Submitted by Lisa Hamilton Thanks Lisa!

Dr. D. Curistian, physician and surgeon of Springdale, Ark., was born in Warren County, Tenn., in 1851, and is a son of W. T. and Lucy (Dodson) Christian, who were born, reared and married in Tennessee and who became the parents of four children. W. T. Christian's birth occurred in 1831, and throughout life he was one of the honest tillers of the soil. He died in Little Rock. Ark., in 1863, but his widow, who still survives him, resides in Benton County, Ark., and has attained the age of fifty five years.

Dr. D. Christian was taken by his parents to Northwestern Arkansas when a child, and was there reared to manhood and educated. Before commencing the study of medicine, he was engaged in farming and pedagoguing, which occupations he followed with good results; and he thus became a disciple of Esculapius under the instruction of Dr. Hubbard. In 1880 he was graduated as an M. D. from the St. Louis Medical College, and soon after returned to Springdale, where he was successfully engaged in practicing his profession until the fall of 1877, when he went to New York City and began attending the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which institution he was afterward graduated. He then took a course in the New York Post Graduate Medical School. He graduated in 1880, and then settled at Elm Springs, a few miles west of Springdale. There he practiced medicine three years, and then, in 1883, he removed to Springdale, and has since been successfully engaged in practicing. Dr. Christian has arisen to prominence in his profession, and has an extensive and increasing practice, which his success as a physician fully justifies. He began his medical career with small means, but by indomitable energy and perseverance has acquired an enviable knowledge of his profession.

In 1872 Miss Emily J. Cowen, who was born in Benton County, Ark., in 1853, became his wife and she is now the mother of one child. J. Otto. Dr, Christian votes the Democratic ticket, and is a member of the A. F. and A. M. and the I. O. O. F.

Lisa Hamilton submitted the above data from Goodspeed's; she did so to help others, is not researching the above person or families mentioned therein.

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