Dr. James E. Johnson was accorded liberal education advantages, completing his studies in the University of Arkansas and Ouachita College. He entered upon active professional work in Fort Smith in 1914 and for a time was associated with his brother, Dr. Hugh Johnson, who had previously entered upon practice here and who had also been a student in the State University of Medicine and in the University at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Throughout the intervening period the firm of Johnson Brothers has maintained a prominent position in professional circles. Both are men highly skilled in their chosen field of labor, by reason of their thorough preliminary study and their later research and investigation, while experience has also added greatly to their knowledge. Dr. James E. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Elsie King of Fort Smith, and they are the parents of a son, Hugh, who married Ruth Redmond of Joplin, Missouri. During the World war Dr. Johnson served in the Medical Corps of the United States army, being on duty at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, also at Camp Funston, which was a convalescent camp. He held the rank of first lieutenant. Aside from this he has steadily given his attention to his professional duties in Fort Smith since 1914 and has made a most creditable place as a representative of the medical profession here. He is keenly interested in everything which tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life and his labors have been attended with excellent results in meeting the onslaught of disease. |