Chastine Forbes

Chastine Caldwell Forbes, the first medical director of the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum (later the Arkansas State Hospital); circa 1885.

White man with long beard in suit and bow tie

Courtesy of the UAMS Library’s Historical Research Center

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Time Period

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900)

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Male

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