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There were then in this country but four kinds of professional men, the lawyers, the doctors, the preachers, and the teachers. These stood on a social equality with the planters. However, the natural tendency of the pioneer was to consider all white persons on a common level, and this inclination was so strong even at the time we arrived from Missouri that the lines between the classes were never as distinctly drawn here as they seemed to have been in the older States.






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The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County
Pat B. Clark   1937