Biography of John Emerson Burke, Sr, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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One of the foremost dental surgeons in the Mid-South, Dr. John Emerson Burke of
Forrest City is also highly respected and influential public spirited citizen of
this community. He was born in LaGrange, Texas, 1898, son of John E. and lillie
Cornelia (Ware) Burke. After graduation from the LaGrange High School, he
attended Philander Smith College in Little Rock, and received his D. D. S.
Degree at McHarry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., in 1918. On Oct. 13,
1918, he married Miss Thelma B. Williams, daughter of Daniel A. and Mary F.
(Goens) of Forrest City. The Burke's have a son, John Emerson Jr., manager of
Burke's Mortuary in Forrest City. During World War I, from 1913 to January,
1919, Dr. Burke served in the U. S. Army Dental Corps as a Second Lieutenant. He
began his dental practice in theSuggs Building on Hill Street in 1918. and later
the Norton Building on Washington Street for the last 15 years. He has taken
post graduate work at Mayo's Clinic in Rochester, Minn., University of
California, at Berkeley; Chicago Dental College; McHarry Medical College in
Nashville; and McKesson School of Anesthesia at Toledo, Ohio. He is a member of
the Baptist church, St. Francis County Non-Partisan Voters League, the American,
National, and Arkansas Dental Associations. He also operated farming interests
located Northwest of Palestine.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas