James H Smith (abt. 1843 - aft. 1910)

Born about 1843 in Camden, Kent, Delaware

Husband of Florence I (Gulliver) Bartram — married 15 Nov 1876 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died after 1910 after about age 67 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

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James was one of the first black dentists in the United States. He established a successful practice in Little Rock, Arkansas, treating both black and white patients.

James was born about 1843 to free African American parents in Camden, Delaware . He became a dentist and had a practice in Chicago that was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1879. He moved to Arkansas and eventually opened a practice in Little Rock, Arkansas. He married a musical elementary school teacher named Florence Irene Gulliver in her hometown, Indianapolis, Indiana.

They had three children: Charles, Gertrude, and the youngest Florence Beatrice. - - - At the time Dr. Smith married Florence Gulliver, he was one of a dozen or so black dentists in the country.

- - - He was born in 1843 of free parents in Camden, Delaware and had grown up in New Jersey. ^[1]

Despite the difficulties of acquiring education and training in the field of Dentistry, Dr. James H Smith, was able to establish a successful practice in Little Rock. He had both blacks and white among his patients, including a former governor of Arkansas. " Historical Memoirs ---" cited below.

He was interested in politics and served as one of the Arkansas Electors in the Garfield election of 1880. see " Historical Memoirs ---" cited below.

Sources

1. ↑ Jackson, Barbara Garvey. “Florence Price, Composer.” The Black Perspective in Music, vol. 5, no. 1, 1977, pp. 31–43. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1214357.

• The Negro in the Field of Dentistry, Opporunity (July 1924):207-212.

• Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Ionoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Springs Counties, Arkansas, (Chicago and Hashville: Goodspeed, 1889), pp. 807-808.

• "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2M4-8RPC : 17 March 2018), James Smith in entry for Florence Price, 03 Jun 1953; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .