Daniel S. Altstatt The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 (photo posted by Lynn) Daniel S. Altstatt, farmer, was born October 4, 1840, in Franklin County, Ark., and is a son of Thomas and Mary (Covert) Altstatt, natives of Clark County, Ind., born March 17, 1806, and March 17, 1804, respectively. The father was reared on a farm in his native county, where he was married October 15, 1826. In 1838 he immigrated to Franklin County, Ark., where he died in 1840. Mrs. Altstatt died in the same county in May, 1875, and was the mother of seven children, of whom four are living: John W., Margaret E., Thomas F. and Daniel S. Rachel J., Indiana and America are the ones deceased. The paternal grandparents of our subject came to the United States from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they reared their family, afterward moving to Clark County, Ind. The husband was a soldier in Jackson's war, and a blacksmith by trade. He died in 1849, at the age of eighty-seven, after a residence in Indiana of about thirty-two years. The maternal grandparents were natives of Pennsylvania, moved to Indiana, and bought land and remained there some time. The husband was in the Florida War, and about 1833 came to Arkansas, and died in 1849. He was a member of the A. F. & A. M., and belonged to the first grand lodge held in the State of Arkansas, and frequently went to Little Rock to attend lodges. Learning the blacksmith's trade when a boy, in Franklin County, our subject followed that business about twenty-one years. During the war he worked at his trade in the United States shops at Fort Smith, he being one of the first workmen in the place. After the war he settled where he now lives. He then owned but forty acres of land but partially cleared, but now has 210 acres, 100 being under cultivation. His farm is nicely situated and well watered, an iron spring being immediately in front of his house. December 27, 1864, Mr. Altstatt was united in marriage to Mary E. Jones, who was born in Sebastian County September 6, 1846. Her grandparents were early settlers of Tennessee, where her parents, John and Narcissus (Rutherford) Jones, were both born. They immigrated to Arkansas in 1833. Mrs. Altstatt's maternal grandparents were natives of Tennessee. The grandfather died in his native State, and his wife in Arkansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Altstatt ten children have been born: Pleasant J., Eliza J., Mary E., Hiram A. B., William W., George W., Robert D., Abbie L., Sarah L. (deceased) and Thomas F. (deceased). Mr. Altstatt is a Republican, and a member of the I. O. O. F. and Masonic fraternities. His wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John R. Amos The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 John R. Amos, was born in Roane County, Tenn., March 8, 1839, and is a son of Charles and Polly (Harvey) Amos, natives, respectively, of South Carolina [p.1222] and Tennessee. Charles Amos was born in 1812, and when a young man went to Tennessee, and from there removed to a farm in Newton County, Mo. In 1858 he located in Sebastian County, Ark., where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1875. The mother of our subject died in 1863, and the father afterward married Sally Cook, a native of Tennessee, who survives her husband, and is now living with our subject. John R. Amos was about fifteen years of age when his parents located in Missouri, where he lived until 1858, at that time removing to Arkansas. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, and participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Richmond and Murfrees-boro. At the close of the war he returned to Arkansas, and resumed farming. In 1865 he married Kattie Mildham, daughter of Jackson Mildham, and they had four children, viz.: John, Bettie, Marttie and Charley. Mrs. Amos died in 1871, and in 1874 Mr. Amos married Annie Hill, who has borne him four children, three living: George Luther, Willie and Albert Sidney. Simon was born in 1880, and died in 1885. In 1866 Mr. Amos located on his present farm, which consists of 240 acres, 140 acres of which are under cultivation. He is one of the industrious and enterprising farmers of the county. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion he is a member of the Baptist Church. He also belongs to the A. F. & A. M. Mrs. Amos is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Christopher Columbus Ayers Arkansas Northwestern Counties History The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 C. C. Ayers, dealer in general merchandise, was born in Fort Smith, Ark., in 1849, and is the son of Willard and Caroline (Forester) Ayers. The father was a native of Vermont, born in 1814, and was a stone-cutter by occupation. He came to Fort Smith to work on the fort and other government works erected here, and after they were finished he located here. He was married in Crawford County, Ark., to Miss Forester, who was born in Tennessee, and who by her marriage became the mother of five children, two of whom are now living, C. C. Ayers being the eldest. The father is still living, and is residing with one of his sons in this county. C. C. Ayers grew to manhood in Fort Smith, and received his education in the subscription school. The Civil War cut short his education, and although he was too young to join the regular service he obtained a position in the quartermaster department, in the Federal army, where he remained until peace was declared. Soon after the war he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Crawford County with his uncle, J. B. Forester, and from 1871 to 1880 he was United States deputy marshal of the Western District of Arkansas. He was then appointed jailer, which position he filled for two years. His brother, Willard R., was killed while making an arrest of a man for larceny. After being jailer he was again in the Government employ for four more years, making fourteen years in all that he has been in the Government service. He engaged in his present business January 1, 1885, with William Feuerstine. In 1874 he was married to Miss Mattie Stephens, a native of the Cherokee Nation, and three children are the result of this union: Grant, Sherman and Mattie.

Harrison Ball The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Harrison Ball, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Davidson County, N. C., February 20, 1841, and is the son of William and Rebecca (Essex) Ball, and grandson of Spencer and Susannah (Hawkins) Ball. Spencer Ball was born in England in 1753, and when young came with his parents to America, and located in Greenville County, Va. The grandmother was born in Germany, and was brought to America by her parents when small. Spencer Ball went to North Carolina when a young man; was there married to his first wife, who bore him four children. After her death he married the mother of William Ball. She was at that time the widow of Mr. Bradley, and by her union to Mr. Ball became the mother of six children, three sons and three daughters. She had a daughter by her first marriage. This wife died, and Mr. Ball then married Mrs. Margaret Barker. He was a farmer by occupation, was an old-line Whig, and lived to be seventy-seven years of age. William, the only one of the family now living, was born in Rowan County, N. C., August 25, 1815, was reared on a farm, and never went to school a day in his life. When about eighteen years of age he began learning the blacksmith trade, but after working at the same for about eighteen months his eyes gave out, and he was obliged to abandon the business. He then turned his attention to farming. In 1837 he married Miss Rebecca Essex, who was born in Davidson County, N. C., January 25, 1820. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier. To Mr. and Mrs. Ball were born eight children: Lucy A., Harrison, Franklin, Margaret E., Henderson, Martha R., John E. and Rhoda C. During the latter part of the war William Ball served about six months in the Confederate army under conscript. He lived in North Carolina until 1867, when he came to this county and settled on the place where he now lives. He is the owner of 150 acres of land, with about forty acres under cultivation. He was a Whig until that party went down, since which time he has been a Republican. He and wife are members of the United Brethren Church. Their son, Harrison Ball, was reared a farmer's boy, and received a very limited education. He remained at home until August, 1862, when he was conscripted in the Confederate army, and served until March, 1865, when he decided to serve that cause no longer. He deserted while on picket, under the fire of his own comrades, and went north. He stopped in Pulaski County, Ill., and there, November 15, 1865, he married Miss Ann Harper, a native of West Tennessee, but a resident of Arkansas, where she had gone for protection. In 1866 Mr. Ball and wife removed to Sebastian County, and have since made it their home. They are the parents of one child, Lizzie (deceased), wife of J. F. Stewart. Mr. Ball has an adopted child, Minnie L. Ball. Mr. Ball is the owner of 240 acres, of which about 120 are under cultivation; he is a member of the Masonic order, and is a Republican in his politics. Mrs. Ball is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ball has been a resident of this county for twenty-two years, and although he has no children of his own, he takes a great interest in schools and other worthy enterprises.

C. M Barnes The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 C. M. Barnes, general fire and life insurance agent, of Fort Smith, was born in Livingston County, N.Y., August 25, 1845. His father was a son of Henry Hogan, who was paymaster in the United States army, and was lost at sea during the War of 1812, after which he was adoped by Gideon Barnes, and was known as Henry Hogan Barnes. He was married to Samantha Boyd, a native of Massachusetts where Mr. Barnes' ancestors had located prior to the Revolution. Mr. Barnes, the father of our subject, was a farmer and merchant by occupation. C. M. Barnes grew to manood in Calhoun County, Mich., and in 1861 enlisted in Howland's company of Michigan volunteer engineers, in which he served three months. He afterward served in the telegraph corps of the quartermaster's department, and in 1864 was stationed at Little Rock. In 1868 he came to Fort Smith, where he remained two years, after which he lived in Little Rock until 1876. He then located permanently in Fort Smith, where he became one of the leading citizens. From 1876 until 1880, and from 1881 until 1885, he was chief Unithed States Deputy Marshal of this district, and for four years he has served in the town council. He assisted in the organizaqtion of the fire department of Fort Smith, is presidet of the empire Lumber Company, of Ashton, Ark., a stockholder of the Barnes Lumber Company of Little Rock, and is secretary of the Fort Smith Fair Association. He was married, at Little Rock to Mary E. Bartlett, a native of Massachusetts, and daughter of Judge Liberty Barlett, who went to Little Rock from Massachusetts, before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have two sons and one daughter, viz.: Cassius, a student in the Racine College at Racine, Wis.; Hennry Cooper and Eliza Louise, both of whom attend high school. Mrs. Barnes is the treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society of St. John;s Episcopal Church, to which she and her husband belong.

Joseph P. Bassham The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 18 Oct 1998 Joseph P. Bassham, farmer and mechanic, is a son of Jonathan and Delilah (Payne) Bassham, both of whom were born in Franklin County, Va. The father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a cabinet-maker by trade, and in connection with this calling followed the occupation of farming. After his marriage he moved to West Virginia, where he made his home until 1839, when he came to Johnson County, Ark., and here he and wife spent the remainder of their lives, dying in 1848, at the age of fifty-two, and 1857, at the age of fifty-five, respectively. Three of their eleven children are living, Joseph P. being the fifth of the family. He was born in Tazewell, West Va., May 12, 1827, and while growing to manhood was engaged in farming and learning the cabinet-maker's trade. He received quite an extensive education for his day, and in 1847 was married to Sarah A. Bell, a daughter of Henry P. and Susan (Holmes) Bell, and by her became the father of eight children: Elizabeth E., Henry J., Luretha A., William O., Donana A., Minnie L., Katie and James. Mrs. Bassham was born in Tennessee, and died in Little Rock, Ark., in 1865. Mr. Bassham was married the following year to Miss Emily Redding, by whom he has one child, Samuel. This wife died in 1868, and he took for his next wife Mrs. Mary J. Rachels, nee Morris, a daughter of Ira L. Morris. They have a family of ten children: Thomas L., Sarah D., Nannie B., Mary L., James A., Jesse I., Martha A., C. B., Alice C. and an infant. His son, William O., is a Methodist minister, and his wives have been members of that church. In 1849 he came to Sebastian County, and in 1852 went to California and engaged in mining and farming for about two years. He then returned to Arkansas, and he and a brother opened a cabinet shop in Clarksville, which they managed until 1857. Mr. Bassham then returned to Sebastian County, and October 8, 1863, enlisted in Company F, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, and was appointed orderly. He was made second lieutenant February 25, 1864, and was promoted to first lieutenant July 6, of the same year, which position he held until he was mustered out of service at the close of the war. He was at Jenkins' Ferry and Prairie De Hand. In December, 1866, he returned to Sebastian County, where he has since made his home, and has been engaged in farming. He owns 157 acres of land, with about seventy acres under cultivation, and is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Judge James Woodson Bates The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 History of Benton County REPRESENTATIVE MEN Judge James Woodson Bates, brother of Frederick and Edward Bates, of national notoriety, was born in Goochland County, Va., about 1788, and died at his home in Crawford (now Sebastian) County, Ark., in the year 1846. He was educated at Yale and Princeton Colleges, and graduated in the latter about 1810. When quite young he attended the trial of Aaron Burr, at Richmond, for treason. Soon after leaving college he commenced the study of law, and not long after the organization of the Territory of Arkansas, in 1820, he located at the post of Arkansas, and there commenced the practice of his profession. Soon thereafter he was elected first territorial delegate to Congress. In 1823 he was a candidate for re-election, but was defeated by the Hon. Henry W. Conway. After leaving Congress, Bates removed to the newly settled town of Batesville, which was named after him, and there resumed the practice of law. In November, 1825, President Adams appointed him one of the territorial judges. On the accession of Gen. Jackson to the presidency, his commission expired without renewal, and soon thereafter he removed to what is now Sebastian County, and there married a daughter of Maj. Moore, and settled on a farm, where he remained until his death. In the fall of 1835 he was elected to the constitutional convention, and contributed his ability and learning in the formation of the organic law of the State of Arkansas. Soon after the accession of John Tyler to the presidency he appointed Judge Bates register of the land office at Clarksville. He discharged every trust and all the duties devolved upon him with the utmost fidelity. He was a most gifted conversationalist, and a writer of unusual vigor. His mind was richly stored with classical learning.

William H. Bell The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Among the prominent men of Sebastian County, Ark., who have throughout life been honest tillers of the soil, may be mentioned the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Henderson County, Tenn., September 7, 1834, being the fifth of ten children born to to the marriage of Henry P. and Susannah (Holmes) Bell. The father was born in Wayne County, N. C., in 1797, and was first married to Mrs. Susan Shadden, nee Holmes, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. He moved with her to Tennessee, where she afterward died. He resided in that State until 1839, when he moved to Arkansas, and located in Johnson County, and ten years later took up his abode in Sebastian County, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying in 1863, and his wife in 1869. He became a prosperous farmer, and he and both his wives were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In early life he was a Democrat, but afterward became a Whig. Their son, William H., was reared chiefly in Johnson County, Ark., where he received rather limited educational advantages, but has since made good the deficiency by reading and private study. He remained with and assisted his father until he was twenty-one years of age, then engaging in farming, which occupation he has followed up to the present time, with the exception of a few terms of school which he taught. In 1860 he was married to Nancy J. Johnson, a daughter of James and Jane D. (Tilman) Johnson. She was born in Bradley County, Tenn., February 24, 1839, and was brought to Sebastian County when about twelve years of age, where she met and married Mr. Bell, by whom she became the mother of three children: Charles W., John W. and James H. Charles is preparing for the medical profession, and the other two are farmers. Mr. Bell served in the late war, first as first sergeant and afterward as second lieutenant, Company H, Second Arkansas Cavalry Volunteers, and after the close of the war was a captain in Col. John F. Wheeler's regiment of Arkansas State Militia. He is a Republican in politics, and owns 180 acres of good land, with sixty-five under cultivation, all of which he has made by his own exertions. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Henry W. Blan The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Henry W. Blan, a farmer, residing in Prairie Township, near Witcherville, Ark., was born in Henry County, Tenn., in 1851, and is a son of George P. and Jane P. (Ashlock) Blan, and grandson of James Blan, who was of English descent, and died in Sebastian County in 1872. George P. was married in Henry County, Tenn., in 1847, and in 1859 immigrated to Sebastian County, Ark., settling on the farm of 240 acres now owned by John M. Thompson . He was born in Tennessee in 1826, and died in Arkansas in 1877. His wife was a native of Kentucky, born in 1834, and died in Arkansas in 1875. Five of her ten children are living: Henry W., Adaline, wife of Archibald W. Brewer; Tennessee, wife of Clinton T. Ary; James W., and Amanda, wife of William Witeher. Henry W. Blan was eight years of age when he was brought to Arkansas, and resided with his parents on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. In 1872 he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy A. Nixon, who was born in Henry County, Tenn., in 1854, a daughter of James A. Nixon. To them were born five children: Mary Lillie, James Porter, Sophronia Lulla, Serenie Belle and John Henry. After his marriage Mr. Blan located on the old homstead, a portion of which he farmed for some time, and now owns 114 acres of land, sixty acres of which are under cultivation. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

A. E. Bloomburg The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 A. E. Bloomburg, manager of the Bloomburg Lumber Company, of this city, is a native of Sweden, and was born in 1844. In 1858 his father, who for some years had been successfully engaged in farming in America, lost his wife, and returned to Sweden for his children. While en route to America a second time the father died at Liverpool. Our subject had been educated in Sweden, and after coming to the United States, in 1858, began life as a farmer upon his father's place. During the war he went to Kansas, and after the close of the Rebellion continued to live in that State until 1868. In that year he married Miss Emma Strong, who has borne him three children: Charles A., Lucy L. and Augusta. Mr. Bloomburg then farmed in Sebastian County, Ark., for fifteen years, and spent two years in the Rocky Mountains. In 1887 he formed a partnership with Mayor B. F. Hackett and John Sunburg, in the lumber business. These gentlemen have a large saw and planing mill, which has a capacity of 10,000 feet per day, and they furnish employment for a large number of men. Mr. Bloomburg is an influential citizen, and is the owner of several town lots and houses. In 1866 he served as mayor of the city, and in 1887 was elected an alderman. He is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to which his wife also belongs.

William Franklin Blythe The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Hon. William Franklin Blythe, judge of the Sebastian County Court, was born at Ripley, Tippah Co., Miss., March 7, 1851, and is of English and Irish extraction. His great-grandfather, Absalom Blythe, with two brothers, William and John, came to Virginia from England prior to the Revolution, and afterward removed to Georgia. The father of our subject, J. J. Blythe, was born in East Tennessee, and was a contractor and builder by trade. He married Miss Cleo Ussery, a native of Mississippi, and daughter of Shelby Ussery, who was the first representative of Tishomingo County, Miss., in the Legislature, and who represented his county until his death in 1851. W. F. Blythe attended school at Jacinto and luks, Miss., during his youth, and afterward taught school. Coming to Arkansas in 1876, he followed that vocation in Scott County, at Waldron, and began the study of law in 1880 at Clarksville, Ark. In the spring of 1882 (May) he was admitted to the bar, after which he settled at Fort Smith, and began to practice. During the same year he was elected justice of the peace, which position he has filled from that time until this year, when he resigned, having been elected judge of the county court. Judge Blythe was married at Ft. Smith, October 10, 1878, to Miss Linnah G. Barnes, a native of Mississippi, and daughter of William and Margaret C. Barnes. The former was killed during the war at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, on the Confederate side. Mrs. Blythe is a member of the Baptist Church, and has two daughters, Cleo and Margaret. Judge Blythe belongs to the I. O. O. F., and is a Royal Arch Mason.

Louis Bolin The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Louis Bolin, a grocer of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Fannin County, Tex., November 29, 1844, and is a son of George Barnett and Anna Bolin. The latter was born in Alabama, and when a small child was stolen from her mother and taken to Springfield, Mo., where she was again stolen and taken to Fannin County, Tex. In 1867 she moved to Fort Smith, Ark., where she died in 1883. 1863 until 1886 he was engaged in tilling the soil, and owns a good little farm of forty acres, in the county, besides eleven houses and lots in Fort Smith. Since 1877 he has been engaged in the grocery business, and as he is energetic, honest and accommodating he is doing a prosperous business. He is a Mason, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and in his political views is a Republican, casting his first presidental vote for U. S. Grant. On the 20th of November, 1869, he was married to Jennie Kemp, who was born in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1851, and a daughter of Dick and Betsey Kemp, and by her is the father of the following children: Louis, born February 26, 1875; Millie, born in July, 1877; Wheeler, born April 7, 1882, and Bessie, born in August, 1884. One son, John, is deceased.

Mrs. Martha A. (Dillard) Bomford The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Mrs. Martha A. (Dillard) Bomford was born in Arkansas in 1832, and is a daughter of John Penn and Sallie Price (Moore) Dillard, both of whom were born in Virginia. They came from Virginia to Arkansas by water, landing at the mouth of the Arkansas River, and from there went to Moore's Rock, on ponies and pack-horses, which place they reached in 1822. While in Virginia they followed merchandising, but after coming to Arkansas engaged in farming. In 1833 they commenced to keep a large boarding house at Fort Gibson, Chickasaw Nation, for officers, and continued it until 1840. The father represented his county in the State Legislature, and his union with Miss Moore was blessed in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are still living: Mrs. Elizabeth G. (Rosser), Mrs. Solomon F. Clark, Mrs. M. A. Bomford and Mrs. Sarah P. Bossert. Maj. Dillard, formerly of Fort Smith, was a brother of Mrs. Bomford, and served through the Mexican War as captain under Col. Yell, and as major in the late war, Confederate States Army, in Gen. Fagan's brigade. John and Lucy (Penn) Dillard were the grandparents of Mrs. Bomford, the grandmother being a branch of the family of the famous William Penn. The maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Polly (Price) Moore, were Virginians, and moved to Arkansas in 1818. Maj. B. Moore sent out the first bale of cotton from this part of the State, and raised the first tobacco. Mrs. Bomford spent her early life in Sebastian County, and attended school in Van Buren and Fort Smith, where she acquired a good English education. In 1851 she was married to Dr. George Erving Bomford, who was born March 31, 1820, in Washington, D. C., the son of Col. George and Clara (Baldwin) Bomford. The former was chief of ordnance at Washington, and the latter was a sister-in-law of Joel Barlow, the author. Dr. Bomford was reared and educated in his native city, read medicine under Dr. Wilson, and attended lectures at Boston and Philadelphia, and received his diploma. He practiced several years in Washington, then moved to Fort Smith, Ark., in 1848, and immediately began practicing in that town. He was post surgeon of Fort Smith before and during the war, and was a Royal Arch Mason, a Democrat, and a member of the Episcopal Church. He has three sons: George D. (of St. Louis, Mo.), Erving (a druggist of Fort Smith), and Henry (a plumber of Fort Smith).

Robert A. Bonham History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present .....Goodspeed 1889 Robert A. Bonham liveryman, notary public and city clerk at Huntington, was born in Anderson County, East Tenn., in 1861, and is a son of Absalom T. and Eliza (McClure) Bonham. When nine years of age he accompanied his parents to this county, where he assisted with the farm work, and in the winters attended the country schools. After becoming twenty years of age he spent one year at Cane Hill College, and two years at Buckner College. He then dealt in cattle some time, after which he taught school several terms. He next went into the mercantile business in Scott County, with Robert McClure, and then spent one summer in Kansas, where he had taken some cattle. He then went into the drug business with Dr. J. W. McConnell, establishing the first drug store in Huntington, and remained in that business until 1888, since which time he has been in the livery business. He is one of the influential business men of the town, and at the last city election was elected city clerk, having been a notary public since February of this year. He is one of the promising young men of the township, and cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland. His father is also a successful farmer of this township, and was born in East Tennessee in 1825. He is a son of Martin and Orpha (McDaniel) Bonham, who were born in Virginia in 1778 and 1780, respectively. They went from that State to East Tennessee, and had a family of thirteen children, four of whom are living. A. T. Bonham was educated at Clinton and Jacksborough Colleges, in East Tennessee, and in 1851 married our subject's mother, who was of Irish descent, and a daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Gollaher) McClure. She bore eight children, and died June 13, 1881. October 5, 1887, Mr. Bonham married Susan Neal, daughter of Charles H. and Margaret (Johnson) Neal. Mr. Neal was born in South Carolina in 1816, and died October 20, 1886. His wife was born in the same State in 1815, and died January 8, 1879. They lived in South Carolina until removing to Mississippi, and in 1872 went to Tennessee. Mr. Bonham came to this county in 1870, and now has a farm of 300 acres, 150 of which he cultivates. He is a Democrat and a Mason, and belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Sue (Neis) Bonneville. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Among the people of more than local note who have made Fort Smith their permanent home, and whose manner of living gives to Fort Smith social circles the metropolitan tone so evident to the astute observer, none is better known than Mrs. Sue Bonneville, widow of Gen. B. L. E. Bonneville, of the United States Army. Her home, on Hickory Street, is one of the most beautiful in the city, and her household consists of herself, her niece, Miss Kate Emric, and her néphew, John Emric. Her niece and nephew were left orphans when mere children, and have been reared and educated with as great solicitation by Mrs. Bonneville as if they had been her own children. Miss Emric is a highly accomplished and educated young lady, and a favorite in Fort Smith with young and old. Mrs. Sue Bonneville was born in Fort Washita, Chicka saw Nation, May 24, 1846, and is the daughter of Anton and Catherine (Sengel) Neice. [See sketch of Anton Neice.} Mrs. Bonneville is an orthodox Roman Catholic, and was educated in a convent. She was married to Gen. B. L. E. Bonneville, in Fort Smith, November 30, 1871, and with the exception of a few years succeeding her marriage, spent in St. Louis, has made Fort Smith her home since that event. Her position in life as the widow of a Federal officer has brought her in contact with many of the most talented and noted men and women of our country. She is a patriotic and typical southern woman. Mrs. Bonneville has in her possession all the deeds of lands and property signed for Gen. B. L. E. Bonneville by the Presidents of the United States. Šhe has also a letter written by Marquis de La Fayette to the mother of Gen. Bonneville, requesting that the latter be permitted to suspend his studies for a period, at East Point, and go with him upon a visit to France. The Bonneville family and the family of Marquis de La Fayette were intimate friends.

Luvicy (Malone) Booth The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Mrs. Luvicy (Malone) Booth, of Marion Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Randolph County, N. C., in 1826, and is one of three surviving members of a family of ten children born to John and Annie Malone, who were also born in North Carolina, and died in Arkansas in 1851. After leaving their native State they first located in Tennessee, going thence to Mississippi, and finally took up a permanent residence in Arkansas. Mrs. Booth spent her early life in Tennessee and Mississippi, and in 1842 became the wife of John P. Booth, a son of John and Nancy (Phelps) Booth, of Georgia; he was reared to manhood in Alabama and Mississippi. He removed from the latter State to Sebastian County, Ark., in 1853, and he and wife became the parents of eight children: Elizabeth (Petty), Mary Caroline (Lamb), David F., John, William, Rufus, Dock W. and Jerry P. Mr. Booth was a farmer throughout life, and at the time of his death, February 23, 1872, owned a fine farm, consisting of 300 acres, besides a gin mill, and handled a great deal of stock. Both he and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was a Democrat.

William R. Bowen The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 William R. Bowen, farmer and stock dealer, is the son of John and Jane (Bridgeman) Bowen. The father was born in Tennessee in 1799, and when still quite young went to Virginia, where he married Miss Bowen, who was a native of Virginia, born in the year 1797. After marriage they settled in Grainger County, Tenn., and in 1831 they moved to Madison County, Ark., where the father died in 1844. The widow and children then came to Sebastian County, where the mother married William Troylor. She died in 1850. The father was a farmer in early life, but later ran a still-house. He was justice of the peace and county judge for eight years in Madison County. He was an old-time Democrat, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and both were worthy and intelligent people. By her first marriage Mrs. Bowen became the mother of thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters, but had no children by her second marriage. The second child, William R. Bowen, was born March 12, 1825, in Grainger County, Tenn. He was reared to farm life, [p.1294] and received little or no education. After he had reached forty-six years of age he became converted, and learned to read the Bible. In 1847 he married Miss Mary A. Barnard, who bore him eight children, three now living: Mary E., Buchanan H. and Alexander. About 1855 Mr. Bowen separated from his first wife, and in 1856 married Miss Elizabeth Bradshaw, who bore him five children, three now living: Ahab, John and Rachel. Mrs. Bowen died in 1885, and two years later Mr. Bowen married Miss Ellen Doyle. Since first coming to this country, in 1844, Mr. Bowen has followed farming, and is the owner of 200 acres of land, 100 acres of which are under cultivation. During the war he served two years in the Union army, and his disabilities allow him a pension of $8 per month. The most of his work was in hospital service. He is an essential Baptist in his religious views, and is a true Federal in his polities. Mr. Bowen contributes liberally to all charitable organizations, and takes an interest in schools and churches.

Joab H. Bray 1825-1910 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present.....Goodspeed 1889 Joab H. Bray was born in Chatham County, N. C., March 17, 1825, and is a son of Solomon and Sallie (Brooks) Bray, natives of the same county and State. The father was a man of education, and was a wagon-maker by trade. Both himself and wife died in North Carolina in October, 1848. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the following seven are still living: Joab, Leander, Ely S., Ruth, Julia, Ursula and Mary. Those deceased were named Charles, Samuel and Elizabeth. The grandparents on both sides were born and passed their entire lives in Chatham County, N. C. Joab learned the wagon maker's trade of his father, and followed that business exclusively until coming to Arkansas. He received his education, and in 1860 immigrated to Tennessee by wagon, settling in Hardeman County, where he conducted extensive wagon-works until 1879. In 1853 he married Emily Brooks, a native of North Carolina, who has borne him eleven children: Adelaide S., Lousena A., Ursula H., John B., Joab L., Charles G., Edwin W., Mary E. and Walter. Decimus and an infant are deceased. While in North Carolina Mr. Bray belonged to the militia, in which he advanced to the office of adjutant. He also served as justice of the peace and constable. Mr. Bray came to this county in 1879, and now owns 220 acres of land, eighty-five being under cultivation. In 5. his wife belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church, and he to the Cumberland Presbyterian, and in politics Mr. Bray is a strong Democrat. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity over forty years, and is a much respected citizen.

Alpheus C. Brewster The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Alpheus C. Brewster, attorney at law and notary public, was born in Lauderdale County, Miss., in 1861, and is a brother of Dr. Brewster. He also was reared on a farm, and received a common-school education. When sixteen he entered Buckner College, which he attended two years. He then passed nine months at the State University at Fayetteville, and graduated from the Emory & Henry College, Virginia, in 1886. While at college he took an A. B. degree. He then taught school one year at Charleston, since which time he has practiced law, being a member of the Sebastian County bar. He is a Democrat, and is a member of the Bell Point Masonic Lodge at Fort Smith. In religion he is a Methodist.

Howard H. Brown (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Howard H. Brown , farmer and stock raiser, was born in Pontotoc County, Miss., in 1843, and is a son of Usrey and Lucinda (Eaves) Brown, natives of Maringo County, Ala., where they lived until after their marriage. They then made a home in Mississippi until 1859, when they removed to Hempstead County, Ark. In 1872 they came to Sebastian County, Ark. The father was a successful farmer, and died in 1882, aged sixty-eight. His widow is still living, and is now seventy-two years old. The maternal grandfather, Howard H. Eaves, was a blacksmith and well-borer, and was born in Georgia. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and bored many artesian wells in Mississippi. He was of Portuguese parentage, and his father fought in the Revolution. Howard H. Brown is the fourth of a family of eleven children, and in 1859 he accompanied his parents to Hempstead County, Ark. At the breaking out of the war he joined Company I, Twelfth Arkansas Infantry, with which he fought at Belmont, Mo., Island No. 10 and Farmington. He was discharged in August, 1862, on account of disability, but in March, 1863, re-enlisted and went to Texas, where he joined Gen. Magruder's escort company of cavalry, with which he remained until the close of the war. He was at the surrender at Houston, Tex., and served most of the time as a courier. After the war he returned home, and in 1868 he married Mary E., daughter of Willis W. Nolen [see sketch]. Mrs. Brown was born in Hempstead County, and her union with Mr. Brown has been blessed with six sons and two daughters, all living, and the oldest daughter married to A. M. Nowlen, of Hackett City. Mr. Brown came to Sebastian County in 1869, and although he began life at twenty-two, after the war, with nothing, he now owns 225 acres of well-improved land, and is a substantial citizen. He owns 500 acres of land in all, and has made the most of his property by selling and improving land. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Oak Bower Masonic Lodge No. 277. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and all of his family before him belonged to the same church.

James C. Brown Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas By Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889 In recording the names of the successful agriculturists of Nevada County, Arkansas, that of Mr. Brown will always be given a prominent and enviable place. He owes his nativity to Marengo County, Ala., where he was born February 5, 1836, the eldest of twelve children, seven still living, born to Usrey and Lucinda (Eaves) Brown, natives of Georgia. The father was a successful farmer during his life, was married in Alabama, and resided there until 1842, then moving to North Mississippi. Here he re sided until 1848, when he moved to Pontotoc County, Miss., next he moved to Hempstead County, Ark., and from there in 1870 to Sebastian County, where he died in 1884, in his sixty-eighth year. His widow is still a resident of Sebastian County, and is now seventy four years of age. They were both members of the Missionary Baptist Church, Mr. Brown being a deacon for over twenty-five years. Politically he was a Whig. Of the children born to their union, Martha is the wife of John Ray , of Sebastian County, Ark. Howard H. is engaged in farming in Sebastian County; William T. is a farmer in Johnson County, Tex.; Abel L. is a Missionary Baptist minister, and farmer of Sebastian County; U. Martin is also a farmer of that county; Mary L. is the wife of Quin Fry, a farmer of Sebastian County; John D. was a soldier in the Second Arkansas Infantry, and died at Grenada, Miss.; Faithey Ann was the wife of Andrew Seaward, a farmer of Sebastian County (now deceased); Lucinda was the wife of John Wright, also a farmer of Sebastian County; and Starling R. and one unnamed who died in infancy, in Mississippi. The immediate subject of this sketch was reared in Mississippi, and came with his parents to Hempstead County. In 1859 he wedded Miss Emily M. (daughter of Jordan and Hannah Walker), a native of Alabama, born in 1836. To this union there were born six children, two of whom still live, viz.: Martha Ann (who married Thomas Allison, a farmer of Clark County), and James U. (at home). Those dead are Nancy J. (who died in her thirtieth year, the wife of Thomas Roe, of this county), Mackey J. (was the wife of J. W. Nelson of this county, and died in her nineteenth year). Howard G. (died in infancy), and Ada (died when four years of age). In May, 1862, Mr. Brown enlisted in the Confederate service, joining the Twenty-fourth Arkansas Infantry, serving in this regiment until he was taken prisoner at Arkansas Post, and retained as a prisoner at Camp Douglas, Chicago, for three months. He was exchanged at City Point, Va., then joined the Nineteenth and Twenty-fourth Arkansas Consolidated, in which he served until the battle of Chickamauga, at which battle he was wounded, and was then transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department, and served west of the Mississippi, for the rest of the time. At the close of the war he located on the farm, which he now owns, but which was then comparatively in the woods. He was then without means, and had a wife and children to support, but he set to work and soon had the place cleared, and is now the owner of 240 acres of land, with seventy five acres under an excellent state of cultivation. His wife died in this county in 1887. and on January 31, 1889. Mrs. Collins, widow of James Collins and daughter of Mrs Emily Dunn, became Mrs. Brown, and is now the mother of one child, a son, Horner A. They are both members of the Missionary Baptist Church. Socially. Mr. Brown is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is independent in politics, voting for what he considers the best man.

Isaiah W. Bruce 1839-1894 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present.....Goodspeed 1889 Isaiah W. Bruce, builder, was born in Claiborne County, Miss., at Port Gibson, August 22, 1839. His father, Thomas Bruce, was born in Kentucky, whither his father, John Bruce, had emigrated from Scotland. The latter was a merchant and the former a builder by occupation. After the death of her first husband the mother of our subject married Thomas Vernon, who was also a builder. Isaiah W. accompanied his step-father to Arkansas when ten years old, and was reared in this city, and at the age of thirteen began to learn the builder's trade. During the Rebellion he served the entire time in the Confederate army. He married Miss Malvina, daughter of Asa Clark, a native of Maine, who died in May, 1882. In September, 1884, he was married to Miss Anna Dewees, daughter of Judge William Dewees, of Culloden, Monroe Co., Ga., a highly accomplished and most estimable lady, He is the father of four sons: Thomas, an architect and graduate of the Arkansas Industrial University; Wallace, a plumber; Hoyt and Henry, who are attending school. Mr. Bruce now holds the office of superintendent of school buildings, and among the buildings he has erected are the Hotel Maine, the Merchants' Bank, and H. H. Clayton's residence. Mr. Bruce and his wife are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a K. of H. and a K. T. of Jacques D. Molay Commandery, No. 3.

Edgar E. Bryant Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Edgar E. Bryant, attorney at law, of the law firm of Winchester & Bryant, at Fort Smith, Ark, was born in Paris, Miss., December 9, 1861, and is the son of A. A. and Margaret (Stein) Bryant. A. A. Bryant was a native of Virginia, is a physician, and immigrated to Mississippi with his father when a boy. He there married Miss Margaret Stein, and seven children were the result of the union, of whom Edgar E. is the eldest. The paternal grandfather was a native of Virginia, and the paternal great-grandfather was a Scotchman. The maternal grandmother was a Pope. The Pope family located in Westmoreland County, Va., and Pope's Creek was named after them. A. A. Bryant is still alive and is now a planter in Mississippi. Margaret Bryant died on Christmas of 1885. Edgar E. Bryant attained his youth in Mississippi, and in 1880 graduated with the degree of A. B., from the university of Mississippi, with the honors of his class. He afterward graduated in law from Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn., and also graduated in law from the Columbia University, of Washington City, in 1883. In August of the same year he came to Fort Smith, and September 7 became a member of the present firm, having practiced at this place since. He is president of the Young Men's Democratic Club at Fort Smith, Ark., and is a member of the order of K. of P.

Marion Spence Buckley 1830-1824 (photo posted by Lynn) History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present .....Goodspeed 1889 Marion S. Buckley, commission merchant at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Middle Tennessee in 1830, and is the son of William Hall and Rebecca (Johnson) Buckley. The father was a native of Virginia, and was a carpenter by trade, as was also his father. The mother was a native of North Carolina and of Irish descent. Her father brought his coat of arms to America, and after reaching this country took part in the Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists. William H. Buckley engaged in business, Statesville, Tenn., where he passed the remainder of his life. His son, Marion S. Buckley, grew to manhood in Tennessee, and there received his early education. He was married in that State in 1850 to Miss Mary P. Bratton, daughter of Col. Bratton, of Macon County, Tenn., who was one of the leading citizens of the county, and was a member of the Legislature from that county. The fruits of Mr. Buckley's marriage were five children: William H., Calvin V., Kentucky, wife of Andrew Muse; Alonzo and Homer. Soon after his marriage Mr. Buckley moved to Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky., where he worked as a mechanic for a short time, and then engaged in the stock business, which he carried on in connection with mercantile pursuits for about five years. On leaving Kentucky he came to Franklin County, Ark., and was there engaged in the stock business until the time of the war, when the Confederates took 150 head of cattle and forty head of blooded horses from him. During that eventful period Mr. Buckley was placed in the commissary department, and when peace was declared he returned to Fort Smith and commenced business anew. He has followed mercantile pursuits, and is also in the commission business. He joined the Baptist Church when thirteen years of age, joined a temperance society at the same age, and has never tasted liquor in any form, and does not know the taste of tobacco or coffee. He has given thorough attention to the education of his children, and has had children in William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., for the past twenty years, and his older sons have graduated from that institution. His daughter, Kentucky, attended the Baptist Female College at Lexington, Mo. Mr. Buckley has reared one of his nephews and a niece as his own children. Olive Buckley graduated from the female college at Winchester, Tenn., and Willie D. Buckley graduated from William Jewell College in June, 1888, with high honors. Virgil Buckley completed the law course at Columbia, Mo., and is practicing law at Springfield, Mo. Willie Buckley is a young man of much ability, and is at present studying law. Alonzo is a dentist of Fort Smith.

Harrison Buckner 1845-1919 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present .....Goodspeed 1889 Harrison Buckner was born in Carter County, Ky., October 22, 1845, his parents being Overton M. and Elizabeth (Fultz) Buckner. The father was born in Scott County, Va., November 9, 1812, and when sixteen went to Kentucky, where he grew to manhood upon a farm. In 1832 he married, and of his thirteen children but eight are now living, viz.: Martha J., Mary, Sarah, Emanuel, Harrison, Cornelius, Overton and Barney K. Those deceased were named James, John, William, Lafayette and Elizabeth. During the late war Mr. Buckner served three years in Company K, of the Twenty-third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, participating in the battles at Stone River, Perryville and Woodberry. He was discharged at Madison, Ind., in 1864. Patrick W. Buckner, the grandfather, was of Irish descent, and born in Virginia, where he died. For some time he lived in Kentucky, and he was a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife, Mollie (Estey's) Buckner, was married in Scott County, Va., and for some time practiced medicine in Georgia County, Tenn., she being a disciple of the homoeopathic school. The maternal grandparents, Obadiah Fultz and wife, were natives of Virginia, who immigrated to Kentucky, where they died. Our subject was reared and educated in his native county, and at the beginning of the war enlisted in Company I, of the Twenty-third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, fighting on the same side as his father and brother James. The latter was killed at New Hope, Ga., May 27, 1864. Mr. Buckner was discharged at Victoria, Tex., December 29, 1865, and had participated in the engagements at Atlanta, Resaca, Rocky Face, Peach Tree, Sweetwater, Kennesaw Mountain, New Hope, Jonesboro, Lovejoy, Columbia, Spring Hill and Nashville. He also accompanied Sherman on his march to the sea. After the war Mr. B. farmed in Kentucky three years, and then passed two years in Franklin County, Ark. He then came to this county, where he has a farm of 120 acres, 100 of which are cultivated. February 22, 1866, he married Martha C., daughter of John and Rachel (Black) Remy. The mother was born in Tennessee, but reared in Kentucky, the native State of Mr. Remy. John Black and wife were natives of South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Buckner are members of the Regular Baptist Church. They have had nine children, all save one now living: Geneva A., Rachel E., Mary C., Martha E., John W., Ava R., Louisa B., Jeanette M. and *9. (deceased). Mr. Buckner is a strong Republican and a member of the G. A. R.

Charles Burns 1833-1912 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present .....Goodspeed 1889 Charles Burns, ex-United States Jailer, was born in County Fermanah, Ireland, in 1833. His father, Patrick Burns, was born in Scotland, on the River Clyde, and is a descendant of the poet, Robert Burns. He was a member of the Church of England, and was married to Rose McManns, who was born in County Fermanah, Ireland, and a member of the Catholic Church. In 1845 Charles Burns came to North America with his mother and brother (his father having died in Cork, Ireland, shortly before embarking for the New World, and is now reposing in Father Matthew's cemetery in Ireland), and located in Toronto, Canada, where the mother was taken ill a few months later and died. Charles Burns came to the United States in 1848, and began learning the saddler's trade, but at the end of a few months ran away and enlisted in the United States army, serving for twenty-three years. He was one of the soldiers who was sent to quell the Indians, and has traveled all over the Western States and Territories. He was appointed ordnance sergeant at Annapolis, Md., but resigned the position owing to ill health, and soon after located in Fort Smith, where he was appointed United States Jailer, and held the position fourteen years, but resigned when Cleveland was elected president. He was married in Fort Gibson to Catherine Lawrence, by whom he became the father of thirteen children, nine of whom are living: Charles, Mollie, Catherine, Willie, Francis, Henry, Thomas and Leo. Annie died at the age of eleven years; John died in Maryland when a small boy; Eddie, who was accidentally shot by a school-mate, died at the age of twenty-five years, and Joseph died when seventeen years of age, in Fort Smith. The family are members of the Catholic Church.

John William Buskamp 1832-1913 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present .....Goodspeed 1889 John William Buskamp was born in Westphalia, Prussia, in the Court District of Holtwick, near Bocholt, Munster, on October 2, 1832, and is a son of John and Theodora (Schmitz) Buskamp. The father was a miller by occupation. In 1853 our subject immigrated to the United States, and landing at New York, proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade. He then worked in Detroit, Mich., and on the Michigan Central Railway. He afterward went to Joliet, Ill., and there engaged at his trade, putting on the roof of the court-house, and being among the first to work on the State Prison. Contracting the chills and fever at that place, he was obliged to seek another climate, and he consequently came to Fort Smith in 1859, where he has been engaged in building. He worked for the Confederates here during the war until 1863, and then worked for the Union Government. Among the buildings he has erected may be mentioned, Gen. Bonneville's residence, the Belle Point School-house and the St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church. He was married in 1861 to Miss Theresa Ermann, daughter of Casper Ermann, and a native of Westphalia. Mr. and Mrs. Buskamp have two daughters and one son living, viz.: Dora. Henry and Adelaide, all of whom were educated at the Convent. Two sons died in infancy. Mr. Buskamp and family are members of the Roman Catholic Church.

Samuel P. Campbell The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Samuel P. Campbell was born in Cumberland County, Ky., July 6, 1832. Samuel Campbell, the father, who was born in Virginia, of Scotch parents, went to Kentucky when young, where he lived about twenty-five years, and engaged in farming, manufacturing tobacco and distilling. While there he married Miss Christina Pevehouse, whose parents had immigrated to that country from Pennsylvania. She was of German descent. They there became the parents of nine children: George W., Adam P., William J., Dudly F., Joseph F., Cyrus W., Louisa J., Chloe E., and Samuel P., the subject of this sketch, who is the youngest of the family. In 1834 they immigrated, with all their children, to the Territory of Arkansas, and settled on the bank of a river of the same name, in what is now Crawford County, a few miles below the town of Van Buren, where they lived ten years and opened a large farm, but unfortunately were broken up by the great flood of 1844, after which they moved to the south side of the river, where they both died within two years, well stricken in age. Benjamin Campbell, the grandfather, emigrated from Scotland in the days of the colonies, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and had many fights with the Indians in the settling of Kentucky and Virginia. He once came to Arkansas, to visit his son, Samuel, while in his dotage, and soon after died, near Versailles, Mo., in his one hundred and sixth year. Samuel P., the son and grandson of Benjamin and Samuel, was but two years old when brought to Arkansas, and states that the first thing he can remember of this life was living in a camp on the bank of the Arkansas River, when his elder brothers wounded a deer and caught it with the dogs near the camp, giving him the worst scare he has ever had. During the ten years of his stay on the place he was taught to work at everything then necessary on a farm. During the time he was boarded out, and sent to several sessions at school. At the death of his parents he lived with a brother, going to school at times. At the age of nineteen he joined a band of gold seekers at Fort Smith, bound for the Pacific Slope, while the gold fever was at its greatest height. A few days later the train of 130 wagons and 300 men started on their 2,000 mile journey through what was then a wilderness, where there was nothing known but deserts, mountains, wild beasts and Indians. After a six months' journey and many hardships the survivors reached the settlements of California. When the winter was over Samuel P. took stock in the Bullion Fluming Company. The summer past, the next winter was spent in prospecting, the river claim being worked out, and some money was cleared. For five years Mr. Campbell engaged in different mining companies, lastly in the Lone Star Tunnel Company, and in 1857 sold his interest, and came back home by the way of Panama, Cuba and New York. After his return he engaged in trading and hauling bacon from Sebastian County to Fort Worth, Texas, for about two years, and on the 22d of January, 1860, he married Laura P., daughter of Dr. C. P. H. Ake. Mrs. Campbell was born January 8, 1840, and was a native of Arkansas. She became the mother of six children: Henry A., William A., Cyrus W. and Martha C. now living; Eugene P. and Ernest F. deceased. She died February 14, 1877. Mr. Campbell lived a widower about five years, and on the 23d of July, 1882, he married Tennessee McClendon, a widow, daughter of Wiley O'Neal, of Tennessee. She is the mother of two children, Oscar J. and Emmer C. McClendon. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell belong to the Missionary Baptist Church, and the former belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Agricultural Wheel. He was one of the first settlers near Biswel Springs, now famous in Sebastian County as the great camp ground. Mr. Campbell settled near Union Grove, where he now lives, in 1867. He has 400 acres of land, 100 in cultivation and well stocked.

Joseph H. and Thomas Milton Cardwell 1860-1941 & 1863-1890 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present.....Goodspeed 1889 Joseph H. and Thomas Milton Cardwell, of the firm of Cardwell Bros., doing business at Fort Smith, are natives of Oxford, Miss. The father, G. W. Cardwell, was a tinsmith, and a native of Virginia, and of Scotch descent, and died in Mississippi in 1876. The mother, Naomi S. Cardwell, was born in Aberdeen, Miss., and married at Oxford, Miss. Joseph H. was born November 7, 1860, and when young learned the builder's trade at Oxford. In 1880 he came to Hot Springs, Ark., where he became identified with building interests, and in 1883 he removed to Fort Smith, where he is now in business with his brother. He was married in Senatobia, Miss., to Miss Mary L., Medders, a native of Illinois, and daughter of J. L. Medders, of Senatobia. Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell are members of the Baptist Church, and have two sons, Leslie and Burrell. Thomas Milton, the junior partner of the firm, was born at Oxford, Miss., June 25, 1863, and also learned the builder's trade during his youth. Coming to Arkansas he worked some time as a journeyman at Fort Smith, and then engaged in contracting. Among the many buildings Cardwell Bros. have completed are the Central Methodist Episcopal Church South, four business blocks for S. P. Day, and two for P. Delorvin. The brothers are successful and enterprising citizens, and both belong to the City Fire Department.

Alexander B. Carruth The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Alexander B. Carruth was born November 4, 1820, in Lawrence County, Ala., and is a son of Alexander and Nancy (Elkins) Carruth, both of whom were of Irish descent. The father was born in South Carolina, and being reared upon a farm, devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits. He immigrated to Georgia, and after living there some years went to Alabama, where he died at the age of seventy-four. Mrs. Carruth bore nine children, three of whom are living: James H., our subject and Eliza. Those deceased were named William, Jesse, Joseph, Thomas, Martha and John. Mrs. Carruth was born in Georgia, and died in North Alabama in 1862, where she had gone in 1818. Alexander was reared upon his father's farm in Alabama, and during his youth received a common-school education, and learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked twenty years. He began life for himself when eighteen by buying land in Alabama, and in 1844 married Jane Roberts, by whom he had ten children. Mary A., Joseph P., Jesse J., William, John, Nancy and Harriet are living, and Absalom, Harry and Matthew are dead. Mrs. Carruth died in Illinois in 1864, and the latter part of the same year Mr. Carruth married Sarah Balom, who came to Kentucky from England when small. She afterward moved to Illinois, and there was married. She is the mother of three children, Belle, Emma and George. After farming in Illinois two years, in 1857 Mr. Carruth settled in Sebastian County, Ark., where he has a farm of sixty-five acres in cultivation. Mr. Carruth is a Democrat in polities, and is greatly interested in the educational advancement of the county, being a school director. Himself and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Capt. Claiborn W. Cauthron Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Capt. Claiborn W. Cauthron, furniture dealer and undertaker of Greenwood. Ark., is a native of Logan County, Ark. He was born near the town of Boonville in 1832 and is a son of Col. Walter and Bashaway (Wilson) Cauthron, and grandson of Claiborn Cauthron. Walter Cauthron was born in Franklin County, Ga., in 1797, and was of Scotch-English descent. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Kentucky, where they remained three years; they then moved to Southwest Illinois, where his father died about 1818. He subsequently went south by way of Natchez, Miss., and as far as New Orleans, La.; he then went up the Mississippi and Red Rivers as far as Shreveport, La., then going (by land) up the Red River to what was known as Lovelace's Purchase. He settled down there and engaged in farming; here he met and married Miss Bashaway Wilson in 1822. She was born in Lawrence County, Ark., in 1803. Mr. Cauthron moved to Scott County in 1824, and settled on the Petitjean River, two miles west of French's Prairie. Walter Cauthron was one of the first white men to settle in Western Arkansas. He came here when there were but very few settlers in the western part of the State. Wild animals were in abundance, such as buffalo, elk, bear, wolf and deer. He was fond of hunting, and had many thrilling adventures with the wild beasts of this wild country; there were plenty of Indians here also. He left this first settlement in 1826 or 1827 and moved to a place near the town of Booneville. Settling in the woods, he soon opened a farm and engaged in farming and stock raising; he also sold goods one year and built the first cotton-gin in Scott County. About this time the county seat was located on a plot of land adjoining his farm. The county militia was then organized; Mr. Cauthron was elected colonel, but owing to the dissipation of the town the Colonel became dissatisfied with his surroundings, having a family of boys growing up; he moved in 1837 eight miles southwest of Booneville, to what is known as Cauthron's Prairie, named in his honor, and here he opened a farm and engaged again in farming and stock raising. School and church facilities were rather poor; he succeeded, however, in giving his five boys and four girls a fair English education, all of whom lived to have families of their own. In 1849 his wife, Bashaway, died, leaving him a family of nine children, and in 1850 Col. Cauthron married Mrs. Elenor S. Burton, nee Garner, who was born in Kentucky. He still resided on his farm, and in 1852 he was elected county judge of Scott County, and served one term. In 1854 his eyes became sorely afflicted, which terminated in the loss of his right eye and almost total blindness. He was a man of much influence and public spirit. His unbounded hospitality was known throughout the country, and many of the pioneer itinerant preachers of the country have found food and shelter under his hospitable roof; indeed, his house was a place of public worship for many years, and it was a common thing for a large part of the congregation, who assembled at his house for worship, to take dinner with him after services, and spend a portion of the afternoon in social chat. Few of the people of the present age can appreciate the state of society in the early days of Arkansas; there was a degree of liberality and equality among all of the people which is to-day unknown among our citizens. In 1864, when the country was overrun with the Federal army, Col. Cauthron and family refugeed to Bowie County, Tex. At the close of the war he returned to his home on Cauthron Prairie, where he lived until the death of his second wife, which occurred in 1875; Col. Cauthron then broke up housekeeping, and lived with his children the remainder of his life. He was a stanch Democrat, always taking a lively interest in the politics of the country; had been a member of the Christian Church for many years before his death, which occurred in 1877. Capt. Claiborn W. Cauthron was born and grew to manhood on a farm. In 1852 he went to California with the long train of gold seekers, going overland, and taking six months to make the journey. He here engaged in mining for about six years, and then returned by way of Panama, Aspinwall, Key West and New Orleans, and arrived at his old home in June, 1859, where he engaged with his father in farming and stock raising; they were making arrangements for an extensive stock farm. When the war broke out he was found defending his home and native State against the invaders. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Second Arkansas Mounted Rifles, and was in the engagements at Pea Ridge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Miss., Dug Gap, Resaca, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville and others; was with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in his last battle in North Carolina. He entered the service as a private, but before the battle of Murfreesboro he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. In 1864 he was given the command of his company but was not commissioned as captain until the spring of 1865. He was wounded several times, the first time at Murfeesboro, where he was wounded in the right hip by a shell; again, at Jackson, Miss., he was wounded in the left leg by a shell, which fractured the bone, and he was wounded in the left hand with a shell at Franklin; had his haversack and canteen shot off of him in front of Nashville by an eighteen-pound shell, but was never hit by a lead ball. He was paroled at Greensboro, N. C., in May 1865, and afterward went to Bowie County, Tex., where he found his parents, where they had gone during the war. In December 1865, he returned with his father and stepmother to the old home in Scott County, and engaged in farming again. During the reconstruction period a new county was formed of territory from Scott, Yell, Johnson and Franklin Counties; Cauthron Prairie was in the tract taken from Scott. This new county was first called Sarber County, but afterward changed to that of Logan. In 1869 Capt. Cauthron married Miss Louesa C. Moody, who was born in Walker County, Ga., in 1848, who bore him one son, Justin. In 1881 Capt. Cauthron moved to Sebastian County, Ark., and located one mile west of Greenwood, and in 1883 he moved to Greenwood, and in June, 1884, he lost his wife, and in December the same year he returned to Logan County; in 1887 he came back to Greenwood, where he engaged in the furniture and undertaker's business. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Hezekiah Chaney Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hezekiah Chaney, a wealthy farmer, residing five miles south of Greenwood, Ark., was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., in 1829, and is a son of Charles and Phoebe (Brown) Chaney, both of whom were Tennesseans, born in 1801 and 1805, and died June 8, 1877, and in 1843, respectively. The father was a son of William Chaney, and resided in Tennessee until 1873, when he moved to Hickman County, Ky., and in 1877 took up his residence in Logan County, Ark., coming to Sebastian County two years later, where he died at the home of his son, Hezekiah. After the death of his first wife he was married twice, and both of his later wives are also dead. Eleven children were born to his first union, Hezekiah being the fourth child. He was reared to manhood on a farm and made his home with his father until he was sixteen years old, when he hired out in a brickyard for $3 per month and remained two seasons. He then began working on a farm for $11 per month for one year. December 16, 1852, he was married to Miss Debbie Brogdon, who was born in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1829, and by whom he became the father of ten children: James William; Phoebe Jane, wife of George Loney; Susan C., wife of Walter Cornett; George, Hezekiah, John F.; Alice, wife of Samuel Gooden; Robert, Lucy Lee, who died in 1874, at the age of eight years, and Luther Matthew. About 1865 Mr. Chaney moved to Hickman County, Ky., and three years later became a resident of Texas County, Mo., and nine months later located in Franklin County, Ark. Here he resided until 1879, when he became a citizen of Sebastian County, and in 1880 purchased ninety-five acres of land, sixty-five of which were under cultivation. He now owns 135 acres and is doing well financially. He has been a life-long Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Franklin Pierce. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Mrs. Margaret (Rogers) Chollar Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Mrs. Margaret (Rogers) Chollar is a native of the county in which she now resides and was born in 1838. Her parents were Capt. John and Mary (Flagg) Rogers. They had the following children: Mrs. Chollar, Mrs. Emma Johnson, William, Hickory, Thomas and Buckner. The sons live in the Indian Territory. Mrs. Chollar was reared in Fort Smith, and attended the St. Paul's Institute, of Baltimore, Md. She was first married to John Melvin, who was born in Pennsylvania, and was a steamboat pilot on the Arkansas River. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., and died in 1878, and she was afterward married to John Chollar, a native of York State. To her first union two children were born: Jane, who is now in the patent office at Washington, D.C., and William, a machinist at Fort Smith, Ark. John Rogers, Mrs. Chollar's father, was the founder of Fort Smith. He was born near Carlisle, Penn., and removed with his father to near Pittsburgh, where he was educated. When quite young he left Pittsburgh and went to Harper's Ferry, Va., where he remained until the breaking out of the War of 1812, and was then engaged in supplying the army of Gen. Harrison with provisions, serving in this capacity until the close of the war. He was appointed collector of the post of Detroit, Mich., and was appointed deputy paymaster of the United States Army, and in the winter of 1816 went south to New Orleans. In 1818 he became sutler of the army, and the following year became military commissary keeper, and acted as purchasing agent for the army, and also furnished provisions for Gen. Jackson's Florida expedition. In 1822 he came to Fort Smith, and was the first postmaster of the town, which position he held thirty years. He laid out the town, and the first two buildings were erected by him, the materials for which were brought from Pittsburgh, Penn., on keel-boats, by Capt. Rogers and George S. Birnie. Until 1842 his time was devoted to building up the town which he had founded, and he was a man of unusual business ability and sagacity, and was noted for his honesty and liberality to the poor. Owing to his enterprise and push, the county is largely indebted to him for its prosperity, and he is justly entitled to rank among the representative men of Arkansas.

Capt. Claiborn W. Cauthron The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Capt. Claiborn W. Cauthron, furniture dealer and undertaker of Greenwood. Ark., is a native of Logan County, Ark. He was born near the town of Boonville in 1832, and is a son of Col. Walter and Bashaway (Wilson) Cauthron, and grandson of Claiborn Cauthron. Walter Cauthron was born in Franklin County, Ga., in 1797, and was of Scotch-English descent. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Kentucky, where they remained three years; they then moved to Southwest Illinois, where his father died about 1818. He subsequently went south by way of Natchez, Miss., and as far as New Orleans, La.; he then went up the Mississippi and Red Rivers as far as Shreveport, La., then going (by land) up the Red River to what was known as Lovelace's Purchase. He settled down there, and engaged in farming; here he met and married Miss Bashaway Wilson in 1822. She was born in Lawrence County, Ark., in 1803. Mr. Cauthron moved to Scott County in 1824, and settled on the Petitjean River, two miles west of French's Prairie. Walter Cauthron was one of the first white men to settle in Western Arkansas. He came here when there were but very few settlers in the western part of the State. Wild animals were in abundance, such as buffalo, elk, bear, wolf and deer. He was fond of hunting, and had many thrilling adventures with the wild beasts of this wild country; there were plenty of Indians here also. He left this first settlement in 1826 or 1827, and moved to a place near the town of Booneville. Settling in the woods, he soon opened a farm and engaged in farming and stock raising; he also sold goods one year, and built the first cotton-gin in Scott County. About this time the county seat was located on a plat of land adjoining his farm. The county militia was then organized; Mr. Cauthron was elected colonel, but owing to the dissipation of the town the Colonel became dissatisfied with his surroundings, having a family of boys growing up; he moved in 1837 eight miles southwest of Booneville, to what is known as Cauthron's Prairie, named in his honor, and here he opened a farm and engaged again in farming and stock raising. School and church facilities were rather poor; he succeeded, however, in giving his five boys and four girls a fair English education, all of whom lived to have families of their own. In 1849 his wife, Bashaway, died, leaving him a family of nine children, and in 1850 Col. Cauthron married Mrs. Elenor S. Burton, nee Garner, who was born in Kentucky. He still resided on his farm, and in 1852 he was elected county judge of Scott County, and served one term. In 1854 his eyes became sorely afflicted, which terminated in the loss of his right eye and almost total blindness. He was a man of much influence and public spirit. His unbounded hospitality was known throughout the country, and many of the pioneer itinerant preachers of the country have found food and shelter under his hospitable roof; indeed, his house was a place of public worship for many years, and it was a common thing for a large part of the congregation, who assembled at his house for worship, to take dinner with him after services, and spend a portion of the afternoon in social chat. Few of the people of the present liberality and equality among all of the people which is to-day unknown among our citizens. In 1864, when the country was overrun with the Federal army, Col. Cauthron and family refugeed to Bowie County, Tex. At the close of the war he returned to his home on Cauthron Prairie, where he lived until the death of his second wife, which occurred in 1875; Col. Cauthron then broke up housekeeping, and lived with his children the remainder of his life. He was a stanch Democrat, always taking a lively interest in the politics of the country; had been a member of the Christian Church for many years before his death, which occurred in 1877. Capt. Claiborn W. Cauthron was born and grew to manhood on a farm. In 1852 he went to California with the long train of gold seekers, going overland, and taking six months to make the journey. He here engaged in mining for about six years, and then returned by way of Panama, Aspinwall, Key West and New Orleans, and arrived at his old home in June, 1859, where he engaged with his father in farming and stock raising; they were making arrangements for an extensive stock farm. When the war broke out he was found defending his home and native State against the invaders. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Second Arkansas Mounted Rifles, and was in the engagements at Pea Ridge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Miss., Dug Gap, Resaca, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville and others; was with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in his last battle in North Carolina. He entered the service as a private, but before the battle of Murfreesboro he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. In 1864 he was given the command of his company, but was not commissioned as captain until the spring of 1865. He was wounded several times, the first time at Murfeesboro, where he was wounded in the right hip by a shell; again, at Jackson, Miss., he was wounded in the left leg by a shell, which fractured the bone, and he was wounded in the left hand with a shell at Franklin; had his haversack and canteen shot off of him in front of Nashville by an eighteen-pound shell, but was never hit by a lead ball. He was paroled at Greensboro, N. C., in May, 1865, and afterward went to Bowie County, Tex., where he found his parents, where they had gone during the war. In December, 1865, he returned with his father and step-mother to the old home in Scott County, and engaged in farming again. During the reconstruction period a new county was formed of territory from Scott, Yell, Johnson and Franklin Counties; Cauthron Prairie was in the act taken from Scott. This new county was first called Sarber County, but afterward changed to that of Logan. In 1869 Capt. Cauthron married Miss Louesa C. Moody, who was born in Walker County, Ga., in 1848, who bore him one son, Justin. In 1881 Capt. Cauthron moved to Sebastian County, Ark., and located one mile west of Greenwood, and in 1883 he moved to Greenwood, and in June, 1884, he lost his wife, and in December the same year he returned to Logan County; in 1887 he came back to Greenwood, where he engaged in the furniture and undertaker's business. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Hezekiah Chaney The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Hezekiah Chaney, a wealthy farmer, residing five miles south of Greenwood, Ark., was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., in 1829, and is a son of Charles and Phoebe (Brown) Chaney, both of whom were Tennesseeans, born in 1801 and 1805, and died June 8, 1877, and in 1843, respectively. The father was a son of William Chaney, and resided in Tennessee until 1873, when he moved to Hickman County, Ky., and in 1877 took up his residence in Logan County, Ark., coming to Sebastian County two years later, where he died at the home of his son, Hezekiah. After the death of his first wife he was married twice, and both of his later wives are also dead. Eleven children were born to his first union, Hezekiah being the fourth child. He was reared to manhood on a farm, and made his home with his father until he was sixteen years old, when he hired out in a brick-yard for $3 per month, and remained two seasons. He then began working on a farm for $11 per month for one year. December 16, 1852, he was married to Miss Debbie Brogdon, who was born in Williamson County, Tenn., in 1829, and by whom he became the father of ten children: James William; Phoebe Jane, wife of George Loney; Susan C., wife of Walter Cornett; George, Hezekiah, John F.; Alice, wife of Samuel Gooden; Robert, Lucy Lee, who died in 1874, at the age of eight years, and Luther Matthew. About 1865 Mr. Chaney moved to Hickman County, Ky., and three years later became a resident of Texas County, Mo., and nine months later located in Franklin County, Ark. Here he resided until 1879, when he became a citizen of Sebastian County, and in 1880 purchased ninety-five acres of land, sixty-five of which were under cultivation. He now owns 135 acres, and is doing well financially. He has been a life-long Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Franklin Pierce. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Preslie B. Cole Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Preslie B. Cole, proprietor of Cole's Dry Goods and Grocery Emporium, is a native of Georgia, was born in 1861, and is a son of Monroe Cole. The father was a native of Georgia, and for some time was second lieutenant of a company of Confederate soldiers. For some time during the war he was in charge of Andersonville Prison. His parents are living in Georgia, at an advanced age . Our subject attended the public schools in his native State and then obtained a position as a clerk . Leaving home at the age of nineteen he came to Arkansas, and for two years clerked at Webb City. He then came to Hackett City, and for a year clerked for T. H. McMutrey, after which he traveled for Black & Co. of Fort Smith a year. Returning to Hackett City at the end of that time he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he has since met with good success. He carries a stock of about $5,000 worth of goods, and his sales average $2,300. He is a substantial citizen and owns several town lots. In politics he is a Democrat.

Abraham F. Coleman The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Abraham F. Coleman, farmer and stock raiser of Sulphur Township, was born in Rowan County, N. C., June 30, 1835, and is a son of James D. and Sarah E. (Mann) Coleman, natives of North Carolina, where they lived until 1860. They then removed to Newton County, Mo., and during the war came to Benton County, Ark. They afterward located in Sebastian County, where the mother died on January 9, 1884, and the father January 8, 1885. The grandfather, James Coleman, was born in Virginia, and was of German and Irish descent. Our subject is the oldest of a family of eight children, and during his youth his early education was received at the common schools of North Carolina. In 1855 he left home, and going to the Granby lead mines of Newton County, Mo., remained there until the war. In 1862 he joined Company H, Second Kansas Cavalry. He fought in the battle at Saline, and operated in Missouri and Arkansas until mustered out at Fort Gibson at the close of the war. He then went to Lawrence, Kas., and from there came to this county, where he has since made his home. In December, 1870, he married Lucy A., daughter of James and Eliza Crockett, who came to Missouri from Kentucky, where Mrs. Coleman was born, and then immigrated to Arkansas in 1859, settling in Sebastian County. Mr. Crockett is now living in Chickasaw Nation; his wife died here. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman has been blessed with six children, all but two now living. Mr. Coleman owns 200 acres of land, forty being bottom land. He has improved and cultivated ninety acres, and is a self-made man. He settled upon his farm when it was surrounded by a wilderness, inhabited by wild animals, and when there were but five houses between his farm and Fort Smith. Mr. Coleman cast his first presidential vote for Buchanan in 1856. After the war he was a Republican until the Baxter trouble, when he again espoused Democratic principles.

Jerry H. Colvard (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Jerry H. Colvard was born July 26, 1845, in Carroll County, Ark. His father, Wade H. Colvard, was born in North Carolina, and when young went to Hardeman County, Tenn., in an ox-cart. In 1836 he went to Washington County, Ark., and in 1847 came to Franklin County, where he purchased land of Anthony Brown, and farmed until his death, December 7, 1864. He was one of the best and most successful farmers of the county. The mother, Latha (Gage) Colvard, was born in Tennessee, and when about grown went to Washington County, Ark., where she was married. She died in Sebastian County in 1863, and was the mother of ten children. Those now living are Melissa, Benjamin D., Jerry H., Lydia, Robert B. and George N. Those deceased are Andrew J., Nancy, Thomas J. and Columbia. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a native of England, and an early settler of North Carolina, where he died. His wife was born in Wales, married in North Carolina, and died at the home of our subject, aged ninety. The maternal grandfather was born in North Carolina, and served in the War of 1812. After living some time in Tennessee he came to Washington County, Ark., which he represented for several terms in the General Assembly of the State. He afterward located in Franklin County, where he died, and where his second wife, the grandmother of our subject, still lives. Jerry H. Colvard was reared on a farm in Franklin County, and received a limited education. When fifteen he enlisted in Company A, Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army. After fighting at Wilson's Creek he was discharged, and then re-enlisted in Company A, of McCullough's regiment. He passed his time upon the plains until the following December, when he joined the Indian Department of the regular army, under Cooper, at Newtonia. Coming to Fort Smith he was assigned to Clark's regiment, and at the battle of Prairie Grove he lost his left leg, which was amputated below the thigh. The cannon ball which shot him is still in his possession. He was laid up in the hospital some time, and then returning home went with his father to Texas, where he remained two months. He then re- entered the Confederate army at Pine Bluff, and remained in service until he surrendered with the Southern army. Mr. Colvard afterward went to Franklin County, Ark., where, February 7, 1867, he married Mary A., daughter of S. B. Holder, a native of Greene County, Mo., who was reared in Greene County. To this marriage eight children have been born: Alice, Annie, Rufus, Sunnie S., Edward E. and Burt. Two children died in infancy. Mr. Colvard is the owner of eighty acres of land in Sebastian County, and has served several times as chairman of township conventions, besides having been a delegate to the State convention. He is a Democrat, and his voice is often heard in the behalf of his party. During the outbreak in Scott County, in 1879, he was captain of a company, and he has in his possession a letter from the adjutant-general of the State in commendation of his conduct.

George H. Council The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Capt. George H. Council, farmer and stock raiser, was born near Knoxville, Tenn., in 1828. His parents, Howard and Lucinda (Gollihar) Council, were born in East Tennessee in 1801. The former died in Georgia, in 1838, and his widow afterward married again. She died in Logan County, Ark., in 1875. Mr. Council was of Irish descent and of North Carolina parentage. He became a well-to-do man, but during the gold excitement in Georgia was a heavy loser. Both he and the mother of our subject belonged to the Presbyterian Church. George H. is the second of a family of seven children. He attended the common schools of the neighborhood during his youth, and went to Hiawassce College, East Tennessee. He began life for himself at the age of eighteen, as a farm hand, and afterward taught school about six years. In 1856 he married Martha, daughter of David and Nancy Ragon, and a native of Hamilton County, Tenn., whose parents were natives of North Carolina. To Mr. and Mrs. Council nine children have been born, of whom all save one are living. In 1857 Capt. Council came to Sebastian County and entered the land he now owns, which was then unimproved, and which he proceeded to cultivate. This was laid waste during his absence in war times, but he has now converted it into a nice farm of 370 acres. Although he began life in humble circumstances he is now a successful and prominent farmer of Prairie Township, and one of its respected citizens. From June, 1862, until after the battle at Prairie Grove, he served as first lieutenant of Company G, Col. Brooks' regiment, but was then made captain, which position he held until the close of the war. He operated in Arkansas and Louisiana, participating in the engagements at Helena, Pleasant Hill, Mansfield, Jenkins' Ferry, etc., and was discharged when the company disbanded at Marshall, Tex. Capt. Council has given his children good educations. Himself and wife have been members of the Missionary Baptist Church since their youth. He is a Democrat, and since 1863 has been a member of Pulliam Masonic Lodge No. 133, at Witcherville.

William Murphy Davis The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Submitted by Judy Spears Would love to make a connection to this family.... Judy William Murphy Davis was born in DeKalb County, Ga., April 2, 1840, and is a son of William M. and Frances (Morton) Davis. His father was born in Virginia, and when young went to South Carolina, where he learned the blacksmith's trade, and grew up upon a farm. From South Carolina he went to Georgia, and in 1845 came to Arkansas. In 1852 he removed to Texas, and there died in 1855. He was a farmer by occupation. The mother was a native of Virginia, but was married in Pendleton District, SC. She died in Jefferson County, Ark., in 1863, and was the mother of nine children, of whom our subject is the only survivor. The others were Miles A., Unity, Mary, Gabriel, Franklin, Caroline, Lewis and Frances. The grandparents on both sides were natives of Virginia, who went to South Carolina. The paternal grandparents died in that State, but the maternal grandparents died in Georgia. William Davis was but four years of age when brought to Jefferson County, Ark, where he grew up upon his father's farm. Being the oldest child he was needed upon the farm, and consequently received but a limited education. In 1861 he enlisted in Company I, of the Ninth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, and served in that company until discharged in 1862. He was present at Grant's defeat at Belmont. He then enlisted at St. Charles, Ark, under Capt. Peoples, Confederate Army, and served until mustered out in 1865. The company was disbanded at Louisville, Ark., with other Southern troops. After the war he engaged in farming in Jefferson County, Ark, but in 1872 came to Sebastian County, where he bought eighty four acres of land, fifty of which he cultivates. In 1869 he married Margaret, daughter of James Carr, a native of Gibson County, Tenn. Mrs. Davis came to this State when young, and has borne eight children, all save one now living: Dorah, Phaeby, Marshall, Morgan, Marches, Estelle, Motier, Ida L, and Morgan (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Davis belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Davis has served his township as school director and overseer, and in politices is a straight Democrat.

Leroy Dawson (Leroy Dawson. Lucinda Wilhite, daus Martha & Celia) (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Leroy Dawson is a worthy tiller of the soil in Sebastian County, Ark., and owns a fertile farm of 160 acres, 110 of which are under cultivation. He is the eldest of eight children, and was born in Jackson County, Ala., June 26, 1824, and from his earliest boyhood up has been engaged in farming. At the age of twenty he began the battle of life for himself, and June 26, 1847, was married in Missouri, whither he had moved with his parents, to Elizabeth C. Burtoff, by whom he became the father of four sons and three daughters. For his second wife he chose Miss Elizabeth Wilhite, who bore him one son and five daughters. Mr. Dawson is a Democrat, and since 1879 has been a resident of Sebastian County, Ark. His parents, Larkin and Lucinda (Williams) Dawson, were born in North and South Carolina, respectively, and when quite young were taken to Jackson County, Ala., where they married and lived until about 1842, when they took up their abode in Crawford County, Mo. They both died in 1864 at a good old age, their deaths occurring one day apart. The mother was a true Christian in every sense of the word, and was a devoted member of the Primitive Baptist Church. The father was a Democrat in his political views, and was highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him.

John Degen The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 John Degen, butcher and fine stock raiser, of Huntington, is one of the first settlers of that place, having purchased the first corner lot. He was born on the Rhine, Germany, in 1838, and is a son of Hermann and Barbara (Eichorn) Degen, who, coming to the United States in 1848, spent one year in New York City, and then lived until 1860 in Schenectady. They then immigrated to Fort Smith, near which place the mother is now living, and where the father died in 1869. He was a civil engineer, and followed that vocation while in New York. In his native land he was a prominent politician, having been a member of Parliament many years, and, being upon the unpopular side during the European trouble of 1848, he deemed it prudent to emigrate. John Degen, the subject of this sketch, was the seventh child in a family of five sons and five daughters, and received his English and German education in New York City, where he also learned the butcher's trade. After working in Schenectady, Syracuse, Utica, Detroit and Chicago he traveled farther west in 1854. He served throughout the Kansas War, and enlisted in the Government employ in May, 1854. He served five years in Company B, First United States Cavalry, as sergeant, and fought the Indians in Colorado, Montana and the Rocky Mountain district. He first visited Fort Smith in 1854, and taking up his residence at that place in 1860 he made it his home until coming to Huntington in 1887. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he commanded a company under Gen. Pike, with whom he traveled through the Indian Territory, making treaties for the Confederate army with the Indians. He remained in service as military instructor for the trans-Mississippi Department until captured in Sebastian County in 1863. He was held a prisoner six weeks at Fort Smith, and was not exchanged. November 4, 1864, he married Bertha, daughter of Andrew Euper, who came from Germany when a child with her parents. This marriage has resulted in five children, four of whom are living. After the war until 1869 Mr. Degen traded in cattle, but since 1871 has been engaged in butchering and contracting with the railway. He assisted largely in the building of the "Frisco," Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and other lines in the Southwest. Since 1877 Mr. Degen has devoted a great share of his attention to the breeding of Poland China and Berkshire hogs and short-horn cattle. He has some fine herds, and has taken several premiums at different fairs, including the fairs of Fort Smith and St. Louis. He is well informed upon the subject of cattle raising and breeding, and has done a great deal toward the improvement of stock in the county. He is a large dealer, exporting cattle to Texas, Missouri, Indian Territory and other States.

Paul Alfred Delorvin 1850-1920 Goodspeed Publishing 1889 Paul Alfred Delorvin, proprietor of the Border City Manufacturing Company, was born in Dantzic, Germany, July 18, 1857, and is a son of George and Adele (Juchanovitz) Delorvin. The paternal grandfather, George Delorvin, was a native of France, and the maternal ancestors were from Poland. Our subject grew to manhood in the land of his birth, and there received a good education and engaged in the grocery business. In 1873 he came to America, and for some time travelled as a baker and confectioner through Illinois, Missouri and this western country. In January, 1883, he located at Fort Smith, where he established himself in the confectionery business. He has a large factory, and besides candies manufactures baking powder, bluing, cider, etc. In 1887 he completed his present large factory, warehouse and store, on the corner of First and Second Streets, and built a large store next to the one occupied by Messrs Reynolds & Foster. He was married in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Imogene Ellis, a native of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Delorvin have no children, but George, a son of our subject's brother George, is living and working with his uncle. Mr. Delorvin belongs to the Lutheran Church, and his wife to the Episcopal Church. ( they did have 1 son b. c1899)

John Dodson 1815-1889 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present. Goodspeed 1889 John Dodson, retired merchant and land agent of Fort Smith, Ark., hails from Belfast, Ireland, in which city, and in England and Scotland, he learned flax-spinning, by machinery, and became what he calls manager, and we call superintendent of a factory, a part of the business being the making of tailors' and other threads. Whilst in Ayrshire he went to the Burns' Festival, heard Prof. Wilson deliver his famous address, saw several noted writers, saw Burns' sons and some of his old neighbors, also a representation of "Tam o' Shanter,” his mare, “Meg,” and the “Witches,” and saw “Cuttie Sart” pull Meg's tail off crossing the “Keystane o' the Brig.” At a time of bad trade he left Ireland for New York, tramped over much of that State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; got disgusted and dropped his trade, for if there were then any factories worthy of the name he failed to find them. He spent two years at common labor in a New Jersey woolen mill, and his wages were $8 per month. Three or four months before Zach. Taylor's election he was discharged, and between Philadelphia and Baltimore got into a crowd of 3,000 men that had been discharged from the Eastern mills to show that an increased “protective tariff" was necessary --seems this game is played every four years, whether trade be really good or bad. He took everything eatable on the road, and sometimes took drinkables, so he left and headed for Ohio. It was a long walk to Beaver, or Fallston, over 300 miles of a rough country road, but he got work there at 50 cents a day, one-half cash and one-half in woolen cloth. Ere reaching Beaver, and at the foot of Laurel Hill, he was offered work, mining or digging iron ore at $18 per month. Here he worked five weeks, and received in full pay $2--some other of the workers got less. The two owners of the furnace refused to pay all tramps and strangers, and were habitually cheating. Some workmen were paid on head and ribs with the furnacemen's iron pokers. His work led him past the cottage of “Grace Greenwood", daily. She was young then, and making a name as a writer. She seemed fond of birds and flowers. Greenwood, of course, is not her real name. He tried next the blue-grass region of Kentucky, and would willingly have settled there, for the country and people suited him, but times were dull and work scarce, and in hunting for the latter he found himself at Little Rock, Ark. The capital of Arkansas is a fine city now, but when he first saw it it was a small town --land too plenty, people too few, money and work too little. Chopping wood and burning coal seemed all that was needed, and not much of that same. Here he lived two years, mostly as guard and inside keeper of the penitentiary. The next year he was a store clerk in Van Buren, and the following year in Fort Smith. After that he had a small interest in the store, and made much money for his partner and some for himself. The “Know-nothing" movement came up before the Civil War, and, being the Irish leader here, he found it harder than the war; his caution and the good understanding he maintained with the Germans helped much, and hardly any injury occurred to person or property. He never owned a slave, but he thought justice was on the South's side, and spent about $15,000 in supporting her. He lost two young sons and a brother, and his home and other things, and for two years after the war closed did not get enough to eat. But he wasted no time in grumbling, and luck turned with him as soon as he became a land agent. In 1886 he was worth $20,000 or $30,000, and in 1887 came a boom, and he made about as much more, and he has it and is not likely to waste it. He married three times. The first wife was a Miss O'Keeffe, of Wicklow, Ireland; the second, a Miss Murray, of his old town of Belfast; his third is a Chicago lady named Miss Brady. He has three children; one is a partner in a planing mill, another is studying law in Baltimore, and the third is a girl of seven years. He took Father Matthew's pledge, and keeps it. He never gambled; his leisure hours are spent in reading. He has many books on many subjects, and by the best authors—for some of them he sent to Ireland. He thinks he has the best Catholic library in Arkansas; if he lives long he will, for he is occasionally adding to it. He thinks Fort Smith will gradually enlarge; that as she has several railroads she will have others, and that, distances being far to Little Rock, Kansas City and St. Louis, this town has a superior location.

Otto B. Donaldson The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Otto B. Donaldson, of the general mercantile firm of Donaldson & Jackman, at Altus, Ark., was born at Fort Smith, Ark., June 4, 1842, and is a son of Thomas T. and Elizabeth Donaldson, who were born in Maryland, and at an early day removed to Ohio, thence to Fort Smith, Ark., where they built the first trading establishment in the town. They died when Otto B. was very young, and but little is known of the early history of the family. The father died about 1846 and the mother about 1853. They were quite wealthy, and at the time of their deaths owned considerable property, but their papers became lost or destroyed and their children were obliged to suffer the consequences. The mother was married a second time, and became the mother of one son, R. B. Morrow, who is a wealthy merchant of Greenwood, Ark. Her first union was blessed in the birth of five children, two of whom are living: Otto B. and Cornelia, wife of R. R. Lewis, of Sebastian County, Ark. At the death of his parents Otto B. Donaldson was left to fight the battle of life as best he could, and for a number of years had many hard battles with adversity. What money he could obtain was spent in acquiring an education, and when the war broke out he left his studies and work and enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate States Army, and for three years served as third lieutenant, coming out at the close of the war as adjutant major, with the rank of first lieutenant. He was in the battles of Elkhorn and Corinth, and also participated in many skirmishes. He was at one time discharged for disability, but after some time regained his health and rejoined his command. He took up his abode near Clarksville, Ark., after the close of the war, and while there engaged in book-keeping for H. Hodges, with whom he remained two years. He then rented a large farm for four years, but this enterprise was unfortunate, and what property he had acquired was sunk in the venture. He then came to Altus and began working as salesman, book-keeper and depot agent for J. M. Williamson, with whom he remained four years. He then formed a partnership with his employer, which connection lasted four years, and the three following years were occupied in the family grocery business. For the last two years he and Mr. Jackman have been running a mercantile establishment, and are doing an extensive and steadily increasing business. In 1874 he was elected justice of the peace, and has held the office up to present time, and for two years was postmaster of Altus. His union with Sarah J. Bateman was consummated in 1867, but she died four years later, leaving no issue. In 1874 Parthenia Hampton, a daughter of Taylor Hampton, of Cole Hill, Ark., became his wife. Her death occurred in 1880, at the age of twenty-four years. June 17, 1883, Mr. Donaldson married his third wife, Virginia, daughter of Lewis B. Phillips. She was born in Franklin County, Ark., November 14, 1861, and is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Having no children of his own Mr. Donaldson has reared five orphan children, the last one being still under his roof. He is one of the enterprising citizens of the town, and in his political views is a Democrat.

Jeremiah P. Durden The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Jeremiah P. Durden, treasurer of Sebastian County, Ark., is a native of Muscogee County, Ga., and was born July 15, 1841, being a son of Asa R. and Nancy (Ransom) Durden. Asa R. Durden was born in Northeastern Georgia, in 1795, and was of Irish-English descent. He was a mechanic and carpenter in early life, but later followed the farmer's occupation. In 1849 he moved to Barbour County, Ala., where he passed the remainder of his life. He died in 1858. His wife was born in Northeastern Georgia, is yet living, and is residing with her children, in Sebastian County, Ark., coming here in 1885. Of the eleven children born to her marriage eight are now living, and Jeremiah P. Durden is the seventh in order of birth. He attained his growth on the farm, and remained with his mother until twenty-four years of age. March 10, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Forty-fifth Alabama Regiment, Infantry Volunteers, and participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Jonesboro, Resaca and Springhill, Tenn. At the battle of Murfreesboro he was wounded in the right leg by a rifle-ball, and was absent from command sixty days. He was again wounded at Springhill, Tenn., November 29, 1864, being struck in the left leg by a minie-ball below the knee, but the wound was so severe that in March, 1865, amputation was necessary to save his life. He was held in prison until June, 1865, when he was sent to the prison hospital at Nashville, Tenn. He remained there until the latter part of July, when he was released, and in the fall returned to Alabama. After the war he attended school, and in 1867 engaged in the teacher's profession, teaching in Alabama until 1872, when he immigrated to Sebastian County, Ark., and located six miles east of the county seat, where he resumed teaching. He continued this for two years, and in 1874 was appointed deputy assessor of Scbastian County, and in 1875 he was elected county assessor at a special election. He was re- elected in 1876, 1878 and 1880 to the same position, serving in all eight years. The four years after this he followed farming, and in 1886 he was elected county treasurer of Sebastian County, Ark., his majority being over 1,300, thus forcibly showing his popularity among the people. Mr. Durden is a fine business man and a good citizen. He is the owner of 300 acres of land, and is a successful farmer. In 1868 he married Miss Martha R. Thames, who was born in Sumter County, Ga., in 1844. Eight children were born to this marriage: Pruett (who was killed accidentally by being struck by a base-ball but at Fayetteville, Ark., June 24, 1888, at the age of eighteen years), Harman, Reuben O., Eula F. (deceased, who died at the age of one year), John J., Lemuel P., Ida L. and Abbie M. Mr. Durden is a member of the K. of H., also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is Democratic in his political views. Mrs. Durden is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and Democratic also.

Angela Medora Duval The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Mrs. Angela Medora Duval, widow of Dr. Elias Rector DuVal, was born in Van Buren, Ark., December 9, 1841, and is a daughter of Dr. J. A. Dibrell. She was reared in Arkansas, and educated in Richmond, Va., and on the 8th of May, 1860, was married to Dr. DuVal, and soon after took up her residence in Fort Smith, where she has since made her home, and in her commodious and handsome residence on Hickory Street is devoting her time and energies to the education and culture of her children, whose names are as follows: Annie Medora, who was educated in the University of Arkansas, at Fayetteville; Ben. T., who is attending school in Tennessee; Dibrell LeGrande and Angela M. Elias R., another child, died in 1864, at the age of eleven months. Dr. J. A. Dibrell, the father of Mrs. DuVal, was born in Nashville, Tenn., August 15, 1817, and was educated in the university of that city. He studied medicine for three years under the instruction of Dr. Thomas R. Jennings, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1839, and has been a practicing physician of Van Buren, Ark., for forty-one years, except during the late Civil War. His wife, Ann Eliza (Pryor) Dibrell, was also born in Nashville, October 8, 1825, and became the mother of five children: Angela Medora (Mrs. DuVal), James Anthony, J. A., Thomas H. and Ann Eliza. Mrs. DuVal's paternal grandfather, Edwin Dibrell, was clerk in the Federal Treasury under President Polk, and was a descendant of the French Huguenots. His wife, whose maiden name was Martha Shrewsbury, was of English lineage, and was born in Kentucky. The great-grandfather, Anthony Dibrell, was a wealthy planter and a member of the Virginia Legislature. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and fought through the entire conflict for our national independence, being wounded in the fight at Guilford Court-House, and was carried off the field by the noted giant, Peter Francisco. The Pryor family are of Virginia stock, and are related to the Jefferson family by marriage. Dr. Elias Rector DuVal was born in Fort Smith, Ark., August 13, 1836, and received his literary education in the Arkansas College, Fayetteville, graduating with the degree of A.B. in 1854, at the age of eighteen. The next two years were spent in the Louisville and Philadelphia Medical Colleges, graduating from the latter institution as an M. D. March 6, 1858, also having the degree of A.M. conferred upon him. He served in Lieut. Steen's command in New Mexico as acting surgeon of the United States Army, but in 1859 retired to private life in Fort Smith, where he not only rose to be one of the leading physicians and surgeons, but became one of the leading men of the State. His talents were not limited to his profession, but extended over a large area, and much of his time was devoted to the improvement and development of the county and community in which he resided, the public schools testifying to his ability and discreet management. In medical circles no man in the State stood higher, and he was a member of the Fort Smith Medical Society; was president of the Sebastian County Medical Society in 1872; president of the State Medical Society during 1874- 75, and was a permanent member of the American Medical Association. He was president of the Fort Smith Board of Health, and a member of the State Board of Health of Little Rock. In 1861 he was appointed assistant surgeon in the Confederate army, and the same year was promoted to the post of surgeon. In August, 1862, he was promoted to chief surgeon of the Second Division of the First Army Corps, of the trans-Mississippi Department, and in March, 1863, was appointed medical director for the entire department. Among his published writings, worthy of especial mention, are "Bucnemia Tropica", "Malarial Hemorrhagic Fever", "Influenza", "Cerebro Spinal Fever", "History of the Cholera in Fort Smith in 1866", and "Eclampsia Puerperalis". Dr. DuVal had taken all the York Rite degrees of Masonry, and had been Worshipful Master, High Priest of the Chapter, Most Worshipful Grand Master of the State, and for two years successively was Grand High Priest of the State; one year, Right Eminent Grand Commander of the Knights Templar, and was for a number of years chairman of committees on Masonic history, and is the author of the "History of Masonry in Arkansas". He voted against secession prior to the war, but afterward espoused the cause of the Confedcracy, and throughout the remainder of his life was a consistent Democrat. He died on the 7th of October, 1885, lamented by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He was a son of William DuVal, who was a direct descendant of the French Huguenots. His grandfather was of the Maryland line of DuVals. William resided for a number of years in Virginia, and came to Fort Smith, Ark., in 1825. He was much beloved by the Indians, with whom he traded, and was sent as their representative to Washington, D.C. Dr. E. R. DuVal, in his private life, was a refined Christian gentleman, in his family the center of every attraction, being idolized by all hearts. His distinguishing characteristics were charity for the feelings and opinions of others, and his firm convictions of right, ever in his lectures denouncing infidelity and showing the evil tendencies of skepticism. His sweet memory will live with us until we are carried to our last abode. While his noble deeds will diminish in the lengthening distance when viewed by future generations, yet in heaven they are written with imperisbable characters, and the angel of light has brightened the page with a record of his noble deeds.

Martin T. Dyke History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Co.s, Arkansas. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 M. T. Dyke, of the firm of Miller & Dyke, at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Indiana, in 1856, and is the son of Nathaniel and Emily M. (Trester) Dyke. The Dyke family are descendants of the early New England Presbyterians, and were tenacious of their religious belief, and Grandfather Nathaniel Dyke was a veteran in the War of 1812. Nathaniel Dyke, father of our subject, was married to Miss Emily M. Trester, in Indiana, and five children were the result of this union, two sons and three daughters, only two sons now alive. M. T. Dyke was educated in the graded schools of Indiana, and came to Arkansas in 1875, where he engaged in the lumber business, in the employ of J. G. Miller. Three years later he became a member of the firm, under the title of J. G. Miller & Co., remaining as such until 1887, when the firm title was changed to Miller & Dyke. Mr. Dyke was married in Fort Smith, to Miss Myrtle M. Parke, daughter of Maj. Frank Parke, one of the oldest settlers of Fort Smith. This union resulted in the birth of two children: Mary Trester and Myrtle Parke. Mr. Dyke is secretary of the building committee for the construction of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is church secretary, and is a member of the A. F. & A. M. Mrs. Dyke is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society, also a member of the Missionary Society, and has taken an important part in society work. Nathaniel Dyke, the third member of the firm of Miller & Dyke, came to Fort Smith in 1880, entered the employ of the firm, and became a member of the same January 1888. He is a K. P., is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, being steward of the same, and is organist and instructor of the church choir. He was also educated in the high-schools of Indiana, and has unusual musical talent. The firm of Miller & Dyke manufacture all kinds of doors, sash blinds, etc., and do a general lumber business.

Henry Clay Earnest The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Henry Clay Earnest, farmer, miller and postmaster, at Milltown, Ark., is a son of David and Jennie (Smith) Earnest, the former of whom was born in Franklin County, Va., in 1781. His wife was born in North Carolina in 1785. They were married about 1802, and located in Ashe County, but in 1835 moved to Bradley County, Tenn., where the mother died in 1854. About 1861 the father went to Walker County, Ga., where he resided until his death, in 1865. For a great many years he held important official positions in Ashe County, N. C., filling the position of county and circuit clerk of Ashe County for forty years. He was a Henry Clay Whig, and throughout life was extensively engaged in farming. His father came from Germany at an early day, and followed the occupation of blacksmithing. Henry Clay Earnest is the only surviving member of a family of nine children, and was born on the 12th of May, 1823, in Ashe County, N. C. He received the education and rearing of the average farmer's boy of his day, and at the age of twenty began tilling the soil on his own responsibility. In 1844 he espoused Mary Melton, who was born in Cocke County, Tenn., in 1827, and in 1859 they moved to Walker County, Ga., and seven years later removed to Washington County, Ark., where they made their home until 1883, since which time they have resided in Sebastian County. Mr. Earnest's chief business through life has been farming, but since locating in Sebastian County he has operated a grist-mill and cotton-gin. In 1884 he was appointed postmaster of Milltown, and is a Republican in politics, and his wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. They own sixty-eight acres of land in Sebastian County, and eighty acres in Washington County, and are the parents of the following children: Winfield S., Mary J., Mattie, Margaret, David, John, Thomas, Charles, Amanda. Henry, Minnie and Otto. The eldest son is a merchant of Milltown.

Robert H. Echols The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Robert H. Echols, farmer, is a son of Thomas and Mary (Harper) Echols, the former of whom was a native of Wilkes County, Ga., born April 21, 1801, though reared in Clark County. The Echols family was first represented in America by John Echols, who was born in England, and settled in Virginia, where he was married to Mary Cave, a Welsh lady. Grandfather Echols was married to Susan Sampson, and moved to Georgia, where he reared a family of five sons and two daughters, of whom Thomas is the third. The latter's brother Robert was a member of the Georgia Legislature for many years, and was president of the Senate for eleven years. Thomas Echols was married in Clark County in 1821, his wife being born in 1806, and they resided respectively in Clark, Walton, Newton, Fulton and Paulding Counties, Ga., and in 1869 became residents of Crawford County, Ark., coming to Sebastian County eight years later. The mother died in Fulton County, Ga., in January, 1848, and the father has since been married twice. His two sons and two daughters were born to his first marriage. During the days of militia he held the offices of lieutenant and captain, and throughout his long and useful career has followed the occupations of farming and carpentering. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, has been a Democrat all his life, and a Mason for thirty-four years. Robert H. Echols, his son, was born in Clark County, Ga., December 3, 1824, and up to the present time has made his home in the same localities in which his father has resided. While in Fulton County, Ga., he was married (in 1849) to Elizabeth Morris, by whom he had one son. After her death he married Mary A., her sister, who has borne him nine sons and two daughters. He owns eighty acres of land, and in politics is a Democrat.

T. W. Edmondson The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 T. W. Edmondson, of the firm of Wood, Edmondson & Britt, Star Grocery House, was born in Fort Smith in 1857, and is a son of Samuel and Ann (Manning), Edmondson. The father was of Scotch-Irish descent, born in Tennessee in 1803, and when small went with his father, Thomas, to Macon, Ga. He was a lawyer, and when a young man located in Crawford County, at old Crawford Court House, but later moved to Fort Smith, where he was one of the first settlers. He devoted his attention to his profession and political affairs, and represented Sebastian County in the State Legislature two terms. He was one of the leading lights of the Fort Smith bar for a number of years. His death occurred in 1866. The mother of T. W. was Mr. Edmondson's second wife, who was born in Ireland in 1819. She came to the United States when about twelve, and is now a resident of Fort Smith. Two of her children are living: Samuel M., born in Fort Smith in 1853, and now justice of the peace, and our subject. His early education was received at the last named place, and when thirteen he clerked in a restaurant one year, and afterward in a bakery. In 1876 he came to Van Buren, and established a bakery and restaurant. In 1882 W. O. Girard became his partner, and in 1884 Mr. Edmondson sold his interest. In 1885 he worked for Shibley & Wood, and the following year Harry Wood and himself established a grocery, which they ran a year. He then sold out to Mr. Wood and started for himself, and in 1887 sold out to James Wood and Frederick Britt, but in March, 1888, bought a third interest in the firm. They have one of the finest and best stocks in Van Buren, and enjoy a large patronage. In 1879 Mr. Edmondson married Annie Wood, daughter of James M. and Sophronia Wood, and a native of this town, born in 1860. She is a member of the Christian Church, but he is a Catholic. He is a director and stockholder in the Van Buren Ice and Coal Company, and is treasurer of the same. Politically he is a Democrat. and his first presidential vote was cast for Hancock in 1880.

William M. Ervin The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 William M. Ervin, farmer, was born December 10, 1830, in Lincoln County, Tenn. (now Moore County), his father being James Ervin, who married a Miss Merritt. The former was reared upon a farm in North Carolina, where he was born, and when a boy traveled by wagon to Tennessee, where he lived until his death in December, 1882, aged eighty-five. He enlisted as a captain in the late war, and arose to the office of major-general. The mother was born in the same county, and was a school-mate of her husband. She also went to Tennessee when young, and there married and bore seven children. Those living are Jonathan, William M., James and Thomas. Hezekiah and Milton were killed while in the Confederate service, and Lucinda is also deceased. Mrs. Ervin was of English descent, and her death occurred the day after her husband's, when she was eighty-six. The paternal grandparents emigrated from North Carolina to Tennessee, and from there to Cape Girardeau County, Mo., where they died. The maternal grandfather was born in North Carolina, and fought in the battle of New Orleans. He died in Tennessee. Our subject was reared upon the farm in Tennessee, and during his youth received a good education, and learned the tanner's, carpenter's and shoemaker's trades, at the latter of which he worked about twenty years. In 1849 he married Rebecca La Massey, who was born in Tennessee, and died October 6, 1887. She was the mother of the following children: Mary, James, William, John, Thomas, Henry, Alvin and Elizabeth (deceased). July 8, 1888, Mr. Ervin married Mary A. (Brewer) Lindsey, daughter of Zebedee and Amanda Brewer, and widow of Mr. Lindsey, by whom she had four children: Ada, Ida, Thomas and Rhoda. Mrs. Ervin was born and reared in this county, and is a member of the Baptist Church, to which Mr. Ervin also belongs. During the war Mr. Ervin served four years as shoemaker in the Confederate army. He participated in the battle at Prairie Springs, and surrendered at Houston, Tex., in 1865. In 1881 he settled in Sebastian County, where he has a farm of 380 acres, 215 of which he has finely cultivated. He is a prosperous citizen, a Democrat, and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Anton Euper The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Anton Euper, a retail liquor dealer of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1836. His parents, Anton and Beatrice Euper, were born in Germany, the former being reared in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg. He was a wagon-maker by trade, and in 1849 came to America, landing at New Orleans, and came directly to Fort Smith, where he worked at his trade the first few years, and afterward kept a boarding-house. He was born in 1800 and died in 1869. Only two of his ten children are now alive. Anton, Jr., came with his father to the United States, and served an apprenticeship at the wagon-maker's trade, and has since been occupied in various callings, being now engaged in the retail liquor business. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He was united in marriage to Pauline Grober, a daughter of Frederick Grober, one of the pioneer settlers of Fort Smith. His wife was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, and is the mother of five children: Tony, George, Frank, Ida and Rauling. The first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Euper died when an infant. Mrs. Euper is a member of the Lutheran Church.

W. L. Euper The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 W. L. Euper, assessor of Sebastian County, was born at Fort Smith August 2, 1852, and is a son of Melchior and Eva (Herold) Euper, natives of Wittenburg, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, respectively. The father was a glove-maker, and was married in Vienna. In 1849, with his wife and two sons and two daughters, he immigrated to America, landing at New Orleans the same year. In 1850 the family came to Fort Smith, where Mr. and Mrs. Euper are now enjoying their old age. In this county our subject passed his youth, and after attending Cane Hill College, engaged in mercantile pursuits, in 1878 going into business for himself. In 1882 he was elected justice of Hartford Township, and in 1886 was elected county assessor, to which office he has since been re-elected consecutively. Mr. Euper married Miss Lena Refald, foster daughter and niece of the Hon. W. D. Carroll, and a native of Pine Bluff, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Euper are regular communicants at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and have a family of three children: Clayton, John Henry and Edna White. Mr. Euper is a Catholic Knight.

William Meade Fishback The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 (photo posted by Lynn) Col. William Meade Fishback, presidential elector at large for Arkansas in 1888, is a native of Jeffersonton, Culpeper Co., Va., and was born in November, 1831. He is a son of Col. Frederick Fishback and Sophia A. Fishback, nee Yates. Col. Frederick Fishback was born in the same house as his father, and on February 14, 1813. The Fishbacks were originally from Germany, and made their first settlement at Fredericktown, Md. This town was named after the owner of the land on which it is situated, who was Frederick Fishback. Hagerstown, Md., was named after the father of his wife, Miss Hager, who owned the land upon which it was built. Sophia A. Yates was born near Appomattox Court-house, Va. Her mother was a Miss Stith, a descendant of one of the first historians of Virginia. Col. William M. Fishback grew to manhood in Jeffersonton, Va., was educated at the University of Virginia, and read law in Richmond, Va. He came west in 1857; on his way he stopped in Springfield, Ill., and made the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln, who took a fancy to him and gave him his first legal business, and after he came to Arkansas, in 1858, Mr. Lincoln wrote to him suggesting his return to Illinois, offering to give him other business. In 1861 he was elected as a Union man to the secession convention, and when the State seceded he resigned and went north. He returned to Little Rock in 1863, and edited the "Unconditional Union", at which he made considerable money. In 1864 he was elected to the United State Senate by the Union Government, organized under the proclamation of Mr. Lincoln, and under the assumption that the State had not seceded. It was the first case of reorganization of seceded States, and he and his colleague, Elisha Baxter, were denied admission, because the negro was not allowed the elective franchise. He was again elected to the constitutional convention of 1874, by the same county of Sebastian, and made his first attempt in that body to have the fraudulent bonds of the State repudiated by a constitutional provision, so that people could know which bonds the State recognized. The measure failed. In 1876 he was elected to the Legislature, and introduced the "Fishback Amendment" to the Constitution, forbidding the payment of these bonds; again he failed. In 1878 he was again elected, and again brought the matter up. This Legislature adopted and submitted the amendment to the people. It was carried by 40,000 majority, but was counted out. It was again submitted in 1884, and carried by over 100,000 majority. In 1888 he was a candidate for governor, but although he had more first and second choices than any of the four other candidates, he withdrew in the interest of Democratic harmony, and the convention in his absence elected him presidential elector for the State at large. In 1865 he accepted the office of treasury agent, under Andrew Johnson, and used his office to protect Southern people in their prosperty. After he had succeeded in this he resigned in 1865, and recommended that his office be abolished as useless. Two regiments were partially raised in his name for the Union army, although he was never in the service himself. He was a candidate for the United States Senate in 1885, against Hon. I. H. Berry and Poindexter Dunn. Berry was the successful candidate. He was married April 4, 1867, to Adelaide Miller, and has six living children. His wife died in 1882. He has not married again. He is a Democrat, and his family are members of the Episcopal Church. He is not a member of any church himself.

W. J. Fleming The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 W. J. Fleming, postmaster of Fort Smith, is a native of Pope County, Ark., and was born March 29, 1845, his parents being Reuben R. and Melinda (Latimer) Fleming, natives of Tennessee. The father was a farmer by occupation; was married in Bedford County, Tenn., and about 1840 settled in Pope County, Ark., where he died in 1846. The grandfathers, William Fleming and Robert Latimer, were early settlers of Tennessee, whither the former went from England. Our subject attained his growth in Johnson County, Tenn., and when sixteen years of age enlisted in Company A, of the Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate Army, He served from September, 1861, until taken a prisoner near the close of the war at Port Hudson, La. He then filled the office of sergeant-major. After his parole he returned to Clarksville, Ark., and served in the Indian Territory in the commissary and quartermaster's department until the cessation of hostilities. He then spent some time in Lawrence and Baldwin City, Kas., after which he lived six months at Springfield, Mo. After clerking eighteen months in the Indian Territory, in 1868 he engaged in merchandising at Hartford, Sebastian Co., Ark., continuing in business there three years. His next venture was in the milling business, at which he spent two years. After 1878 he served two terms as circuit clerk of Sebastian County, and then from 1882 until 1883 sold goods at Greenwood. In the latter year he became a resident of Fort Smith, where he has been engaged in mercantile life for two years. In 1885 he was appointed postmaster, which position he now holds. While in Hartford he married Sarah J., daughter of James T. and Rebecca M. Carter, a native of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming have the following children: Bertie M., Annie R., Willie R. and James T. Mrs. Fleming worships at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Fleming is a member of the Blue Lodge in Masonry.

J. K. Foltz The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 J. K. Foltz, a prominent fruit grower and dealer in real estate at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the "Buckeye State" in 1853, and is the eldest of eight children born to the marriage of David Foltz and Susan Kimerer, and a grandson of John Foltz, who was born in Prussia, Germany, and immigrated to the United States many years ago, locating in Pennsylvania. He afterward moved to Ohio, where he spent his declining years and died at a ripe old age. David was reared on a farm near Wooster, Ohio, and there he and his wife, who was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., spent the remainder of their days. Their son, J. K. Foltz, was educated in Hiram College, and had Gen. James A. Garfield for a tutor. It was his early intention to adopt a profession, but the death of his father called him home, and being the eldest of the family he was obliged to take charge of the farm, which change caused him to give up his intentions of a professional life, and to follow agricultural pursuits instead. He was first married in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Miss Mary Ewalt, who afterward died, having borne one child, Mary Helen, now the wife of D. W. Loney, of Olna, Ohio. Mr. Foltz afterward went to Mississippi, and while there was married to Miss Mary A. Rothell, who was born in Mississippi in 1844, and there made her home until ten years of age. She was sent to school at Mount Vernon, Ohio, where she graduated. After her marriage she returned with her husband to Ohio, where they made their home three years, and then moved to Memphis, Tenn., where they were engaged in farming until 1881. Since that time they have resided in Sebastian County, Ark., where Mr. Foltz is engaged in fruit growing and the real estate business. He is an extensive land-holder, and owns stock in the Fruit Evaporator of Fort Smith. He and wife are the parents of three children: Joseph R., a law student at Ann Arbor. Mich.; Jennie O. and Fannie Frances, who are both attending school at St. Mary's Academy, Knoxville, Ill. Sarah, another daughter, died at the age of eight months. Both the Foltz and Kimerer families were of German descent, and the latter family was noted for their large statures, robust constitutions and great longevity. Mrs. Foltz's parents, A. G. and Mary (Cannon) Rothell, were both born in Maryland, the former moving to Mississippi at an early day, where he operated a saw, grist and planing-mill, and was an extensive dealer in lumber. Mrs. Foltz is the third of their five children. Her paternal grandfathar was Parrott Rothell, who was born in France, and established the first circulating library in Baltimore, Md. She is a member of the Episcopal Church and her husband is a member of the Christian Church.

J. Bryant Forrester The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 J. Bryant Forrester, postmaster and general merchant at Hartford, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Roane County in 1830, and is a son of Solomon and Sarah (Marney) Forrester, who were born in the "Palmetto State", in 1803 and 1807, and died in 1863 and 1852, respectively. They were married in their native State, and afterward removed to Tennessee, thence to Arkansas in 1833, settling in Crawford County, where they followed the occupation of farming. To them were born a family of nine children, three of whom are yet living: James M. (residing in California), B. F. (living in Texas) and J. Bryant. The paternal and maternal grandparents, Mark Forrester and Amos Marney, were of English and Scotch-Irish descent, respectively, the former being a native of South Carolina and a soldier in the Black Hawk War. J. Bryant Forrester, whose name heads this sketch, was brought to Arkansas when the country was yet a wilderness, his early days being spent in Crawford County. In 1855 he was married to Maria Shannon, who was born in Crawford County, Ark., in 1838. Her parents, Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Bryant) Shannon, were born in Tennessee, and located in Crawford County, Ark., in 1833, and engaged in tilling the soil. The former died in 1853, but the latter is still living, with her four surviving children, Nancy (Mrs. Clark), Mary (Mrs. Williams) Bryant, and Elizabeth (Mrs. Hight). Mr. Forrester's wife died in 1859, having borne two children: James B., of Fort Smith, and Haseltine (Mrs. Keeney), and in 1872 he married his second wife, Eliza, a daughter of Lucinda (Dalton) Forrester, who were Tennesseeans, and removed to Arkansas in 1850. Six children were born to his second union: Virginia, B. M., J. Bryant, W. B., Duvall and Mark. In May, 1862, Mr. Forrester enlisted in Company B, Col. Clarkson's regiment, Arkansas cavalry, as captain, and in September, 1862, was clected captain of Company D, of the same regiment, and participated in the battles of Elk Horn and Prairie Grove, serving until he received his dischargeat the close of the war. He is a Mason, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and in his political views is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for James Buchanan.

John A. Forrester The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 John A. Forrester, farmer and prominent citizen of Hartford, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in 1849 in East Tennessee. His parents, William and Lucinda (Dalton) Forrester, were farmers by occupation, and were born in Tennessee in 1825. After residing a short time in Arkansas and Texas they permanently located in Arkansas in 1867, and spent the remainder of their days in Franklin County. William Forrester still lives in Franklin County. His wife died November 17, 1885. William Forrester enlisted in the Confederate army in 1863, and operated on the frontier of Texas until the close of the war. Six of their eight children are living: Ephraim H., John A., Eliza, Thomas E., Maggie (Jackson) and Martha M. (Abbott). John A. Forrester was reared in Arkansas and Texas, and began life for himself as a farmer at the age of twenty years. In 1873 he espoused Miss Mary A. Simmons, who was born in Missouri on the 27th of December, 1849, and a daughter of William J. and Susan (Hahan) Simmons. The father was a minister, a teacher, a blacksmith and gunsmith, and was born in Tennessee in 1818, and died on the 30th of June, 1882. His wife was born in Missouri in 1823, and died in 1865. Their children are as follows: Naomi (Horn), Mary A. (Forrester). Elizabeth (Pyle), Barbara A. (Echols), Simon and Martha (Boling). In 1883 Mr. Forrester removed from Franklin to Sebastian County, and bought the fertile valley farm of 120 acres where he is now residing. He has 100 acres under cultivation, and is one of the prosperous and progressive farmers of the county. He is the father of six children, two of whom died in infancy: William, Thomas, George W., Addie R. and James Crockett. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Tilden. His grandparents, Alexander and Sarah Forrester, were of English and Irish descent, and were farmers by occupation.

Josiah Foster 1849-1912 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present ......Goodspeed 1889 Josiah Foster, of the firm of Reynolds, Foster & Co., of Fort Smith, was born in Crawford County, Ark., at Van Buren, May 13, 1849, and is a son of Riley and Luama (Snyder) Foster. The father was born in Howard County, Mo., and was a son of Josiah Foster, a native of Alabama. By occupation he was a farmer and trader. The mother was a native of Kentucky, and was a daughter of Cornelius Snyder, a native of Germany. Our subject grew to manhood in Van Buren, and since 1875 has been engaged in the mercantile business. He was a member of the Van Buren City Council five years, and was one of the originators of the Citizen's Bank and the Van Buren Ice & Coal Company, in both of which he was a stockholder and director. He was also director of the Crawford County Fair Association, and from 1869 until 1873 served as United States Deputy Marshal. He was married in Crawford County, Ark., January 30, 1872, to Miss C. D. Turner, a native of Missouri, and daughter of S. D. Turner. To them two sons and one daughter have been born: John Edmund, Josiah and Ethel. Mr. and Mrs. Foster attend the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the latter is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society. Mr. Foster is a Mason, and was knighted in the Jacques DeMolay commandery. He also be longs to the I. O. O. F. encampment, and has represented his lodge in the State councils.

Leander Foster The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Leander Foster, farmer and stock raiser of Hartford Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., is a son of George W. and Frances L. (Bishop) Foster, and was born in North Carolina in 1844. His parents were born in North Carolina in 1818, and he was subsequently removed by them from his native State to Georgia, thence to Missouri in 1855, and two years later came to Sebastian County, Ark., where his parents were engaged in farming and stock raising. He is one of seven surviving members of a family of eleven children, whose names are as follows: Elizabeth (Tucker), Martha (Bradley), Amanda (Tucker), Frances L. (Harris), Leander, George and Columbus. Leander Foster spent his early life in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, and in March, 1867, was married to Jane Wells, who was born in Platte County, Mo., in 1850, and a daughter of James and Ashby (Shirley) Wells. Mr. Wells and wife became the parents of twelve children, eight of whom are living: Charles, Joseph, Sanford, Ann (Robertson), Polly (McClintock), Julia (Brown) and Jane (Mrs. Foster). Leander Foster and wife became the parents of eleven children, only the following of whom are living: James, Sherman, Clarence, Walter A., Sidney, Horace G. and Ada. Charles and three infants are deceased. After residing a short time in Missouri Mr. Foster returned to Arkansas in 1869, and bought his present farm of 200 acres in 1872. He has 170 acres under cultivation, and a commodious and convenient frame residence. In 1863 he enlisted in Company I, Second Cavalry Regiment, United States Army, was in a number of engagements, and received his discharge in 1864. He is a Mason and Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant.

