William Hardy Arthur, D. D. S.

In 1898 Dr. Arthur, fresh from the dental department of the University at Richmond, located for practice in Franklin, the capital of Southampton County, Virginia. In the years that have since elapsed he has grown strong, not only in professional ability and reputation, but also in public regard as a good citizen, progressive and loyal to the city of his adoption. Dr. Arthur is a maternal grandson of Hardy C. and Adelaide (Sangster) Williams, and son of Captain Frank Marion Arthur, who with his command, the gallant Company I, Ninth Regiment Virginia Volunteer Infantry of Pickett's division, fought at Seven Pines, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and in many other battles and skirmishes of the late war.
Captain Arthur was born February 17, 1843, and died February 25, 1902. His life was mainly spent in the peaceful calling of an agriculturist, but from 1861 to 1865 was spent amid the excitements and dangers that attended that period. Leaving his home in Nansemond County he enlisted in Company I, of Portsmouth, Virginia, as a private, he won successive commissions for bravery in battle until he became captain of his company, one of the hardest fighting companies in the famous Ninth Virginia Regiment of Pickett's division. He was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, confined in Fort Delaware, exchanged at Point Lookout, again taken prisoner at Five Forks, Virginia, and held in confinement until the war ended. He then returned to Nansemond County, a battle-scarred veteran, although even then but little past his majority. He married Mary Irwin Williams, born near Victoria, Texas, September 12, 1853, who survives him, a resident of Franklin, Virginia.
Dr. William Hardy Arthur, son of Captain Frank Marion and Mary Irwin (Williams) Arthur, was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, July 6, 1873. He obtained his early and preparatory educational training in private schools of Nansemond County, Churchland Academy and Grayham Academy in North Carolina. He then entered William and Mary College, where he continued three and a half years until 1895, when he began special professional training in the dental department of the University College of Medicine at Richmond. He completed a full course and was graduated Doctor of Dental Surgery with the class of 1898. In the same year he located in Franklin, Virginia, where he is well established and highly rewarded. He is a member of Franklin Lodge, No. 151, Free and Accepted Masons; Franklin Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of other societies, professional, social and fraternal. In political faith he is a Democrat.
Dr. Arthur married, in October, 1906, Elizabeth Lawless, born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, February 14, 1886, daughter of Rev. J. L. and Emma (Baker) Lawless. Child, Frances Marion, born in Franklin, Virginia, February 17, 1913.
[Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under The Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1915 – Transcribed by AFOFG]

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