Dr. David Taylor Johnson 1847-1928 Source: Sebastian County 1880 Census, and Physicians and Medicine: Crawford and Sebastian Counties, Ar Submitted by Deborah Musgrove There is another bio below the newspaper clipping Dr. D.T. Johnson listed his place of birth as Griffin Georgia around 1847. According to the 1880 census records for Sebastian County, his father's name was Thomas Johnson and his mother's name was Amanda (Fitzgerald) Johnson. No information remains as to where he received his early education, but D.T. attended the University of Louisiana Medical School and graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in New York in 1870. Sometime between 1870 and 1880, Dr. Johnson found his way to a little place called Fort Smith, Arkansas. It was here, in 1880 that Dr. D.T. Johnson was admitted to the Sebastian County Medical Society. In the Fort Smith weekly newspaper, Elevator, Dr. Johnson had a business listing. Very little is known about his specialty, if any. Yet, the doctor appeared to be a man of high medical standards, as is evidence in the Sebastian County Medical Society elected him president in 1886 and once again in 1903. Dr. D.T. Johnson served Sebastian County for twenty-four years, yet the doctor was not all medicine, as he did have a family life. On the 1880 Sebastian County Census, Dr. D.T. Johnson listed Erna Johnson as his wife. Erna (according to the census), was born in Georgia. No children were listed at this time. No other information can be found on the good doctor. At the ripe old age of eighty-one years, Dr. D. T. Johnson died in Fort Smith,Arkansas and was buried at Forest Park Cemetery. -------------- Nov 11, 1908 Fort Smith Times The Province and the States Weston Arthur Goodspeed, LL.B. Editor-in-Chief David T. Johnson, M. D.. of Fort Smith, Ark., one of the most prominent physicians of Western Arkansas, was born in Georgia in 1847. He was reared in his native state and attended the splendid schools of that section, the groundwork of his education being well and carefully laid. Matriculating at the medical department of the University of Louisiana, he prosecuted his studies there for several years and was graduated in medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York city, in 1870. The same year he began the practice of medicine at Griffin, Ga., and was most successfully engaged there until January, 1879, when he removed to Fort Smith, and has since made that city his home. Doctor Johnson has been prominently identified with the city of Fort Smith's medical interests for almost a quarter of a century and is president of Sebastian County Medical association; member of Arkansas State Medical association; the American Medical association and is one of the consulting physicians of Belle Point Hospital of Fort Smith. Doctor Johnson is very prominent in the secret orders of his state and has taken a leading part in their meetings. He is a Knight Templar Mason, has received thirty-two degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry and is a member of the Mystic Shrine; he is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias of Fort Smith; and first past exalted ruler of the Elks of his city. He served in the Confederate army, and is surgeon of Du Val Camp, United Confederate Veterans. He is a member of the Episcopal church. In November, 1878. He was married to Emma Lee Beeks, a member of one of Georgia's most prominent families and a woman of culture and refinement.