M. D. Frazier The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 M. D. Frazier, farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in North Carolina December 1, 1823, and is the fourth son of ten children, three living, born to the marriage of George Frazier and Sarah Russell, both of whom were North Carolinians, born in 1777 and 1782, and died in 1865 and 1851, respectively. The father was a farmer, and a son of George and Mary Frazier, natives of North Carolina. George Frazier was a farmer and stock raiser, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was at the battle of Cowpens and Guilford Court-House. The paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Frazier, was a Scotchman, and at a very early day crossed the Atlantic and settled first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina. The maternal grandparents, George and Rebecca Russell, were born in England and North Carolina, respectively, the former coming to the United States and settling in North Carolina at an early day. He also served in the Revolutionary War. M. D. Frazier, whose name heads this sketch, remained in his native State until twenty-four years of age, receiving but limited early educational advantages. In 1847 he was married to Miss Rebecca Curtis, who was born in North Carolina on the 26th of May, 1830, and a daughter of Harrison and Mary (Wright) Curtis. The father was a distiller in North Carolina, and died in 1845, his wife dying in 1832. Mr. Frazier and family moved from North Carolina to Little Rock, Ark., in 1848, and afterward to Searcy County, thence to Texas in 1859, and in 1860 came to Sebastian County and bought the farm of eighty acres where he now lives. He has since increased his acreage to 700, with 240 acres under cultivation. He served in the Home Guards for some time during the war, and was quite severely wounded in the skirmish at Salem. He is a Mason, a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, and a Republican in politics, casting his first vote for James K. Polk. His children, who are living, are as follows: Sally I. (Mrs. Keener), B. F., John R., Julia A., Susan E. (Mrs. Taylor), and George M.

Frank Freer 1837-1909 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present. Goodspeed 1889 Frank Freer was born in Dublin, Ireland, and when but fifteen years of age came to America. Since 1857 he has been interested in the Western country, and his first visit to Fort Smith, in 1868, resulted in his ultimately locating here, where he is now successfully engaged in business. During the war he served in the Federal army. He was married in this city to Miss Rosina Hess, a resident of Fort Smith, who has borne him one son, Edward, a young man of high ability and promise.

Benjamin J. H. Gaines The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Benjamin J. H. Gaines, ex-judge of the county court of Sebastian County, Ark., is a native of Rhea County, East Tenn., and was born in 1817. His father, James S. Gaines, was of Welsh descent, and was born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1767. He was married in his native State to Miss Judith Easley, and after a short residence in North Carolina returned to Virginia, and in 1800 moved to Rhea County, Tenn., and in 1820 took up his abode in Southern Alabama, where he died two years later. His wife was born in Virginia, and also died in 1822. Benjamin J. H. is the youngest of their thirteen children, and was only five years old when his parents died. From that time until he was sixteen years of age he resided with his brother, John S. Gaines, and then became salesman in a store in Knoxville, Tenn., but at the end of one year returned to Southern Alabama, and engaged in pedagoguing, and also did some clerking in the courts. From 1839 to 1840 he taught school in the "Lone Star" State, and at the latter date returned to Alabama, and was married in 1848 to Miss Sallie Inge, who was born in Fayetteville, Lincoln Co., Tenn., in 1827, by whom he became the father of four children: Helen, wife of J. L. Duke, a jeweler of Fayetteville, Ark.; Thomas W., a merchant; Marshall S., a merchant, of Greenwood, Ark.; and John H., who clerks for his brother, Marshall. In 1849 Mr. Gaines was elected clerk of Sumter County, Ala., but the following year the law was changed and he was deprived of his office. At the same time, however, he was elected probate judge of the same county, serving in this capacity six years. In 1856 he moved to Monroe County, Tenn., and in 1859 took up his residence in Fayetteville, Ark., for the purpose of educating his children. He had commenced the study of law in 1848, and the following year was admitted to the bar, practicing his profession in Fayetteville until 1880, when he became a citizen of Greenwood, Ark. Two years later he was elected judge of Sebastian County, being re-elected in 1884 and 1886. He has always rendered his decisions with judicial fairness, and has made a capable and popular public officer. Previous to the late lamentable war he was a Whig in politics, but since that conflict has been a supporter of Democratic principles. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His wife belongs to the Christian Church. His son, Marshall S. Gaines, a prosperous young merchant, of Greenwood, Ark., was born in Monroe County, Tenn., in 1857, and was educated in the schools of Fayetteville, Ark. At the age of sixteen years he began clerking in a store in Fayetteville, continuing four years, and then engaged in merchandising on his own responsibility in Greenwood, and in 1883 formed a partnership with Thomas E. Little, and the firm was known as Little & Gaines. In December, 1887, they dissolved partnership by mutual consent, and the firm has since been known as M. S. Gaines & Co. Their stock, which is valued at $15,000, is the largest stock of general merchandise in Greenwood, and is bringing in Mr. Gaines a handsome annual income. He is a man of sterling worth and of exceptionably good business qualifications, and commands the confidence and esteem of the citizens of the county. May 25, 1877, he was married to Miss Rebecca A. Hodgins, who was born in Mississippi in 1861, and died on March 20, 1887, having borne a family of four children: J. Bennie, Edmund P., Bessie and Helen. September 9, 1888, Mr. Gaines married Miss Sallie Whitworth, a native of Texas. He is a Democrat, and has been a member of the school board of Greenwood for six years; is a Master Mason, a K. of H., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Thomas Benjamin Garrett 1837-1909 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present. Goodspeed 1889 Thomas Benjamin Garrett was born in Tyro, Miss., September 18, 1849, and is a son of James and Harriet R. (Sharp) Garrett, natives of Virginia, and descendants of one of its old families. James Garrett, the grandfather, was also born in that State, and was a member of the Baptist church. Several ancestors of our subject fought in the Revolution and in the Mexican War. The mother was a daughter of Thomas Sharp, of Alabama, whose ancestors also were early settlers of Virginia. Thomas Benjamin Garrett passed his boyhood upon his father's plantation, receiving a common-school education. He afterward attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford, graduating with the class of 1871–72. He then returned home, and occupied himself with mercantile life until 1873, when he was elected representative of Tate County in the Mississippi Legislature, which county he represented two consecutive terms. In 1881 he came to Arkansas and located upon a cotton plantation in Woodruff County, where he engaged in farming and merchandising until 1886. He then sold his property, and coming to Fort Smith invested his money in the livery and transfer business. He is a prominent business man of the town, a member of the city council, and is a stockholder in the Fort Smith Ice and Coal Company, also in the Fort Smith Land and Improvement Company. He also took an active interest in the organization of the Fort Smith Natural Gas Company. Many of which he is a director. While in Tyro, Miss., he married Miss Ella Rown, daughter of Jesse and Mary Brown, natives of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett are the parents of the following three children: Luella, T. B. and Ollie.

Robert Bell Gartrell (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Robert Bell Gartrell, farmer and miller of Center Township. Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Lumpkin Co., Ga., in 1835, and is a son of William J. and Malinda (Hallum) Gartrell, the father being of French-Welsh descent. They were born in Georgia and South Carolina, in 1791 and 1819, respectively, and were married in Union County, Ga., soon after moving to Lumpkin County, Ga., where the father worked in the gold mines. He moved to Gordon County, Ga., in 1863, where he died four years later, followed by his wife in 1868. They became the parents of twelve children, five of whom are living at the present time, Robert Bell Gartrell being the eldest of the family. He was reared to manhood on a farm, and in the gold mines, the fall and winter seasons being spent in the mines. He made his home with his parents until thirty-three years of age, and in December, 1868, was married to Miss Mary Ward, who was born in Gordon County, Ga., in 1852, and by whom he became the father of seven children: Theophilus, Viola Gertrude, Lenora Irene, Charles Serastus, Martin Luther, Cora Sedalia and Robert Franklin. Mr. Gartrell resided in his native State until 1871, when he immigrated to Sebastian County, Ark., and purchased 327 acres of land in Center Township, about seven miles from the county seat, where he located and has since resided. In 1874 he purchased a horse gin, which he operated seven years, the last year converting it into a steam gin, the capacity of which was about 300 bales of cotton per year, and in the fall of 1888 erected a gin at a cost of about $180. He is considered one of the enterprising farmers of the county, and in his political views is a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for James Buchanan. He is a Master Mason of Hackett Lodge. In April, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Fifty-second Regiment Georgia Infantry, but was afterward transferred to Company I, Eighth Regiment Georgia Infantry. He went out as a private, but was promoted to second lieutenant, and participated in the battles of Missionary Ridge and Perryville, being wounded in the latter engagement by a falling tree, which was shattered by a cannon ball. He was honorably discharged at Cumberland Gap, and returned to his home and the peaceful pursuit of farming.

Gen. R. C. Gatlin The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Gen. R. C. Gatlin was born in Lenoir County, N. C., on the 18th of January, 1809. He is the son of John Gatlin and his wife, Susan, the daughter of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the State of North Carolina. He entered the military academy at West Point as a cadet July 1, 1828, and graduated July 1, 1832, when he was appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the Seventh Infantry, then stationed at Fort Gibson. He joined the regiment in December, 1832, and served with it on the southwestern frontier until February 7, 1839, when he accompanied it to Florida, arriving at Tampa Bay in March. He had been promoted to be second lieutenant in 1834, first lieutenant in 1836, and was appointed adjutant of the Seventh Infantry in December, 1838. He served in Florida until the close of the Seminole War in 1842. In 1845 he accompanied the regiment to Corpus Christi, where it became part of the Army of Observation under Gen. Taylor. In September, 1845, he was promoted to be captain. He served in Fort Brown during its bombardment by the Mexican troops, from the 3d to the 9th of May, and was engaged at the battle of Monterey, in which he was wounded, and for gallant and good conduct he was breveted a major in the United States Army. In consequence of his wounds he was sent home to recruit his health. In January, 1848, he joined his company in the City of Mexico. After the close of the Mexican War he served with his company at Jefferson Barracks; also in Florida, and again on the southwestern frontier, commanding Fort Smith from 1851 to 1857; then in Utah and New Mexico, when he commanded Fort Craig. He was promoted to be major of the Fifth Infantry in February, 1861, and resigned his commission in the United States army May 20, 1861, after which he went to North Carolina, and was appointed a brigadier- general of North Carolina troops, and assigned command of the coast defenses of Wilmington. He exercised the command until the 31st of August, 1861, when the North Carolina troops were transferred to the Confederate service, when he was appointed a brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., and assigned to the command of the Department of North Carolina. He was relieved from the command on account of ill health in March, 1862, and resigned September 6. In 1863 he was appointed adjutant-general of North Carolina, which office he held to the close of the war in 1865. He then came to Arkansas, and settled on the farm opposite Van Buren in January, 1866, where he remained until 1880, when he moved to Fort Smith, where he still lives. On the 20th of January, 1857, he married Mary A. Gibson, daughter of R. S. and Sarah P. Gibson, of Sebastian County, Ark. They have two children living, Susan Caswell and Mary Knox Gatlin.

Andrew J. F. Gist The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Andrew J. F. Gist, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Dayton Township, was born in Missouri, November 2, 1839, and is a son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Morrison) Gist, who removed to Missouri from Tennessee about that year, and in 1844 settled near Greenwood, Sebastian Co., Ark., where they lived one year, and then moved in the vicinity of where our subject now lives. The father is now seventy-seven years of age. He has always been an industrious farmer, and for some time was engaged at the carriage trade, which he learned when young. He is of Irish descent, and some of his ancestors fought in the early Indian wars. He has been thrice married. His first wife died December 25, 1846. She was the mother of five children, of whom Andrew J. F., and Lucy Ann, wife of Charles Smith, of Choctaw Nation, are now living. By his second wife he had two sons and two daughters, three of whom are living in different parts of the West. Mr. Gist is now living with his fourth wife. He has been a member of the Protestant Methodist Church many years, and has always been a Jackson Democrat, his first presidential vote having been cast for Gen. Jackson. He was a Union man during the war, and so left Arkansas during that time and lived North. He began to teach school when quite young, and followed that vocation to some extent until 1870, in Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. In 1860 he lost his left arm in a sorghum mill. Our subject was but five years old when he came to Arkansas. At the age of fourteen he began life for himself, and for two years worked for his board and clothes. He then clerked for a short time in a drug store at Fort Smith, and then until 1859 worked at various things. He was then united in marriage with Mary Ann, daughter of James and Elizabeth Hart, who came to Arkansas (this county) from Missouri, in 1844. Mr. Hart died before the war, but Mrs. Hart is still living. Mrs. Gist was born in this county, and died in Choctaw Nation in 1864. August 2, 1866, Mr. Gist married, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary Cowen, a native of Tennessee. Mrs. Gist died September 9, 1880, leaving one child, who is now deceased. January 25, 1881, our subject wedded Mattie, daughter of Elza and Martha Harlow, natives of Missouri and Tennessee, respectively. In an early day they came to this county, where Mrs. Gist was born. Mr. Harlow was of Irish parentage, and died in Sebastian County, as did his wife.

Daniel B. Glass The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Daniel B. Glass, another successful tiller of the soil, is a native of Henry County, Tenn., born April 26, 1848, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Boone) Glass, natives of Georgia and Kentucky, respectively, and the mother a niece of the great hunter, Daniel Boone. When young the parents went to East Tennessee, where they met and were married. Soon after they moved to Giles County of the same State, and in 1833 moved to Henry County, of West Tennessee, where the father died at an advanced age. In 1850 the mother with some of her children went to Greene County, Mo., and eight years later to Scott County, Ark. In 1867 she came to Sebastian County, where she died at Fort Smith soon after. She was a member of the Baptist Church, and was the mother of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters. The father was a carpenter by trade, although he made farming his chief occupation during life. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Their son, Daniel B. Glass, was but two years of age when he immigrated with his parents to Greene County, Mo. He moved around with his mother until 1867, when she came to Sebastian County. His education is very limited, he not having attended school more than twelve months altogether. In October, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, and served until August 28, 1865. He participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Jenkins' Ferry, and a number of minor engagements. He was never wounded or taken prisoner, and received an honorable discharge at Clarksville, Ark. In 1867 he began learning the tanner's trade, at which he worked for about four years. October 4, 1868, he married Miss Mary E. Bunch, a native of Middle Tennessee, born March 17, 1849, and eight children were born to this union: James A., William A., Charles M., Lilly B., Stephen E. T., Jesse C., Daniel E. and an infant (deceased). After leaving the tan-yard Mr. Glass turned his attention to farming, and this he has since continued. During the administration of Gov. Miller, when the militia was called out to quell the trouble in Scott County, Mr. Glass was commissioned captain of a company. He has been justice of the peace of his township, bailiff of the township, and is now deputy sheriff of Sebastian County. In politics he has been a Democrat all his life, and has been a Mason since twenty-one years of age. He is the owner of 190 acres of land, with about 100 under cultivation. He has been a resident of this county for twenty-one years, and is accounted an honest, upright business man. He and Mrs. Glass are both members of the Missionary Baptist Church.

John Goset (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 John Goset is a prosperous farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., being a native of Union County, S. C., born on the 15th of November, 1831. He is one of the five surviving members of a family of nine children born to the marriage of Nathaniel Goset and Arena Bishop, the former born in North Carolina in 1809, and the latter in South Carolina in 1814. They were married in the latter State, and there the father died in 1873. His widow is still living, together with the following children: John, William, Mary (Mrs. Austin), Louisa (Mrs. Clark) and Laura Ann (Mrs. Stokes). The paternal grandparents, George and Mary (Boone) Goset, were of Scotch descent, born in Maryland, and died in South Carolina in 1811 and 1839, respectively. John Goset spent his boyhood days in South Carolina, and at the early age of seventeen years began to fight the battle of life for himself as a farm hand. In 1851 he espoused Ellen Clark, who was born in South Carolina in 1830, and died November 26, 1854, and the following year he married Mary E., a daughter of John and Mary (Thrift) Gregory. She was born in South Carolina in 1832, and died February 22, 1880, having borne a family of ten living children, who all reside in Sebastian County, Ark. Their names are as follows: Jennie (Reeves), Mary E., J. N., W. F., B. A., C. R., E. S., Mattie, Belle and Thomas J. October 9, 1880, Mr. Goset married Sarah A., a sister of his second wife. They have three children: Josie, Lillie, and an infant unnamed. In 1866 Mr. Goset removed with his family to Arkansas, and took up his abode in Jefferson County, thence to Roane County in 1867, from there to the Indian Territory in 1871, coming to Sebastian County in 1881, where he has since made his home. He is a Mason and a Democrat, and at the breaking out of the late Civil War enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth South Carolina Infantry, but was afterward transferred to Company K, Fifth South Carolina Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Petersburg and James Island, and served until the close of the war.

Dr. A. H. Gordon 1850-1896 History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present. Goodspeed 1889 Dr. A. H. Gordon, senior partner of the medical firm of Gordon & McGinty, was born in Tennessee in 1850, and is a son of A. B. and Martha J. (Blassingame) Gordon. The father was a farmer by occupation, and now resides in Hunt County, Texas. He served throughout the entire war in Forrest's cavalry, but escaped without injury. After receiving a common-school education our subject entered the Savannah College, and later attended the Vanderbilt University at Nashville. He graduated from the medical department of the latter institution in the winter of 1875–76 with distinction, and immediately began the practice of his profession at Gravel Hill, Tenn., where he remained until 1881. He then became a resident of Hackett City, where his practice became so extensive that in 1887 he took Dr. McGinty as a partner. In 1883 he became associated with Dr. McConnell, and in 1884 with H. W. Farnum. From 1882 until 1885 Dr. Gordon was a member of the medical examination board, and also served as alderman of the city. He is now the physician and surgeon of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company's works at this place. He is a well-to do citizen, and owns two and one-half lots and a good residence. In 1876 he married Miss Mary E. McCoy, of Gravel Hill, Tenn., daughter of James McCoy, who has borne him four children, all now living: Pearl, Myrtle, Lillian and Montrose. Mrs. Gordon is a member of the Baptist Church, and the Doctor is treasurer of the I. O. O. F. lodge here, Master Workman of the A. O. U. W., and a member of the K. of L. In politics he is a Democrat.

Matthew Grey History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas, From the Earliest Time to the Present. Goodspeed 1889 Matthew Grey, judge of the police court of Fort Smith, was born in Ireland, County Cavan, Parish of Columbkill, July 14, 1833, and is a son of John and Rose (Ruden) Grey, also natives of Ireland, where they were well-to-do citizens and farmers. At the age of thirteen our subject crossed the ocean to America alone, and, locating in Philadelphia, learned the shoemaker's trade. Leaving that city to go west, he crossed the Mississippi River, and upon arriving at St. Louis enlisted in the United States regular service. He was stationed upon frontier duty in Utah and Mexico, and after serving ten years was honorably discharged, on account of disability, in 1860. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Home Guards. Having visited Fort Smith in 1851, while a soldier, he returned to this place in 1863, and engaged in trading with the Comanche and Wichita Indians. In 1870 he permanently located here, where he soon became a leading political power. He has served as mayor of Fort Smith, and since 1875 has been a magistrate. In 1887 he was elected police judge and he is now discharging the duties of that office. Judge Grey married Miss Martha Evans, daughter of the late James P. Evans, M. D., and now has the following family of children: Mary Agnes, a graduate of St. Mary's Academy, of Fort Smith; John, who is at school; Kate, James and Lucy. Mr. and Mrs. Grey are members of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and he belongs to the American branch of the Home Rulers' League.

B. F. Hackett (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Major B. F. Hackett, mayor of Hackett City, was born in Sebastian County in 1844, and is a son of Jeremiah and Sarah A. (Tichnal) Hackett [see sketch]. He received a limited public school education during his early youth, and in March, 1863, enlisted as a private in Company B of the Second Kansas Cavalry. This company was afterward put on detached service to command Hopkins' Battery, and in 1864 declared an independent battery, known as the Third Kansas Battery. He participated in the fights at Honey Springs, Fort Gibson and Weber's Falls, but escaped without any wounds. After the war Mr. Hackett attended school a year in Ohio, and upon his return to Arkansas served four years as treasurer of Sebastian County. He then engaged in the mercantile and stock business near Hackett City, on the line of the Indian Territory, and in 1872 located where Hackett City now is, which town he started, and which bears his name. This is now a flourishing town of 1,500 inhabitants, although in 1872 Mr. Hackett was obliged to give away lots in order to induce people to locate here. He owns a large number of town lots, and houses which he rents, and has about 600 acres of valuable land, which contains large deposits of coal. He is the leading business man of the town, and is interested in the saw- mill, lumber and cotton business. Mr. Hackett has served as assessor of the county three terms, and was deputy sheriff four years. In 1874 he was appointed by Gen. Armstead to raise a company of militia, of which he was first made captain. He was afterward commissioned major, and recruited and mustered in six more companies. Maj. Hackett is now serving his second term as mayor of the city. In 1872 he married Miss Helen Bradbury, of Ohio, whose father is a merchant and banker at Middleport. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett have two children, John T. and Samuel B. Our subject and wife belong to the New Church, and the former is a member of the American Legion of Honor and the Masonic order, of which he has been District Deputy Grand Master.

J. A. Hale The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 J. A. Hale was born in Georgia twenty-three years ago, and is a son of J. K. Hale. After receiving a public school education he entered the State University of Missouri, and began the study of law. He graduated from this institution in 1888, but was previously, in 1886, admitted to the bar, after studying under the supervision of Judge Little, of Greenwood. He came to Arkansas with his parents in 1870, and after graduating returned to Sebastian County and began the practice of his profession. He is rapidly establishing an enviable reputation, meeting with good success. He is considered one of the enterprising citizens of the township, and has served as deputy sheriff with satisfaction.

Harvey T. Hampton The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Harvey T. Hampton, editor and co-proprietor of the Greenwood Democrat, is a native of Logan County, Ark., born in 1855, and is the son of James H. and Jane C. (McCormick) Hampton. James H. Hampton was born in Simpson County, Ky., November 2, 1822, and was of Irish descent. He was a farmer by occupation, and when a small boy went with his mother, Ann (Barker) Hampton, to Randolph County, Ill., his father, John Hampton, having died in Kentucky when James H. was quite small. James H. Hampton was married in Illinois in 1847, and two years later he moved to Napoleon, Ark., where he remained for one year, and then moved to Fort Smith. Four years later he moved to Booneville, or near the town, where he died in 1877. His wife was of Irish descent, and was a native of Randolph County, Ill., born in 1828, and died in 1861. After her death Mr. Hampton married Mrs. Martha E. Spindle, nee McCormick. She is yet living. Harvey T. Hampton is the fourth child by the first marriage, and was educated in the Fort Smith District High-school at Booneville, Ark. He worked on the farm until twenty-one years of age, and in 1876 entered a printing office, where he worked as an apprentice for four years and as a journeyman for three years. In 1880 he became editor of the Paris Express, at Paris, Ark., and in 1881 served as deputy circuit clerk of Logan County. >From 1882 to 1883 he edited the Express. In 1884 he was elected tax assessor of Logan County, and served two years. In 1886 he became a citizen of Greenwood, Ark., and November 1 of that year he purchased the Greenwood Times, changing the name to Greenwood Democrat January 1, 1887. September 15, 1887, Jesse A. Bell became an equal partner, and has since been half owner of the paper. The motto of the Democrat is, "Under the Wholesome Influence of Democracy the Nation ".It is a newsy sheet, and has a weekly circulation of from 800 to 1,000. In 1879 Mr. Hampton was united in marriage to Mattie V. Sipe, a native of Georgia, born in 1855. To them were born five children: Norma, Fay, Ora, Hymenus T. and Max C. On October 30, 1888, Mr. Hampton was appointed deputy circuit clerk and recorder of Sebastian County. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Master Mason, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Elder R. W. Hammett The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Elder R. W. Hammett, a grocery merchant of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Marion County, Miss., March 4, 1829, being the son of James and Sarah (Head) Hammett, and grandson of William Hammett, who was a Revolutionary soldier and a captain in that war. James Hammett was a native of Georgia, born in 1787, and was a farmer by occupation. He located in Alabama, and there spent the greater portion of his life. He died at the age of ninety-six years. The Hammetts were Baptists, as were also the Heads, who were natives of Georgia. Sarah (Head) Hammett was the mother of ten children, three now living, Elder R. W. being the seventh in order of birth. His maternal grandmother was a Ray. Elder R. W. Hammett attained his growth in Alabama, and came to Arkansas with the intention of remaining a short time and then going back. He was educated in Salisbury Institute, Batesville, Ark., was converted in 1847, and the following year he commenced preaching, or exhorting. He was ordained deacon in 1853, an elder in 1855, and still keeps up his license to preach. He was for thirty-five years a traveling preacher in Arkansas, and adjoining States, and now preaches occasionally. He was presiding elder of the Clarksville District when the war broke out, and was an uncompromising Union man. He stood man fully at his task and through all dangers, preached the Gospel. After the war he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and helped reorganize that church in the State. He was presiding elder in the church for many years, and has filled the stations at Fort Smith from 1855 to 1857, Helena in 1858 and Fayetteville in 1859. He was married in 1860 to Miss Elizabeth Dobson, a native of Cleveland, N. C., born August 1, 1842, and to them were born four living children: Ellis (a saddler by trade), James (tinner), Leonodia Dobson and Mattie P. Two children died in infancy: Richard and Myrtle. Mr. Hammett is the owner of a house and lot in the city, is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a temperance man, and one who is universally respected.

Thomas J. Hannah The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Thomas J. Hannah, a prosperous farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., is a son of Samuel W. and Rebecca M. (Gilliam) Hannah, both of whom were born in East Tennessee, in 1816 and 1820, respectively. They were married and resided in their native State until 1849, when they moved to Texas, and after residing in Hopkins, Hunt and Fannin Counties for about nine years, came to Sebastian County, Ark. The father was a soldier in the Florida War, a farmer by occupation, and was justice of the peace for many years both in Texas and Arkansas. He was a Democrat, and the last vote he cast was against the secession of his State, but from some unknown cause he had made enemies, and while returning home from a neighbor's one Sunday morning in 1863 was shot at from the brush along the road, and was afterward stabbed with a knife, from the effects of which he died. He was ever a man of peace, and had the confidence and esteem of his neighbors. His widow and four of his nine children survive him. Thomas J. Hannah was his third child, and was born in Bradley County, Tenn., October 29, 1846, being reared on a farm. January 10, 1864, he enlisted in Company F, First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, and served until August 10, 1865, being a participant in the battles of Prairie De Hand and Saline River. He was honorably discharged at Fort Smith, and returned to the peaceful pursuit of farming. In 1868 he was married to Susan J. Seamans, who bore him six children, two of whom are living: Albert W. and Jacob A. After the death of his first wife he married Parlee McNabb, by whom he has three children: Maudic, Thomas A. and James L. This wife died on the 29th of January, 1887, an earnest and devoted Christian and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hannah is a stanch Republican, and a member of the G. A. R., and the owner of 163 acres of land, with ninety under cultivation. James M. Hannah, his brother, was born in Fannin County, Tex., February 16, 1857, and was educated in the common schools and by personal study. He owns a good farm of 160 acres, with sixty under cultivation, and, like his brother, is a stanch Republican in politics.

James W. Harper The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 James W. Harper, cotton dealer and real estate agent at Mansfield, Ark., was born in Tennessee on the 15th of May, 1849. His parents, Blaney and Elizabeth (Griffey) Harper, were born in the "Old North Carolina State" in 1816 and 1814, and died in 1882 and 1880, respectively. They removed from their native State to Tennessee, thence to Arkansas in 1851, settling at Fort Smith, where they remained one year, then moving twenty-five miles south, where he made his home until his death. The father was a minister of the Gospel, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a member of the Legislature, being elected in 1867 for two years. He became the father of nine children, seven of whom are living: Nancy B. (Mrs. Bruce), Jesse C., Samuel H., Joseph W., Lenora Ann (Mrs. Ball), J. W., and Mary H. (Mrs. Gleason). James W. Harper spent his early life in Sebastian County, and received his education in private schools. After attaining his twenty-first birthday he began doing for himself, and has been a contractor for twenty years and a merchant for four years. He lives upon the old homestead, the present site of the town of Mansfield. He is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1869 he was married to Miss Mary J. Dixon, a daughter of William H. and Mida (Short) Dixon, of Tennessee. She was born in Arkansas in 1847, and became the mother of seven children: William B., George, Joseph L., Graham, Nora and Myrtle. One child, Freddie, is deceased. Mr. Harper's grandfather, Haynes Griffey, was a soldier in the War of 1812.

