Source: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891

Among the medical men of Conway County few have achieved a more favorable reputation or a larger practice for so young a man than Dr. McBride. He came to Conway County eleven years ago, and settling at what is now Cleveland, his apparent ability soon placed him on a substantial footing and from that start his advancement has been constant and rapid. He has invested in property and erected an ornamental residence, and is interested in everything that may advance Cleveland or the country in general.
The doctor was born in Pennsylvania, February 13, 1854, and was the youngest in a family of twelve children born to Henry McBride and Elizabeth Kerr. Mr. McBride Sr. was an enterprising and influential citizen and in civil offices represented his district in the State Senate from 1840-1852 and also held all the principal township offices. He ad his excellent wife were life time members of the Presbyterian Church. He departed this life in 1874 and she in 1873.
The subject of this sketch, Dr. McBride, received his literary education at Lafayette College and was educated in medicine at Rush Medical College from which institution he graduated in 1872. He then began practice at home and in 1879 came to Arkansas and at once built up a profitable practice here.
On the 15th of September 1880, he was united in marriage to Miss M.E. Shearron and to this union have been born three children, Tom M., Howell J. and Sherwell W. The doctor is socially a member of the Masonic fraternity, Cleveland Lodge, No. 473 and religiously Mrs McBride is a member of the M.E. Church South.