"Dr. B. J. DISNEY, one of the county’s prominent physicians, was born in Knox County, Ohio, May 26, 1843, and is a son of James M. and Caroline (MOREY) Disney, people of English-German and English descent, respectively. The father was born in Baltimore, immigrated to Ohio, where he engaged in farming, and from there went to Elkhart County, Ind. He next went to Rock Island, Ill, where he was a drover, and kept a coal year. In 1860 he went to Pike’s Peak, and three years later died, after having driven come cattle across the county. The mother was born in Virginia, and is a descendant of the famous Capt. SMITH. When young she went to Ohio, where her relatives, the WILSONs, of Columbus, live. She died at Springfield, Mo., about 1879. Her maternal grandmother was once sold in Jamestown, Va., for 300 pounds of tobacco.

The Doctor and wife are united with the Free Will Baptist Church. Dr. Disney is a Master Mason, Junior Warden in the Masonic Lodge and Past Grand I.O.O.F. Politically the Doctor is a Democrat, cast his first vote for Hancock, and during the war served in the Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in Company A. He was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, and now draws a pension. He is one of the enterprising men of this place, is the only druggist in Marble, and the leading physician. He often lectures, and holds a license to preach in the Baptist Church." (Goodspeeds History of NW AR…)