Malachi B. Harrison (photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Malachi B. Harrison was born July 23, 1835, in Benton County, Tenn., his parents being Malachi and Nancy (Baggett) Harrison. The father was born in Sumner County, Tenn., December 9, 1805, and there grew to manhood. He then immigrated to Benton County, and there married Miss Baggett, who was born in North Carolina in 1805. Mrs. Harrison came to Tennessee by wagon when young, and settled in Benton County during its early history. She died in 1846, and was the mother of the following children: Matilda, Henry W., Malachi B. and Cynthia J. now living, and Nathaniel, John, Julia A. and James M., deceased. The following year Mr. Harrison married Polly Tittle, daughter of Anthony Tittle, of West Tennessee, by whom he had six children: George W., Dora A., William C., Victoria, Priscilla and Margaret (deceased). Mr. Harrison died in Franklin County January 13, 1888, aged eighty-two years, but his widow is still living in that county. The Harrison grandparents were natives of South Carolina, who immigrated to Tennessee in an early day, and were of French descent. They belonged to the family of which Benjamin Harrison is a descendant. The maternal grandparents were also natives of South Carolina, and early settlers of Tennessee. Our subject left his native State when nineteen, having passed his youth upon a farm, and received an ordinary education. He farmed one year in both Benton County, Ark., and Franklin County, and then spent two years in Denton County, Tex., after which he travcled a year in Arkansas. Returning to Denton County he remained ten years. He then passed one year in Franklin County, three years in Sebastian County, and eight years more in Denton County. He permanently located upon his present farm of seventy acres in 1881. He cultivates all his land, and is a successful farmer. During the war Mr. Harrison served one year in Company I, Choctaw Regiment, and three years in Company E, of the Twenty-ninth Texas. He was disbanded at Hempstead, Tex., in April, 1865, and had participated in the battles at Pea Ridge, Bird Creek, Poison Springs, Jenkins' Ferry and Cabin Creek. During the war he served as sergeant, and since coming to this county he has been justice of the peace two terms, and also served as school director. In 1862 he married Sarah L., daughter of Nimrod B. Tolle, of Texas. Mrs. Harrison was born in Lewis County, Mo., and has borne eleven children. Those living are Sidney M., Minnie R., Nancy C., Daisy D., Sarah A. and Thomas C. Those deceased: James E., Nimrod, Annie M., Ervin and Herman. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison belong to the Missionary Baptist Church, and the former is a Mason and a Democrat.

J. B. Harwood The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 J. B. Harwood, dealer in general merchandise at Fort Smith, Ark., is a native of Henderson County, Tex., and was born in 1850, being the son of William T. and Nancy (Dodson) Harwood. William T. Harwood is a native of Tennessee, and at the age of eighteen he entered and served all through the Mexican War. Since that time he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and now resides near Huntsville, Madison Co., Ark. He was married to Miss Nancy Dodson in Tennessee, and she died when the subject of this sketch was but twelve years of age. The latter was the eldest of six children. William T. Harwood was married to Miss Eliza Boatwright, a native of Arkansas, and the daughter of James Boatwright. J. B. Harwood left home at the age of seven teen years, and engaged in merchandising at Myer's Landing, where he remained for about three years. He then engaged in the same pursuit at Military Grove, but subsequently came to Fort Smith where he opened business in the present house. He was married to Miss Sallie B. Myers. Mr. Harwood is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and the town of Myer's Landing was named by him.

William J. Haug The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 William J. Haug, one of the enterprising farmers of the county, is the son of Valentine and Joannah (Schafier) Haug, both natives of Wurtemburg, Germany. The Haug family are of Russian origin. When the Black Death depopulated such a vast part of the German Empire, a great many families emigrated from Russia, and among them were the Haugs. On the Schafler side they are purely German. The parents were married and lived in Wurtemburg until 1853, when they came to America, locating in Sebastian County, Ark., and here passed their last days. The father was a stone-mason by trade, and many of the buildings he helped erect are still standing in Fort Smith, as monuments of his handicraft. In connection with his trade he also carried on farming. He was a Republican in politics, and died April 13, 1871, and she died December 1, 1879. In their family were nine children, only two now living, a son and daughter. The father had been married previously, and had a son by his first wife. William J. Haug, the youngest but one by the second marriage, was born in Sebastian County, Ark., June 7, 1856, aided on the farm, and received a limited education in the country schools, being obliged to walk three miles to obtain a little learning. He remained and worked for his mother until December 17, 1876, when he married Miss Roxanna Yaden, a native of Sebastian County, born July 7, 1854. Two children were born to this union, both deceased: Thomas V., born March 10, 1878, died October 18, 1880, and Frank J., born December 28, 1880, died August 11, 1885. Mr. Haug is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and she of the Old School Presbyterian. Mr. Haug is a Republican in politics, and in September, 1888, he was chosen magistrate. He has lived in this county all his life, is the owner of eighty acres of land, forty-five under cultivation, has also other means, and is a Master Mason.

John Lawson Henderson The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Lawson Henderson, of the firm of Myrick & Henderson, was born in Williamson County, Tenn., December 24, 1841, and is a son of William and Mary (Scales) Henderson. The father was of Scotch descent, and a son of William Henderson, an early settler of Tennessee. The father was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., and was a merchant by occupation. The mother was a daughter of Joseph H. Scales, a native of North Carolina, and an early settler of Williamson County, Tenn. When sixteen years of age our subject left the paternal roof, and for some time worked as a shipping clerk in Memphis. At the commencement of the war he joined the Memphis Light Dragoons, which afterward became Company A of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. He served throughout the war, and surrendered with his company at Gainesville, Ala. He was wounded in the battle at Holly Springs. After the war he sold goods in Coahoma County, Miss., and subsequently went to New Orleans to accept the position of receiving teller in the United States Treasury Department. In 1871 he went to Helena, Ark., where he clerked until 1881, after which he engaged in the mercantile, flour, jobbing and commission business at Fort Smith. Upon the organization of the Ketcham Iron Company he served a year as treasurer and secretary. He is interested in the educational advancement of the county, and is a member of the school board. In politics he is a Democrat, and while in Helena he filled the office of city treasurer. He was married in Kenton, Miss., to Miss Maggie Dinkins, who died in Helena, leaving two children, John H. and Lula K., now high-school students. Mr. Henderson afterward was married in Natchez, Miss., to Miss Bessie Lambdin, who has borne him three children: Maggie, Willie and E. R. DuVal. Since early manhood Mr. Henderson has been identified with the Baptist Church, and he is a member of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A.

Eli Hester (Eli on left)(photo posted by Lynn) The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 Eli Hester, farmer, of Center Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., is a native of Randolph County, Ala., born in 1847, and is a son of Tapley and Mahala (Stone) Hester, who were born in North Carolina and South Carolina, in 1813 and 1814, respectively. The father is of Irish descent, and after reaching man's estate went to Randolph County, Ala., where he was married in 1833, and has since resided. He owns about 400 acres of land, and is one of the prominent old residents of the county. He did some service during the latter part of the late war. Eli Hester is the sixth of their eleven children, eight of whom are living, and was reared on a farm and remained with his parents until he attained his eighteenth year, when he was married to Mary E. Ware, a daughter of Thomas C. and Nancy (Lewis) Ware. She was born in Heard County, Ga., in 1844, and is the mother of eight children: John Henry, Olie Anna (deceased), Thomas Luther, Oliver Jackson, Edward Lovie Norman Ezra, Lennie Elizabeth and Cleveland Thurman. Mr. Hester resided in his native State until 1868, when he immigrated to Georgia, residing there until 1881, when he came to Sebastian County, Ark., and purchased 160 acres of land about three miles west of Greenwood, where he is now residing. In 1885 he erected a good frame residence, at a cost of $1,000, and has increased his lands until he now owns 240 acres. He is one of the solid, substantial and enterprising farmers of the county, and in his political views has always been a strong Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Samuel J. Tilden. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

John Hewett The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 John Hewett was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in February, 1819, and is a son of George and Sophia (Dockery) Hewett. The father came to America from Holland when twelve years old, and first lived in the Carolinas. He afterward grew to manhood on a farm in Tennessee, where he was educated, after which he lived in Alabama. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His death occurred in Alabama about 1854. The mother spent her early life in Tennessee, and was there married to Mr. Hewett. She died in 1853, and was the mother of eleven children: A. J., John, George, Israel, Eliza and L. R. now living, and Mary (Phillip), Calvin, Joseph, and W. H. H. deceased. John Hewett lived with his parents upon the Alabama farm until his marriage, in 1845, to Rebecca Johnson, a native of Alabama, and a daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Johnson, who went to Alabama from South Carolina. To Mr. and Mrs. Hewett ten children were born; those living are William H. H., Benjamin F., Laura, Almeda, John M., Cytha; those deceased were named Lucinda, Zada, Manda and Julia. After his marriage Mr. Hewett continued to live in Alabama for five years, and then removed by water to Texas. He lived five years in Washington County, Tex., and then moved to Falls County, Tex., and lived there ten years. Then he moved to Sebastian County, Ark., and has lived here for twenty years, successfully engaged in farming, and has 153+ acres of land, sixty of which he has under cultivation. In politics he is a Democrat, and during the war served in the Federal army for fifteen months, or until discharged at the close of the war. Mr. Hewett lost his first wife in this county in 1873, and he afterward married Eliza Beveans, who died November 22, 1887.

F. W. Hink The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Contributed by Michael Brown 18 Oct 1998 F. W. Hink, a prosperous farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1828, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hink, who were born in Prussia, the former in 1778. John Hink was captain of a body guard to Napoleon Bonaparte at the battle of Waterloo. F. W. Hink spent his early life in traveling through Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, and served in the War of Rebellion in Baden and Holstein, Germany, under the late Emperor William, who was then commanding the Seventh Division of the German Army. In 1850 he crossed the ocean and landed in Connecticut, but two years later went to Philadelphia, and a year later to St. Louis, spending some time as pastry cook on a steamboat plying between St. Louis and New Orleans. In 1854 he went to Kansas, where he remained until 1858, when he located in the Cherokee Nation, Colorado, and drove a Government team for eighteen months during the war. He went to Fort Smith in 1863, where he worked at the baker's trade for the Union army until the close of the war, also running a private bakery. In 1866 he was married to Martha E. Spangler, who was born in Arkansas in 1842, and by whom he became the father of ten children: F. W., Elizabeth G., Iva J., Mary B., Onie, Anna, Tamar, Dollie, Hazel and Henry, all of whom reside with their parents. Mr. Hink located on his present farm of 180 acres in 1876. He has sixty acres under cultivation and eighty acres in meadow. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in his political views is a Democrat. Mrs. Hink's parents, George and Susan Spangler, were born in the "Buckeye State", and were farmers by occupation. Only three of their nine children are living; Mrs. Hink and two sisters-- Mrs. Rebecca Nijong and Mrs. Ann E. Bourland.

James Hoey Goodspeed Publishing 1889 James Hoey, hardware merchant, was born at Port Arlington, Queens County, Ireland, December 23, 1833, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Bennett) Hoey. When seventeen James crossed the ocean to seek his fortune in America, and upon landing came west almost immediately. For a few years he engaged in carpentering at Leavenworth, and in 1860 he came to Fort Smith, where he worked as master mechanic for the Government. He enlisted for three months in the Third Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, as second lieutenant, and at the expiration of that time entered Company A of the Seventeenth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate Army, in which he served throughout the war. He was taken a prisoner at Iuka, and held seven months at St. Louis, Memphis and Fort Delaware. He was exchanged at City Point, Va., and then served on Gen. Feathertour's staff, as assistant inspector, until he could join his regiment at Crystal Springs , Miss., in the fall of 1863. After the war he was employed in the Government shops at Fort Smith, until the Government post was dis banded. He then worked at his trade in the Indian Territory, and finally engaged in the lumber business at Atoka until 1877, when he embarked in the sash, door and lumber trade at Fort Smith. In 1884 he abandoned the lumber business and started a hardware store, and is now furnishing builders' materials. While at Leavenworth, Kas., he married Miss Ann Reilly, a native of County Cavan, Ireland. Himself and wife are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Hoey is a member of the board of sewer commissioners of Fort Smith, and an enterprising citizen.

John Alexander Hoffman History of Arkansas Illustrated 1889 Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Alexander Hoffman was born in Greene County, Ill., July 26, 1841, and is a son of Nathan and Catherine (Gore) Hoffman. The father was born near Culpeper Court-House, Va., his ancestors having come from Germany and settled in Virginia prior to the Revolution. In 1844 he immigrated to Lamar County, Tex., and from there to Fort Smith, Ark., where he died in 1868. Our subject grew to manhood in Texas, and there learned the builder's and contractor's trade in Paris. He then joined the army, and for a year did active service in Company A, of the Ninth Texas Volunteer Infantry. e was then on post duty at Shreveport, La., for some time. After the war he followed his trade at Paris, Tex., until 1866, and then came to Fort Smith. He has built many of the stores and private residences in this city, and among the public buildings which he has erected may be mentioned the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Eberle Block and the old Music Hall. In 1863 he was married, in Texas, to Miss Mary Isabel Bishop, a native of Kentucky, and daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Bishop. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have three children: Blanche , an accomplished musician; Claude, who is studying civil engineering at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., and Albert, who is just finishing a commercial course. Mrs. Hoffman belongs to the Baptist Church. Mr. Hoffman has been a member of the school board for about nine years, and has served in the town council two years. He is a member of the board of public works, and is a contributor to the Building and Traders Journal of St. Louis. He also belongs to the K. of H.

John Howard Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Howard, ex-county judge and farmer of Sebastian County is the son of John and Ellen (Claypool) Howard. The Howard family originally came from England. Two brothers came to America about the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. One entered the army and the other the navy. The one who enlisted in the army is the great-grandfather of John Howard, subject of this sketch. The latter's grandfather moved from Virginia to Kentucky at a very early date, being among the earliest settlers of that State. John Howard, Sr. was born in Virginia, and when his father moved across the mountains to Kentucky he and his sister were carried across a horse, one in each end of a sack. Ellen (Claypool) Howard was born in North Carolina, and when a child her parents also moved to Kentucky. In this state she met Mr. Howard and they were married in Warren County in 1835. They afterward moved to Warren County , Ill., where the mother died in 1845 and the father in 1863. He was farmer all his life, a Democrat in politics, and both were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian. Their family consisted of ten children, five sons and five daughters. John Howard, Jr., the eldest child living, and the eighth in order of birth, was born December 9, 1817. He attained his growth on a farm, and being obliged to work hard while young, as a consequence his education was neglected. At the age of twenty be began business for himself as a farmer, and March 15, 1838 he married Miss Phobe J. Coy, who was born near Elizabethtown, Ky., April 17, 1820, and when a little girl her parents moved to Sangamon County, Ill., and later to Knox County, where she married Mr. Howard. They afterward located in Warren County, Il., where they lived until 1847, when they moved to the “Lone Star State". They remained here but a short time and then came to Arkansas, located in Sebastian County, and here they have since made their home. Mr. Howard was a Whig until after the war, and since he has affiliated with the Republican party. Toward the close of the war he was appointed county judge by Gov. Murphy, which position he held for about six years. For many years he has been justice of the peace; has lived in this county for forty years and is a highly respected citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Howard are the parents of two children, Nancy A., wife of James Blaylock, and Lemuel B., a farmer of the neighborhood. Mrs. Howard is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Sergeant Edward Hunt The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. Sergeant Edward Hunt, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Frankenhausen, Fierstenthum, Schwarzburg, Rudolstadt, Germany, and is the son of John Gustave and Dora (Forderer) Hunt. John G. Hunt was born in the same place as his son, and died in 1858. Dora Hunt came to America about 1862, and died in Philadelphia in 1882. Her ten children also came to America. Edward Hunt came to this country in 1849, and followed the occupation of a shoemaker at Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York and Chicago. At the breaking out of the late Civil War he was keeping a saloon in St. Louis, and also a shoe-store, but left these with his brother and joined the three months' service, Second Missouri Infantry, under Col. Bornstein, and was at the battles of Camp Jackson, Boonville and Wilson's Creek. He was mustered out of the three months' service August 31, 1861, after serving four months and eight days. September 1, 1861, he re-enlisted in the Twelfth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Company C, under the command of Col. Osterhause, and was promoted by him to the rank of sergeant. Mr. Hunt was first sent by Col. Osterhause to Chicago on recruiting service. He was successful, and returned to his regiment at Warsaw, Mo., November 8, 1861, and arrived in Springfield, Mo., November 20, of the same year. Here their General Fremont, was superseded by Gen. Hunter, and shortly after they were ordered back to Rolla, Mo. February 2, 1862, they left Rolla, and went back to Springfield on the 13th of February, when the snow was from one to three feet deep on the ground. The Confederates had gone into winter quarters at this place, but were driven out by the Union soldiers, and on the following day the latter pursued the enemy, and reached the rear guards of Gen. Price's army near Keysville, and here a slight skirmish occurred. On the 17th of February they traveled through Arkansas, and on the 20th of that month they entered Camp Halleck, where they remained until March 2. March 6 they moved through Bentonville, which was only six miles distant, and the regiment which Mr. Hunt was in had the rear guard that day. By some means the enemy separated them from the main body, but by hard fighting they again regained it. On the following day three charges were made on the army, and they fought all day at Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Tavern. The next day some hard fighting was done, but the Union army was victorious and captured many prisoners. They made many long, toilsome marches, and one day traveled thirty miles without water. They marched to Helena, Ark., and suffered greatly with hunger on the way. Afterward Mr. Hunt was sent to St. Louis on a commission, and there he remained until November 25. He then joined his regiment, which he found opposite Helena. From December 27 to December 31 the Union army besieged Vicksburg, but were not successful, and the army took boats and went up the Arkansas River to Arkansas Post, and the 11th of January they captured the post with about 6,000 prisoners. They left here the 15th of that month, after destroying the fort. January 15 they went to Bird's Point, opposite Wicksburg, and here the soldiers lived on bad water, a few miserable crackers and sow-belly. February 17 Mr. Hunt's regiment, with the Seventeenth Missouri Infantry, went back to Helena, but here Mr. Hunt was taken sick with rheumatism and swamp fever, and was left at the Adams Hospital. He left the same April 4 and went to Convalescent Camp, two miles below Memphis, but April 12 he joined his regiment at Young's Point. They left there soon, and marched through Louisiana. May 13 they had a battle, and captured a number of prisoners and a herd of sheep, the latter causing them to rejoice exceedingly. May 15 they captured Jackson, Miss. Flour sold here as high as $120 a barrel, potatoes at $30 a bushel, eggs $1.50 a dozen, and coffee could not be purchased. May 22 their brigade made a charge on Vicksburg and here Mr. Hunt was knocked down by a cannon ball, the hearing of his left ear destroyed, and blood ran from his ears, nose and mouth. After this he was no longer in active duty, as the shock caused epileptic fits. September 5, 1863, he was declared unfit for duty, and was transferred to the invalid corps, and served out his time as guard to prisoners at Rock Island, Ill. November 1, 1864, he received an honorable discharge, and went back to St. Louis, where he was once more a citizen. February 9, 1865, he went down to Helena, and was sutler of the Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry. Later Mr. Hunt took charge of the sutler's outfit of the Fifty-seventh Infantry, and went with the regiment from place to place until finally they came to Fort Smith. Mr. Hunt engaged in merchandising at this place in 1865, and here he has remained ever since. He was married in April of 1866 to Miss Amelia Griner, and eight children were born to this union: Lillie, Ella, Dora, Minnie, Anna, Edward, Herman and Irene. Mr. Hunt served as alderman in Fort Smith three years, and filled the position of treasurer of that city for two years. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Hunt accumulated a great deal of real estate in and out of the city; is the owner of a fine block of twelve lots, 300 feet square, in the heart of the city, corner of Sixth and Maple Streets. At the time he was alderman the city expenses were $5,000 a year, and now they are $50,000. Lots which were sold at that time for $150 to $200, are now selling at $1,000 each, size 50x140 to the alley. The last discovery of natural gas will make the city the size of Kansas City in five years.

William Hunter History of Arkansas Illustrated 1889 Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties.... The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 William Hunter was born in Tennessee in 1827, his parents being Squire and Rebecca (Burden) Hunter, natives of Tennessee, where they were reared and married. The father was well educated and a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church. From his native State he went to Missouri, settling near Springfield, Greene County. A short time after (about 1856) he came to Franklin County, Ark., where he died in 1861. Mrs. Hunter died at Fort Smith during the war. She was the mother of ten children. Those living are William, Marion and Elizabeth. Sarah, Charles, Ira, John, James, Mary and Squire are dead. The paternal grandparents were natives of North Carolina, who immigrated to Tennessee in an early day, and there passed the remainder of their lives. The maternal ancestors were founders and large property owners of Stanton, Va., where they were born. William Hunter, our subject, received but a meager education during his youth, which was passed upon a farm in Missouri. When eighteen he left home and came to Franklin County, Ark. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted at Fort Smith in Company D, of the First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and served until discharged at the same place in 1865. He served on detached duty, and was wounded at the battle of Big Creek. After the war he was engaged in farming in this county, and he now owns 260 acres of good land, 120 of which he cultivates. In 1847 he was united in marriage to Barbara Powell, of Arkansas, who died in 1865. She was the mother of six children: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Matilda (deceased), Polly A. (deceased), Rachel (deceased) and an infant (also deceased). In 1866 Mr. Hunter married Sarah, daughter of Isaac Ellis, of Benton County, Ark. This marriage has been blessed with four children: Ellen, Annie, William and Sarah. Mrs. Hunter is an active member of the Christian Church, and Mr. Hunter is a Republican in politics.

William D. Hunter Goodspeed Publishing 1889 William D. Hunter, undertaker at Huntington, has been engaged in his present business here since January 1888. He was born in De Kalb County, Mo. in 1832, his parents being William and Mary (Grace) Hunter, natives of Kentucky and North Carolina, respectively. After their marriage, over seventy years ago, they immigrated to Northwest Missouri, being early settlers of what is now De Kalb County. In 1858 they removed to Texas, where the father died in 1863, and the mother in 1883. The former served as postmaster of Graveston many years, and served one term while in Tennessee as sheriff. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 under Gen. Jackson. The grandfather of our subject, Charles Hunter, was a farmer, and died in Missouri. William D. is the fourth child born to his parents, and during his youth, which was passed among the wilds of Missouri, he received but a meager education. He was married in 1856, in De Kalb County, Mo., to Nancy J., daughter of Michael and Minerva Moore, early settlers of Northwest Missouri, who came from Tennessee. In 1858 Mr. Hunter went to Texas, and there lived until 1871, when he went to Hackett City. Two years later he came to Huntington, and since January of this year his residence has been in the town. He owns five town lots, and a farm of 80, acres three miles southwest of the town, all of which is good valley land. He also has two houses and lots in Hackett City, all his property being the result of his own industry and good management. He has always been a Democrat, and is an alderman. He served three years in the Confederate army, first in Company F. Fifth Texas Rangers, and then in Martin's regiment of cavalry. He enlisted in 1862, and operated in the Indian Territory and Arkansas until the regiment was disbanded at Richmond, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter belong to the Free Will Baptist Church, and two of their seven children are members of the same church. Mr. Hunter learned the cabinet trade when a boy, and followed the same until coming to this county. In connection with the undertaking business he deals in shingles.

Matthew Jerome Irvin Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Matthew Jerome Irvin, one of the old settlers of Center Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., residing about one and a half miles west of Greenwood, was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., in 1833, and is a son of Charles Ellis and Malinda (Akins) Irvin, who were born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1771, and Kentucky, in 1801, respectively. At about the age of twenty-two years the father immigrated to the United States, locating in the State of Georgia, and afterward went to Lincoln County, Tenn., thence to Jackson, Madison County, where he died in 1844. He was a Methodist minister and was engaged in preaching the Gospel until about 1820, when he gave up this calling, and spent the remainder of his days retired from the active duties of life. He was twice married, his last wife dying in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1876, having come here in 1857. She was the mother of eleven children, Matthew Jerome being the seventh born. From early boyhood he has been engaged in tilling the soil and made bis home with his mother until he was twenty-two years old, and after his marriage his mother made her home with him. In 1856 be left his native State, and immigrated to Sebastian County, Ark., wewrtes3where he was married in August, 1858, to Miss Mary Ann McCray, a daughter of Alexander and Keziah (Perkins) McCray , who came to Sebastian County in 1850, and were natives, respectively, of Georgia and Alabama. Mrs. Irvin was born in Tallahatchee County, Miss., in 1840. Ten children have blessed their union, only six of whom are living: Martha J. (wife of Robert H. Moore), William H., Lillie Eudora (wife of Sanford Caudle), John Matthew, Susan Ellen and Frank Tatum. In 1860 Mr. Irvin purchased 120 acres of land in Center Township, and from time to time has since increased his acreage, until he now owns 220 acres of fertile land. He and wife have been members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for the past twenty-five years, and he has been a ruling elder in the same for the past twenty years. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, Eleventh Regiment Arkansas Infantry, Confederate Army, and served for about one year, though he was a Union man at the commencement of the war. He is a Democrat in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan.

Aunt Sophia (Barling) Kannady Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Aunt Sophia Kannady, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, August 16, 1826, and is the daughter of Aaron and Rebecca Barling. Aaron Barling was born in London, England, June 4, 1792, and his father, Moses Barling, sailed for America August 31, 1793, and landed on American soil November 5 of the same year. He brought his family with him and lived in Baltimore the balance of his life. He was born April 29, 1767 and died in 1796. He was married in England to Miss Mary Cooper, March 7, 1787, and she died in Baltimore at the age of twenty-six years. Aaron Barling was one of five children born to his parents and was by trade a sail-maker. Being left an orphan at an early age, he was reared by an aunt. When quite a boy he went to sea and followed a seafaring life for twelve years. During this time he was married to Miss Rebecca Tucker, a native of Maryland, born October 14 , 1781. After his marriage Mr. Barling followed the sea until he joined the United States army, and with the first troops came to Arkansas, where he helped locate Fort Smith. He was in the Federal service for about five years, when he finally received his discharge. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant. His family had previously joined him at Fort Gibson, and of the six children born to his union, three are now living: Sophia, subject of this sketch; Henry and Robert. After resigning his position in the army Mr. Barling bought a farm in what is now Sebastian County, and upon this farm the family was reared . About 1835 Aaron Barling was employed by the Government to issue supplies to the Seminole Indians, and in the spring of 1841 he moved back to his farm. In 1853 he moved with his family to Fort Smith, and here Mrs. Barling died July 27 of the same year. On March 22 of the following year Mr. Barling also died. May 19, 1847, the subject of this sketch married Jerry R. Kannady, and their marriage was the first one published in the first newspaper of Fort Smith. They were also married by the first Episcopal minister of the place. Jerry R. Kannady was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born at Beaver, Beaver County, on February 11, 1817, and moved to Ohio with his family while yet an infant, their home being in Ohio, at Hebron. He came to Fort Smith in the last of February 1836. He came with bis uncle, Capt. J. Rogers, the founder of Fort Smith, for whom he kept store until he engaged in mercantile pursuits for himself, and then engaged in various kinds of business. At the time of bis marriage be was sutler for the United States troops at Fort Smith, for many years. During the Civil War, Mr. Kannady manufactured different kinds of implements. He owned several slaves, and about 1863 he took his wife and negroes south, remaining in the “Lone Star State” until the close of the war. He then returned to Fort Smith in the summer of 1865. During the latter part of the war be was in the employ of the Confederate Government erecting public buildings. He was born in 1818 and died in 1883. Mrs. Kannady has an oil painting of Fort Smith as a garrison, and this is valued at $700, and is the only one in existence.

Thomas J. Keener Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Thomas J. Keener, merchant, was born November 23, 1859, in Denton County, Tex., his parents being Miles and Alcy (Lenley) Keener. The father was born in Lincoln County, N. C., and is now engaged in farming, milling and ginning at Waldron, Ark. During the Civil War he served three years in the Union army, participating in numerous engagements, and was discharged at Holly Springs, Mo. The mother is a native of Jasper County, Mo., and when about grown she moved to Texas, where she was married. She is the mother of ten children, the following now living: Thomas J., Lizzie, Fannie, Grant, Sarah and Dora. Thomas J. passed his youth, after becoming ten years of age, in Scott County, Ark. He received a good education for those days, and after leaving school taught ten terms. He now holds a first grade certificate. In February, 1883, Mr. Keener embarked in the mercantile business at Waldron, procuring his stock on credit, as he had no capital but a good name. He continued business successfully at that place until 1866, and then sold out and came to Lavaca. Here he has the largest stock of general merchandise in town, and does a thriving business on the general supply, plan. October 16, 1883, he married Lulu Bell, daughter of J. C. Bell, of Waldron. Mr. Keener was left a widower December 19, 1885. In politics he is a Republican, and while at Waldron served the town as postmaster. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the Masonic fraternity and is a much respected citizen.

