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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

WILLIAM ANDERSON SNODGRASS, M. D.
    Dr. William Anderson Snodgrass, physician and surgeon of Little Rock and the
son of Andrew J. and Elmira (Waterfield) Snodgrass, was born in the town of
Murray, Calloway county, Kentucky, in 1872. His father was a native of Johnson
county, Tennessee, and the ancestral line in America dates back to two brothers
who came to the new world early in the seventeenth century. William Snodgrass,
the great-grandfather of Dr. Snodgrass, was a lieutenant colonel in Washington's
army during the Revolutionary war and Andrew J. Snodgrass was a soldier in the
Civil war, serving with the Confederate forces during the struggle from 1861
until 1865. He is still living and now making his home in Little Rock. The
mother of Dr. Snodgrass was a native of Kentucky and is of pioneer stock in both
the paternal and maternal lines. On the pages of Kentucky history again and
again appears the name of Waterfield and of Welch.

    Born in Murray, Calloway county, Kentucky, in 1872, Dr. Snodgrass acquired
his early education there but when he was ten years of age his family removed to
Arkansas and in Little Rock he completed his public school and collegiate
courses, after which he entered the medical department of the University of
Arkansas and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1896. He ranks high among
the surgeons of the south. He has for a quarter of a century been one of the
leaders of his profession in Little Rock and for eleven years he occupied the
position of demonstrator of anatomy, while for eight years he occupied the chair
of clinical surgery in the University of Arkansas. Dr. Snodgrass now devotes his
entire time to surgical practice and is on the staff of the City, St. Vincent's
and the Baptist Hospitals and for the past seventeen years has been physician to
the Arkansas Methodist State Orphanage. He is a member of all the medical
societies and has served as secretary of the Pulaski County Medical Society, a
position which he filled in the early days, while for two terms he acted as its
president. For six years he was chairman of the council of the Arkansas State
Medical Society and he also holds membership in the Southern Medical Society and
the American Medical Association. He is likewise a fellow of the American
College of Surgeons and has ever made it his purpose to keep thoroughly informed
concerning the advances that are heing made by the leaders in medical and
surgical practice. Broad study and investigation keep him in touch with the
trend of modern professional thought and progress and he is indeed recognized as
one of the leading surgeons of the state. He served in the World war with the
rank of major in the Medical Corps and organized the only Red Cross Hospital
Unit entered from the state of Arkansas. With this unit he went to Prance in
January, 1918, and in April of the same year was transferred to the regular army
in charge of Field Hospital No. 12, thus serving until mustered out in May, 1919.

    It was in the year 1898 that Dr. Snodgrass was married to Miss Lelia
Phillips, a daughter of John W. Phillips, of Hempstead county, Arkansas, her
parents being pioneers in that section of the state. Mr. Phillips is a veteran
of the Civil war and is well and popularly known in Arkansas. Dr. and Mrs.
Snodgrass have four children: Myra, who is a graduate of the Nashville College
and is now the wife of James Murray of Little Rock; Ruth, who is a graduate of
the Little Rock high school; William A., Jr., and John Patterson, who are students.

    In politics Dr. Snodgrass follows the principles of the democratic party and
in religious faith the teachings of the Methodist church. Fraternally he is a
Royal Arch Mason. It has been men of the type and character of Dr. Snodgrass who
have formed the strong fabric of this state—men who have never ceased to uphold
in public aid and in private life the things that are wholesome and righteous
and make for the upbuilding of a great commonwealth.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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