they eventually moved to Little Rock, purchasing the home of Senator Solon Borland.
Financed the Brooks-Baxter War, a local post-Civil War political disturbance. Donor of land on which State Asylum once stood (South Center Street); Wright Avenue and Wrightsville, Arkansas named after family; planter; physician
(For more info see "Arkansas Families: Glimpses of Yesterday Columns from the Arkansas Gazette" by Lucy Marion Reaves, Copyright 1995, 2000)
Financed the Brooks-Baxter War, a local post-Civil War political disturbance. Donor of land on which State Asylum once stood (South Center Street); Wright Avenue and Wrightsville, Arkansas named after family; planter; physician
(For more info see "Arkansas Families: Glimpses of Yesterday Columns from the Arkansas Gazette" by Lucy Marion Reaves, Copyright 1995, 2000)
Orphaned at age three he was taken in by a maiden aunt; later lived with a sister and went to Medical College of Philadelphia; served his internship at Philadelphia Alms Hospital; practiced medicine in North Carolina for awhile but, when spurned by a lover, he moved to be near a sister in Georgia, owned land on Stone Mountain and practiced medicine there until, when visiting a friend near Memphis he met his future wife, Lucy Macon Green. They moved to rural Arkansas but Lucy missed the social life so much that they eventually moved to Little Rock, purchasing the home of Senator Solon Borland.
Financed the Brooks-Baxter War, a local post-Civil War political disturbance. Donor of land on which State Asylum once stood (South Center Street); Wright Avenue and Wrightsville, Arkansas named after family; planter; physician
(For more info see "Arkansas Families: Glimpses of Yesterday Columns from the Arkansas Gazette" by Lucy Marion Reaves, Copyright 1995, 2000)
Financed the Brooks-Baxter War, a local post-Civil War political disturbance. Donor of land on which State Asylum once stood (South Center Street); Wright Avenue and Wrightsville, Arkansas named after family; planter; physician
(For more info see "Arkansas Families: Glimpses of Yesterday Columns from the Arkansas Gazette" by Lucy Marion Reaves, Copyright 1995, 2000)
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