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September 15, 1935
Neil Ernest Compton, a physician of obstetrics by profession and a conservationist by avocation who is widely recognized as the founder of the Ozark Society to Save the Buffalo River (today known as the Ozark Society, Inc.), married sweetheart and lifelong hiking and canoeing partner Laurene Putman of Bentonville (Benton County).