Thomas J. Kersey Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Thomas J. Kersey (deceased) was one of the oldest and most highly esteemed citizens of Sebastian county, Ark., and was born in Davidson County, Tenn., in 1819. At an early day he came to the State of Arkansas and settled in Logan County, where he was married to Peggy A. Shelby, who afterward died, having borne two children: Jane, widow of L. Gee, and George Huston, who was eighteen years old at the time of his death . In 1847 Mr. Kersey was married to Mary Ann Williford, who was born in Montgomery County, Ill., the daughter of Jordan and Sarah J. Williford. Mrs. Kersey came to Arkansas when only thirteen years old, and was married to Thomas Kersey at the age of fifteen. She is the mother of fifteen children, only four of whom lived to be grown: Amanda V., who married, during the war, Mr. A. J. Fry, and was the mother of six children, four boys of whom are living, Grant, Charles, Baty and Mathew; the two youngest are living with their Grandma Kersey, their mother having died when the youngest, Mathew, was only one year old; Baty, who is now thirteen years of age, has lived with his Grandpa since last May, his father having died; the other two are grown . The next child of Thomas Kersey, a son, I. N. Kersey, died when twenty-one years of age; he was an excellent young man in every way, and was much beloved by all who knew him; he was a student of Cane Hill College, Washington County, Ark., and would have graduated the spring he died. A daughter, Mollie, was married very young to Dr. N. D. Woods, Jr.; she is the mother of four children: Mary E., Susie, George Newton and Annie Tribue, the first and last of whom are living. Georgia is the wife of A. J. Chandler. Of these four children, who lived to maturity , only two are living: Mollie Woods and Georgia Chandler. Thomas J. Kersey made a trip to California in 1849 with the long train of gold seekers, and was absent fifteen months, meeting with good success and returning with a large amount of gold. Soon after coming back bis dwelling was set on fire at night during the absence of the family, and a heavy loss sustained. He suffered considerably by fire (having been burned out three times — once losing a hotel), but this only increased his determination to accumulate more property . Mr. Kersey was for many years one of the foremost citizens of Greenwood and was ever ready to assist all laudable public enterprises, and was largely interested in a dry goods store, and owned a mill in the town. He was known throughout Western Arkansas for his honesty, integrity and liberality, and although uneducated, save by his own exertions, was a man of powerful mind and good judgment. He was successful in all his business enterprises, a man of quick perceptions, and possessed considerable personal magnetism, which drew around him a large circle of friends. He was for many years a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was one of its most liberal supporters. He was a member of the A. F. & A. M., Lodge No. 181, and was buried by the members of his lodge with impressive ceremonies . He commenced life a poor man, but at his death, October 11, 1888, was a large landholder, and possessed a large amount of personal property. Of keen observation, he absorbed a great deal by travel, and for fifteen months, when a young man, lived in Texas among the Indians. His house was the home of the orphan, and he partly reared five orphan children. Mrs. Kersey has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since she was thirteen years of age. .

Henry Kuper, Sr. Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Henry Kuper, Sr., merchant tailor, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Westhalia, Prussia, October 8, 1832, and is the son of B. H. and Mary Ann Kuper. The father was a weaver by trade until late in life, when he engaged in the general produce business. He died in 1860 at the age of sixty years. He was forced into the army under the first Napoleon. After his Russian campaign he joined the regular army, and fought against him at the battle of Waterloo. B. and Mary Ann Kuper were the parents of three children, Henry being the only one who has crossed the ocean to America. He served an apprenticeship at the tailor trade while in his native country, and was a journeyman for four years before coming to America. He arrived in this country in 1854, and was seven weeks and three days in making the voyage. He worked at his trade for seven months in New York City, and went from there to Waterloo, of the same State, where he remained four years engaged in his business. In 1859 he came to Fort Smith, where he has been in business for himself since 1861. This is the oldest tailoring establishment in the city. He was married in Waterloo, N. Y., in February, 1855, to Miss Gertrude Ermann, daughter of Kasper and Gertrude Ermann, her father being a stone-mason and contractor by trade. By his marriage Mr. Kuper became the father of eight children, seven of whom grew to maturity, and six are now living: Mary, wife of Henry Limberg; Henry, the present partner with his father in the tailor business, and who married Miss Lizzie Theurer, who bore him three children (Henry, Martin and Bernard); Lizzie, wife of Antone Kasberg: Ann (deceased), who was the wife of B. Upton; Theresa, wife of Paul Guenzel; Agnes and Clara; Gertrude died in infancy. Mr. Kuper and family are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and he is a member of the Catholic Knights of America, of which he is treasurer, and of which his son, Henry, Jr., is recording secretary.

Allen A. Kersh (photo added by lr. Not sure this is correct.) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Allen A. Kersh, farmer and blacksmith of Diamond Township, was born in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, in 1817, on March 31, and is a son of William and Rachel (Shuber) Kersh, natives of South Carolina, who lived in that State until 1833. They then removed to Rankin County, Mo., where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Kersh was a farmer and blacksmith. His father, Andrew, came to America with his parents, from Germany, prior to the Revolution, and his parents being poor, he was bound out in order that he might support himself. The maternal grandfather of our subject was born of German parents in South Carolina. Allen A. Kersh is the third of a family of eleven children, and during his youth he attended the country school of his neighborhood. At the age of sixteen be accompanied his parents to Mississippi, where he was married, in 1842, to Elizabeth, daughter of James H. and Barbara W. Riddlespirger, natives of Collenton District, South Carolina, where Mr. R. died when Mrs. Kersh was but an infant. His widow afterward became the wife of Mr. Griffith, and when Mrs. Kersh was ten years old removed to Lauderdale County, Miss. In 1859 the family came to Sebastian County, where Mrs. Griffith died in 1861. Mrs. Kersh's grandfather, David Riddlespirger, was born in South Carolina, and his father, Abram, was a native of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Kersh have three sons and six daughters, viz.: Rachel M., wife of David Bishop, of Benton County; Eliza R., wife of Wiley R. Gwyn; William Horton; Samuel R., of Texas; J. Timothy; Sarah B. , wife of George Bishop; Elizabeth M.; Susan L., wife of Cooper Hayes, and Viola A., wife of Wiley Martin . Our subject has had fifty-nine grandchildren . In 1858 Mr. Kersh came to Sevier county, and the same year located near Huntington, in Sebastian County, on the Brewster farm. He engaged in farming and blacksmithing and became the owner of 1,400 acres of land. He now owns about 500 acres. He was one of the pioneers of the county, and remembers paying $13 for 250 pounds of salt, and $11 per barrel for flour, at which time the nearest trading point was either Fort Smith or Little Rock. Mr. Kersh has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South , since his youth, and bis entire family belongs to that denomination. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Van Buren in 1840. He belongs to Pulliam Masonic Lodge No. 133.

John Harvey Lairamore History of Arkansas Illustrated 1889 Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John H. Lairamore was born December 25, 1828, in Morgan County, Mo., and is a son of Obadiah and Emily (Esteys) Lairamore. The father was born in Greene County, Ky., July 8, 1800 and lived there until eight years of age. He afterward lived in Franklin and Sangamon Couny, Ill. and when these States were inhabited by Indians and wild animals, and he was of great assistance in driving the former to the Indian Territory. He grew to manhood in Petersburgh and volunteered in the Black Hawk War from Illinois. He also enlisted in the Mexican War, and during the late war served as a Government scout and spy. He settled in this county, which was then Crawford County, over sixty years ago, when there were but two log cabins at Fort Smith. The mother was born in Sangamon County, Illinois where she was reared and married. She bore nine children. Those living are Milton (Nellon) L., John H., Obadiah and Wiley . Those deceased: William, Martha J., Rebecca, Samuel, who was killed in the war, and Elijah. Mrs. Lairamore died in Sebastian County in 1862, and Mr. Lairamore afterward married Polly Cordin, a native of Coffee County, Tenn., who came here in 1858. She is the mother of two children, Mary Doney and Elizabeth ( deceased ). The paternal grandparents of our subject were natives of Maryland, who immigrated to Kentucky, and the maternal grandfather was a resident of Illinois . John Harvey Lairamore came to Sebastian County when three years old, and here grew up with but a limited education. He lived with bis parents until his marriage in 1846, to Jape, daughter of Lewis Pinnell and wife, formerly a Miss Turney, early settlers of this county. Mrs. Lairamore was born in Illinois, and bore three children: Elizabeth, Mary and Clarinda (deceased). Mrs. Lairamore died March 12, 1858, and in 1860 our subject was united in marriage with Ann P., daughter of Theophilus and Elizabeth Petty, natives of Tennessee . Mrs. Lairamore was born in Missouri and is the mother of six children: John H., Milford, Frances P., William, Martha and George W. (deceased). Mr. Lairamore is an ordained minister in the Free Will Baptist Church, and his wife belongs to the same denomination. In 1863 Mr. Lairamore enlisted in the First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and served in Company Huntil discharged at Fort Smith, August 10, 1865. Since then he has lived in Sebastian County, with the exception of two years spent in Missouri. He owns 155 acres of land and cultivates sixty. In politics he is a Republican. Six months before the conscript law Mr. Lairamore sold 200 acres of land, taking it all in property, with a view of trying to get north. His position south of the Arkansas River was a most trying one, and the sufferings he, in common with other Union sympathizers underwent, can better be imagined than described. At one time several of them were obliged to lie concealed in the brush until a favorable opportunity was afforded for reaching the Federal lines. When it became known that Mr. Lariamore had left the country, the jayhawkers entered upon a course of indignities toward his family wholly unwarranted. Everything obtainable was taken, his wife and children being left so destitute that the former found it necessary to travel fifty miles on foot to find a place of safety among friends. A return of peace was hailed with sincere joy, and harmony and good feeling have since prevailed .

John W. Lamb Photo added by Lynn Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John W. Lamb, farmer, is a son of Nathan and Rebecca (Simpson) Lamb, who were born, reared and married in Alabama. Soon after the consummation of the latter event they moved to Nashville, Tenn., where the mother died. Mr. Lamb moved to Arkansas about 1834, locating in Greene County, where he married Eliza Simpson, a sister of his first wife. They afterward moved to Jackson County, Ark., and there the father died at the age of fifty-nine years. He was a farmer by occupation, and he and both his wives were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Two sons and one daughter were born to his first union, and two sons and six daughters to his last . John W. Lamb was born in Nashville on the 17th of April 1835, was reared on a farm, and received a very liberal education. At the age of eighteen years he began farming for himself in Jackson County, Ark., and in July 1862, enlisted in Company C, Thirty-second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, and served nearly three years, participating in the battles of Prairie Grove, Pleasant Hill and others. After his return home he resumed farming, and in 1871 moved to Franklin County, Ark., where they resided about eight years, and then came to Sebastian County, locating on the farm of 158 acres where he now lives . He has 100 acres under cultivation and is doing well financially. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and throughout life has been identified with all the farmers' movements, being a member of the Wheel, Alliance, etc. He was married in 1856 to Martha J. Patterson, a native of Alabama, and by her is the father of nine living children: Mary P., William N., Andrew, Joseph, Palmyra, Sopbronia, John, Nancy and Maitie. Samuel and an infant are deceased . Only one of the sons, William N., is married, and all are farmers.

J. R. Lane Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 J. R. Lane, general merchant, of Mansfield, Ark., was born in North Carolina on September 9, 1836, and is a son of J. F. and Catherine (Ballenger) Lane, who were born in North Carolina June 6, 1812, and Indiana in 1808, and died March 10, 1885, and June 25, 1880, respectively. They were married in North Carolina, and in 1857 moved to Arkansas, settling in Dallas, Polk County, where they engaged in farming. The father was elected to represent the Polk county in the State Legislature in 1871, and served with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Four of his nine children are still living: Rebecca, Mrs. White; Eliza, Mrs. Pirtle; Isaac N. and J. R. The latter removed with his parents to Arkansas when he was nineteen years of age, and attended New Garden Boarding College, or Quaker College, for twelve months. After attaining his majority, he engaged in farming for himself, and also clerked in a store for some time. He was married in 1859 to Mrs. Nicy Jane Cunningham, a widow, who was born in Mississippi in 1837, and is a daughter of Preston and Ellender (Lawson) Ward, and by her became the father of six children: J.P., Mary, Mrs. Wallace; D. G., H. C., Martha and Joseph R. In September 1888, Mr. Lane moved from Dallas to Mansfield, and has since been engaged in merchandising in the latter place. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Fourth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate States Army, and at the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., was appointed lieutenant, receiving his discharge in 1865. While residing in Polk County he served as sheriff for six years. He is a Mason and Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for John C. Breckinridge. His grandfather, Isaac Lane, was born in North Carolina in 1764, and died in 1871, at the age of one hundred and seven years. He was a teamster in the Revolutionary War. The maternal grandfather, John Ballenger, was a North Carolinian.

Richard D. Lewis Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Richard D. Lewis, agent of the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway, was born in Wales June 13, 1844, his parents being Benjamin and Mary Lewis. In 1848 they immigrated to America, settling at Kaneville, Kane Co., Ill., where our subject grew to manhood. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Nineteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He then turned his attention to railroad work, entering the Chicago & Northwestern office at Chicago as a clerk. After three years had elapsed he accepted a position as clerk with the Union Pacific Railway at Omaha and Uintah, where he remained a year. He afterward passed two years at St. Louis with the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railway, one year at Poplar Bluff, eleven years at Little Rock, and nearly three years at Dallas, Tex. He then became a resident of Fort Smith, where he has been employed now about two years. Mr. Lewis was married at Sterling, Ill., to Miss Emily Elsey, who is now the mother of three daughters: Laura, Alice and Dora. Mr. Lewis is a member of the K. of P. and K. of H.

John Jesse Little Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Jesse Little, member of the council and school board of Fort Smith, was born in Jackson, Butts Co., Penn., October 24, 1845. His father, J. C. Little, was born in Putnam County, Penn., and became a merchant of Jackson at an early age. His mother was Elizabeth Loyall, daughter of Jesse Loyall, a merchant of Monticello, Jasper Co., Penn., and a native of that State, of Scotch descent. Our subject grew to manhood in his native State, and at the age of eighteen enlisted in the Confederate service, in Company E, of the Thirtieth Pennsylvania Infantry. He served throughout the war in the commissary department, and then returned to Pennsylvania. He then took a position as first salesman in one of the leading houses in Griffin, where he remained until 1883, when he became a citizen of Fort Smith. While in Griffin he was united in marriage to Emily, daughter of Fleming Mobley, a merchant of that place. This union was blessed with two sons and three daughters. While in Griffin he served as chief of the fire department eleven years, and was alderman of the city seven years. Mrs. Little is a faithful member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Little is one of the best known citizens of Fort Smith, having always served as chief of the fire department, which he helped to organize and raise to its present efficiency. He is alderman of the city, is now serving a three-years term as member of the school board and is a stockholder and director of the Western Arkansas Fair Association. He is a prominent Mason, having served as High Priest of his Chapter and Worshipful Master of his Lodge. He is now in the clothing and gents' furnishing goods business, in which he has been successfully engage since coming to Fort Smith.

Hon. John S. Little Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hon. John S. Little, judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Arkansas, was elected in 1886 by the Democratic party, having no opposition. His district comprises Sebastian, Crawford, Logan and Scott Counties. Judge Little is a native of Sebastian County, Ark., and was born in 1851, being the son of Jesse and Mary E. (Tatum) Little. Jesse Little was a native of Pitt County, N. C., born in 1818. In 1838 he became a resident of Sebastian (then Crawford) County, Ark., was married in 1845, and located near Jennie Lind, in that county. He was a farmer, was the owner of 200 acres of land, and died in August, 1887. The mother was born in 1829, is still living, and is the mother of two children: John S. and Thomas E. John S. received his education in the common schools, and at Cane Hill, Washington Co., Ark. He remained on the farm until 1872, when he engaged in teaching, and followed this profession three terms, all in his native county. At the time he commenced teaching he began also, the study of law, his preceptor being Hon. C. B. Neal. In 1873 he was admitted to the bar at Greenwood, and soon after located at Paris, in Logan County, Ark., and engaged in general practice until May 1877, when he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit. He was re-elected in 1878, 1880 and 1882, serving in all eight years. In 1884 he was elected to the State Legislature, and served on committee of judiciary, and was chairman on county and probate affairs. In January 1877, he married Miss Elizabeth Irvin, daughter of Pleasant and Elizabeth Irvin, and a native of Logan County, Ark., born in 1861. Three children were the result of this union: Paul, Jesse and Monte. Judge Little is a member of the Masonic order, Master Mason, is a member of the K. of H., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

George Dallas Loder Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 George Dallas Loder, builder and contractor, was born in Boone County, Ky., opposite North Bend, Ohio, December 12, 1846, and is a son of George R. and Hannah (Wallace) Loder, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. The father was of German descent, his ancestors having settled in Pennsylvania in an early day, and in connection with farming and trading he was engaged in building and contracting. The mother was born in Ohio, and was a daughter of William Wallace, a native of North Ireland. George Dallas grew to manhood in Kentucky, and before completing the builder's trade engaged in trading upon the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. He was married in Covington, Ky., to Miss Laura Hedges, daughter of Clayburn Hedges, a native of Virginia, and subsequently located in that city, and for many years was connected with the building interests of that place and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1887 he was the successful bidder for the building of the new United States Courthouse at Fort Smith, which brought him to this place. Himself and wife worship at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, South. They have reared a family of one son and two daughters, viz.: Florence Pearl, a high-school student; Raymond and Beulah. Mr. Loder is a member of the Blue Lodge in Masonry and belongs to the National Union and the Hartford Annuity Insurance Company.

Gilbert Looman Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Gilbert Looman, proprietor of a livery and feed stable at Greenwood, was born in Madison County, Ill., in 1829, and is the son of Thomas and Charity (Heddie) Looman. Thomas Looman was born in the State of Tennessee and was a farmer by occupation. When young he went to Madison County, Ill., married and located there. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk War and died soon afterward. After his death his widow married John T. Norton, who moved to Dallas County in 1835. Mrs. Norton was born in Kentucky and died in 1862. She was the mother of four children by Mr. Looman, Gilbert Looman being the second child in order of birth. He was quite small when his father died and lived with his mother until sixteen years of age. He traveled about for four or five years, visited the “Lone Star State," and then returned to Sebastian County in 1844. In 1853 he married Miss Margaret Byram, who was born in Kentucky in 1831, and seven children were the fruits of this union: Thomas, Mary E. (wife of Virgil McClain), John, Sarah (wife of William Hindman), Ida (wife of William Newgam), Katie and Emma. After marriage Mr. Looman located six miles north of the county seat, where he owned 200 acres of land. In 1885 be moved to Greenwood and established a livery and feed stable; was also proprietor of the Capital Hotel until October 1888. He keeps six horses, three buggies, a hack, and is the oldest liveryman in Greenwood. He is a Republican in politics, is a Master Mason, and his wife is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. In 1863 Mr. Looman enlisted in Company E, First Arkansas Infantry, United States Army, and was in service eight months, being discharged on account of disability .

R. H. McConnell Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 R. H. McConnell was born March 6, 1815 in Blount County, Tenn. His father, Samuel McConnell, was of Scotch descent, and was born in Pennsylvania. Early in life he went to Tennessee, where he grew up on a farm. He served throughout the entire War of 1812, and in 1820 immigrated to McMinn County. In 1840 that county was divided, and the part he resided in was named Polk County. He died there in 1849. The mother, Mary (McGill) McConnell, was born in Tennessee, and reared on Duck River. She bore seven children, named as follows: Peggy A., Susan, Eliza J., Marella, Elizabeth, Robert H. and Isabella (deceased). The paternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the Revolution, and a native of Pennsylvania, as was also his wife. R. H. McConnell grew to manhood upon his father's farm in Tennessee and received a good common-school education. In 1842 he married Minerva Hawkins, also a native of Tennessee, who died in 1864, and was the mother of eight children: James H., Samuel K., Mary J , Robert H., Jane A., Mary E., William O. and John (deceased). In 1866 Mr. McConnell married Martha Pitts, a native of Madison County, Miss., and daughter of Samuel and Mary (Frazier) Dufful, natives of Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively. This union was blessed with but one child, Alma E., who is deceased . While in Tennessee Mr. McConnell served twelve years as justice of the peace, and for four years was president of the county court. During the war he served a short time in the Confederate army, and at the battle of Pea Ridge he supported a battery. In 1853 he came to Sebastian County, which he represented in the Legislature in the years 1856, 1858, 1874, 1878 and 1883. In 1885 he was elected State senator rom the Twenty eighth Senatorial District, which term of office has just expired. He is one of the influential and highly respected citizens of the county, and himself and wife belong to the Missionary Baptist Church. He has been a Mason over thirty-two years and is a member of the "Alliance. In politics he is a Democrat.

John McCray Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John McCray, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the State of Mississippi in 1835 and is a son of Alexander and Keziah (Perkins) McCray. The father was born in Alabama and was one of the pioneers of Mississippi. He was a man of more than ordinary education and intelligence, and a wealthy landowner and slave holder. He died when his son John was quite young, and the latter was left to fight the battle of life for himself. Until he attained his majority he remained with his mother and assisted her in caring for the younger members of the family. He has one sister and one half-sister, who are now living; they are residents of Sebastian County, Ark. and Texas, respectively . During the late Civil War he cast his fortunes with the Confederacy, and joined the Fort Smith Rifles, under Capt. J. Sparks, participating in the battles of Wilson's Creek, Prairie Grove, Poison Springs, and others too numerous to mention. At the close of the war he began working in the quartermaster's department, continuing one year, and then re-engaged in agricultural pursuits and merchandising, which occupations he has carried on up to the present time. He was married to Miss Mattie Ingles, who died about fourteen months later, having bore one child, who died at the age of five months. She was a daughter of Capt. Ingles, a hero of the Mexican War. Mr. McCray's second wife was Miss Martha Collins, who only lived about one year after her marriage. He married his third wife in Arkansas, in 1879. She was a Miss Florence Rogers, and became the mother of three children: Clarence, Clifford and Mary. Mr. McCray is a Democrat, and a member of the A. F. & A. M. and the I. O. O. F.

A. A. McDonald Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 A. A. McDonald, circuit court clerk of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in Rhea County, Tenn., in 1863, and is a son of Charles T. and C. E. (Rice) McDonald. The former was born in Virginia in 1831, and January 16, 1859, was married in Jasper County, Tenn., to Miss Rice. She was born in Tennessee January 12, 1834, and after her marriage removed with her husband to Alabama, thence back to Tennessee, locating near Dayton. Charles McDonald was a soldier in the Confederate army during the late Civil War, being next to the last man to get out of prison at Rock Island, Ill., his exposure there being the cause of his early death. He died about 1868 in Calhoun County, Ark., where he had located previous to the war. His widow then returned with her family to her people in Alabama, but after residing there one year returned to Arkansas in company with her father, George W. Rice. They finally settled in Greenwood, in 1873, where the family have since made their home. The children are as follows: Emma E., A. A., the subject of this biography, and T. B. Owing to their mother's earnest endeavor and good judgment, they have been reared to intelligent manhood and womanhood. A. A. McDonald has grown up principally in Sebastian County, Ark., and secured a good common-school education. He followed various occupations until August 31, 1884, among which was teaching school, and was then appointed chief deputy in the sheriff's office for Greenwood District, of Sebastian County, and filled this position for over two years. He then resigned the office, and March 1, 1887, accepted a position with Rappenhimer Hardware Co., of Fort Smith, where he worked until June of the same year, and then engaged in the livery business, and worked in the county clerk's office at Greenwood until January 29, 1888. He then became candidate on the Democratic ticket for circuit court clerk, received the nomination, and was elected September 3, 1888. He entered upon the duties of his office October 30, 1888, and owing to his many sterling business qualities, a bright future is predicted for him . He says that if he ever attains to any prominence in years to come it will be owing to the counsels which he received from a good and intelligent mother, whose advice he has always tried to follow.

Blooming W. McDonough Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Blooming W. McDonough, farmer, was born March 20, 1849, in Caddo Parish, La., and is a son of Wesley F. and Serrenia (Smith) McDonough. The paternal grandparents were of Scotch descent, and were born and reared in Baltimore, Md. They afterward moved to Tennessee, where they died. The maternal grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812, and himself and wife died in Jackson County, Ala. The father of our subject was born in Virginia, when two years old went to Tennessee, from there he went to Alabama, then to Louisiana, and afterward to Texas. After raising one crop in Franklin County, Ark., he came to this county, but in 1880 went to Montgomery County, where he died in 1883 aged sixty-five. During the trouble with the Indians in Florida he was a volunteer soldier, and he served in the late war three years. The mother was born and reared in Jackson County, Ala., where she was married. She was the mother of ten children, six of whom are living: Blooming W., Joseph B., Thomas J., James B., Sterling P. and Margaret L. Those deceased are Walter W., Mary F., Elizabeth and Roan S. Mrs. McDonough died in Chickasaw Nation in 1887. Blooming W. McDonough lived in Louisiana until nine years of age, and then resided in Texas until sixteen years old. He then came to Arkansas by wagon, where he lived upon his father's farm until of age. He received a common-school education, and January 16, 1870, married Martha J. Berry, daughter of Henry Berry, of Tennessee. Mrs. McDonough was born and reared in Franklin County, Ark., and has borne eight children. Those living are Charles S., Hattie E., Edgar A. P. and Addie Lee. Those deceased are Malonia K., John S., William and Poe Bertie. Mr. McDonough settled upon his resent farm in 1872, and now has 113 acres of land, fifty of which he cultivates. He also owns 160 acres of prairie and timber land in Texas. Politically he is a strong Democrat, and his wife is a member of the Regular Baptist Church.

Hon. Robert William McFarlane Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hon. Robert William McFarlane, attorney at law and real estate agent of Greenwood, Ark., was born in Grayson County, Texas in 1858, and is a son of Dr. Robert S. and Isabella C. (Norton) McFarlane. The father is of Scotch descent, and was born in Tennessee July 4, 1821, and when about seven years of age was taken to Jackson County, Ala. by his father, Robert McFarlane, where he resided until 1840, when he went to Texas, and for about two years was one of the Texas Rangers. He then returned to Alabama, and from there moved to Arkansas, locating at Dripping Springs, and two years later removed to Sebastian County. He has served as justice of the peace a few years, and was elected to the Arkansas Legislature in 1852, in which body he served with credit. He has been twice married, his first wife, Miss Norton, being born in Tennessee in 1831; she died in 1866. By her he became the father of four children who lived to be grown. He is the descendant of three brothers who emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1716, two brothers settling in Virginia (from one of whom he is descended) and the other in South Carolina. Hon. Robert William McFarlane is the third child and the only son, and received his rudimentary education in the common schools of Sebastian County, supplemented by a course in the State University at Fayetteville, which institution he entered in 1876, and from which he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1882, the degree of A. M. being conferred upon him two years late. In 1877 he entered the teacher's profession, his first term being taught in the Indian Territory, and continued that occupation four terms. After leaving college he became a disciple of Blackstone, his studies being carried on under the instructions of Hon. J. S. Little, now circuit judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, and in June 1885, he was admitted to the bar . He immediately opened an office and entered upon the practice of his profession and has met with good and well-deserved success. He is well versed in legal lore and is considered one of the leaders of the legal fraternity in Sebastian County. He is quite an extensive dealer in real estate, which, with his profession, brings him in a handsome annual income. He is a Democrat in politics, and in 1885 was appointed school examiner of Sebastian County, which office he filled to the satisfaction of all for three years. Mr. McFarlane had but $75 when admitted to the bar in 1885, and has since purchased 160 acres of improved farming land and six lots in the heart of Greenwood, upon which he has built a cozy cottage, out of his savings in the law. He is unsuccessful in politics, having, as he remarks, invested $1,000 in politics without any return in the last four years. He is a Master Mason, and is Past Dictator of his lodge in the K. of H. In September 1885, he became editor and proprietor of the Greenwood Times , but at the end of twelve months be sold the paper to H. T. Hampton and has since confined himself strictly to the practice of law. November 29, 1887, he was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Harris, who was born in Illinois in 1864 , and is a daughter of David D. Harris, of Mound City, Ill . She is a worthy and consistent member of the Episcopal Church .

Henry McGreevy Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Henry McGreevy, retail lumber dealer, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1849. His parents, John and Mary (O'Connor) Mc Greevy, were also natives of County Down, and were tillers of the soil, the father dying at the age of thirty-five years. The mother is still living in Ireland, and as far back as the McGreevy family can be traced, they have resided on the farm on which she now lives. John and Mary McGreevy became the parents of six children, two of whom are living, Henry and John, who are both residents of the United States. The former received a good education in the national schools of Ireland, and in 1869 concluded to come to America to seek his fortune. He landed in the city of New York, and went directly to Chicago, where he spent about two years, and then took up his abode in Little Rock, Ark., where he resided until 1881, when he came to Fort Smith, and in 1883 engaged in his present business. He was married in the town where he now resides to Miss Rebecca Linder, a daughter of Jacob Linder, one of the early settlers of Fort Smith, and a hero of the Mexican War. Mr. McGreevy is a Democrat in his political views, and is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. His wife is of German extraction.

