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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] |
