May 6, 1900

Dorothy Yarnell Barton was born in Searcy (White County). After graduating from Galloway Women’s College and then Columbia University, she began a career in education, becoming the first professor of English for what is now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She later served as the head of the Arkansas Department of Education and was a founding member of the Little Rock chapter of the American Association for University Women. She also wrote widely on education and travel, including regular columns for the Arkansas Gazette.