Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Dr. Joseph T. Clegg

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Dr. Joseph T. Clegg, physician, of Siloam Springs, Ark., was born in Jefferson County, in the
same State, on the 21st of February, 1850, and is of English descent; both of his grandfathers
were English, and were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. His father, Thomas W. Clegg, was born
in North Carolina May 19, 1803, and was there reared and educated. He was married to Rebecca
Lasater, a daughter of William Lasater, of North Carolina, and in 1848 removed to Jefferson
County, Ark., where he died in 1877. His wife died in 1872. She was the mother of seven children:
Josiah Q., Bennett L., James B. and John L. were all Confederate soldiers, and the three elder
died during the war, Bennett L., being killed at the battle Murfreesboro; Cornelia B. P.
(Stanfield) is deceased; Catherine E. is wife of William C. Cleveland. Dr. Joseph T. Clegg was
educated in the common schools and also by private tutors, and remained on the farm with his
parents until he entered the medical department of the University of Nashville in 1871. and was
graduated in 1873. He located at Red Bluff, Ark., where he practiced medicine for four years, and
then came to Siloam Springs, Ark., where he has since been a successful practitioner. He took a
post-graduate course in the College for Medical Practitioners, at St. Louis, Mo., in 1884, and
also the post-graduate course in the Medical College Hospital, of New York City, in 1888. He is a
member of the drug firm of R. P. Pequest & Co. He is a member of the State Medical Society of
Arkansas, and of the Benton County Medical Society. The Doctor was married, in 1875, to Ida
Daugherty. of Jefferson County, Ark., who died in 1879, leaving two children: Moses D. and Ida
Neill. In 1882 Dr. Clegg married his second wife, Ada B. Fagan, a daughter of Maj. J. W. Fagan.
She was born in Benton County in 1858, and is the mother of two children: Chester B. and Ethel E.
(deceased). The Doctor is a Democrat in his political views, and cast his first vote for Tilden
for the presidency. He is a Mason.