John S. M. McKamey Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John S. M. McKamey, who has a stock of general merchandise, cotton, hay, etc., at Huntington, valued at about $9,000, was born in Roane County, E. Tenn., in 1849, and is the third of a family of three children born to Capt. John C. and Zerelda (Tunnell) McKamey, natives of East Tennessee, born in 1809 and 1811, respectively. The father served as captain in 1838 in one of the Indian wars but was a farmer by occupation. He removed to Anderson County, Tenn., when our subject was an infant, and in 1852 went with his brother, Harvey McKamey, on a prospecting tour to Arkansas. He died near Little Rock, and his wife died in 1876 in Sebastian County, Ark. The paternal grandfather, John McKamey, was born in Virginia, and was of Scotch descent . The maternal grandfather, Col. William Tunnell, was also a Virginian by birth, and was of English descent. He served as colonel in the War of 1812, the epaulets and plumes of his uniform now being in the possession of our subject. He represented Anderson County in the Lower House and in the Senate several terms and died in that county in 1861. John S. M. McKamey came with his mother to Sebastian County in 1867, and November 20, 1873, married Sarah R., daughter of A. T. Bonham, who removed here with her parents from Anderson County, Tenn., in 1870. Mr. Bonham was married twice, his first wife dying in 1881. He commenced business February 19, 1883, under the firm name of McKamey & Davenport. In August of that year Mr. Davenport retired, and the business was continued by J. S. M. McKamey until November 15 of the same year, when Mr. S. E. Smith took an interest, and the firm was McKamey & Smith. Since January 1885, Mr. McKamey has carried on business alone. He landed here November 22, 1867, with only $4.75, first taught school in the Choctaw Nation, beginning January 5, 1868, and continuing until June of the same year, making in that time over $300. The following fall he went to Cane Hill College, remained till May 1869, and then taught school, and finally bought and settled a farm January, 1870. February 19, 1883, he went into the mercantile business. December 1, 1888 he bought an interest in the Kansas & Texas Coal Co. of Huntington, Ark ., the sales of which will average $20,000 per month. He was also elected president of the bank of Huntington. He is a successful man and has nearly 500 acres of land in different tracts near Huntington, some of which contains coal deposits. Although he began life in humble circumstances, he is now one of the active and enterprising businessmen of the county. He is an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is a member. They have a family of six children. Mr. McKamey is a Democrat in politics, and for twelve years has been a member of Pulliam Masonic Lodge No. 193, in which he has served as Master. His oldest brother, William T., served four years in the Confederate army, first in the Nineteenth Tennessee Infantry, and afterward in Thomason's legion of sharpshooters, in the Virginia army . He was wounded at Shenandoah and died in Sebastian County in 1871.

Edmund McKenna Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Edmund McKenna, general merchant and cotton buyer, was born in Manchester, England, February 5, 1843, and is a son of Owen and Bridget (McAdams) McKenna, natives of County Monaghan, Ireland, and descendants of the McKennas of Truke. Edmund lost his father when six years old, and his mother died when he was eleven. She had previously come to America with her children, Edmund and Agnes, her uncle, James McAdams, and an elder brother, Frank, having located in Philadelphia. Mrs. McKenna was buried in a cemetery near Norristown, Penn., and Frank died from a wound received while serving as first lieutenant of the Second California Cavalry. Agnes is now the wife of Matthew Mooney, of Philadelphia. In 1857 Edmund started west in the service of a United States officer, and in 1859, on his return to Philadelphia, stopped at Fort Smith, growing to manhood in the home of J. K. McKenzie. He entered the Confederate army, in Cabell's brigade (Gordon's regiment), and served until wounded at Mark's Mills. He lost an eye and was laid up in the hospital until previous to Price's raid, in which he participated. After the war he clerked three years at Fort Smith for Capt. H. Stone, and then for seventeen years did business as his partner. He then bought Capt. Stone's interest and has successfully conducted the business up to the present. In the spring of 1888, he started a store at Cameron, Ind. T., which is paying him a good interest. He is the secretary, treasurer and financial head of the Farmers' Alliance Cotton Yard, and is a stockholder in the Western Arkansas Fair Association. He was foreman of the first hook and ladder company organized in Fort Smith, has served his township as alderman, and in 1884 was a candidate for the mayoralty. For some time he served as president of the board of sewer commissioners, but resigned that office on account of his business interests demanding his attention. In 1870 he married Miss Mildred Bostick, who has borne him four sons and one daughter: Jerry, who works in the store; Frank, deceased at the age of five; Hubbard Stone, Edmund, and Agnes, who died at the age of two. In religion. Mr. McKenna is liberal. He is Past Master of the Belle Point Lodge of A. F. & A. M., and is Past Dictator of the Knights of Honor.

T. D. Magness Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 T. D. Magness is a son of M. J. and Melvina (McClary) Magness, whose deaths occurred in 1887 and 1858, respectively. In 1881 the father (who was born in 1835) moved from Marion to Washington County, Ark., and two years later to Sebastian County. In 1887 he went to California, and there died the following year. His father, James Magness, was a farmer, born in South Carolina about 1793, and died in 1873. M. J. Magness enlisted in the Confederate army in 1862, but afterward joined the Federal troops, and participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Corinth, Fayetteville and Springfield. He was captured at the latter battle, and was afterward sent on exchange to Mississippi, and received bis discharge in 1864. The following are his children: M. E. (Campbell), Elzetta (Barham), Mary (Wilburn), Lou (Zinn), Laura, Hapse, Cora, Willie, Nora and T. D. The latter was born in Marion County, Ark., in 1857 and spent his boyhood days in his native county and began the battle of life for himself at the early age of seventeen. In 1876 he was married to his second cousin, Samantha Magness, who was born in Marion County, Ark., in 1862, and by her is the father of two children, Lawrence Edgar and an infant unnamed . Mr. Magness became a resident of Sebastian County in 1884, and two years later purchased his present farm of 300 acres. He has 100 acres under cultivation, and a pleasant and comfortable home. He is a Republican in politics and cast his first presidential vote for James A. Garfield in 1880. His wife's parents, Hugh and Huldah J. Magness, were born in Tennessee, and subsequently came to Arkansas, where the father followed the occupation of stock raising, and died in 1877. The following are his children who are living: D. A. (Foster), S. J. (Magness), W. T. and Z. M. J. C., C. B. and an infant unnamed are deceased.

Wilson Manus Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Wilson Manus, a successful agriculturist, and the son of Jesse Manus was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., March 15, 1842. The father was also a native of Tennessee, was reared and married in Tennessee; was a farmer by occupation, and a Democrat in politics. He was married twice and became the father of children by both wives. Wilson Manus was but three years old when both of his parents died, and he has no remembrance of his parents, brothers or sisters. After the death of his father he was bound out to a man by the name of Debord, with whom he staid but a short time, when an uncle by marriage took him and kept him until the breaking out of the late war. In 1857 he was brought to Scott County, Ark., and in 1862 he was conscripted in the Confederate army, and served until the fall of 1863, being under seven different captains. With the idea firm in his mind that he was serving a wrong cause, he determined to escape as soon as possible. In September 1863, he went to Fort Smith and enlisted in Company C, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, United States Army. Soon after he was transferred to Company F, of the same command, and received an honorable discharge August 8, 1865 . He participated in the battle of Saline River, Prairie Grove. A considerable portion of the time he was detailed on scouting service, and in a skirmish near Clarksville, Ark., April 11, 1865, he was wounded in the left thigh and hip, the ball passing clear through and crippling him for life. As a partial compensation he gets a pension. After the war he returned to Sebastian County, where, in 1867, he married Miss Julia Anthony, a native of Scott County, and the daughter of Finis Anthony. Nine children were the fruits of this union: Abraham L., Mary E., Henry W., Daniel G., Tennessee J., Archideļphia A., Eva J. L., Audus L. B. and an infant (deceased). Mr. Manus was a Democrat until the war, and since that time he has been a Republican. After marriage he settled upon the farm where he now lives, and where he is engaged in successfully tilling the soil, although he followed merchandising for a short time in connection with his farming interests. He owns 200 acres of land, ninety under cultivation, has been a resident of this county for twenty-one years, and is an honorable man and a good citizen. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is also a member of the G. A. R., and he and wife are members of the Free Will Baptist Church. He received very little schooling and was not able to read or write until about four years ago. He is deeply interested in the education of his children .

Jesse Martin Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Jesse Martin, farmer and real estate dealer of Mansfield, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in the “ Blue Grass State " in 1819, and is a son of Jesse and Jane (Hunter) Martin, who were born in the "Old Dominion,“ and whose ancestors were among the “F. F. V.'s ." Jesse Martin, the father, was born in 1777, and died in Tennessee in 1840. At an early day he removed to Kentucky, and afterward to Tennessee, where he was engaged in farming, and spent the remainder of his days. His wife was born in 1782, and died in 1882, having borne a family of ten sons and four daughters. The paternal grandfather, John Martin, was born in Virginia, and lived to be one hundred and four years old. He was in the War of 1812 and served two years under Gen. Jackson. His father, James Martin, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was on the staff of Gen. Washington. He also lived to be one hundred and four years old. Jesse Martin spent his boyhood days in Tennessee, and received a fair English education, and at the age of twenty-one years began working for himself. In 1866 he removed to Arkansas and settled in Ashley County, removing to Montreal, Sebastian County, in 1869. Here he resided until the winter of 1887–88, when he came to Mansfield. He is real estate agent for the Frisco Railroad Company, and for forty-four years has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren. In 1841 he was married to Miss Martha Jane McDaniel, who was born in Tennessee in 1824, and is a daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Cox) McDaniel, who were born in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The father was a mechanic and farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin were born nine children: Jane, (deceased), John, a daughter (Mrs. L. P. Powell), Samuel B., James J., Thomas F., Louisa, Wiley O. and Margaret E. In 1861 Mr. Martin enlisted in Company I. Fifth Tennessee Cavalry , and served with Gens. Bragg, Johnson and Hood, and with them participated in the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Rocky Fall, Resaca, Marietta, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta. He was discharged in 1865, after Johnston's surrender.

Joseph H. Martin Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Joseph H. Martin, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Maury County, Tenn., in 1844, and is a son of Patrick and Sarah (Lee) Martin, natives of Virginia, who accompanied their parents to Williamson County, Tenn., where they married. They then settled in Maury County, and a few years later re moved to Obion County, Tenn., where they still live. Mr. Martín is a well-to do , and both himself and wife belong to the Methodist Church. Thomas Martin, the grandfather, was of Irish descent, and died in Maury County when Patrick was a small boy. Joseph H. Martin is the fifth of a family of six children, and when young attended school but little. In 1862 he joined Company K, Seventh Kentucky Cavalry, under Gen. Forrest, with whom he remained until the close of the war. He operated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, and participated in the engagements at Nashville, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Shiloh, and was through the Atlanta campaign. He was also at West Plain at the time of the surrender. After the war he returned home, and December 28, 1865, married Lucinda, daughter of Joseph and Ruth Hogan, a native of Virginia, who when young went to Indiana, where they were married, and Mrs. Martin was born. Mr. and Mrs. Hogan had a family of nine children, eight of whom are living. About three years after the birth of Mrs. Martin they removed to Obion County , Tenn., where they died in 1884 and 1870, respectively. Mr. Martin lived in Maury County for two years after his marriage, and in 1878 came to Sebastian County, settling upon his present farm, which was then but little improved. This was situated just south of the present site of Huntington and consisted at first of eighty acres. Mr. Martin since has sold about forty acres for town lots, the tract being known as Martin's addition to Huntington. He has always followed agricultural pursuits. In politics he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Seymour in 1868.

H. P. Mayers Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 H. P. Mayers, of the firm of Shelby & Mayers, dealers in furnishing goods, bats, etc., at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in 1858, and is the son of Abraham G. and Jane Buchanan (Gilly) Mayers. The father was born in Hagerstown, Md., in 1807, and when a young man made his way southward, and was married at Natchez, Miss., to Miss Jane B. Gilly, who was a native of New Orleans, born in 1814. A romantic story is connected with their courtship and marriage, as Miss Gilly, then a beautiful young woman, eloped with her lover, and they were married on board a steamer on the Mississippi River. When Fort Smith was in its infancy, and still a barrack, containing then a few soldiers, whose duty it was to quell any hostile movement displayed by the savage tribes upon the border, this couple landed here, in 1840, and Abraham G. Mayers was appointed Indian agent, which position be filled for several years. He was one of the earliest and leading merchants of the place. He was editor of the Thirty fifth Parallel, one of the earliest newspapers of Fort Smith. He was also postmaster at Fort Smith at the opening of the Civil War, and during the bloody struggle was stationed at Fort Washita, in the Indian Territory, in charge of the Government commissary. He was one of the pioneers of Fort Smith, was a man of unusual enterprise, and when he died, in 1870, this community mourned the loss of one of its most respected citizens. Jane B. Mayers died August 27, 1885. By her marriage she had become the mother of seven children, three of whom are still living: Howard S., Jennie B., wife of T. J. Cunningham, and H. P., the subject of this sketch. H. P. Mayers was of German extraction. He was taken to Tennessee by his parents, and afterward to New Orleans, where he remained until about 1869. From 1875 to the fall of 1880 he was connected with the post-office in Fort Smith, and afterward traveled for Scott, Jones & Co., of St. Louis, for a year. August 15, 1887, he became a member of the present firm with Mr. Edwin Shelby. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, is a Democrat in politics, and is a Sir Knight and Captain of the uniform rank K. of P., Fort Smith Division, No. 9.

J. H. Mershon Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 J. H. Mershon, ex-Deputy United States Marshal, and dealer in real estate at Fort Smith, Ark., is a Kentuckian, was born in 1838, and grew to manhood in London, the county seat of Laurel County. He is of French descent, and a son of William and Nancy Mershon, the former being born in Kentucky in 1801. He was the proprietor of a large tan-yard in London, and was a leading politician of Southeast Kentucky, but during the early settlement of Kansas moved westward, and located in that State, where he remained two years. From there he went to Northwest Texas, and there died during the war, in 1863. His wife died in 1870. His father, Titus Mershon, was also a Kentuckian, a Whig in politics and was one of the leading politicians of the day. J. H. Mershon and his youngest brother served in the Federal army in the late war, being a member of the Second Kansas Cavalry, and was promoted as follows: Corporal, commissary-sergeant, first duty sergeant, orderly-sergeant and first lieutenant. He received his discharge at Lawrence, Kas., August 11, 1865, and went directly to St. Joseph, Mo., where he was married on the 3d of September, 1865, to Ellen M. Roberts, a relative of Gov. Silas Woodson, and removed to Wise County, Tex., where their first child was born and died. On account of the ill health of his wife he returned to Labette County, Kas., where he spent one year, thence to Jasper County, Mo., where he purchased a farm and began tilling the soil. Here another child was born, but only lived a very short time. Shortly after he took his wife to Troy, Kas., where she died of consumption, at the home of her mother. Mr. Mershon then sold out all his property in Missouri, and came to Fort Smith, Ark., with the intention of soon joining his brothers in Texas, but, liking the town, engaged in the grocery business, which he followed about a year. About this time, he met Miss Minnie Simmons, a schoolteacher, and they were afterward married. Their union has been blessed in the birth of four children, only two of whom are living: Maggie and Arthur. Willie W. died at the age of five and a half years, being very delicate from his birth. After his marriage Mr. Mershon resided on a farm for about two years, and then came to Fort Smith, and became Deputy United States Marshal, serving twelve years, a longer period than any of his successors have served. He was instrumental in bringing many notorious characters to justice, prominent among whom was Bully Joseph. He retired from office in 1887 and has since been engaged in the mercantile and real estate business. He is a Republican and has been a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of H. for the past ten years. He rode Lexington, a Kentucky horse, at the great post stake at New Orleans, when he beat Lacompe, Highlander and Arrow. His brother, F. L. Mershon, served in the Confederate army three years during the late war, and then returned to Wise County, Tex., where he has served two terms as county treasurer, and polled more votes than any other man who has ever run for office for office in the county. His brother, William H., served in the Twenty-fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, as first sergeant, and was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea. He returned to Wise County, Tex., after the war, and has been county school commissioner several terms.

Rudolph Metzger (photo shared by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Rudolph Metzger, contractor and builder, was born in Staufen, Baden, Germany, October 16, 1851. He received his education in Baden, Germany, his parents being Rudolph Metzger and Theresia (Haas) Metzger. The father was a joiner, carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade, and imparted his knowledge to his son. In March 1881, Rudolph came to America, and until 1882 worked at his trade in Centralia, Ill. He came to Fort Smith April 16 of that year, beginning business for himself, and has since been permanently identified with the building interests of his place. While in his native country he married Amelia Straub, who was buried here December 29, 1886. She was daughter of George and Theresia Straub. They live in Griesheim, Baden, Germany. Amelia (Straub) Metzger was mother of one son and three daughters, viz: Rudolph was born April 20, 1876; Mary Katharine was born April 7, 1878; Annie Amelia was born September 20, 1879, in Staufen, Baden, Germany; Theresia was born December 22, 1884, in Fort Smith, Ark. Mr. Rudolph Metzger afterward married Miss Margarita Geheb, August 16, 1887. Margarita (Geheb) Metzger was born August 15, 1862, in Fort Smith, Ark., her parents being Adam and Margarita (Pfrim) Geheb, both born in Brissberg, Baiern, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger are both members of the St. Bonifacius Roman Catholic Church, and to them one child has been born, August 6, 1888, named Margarita Theresia. His residence is on the corner of Bryned Street, No. 720. Mr. Metzger has built many residences and store buildings in this city, and he was the builder of the Howard schoolhouse and the Grand Masonic Temple, one of the finest buildings in Fort Smith. He is a member of the church committee and belongs to the Catholic Knights.

Capt. Dudley Milam (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Capt. Dudley Milam, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of John and Levice (Hamby) Milam, who were born in North Carolina, and when young went to Hickman County, Tenn., where they married, and where the father died at the age of about forty-two years. The mother spent her last days in Boone County, Ark., where she lived to be sixty years of age. The father was a soldier in the War of 1812, being a participant in the battle of New Orleans, and was a blacksmith, wood workman and farmer by occupation. He was an old-time Democrat, and a son of Jordan Milam, who served seven years in the Revolutionary War, and died in Arkansas at the age of one hundred and ten years. Capt. Dudley Milam is the eldest of seven children, and was born in Hickman County, Tenn., February 9, 1826. He was reared on a farm and received just enough education to enable him to read, and at the early age of fifteen years began earning his own living. He was of a rather roving disposition and spent several years' earnings in traveling in different States. During the Mexican War he spent nine months in Capt. Whitfield's company, and at the end of that time was discharged from active duty on account of sickness, and then returned to Tennessee, and in 1847 came to Franklin County, Ark., locating soon after in Johnson County, where he was married, in 1852, to Miss Lennet Wood, who was born in North Carolina October 16, 1825. Since 1857 they have resided in Sebastian County, where he owns a fertile farm of 100 acres, with about fifty acres under cultivation. In April 1862, he enlisted in Capt. Oliver Bassbam's company, Confederate service, and at the end of three months joined Capt. Leister's company, but two months later this company split, and Capt. Leister joined the Federal forces. Mr. Milam was then elected captain of the company. At Mark's Mill, in Bradley County, Ark., he was leading a battalion of advance skirmishers, and in the heat of, the battle he was struck by a minie-ball in the left ankle joint, the bone being so shattered that his leg had to be amputated a little below the knee. This was done in April 1863. He has been the hero of two wars and is yet hale and hearty and has never had to pay a doctor's bill for himself in his life. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, and is the father of seven children: Emeline P. (deceased), Kansas, William M. (deceased), John, Wood B., Lennet A. and Frances É. Mrs. Milam is a member of the Methodist Church .

John G. Miller Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John G. Miller, of the lumber firm of Miller & Dyke, Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Indiana in 1842, and is the son of W. B. and Sarah A. Miller. W. B. Miller was a native of England, a miller by trade, and came to America with his parents at the age of eight years, locating in Dearborn County, Ind. A stone mill, erected by him in Dearborn county in 1839, is still in operation, and is run by the youngest son of the family. Mr. Miller was here married, and here passed a long and useful life. The Miller family belonged to the Methodist Church, and were among the higher classes of the English people. John G. Miller was reared and educated in Indiana, and there served an apprenticeship to the milling and flouring business. During the Civil War he was a member of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry, in which he served three years. After the war he continued in the milling business until he came to Arkansas in 1870, where he located at Georgetown, and in that vicinity ran a sawmill for several years. The place was subsequently called Piney Station. Mr. Miller moved to Clarksville, Johnson County, in 1877, and from there came to Fort Smith in 1879, entered the sawmill and lumber business, and now manufactures sash, doors, blinds, etc., on a large scale. He married Miss Mary J. Trester, a native of Indiana, in 1867, and to them were born five children: Carl, Daisy, May and Florence. Their third child, Roy, died at the age of five years. Mr. Miller is a Republican in politics, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, K. of H., and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since twelve years of age.

Mrs. Mary Miller Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Mrs. Mary Miller, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, in 1842, and is a daughter of Conrad and Mary A. Sanger, who were also natives of Bavaria. The father was a cabinet-maker by trade, and in 1846 came to America, landing at New Orleans, and after residing at Louisville, Ky., for a short time, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was residing when the Civil War broke out. He joined the Thirty-second Ohio Regiment, United States Army, and after going to the front was never afterward heard from. His father was also a Bavarian, and belonged to the gentry of Germany. The maternal grandfather, John N. Ragena, was born in Baden, was a talented physician and the highest officer in Baden. Mrs. Mary Miller was brought to America when about fourteen years of age and became a resident of Fort Smith in 1886. She has been married twice, her first husband being a Mr. Peter Shumes, whom she married when only sixteen years of age. Five children were born to this union: Henry, a manufacturer; Peter, a printer; William, a barber; Philip and Katie, the latter the wife of Theodore Vogel. She was afterward again married. She has given all her children a good start in life, and is now worth about $20,000, which she has made by her own industry and good management.

Charles Milor Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Charles Milor was born in Floyd County, Ky., October 4, 1818, and died January 12, 1887. He was the son of James Milor and Martha (Boles) Milor, who were married in 1806. James Milor was the son of Charles Milor, an Englishman, who came from England to Rockingham County, Va., in an early day. Martha Boles was the daughter of James Boles and Nellie (Stanley) Boles, who spent most of their lives in Surrey County, North Carolina. They were extensive slave holders. James Milor and Martha (Boles) Milor moved to Floyd County, Ky, in 1811. He was a farmer on the Big Sandy River. He was murdered August 19, 1822. They were the parents of four children: Mrs. Mary Stevens, Colchester, Ill.; Col. Alfred Milor, Grandview, Ind.; John (deceased), Judge Charles Milor (deceased), being the youngest child . Charles Milor's chances for school were very limited, except when he went to the State University, Bloomington, Ind., a short time. He took advantage of the public library, and by attentive reading and hard studying acquired a good English education, and in time became one of the best-read men in the community in which he resided . He was known to have a most remarkable memory. He was a Republican, but never affiliated with the extreme wing of the party. He always ran independently. He cast his first presidential vote for William Henry Harrison. He settled in Arkansas in 1838 . He was justice of the peace four years and was county and probate judge of Sebastian County two terms. In 1864 he was elected to the State Senate, filling the duties of that office with honor to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the constituents. He then returned to his farm. In 1876 he was again elected to represent Sebastian County in the State Legislature, serving one term. From that time until his death he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising. He was married December 12, 1849, to Miss Emiline Tyree, who was born in Franklin County, Ark., March 14, 1833, and by her became the father of four children, two living: Blanche Mary, who married Samuel H. Rains, son of Gen. James S. Rains, of Dallas County, Tex.; Mrs. Martha J. Tompson, of Washington County, Ark . His wife died on the 14th of October 1860. December 15, 1862, he married Miss Amanda Largen, who bore him eight children, seven of whom are living: Aurora, Charles, Flora (deceased), Fannie C., Mollie, Alfred W., Lola Pearl, Louis Chester. Mrs. Amanda (Largen) Milor is a native of Corroll County, Va., born May 11, 1839, and is the third child of nine, and a member of the Christian Church; she is a daughter of James and Thersa (Hawks) Largen, who were born in 1810 and 1814, and died in 1858 and 1882, respectively . They moved from Virginia to Georgia, thence to Franklin County, Ark., reaching the latter State in 1848, where they engaged in farming. Their grandparents, William and Nancy (Dalton) Largen, were born and spent their lives in Virginia, and were among the wealthy planters of that country.

Lawrence Mivelaz (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Lawrence Mivelaz, proprietor of the LeGrande Hotel at Fort Smith, was born in Switzerland in 1848. His parents, Louis and Annie (Bhena) Mivelaz, were both natives of Switzerland. The father owned the stage company in Switzerland before coming to America, and afterward followed agricultural pursuits in New Albany, Ind. He died at the age of fifty-five years. His wife is now alive and residing in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence Mivelaz attained his growth in Indiana and was a cook by occupation. He was married in Kentucky in 1870, and went to Memphis, Tenn., where he remained three years, and then came back to the old homestead in Indiana. He here remained for eleven years engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1883 he went to Little Rock, Ark., where he remained one year, and then came to Fort Smith, where he was in the McKibben’s Hotel one year, after which he became the proprietor of the LeGrande, and has remained in that capacity ever since. He was married in Louisville, Ky., to Mary Bardelle, who was born and reared in Kentucky, and who is the daughter of Michael Bardelle, a native of Strausberg, Germany, and Catherine (Hitler) Bardelle. Her father was a miller by occupation, came to America in 1846, located in Kentucky, and is still there. For twenty years he kept a livery stable, and for twenty-two years was a grocer at Louisville, Ky., where he has resided for forty-two years, in his own home. Mivelaz's paternal grandfather was also a miller, and the family have owned a mill, called the Bardelle Mill, for over 100 years. To Mr. and Mrs. Mivelaz were born seven children: Willie, Josephine, Louie, Lena, Maggie, Joseph and Amealia. Mr. Mivelaz is the owner of the old homestead in Northern Indiana, is the owner of eleven lots and four houses in Fort Smith, and the fine hotel is capable of accommodating from sixty-five to seventy individuals. The family are members of the Catholic Church.

George L. Morris (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 George L. Morris, a progressive farmer of Sebastian County, and the owner of 141 acres of land, fifty - six of which are under cultivation, is a son of Ira L. and Nancy J. (Simes) Morris, and was born in Wood County, Texas., January 10, 1860. At the age of six years he was brought to Sebastian County, Ark., and was reared in White Oak Township, his early life being spent in farming and attending the district schools. He received sufficient early education to enable him to transact all his business affairs, and at the age of twenty years was sent to school for the greater part of the year by his father, whose habit had been to give his sons their liberty at the age of twenty, or to school them one year. George L. accepted the latter and made good use of his time while in school. Having lived a life of single blessedness until March 26, 1882, he was united in marriage to Miss Medora A. Kersey, a daughter of William Kersey, and by her is the father of three children: Clara E., Monta C. and Maud E. Mrs. Morris was born in Greenwood, Ark., March 25, 1861, and she and Mr. Morris are members of the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Morris having been a steward in the same since he was seventeen years of age. He is a Democrat politically , and is considered by all an honorable, enterprising and intelligent young man.

George W. Moore Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 George W. Moore, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Giles County, Tenn., in 1832, his parents being John and Lavinia (Kincaid) Moore, who were born in Georgia in 1798, and Tennessee in 1796, respectively. They were married in Maury County, Tenn., and, after two years' residence in Indiana went to Giles County, Tenn. In 1859 Mr. Moore removed to Lawrence County, of that State, where the father died in 1865. Mrs. Moore died in Giles County in 1846. Mr. Moore was of Irish descent, and lost his father when a boy in Georgia. He afterward accompanied his mother to Tennessee, where he learned the blacksmith's trade and engaged in farming. He was twice married. The maternal grandfather of our subject, David Kincaid, was born in Pennsylvania, and when young went to Giles County, Tenn., where he passed the remainder of his life. George W. Moore is the fifth of a family of eight children. He lived upon a farm during his boyhood, and received a common-school education. Upon attaining his majority he began life for himself by clerking. He worked the first year for $75, the second for $200, and the third year he received $300. He then established himself in business at Mooresville, Marshall Co., Tenn., and remained there until the war, when he sold out and enlisted in Company E, Fifty-third Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until discharged in June, 1865, at Johnson's Island, on Lake Erie. He enlisted as a private, but in September, 1862, was made first lieutenant, which position he held until the close of the war. He was captured at Fort Donelson during his first engagement, and for several months was held a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. He was then exchanged at Vicksburg, and in September 1862, rejoined his company. After participating in the fights at Jackson, Miss., Mission Ridge and New Hope he was captured again, after an all-night struggle. He was then imprisoned at Johnson's Island one year, or until the close of the war. Returning to Marshall County, Tenn., he was, in 1868, married in Madison County to Sarah, daughter of Lieut. Col. Timothy P. and Catherine Jones, who were formerly from North Carolina. Mrs. Moore was born in Madison County, Tenn., where her mother died. After the war Mr. Moore again engaged in business at Culleoka, Maury Co., Tenn. He remained there until 1872, and then farmed in Jackson County upon land settled by Mrs. Moore's grandfather many years before. In 1880 he came to Fort Smith, and for two and a half years kept a grocery store, since which time he has farmed with success. He is an active and enterprising citizen, and owns a farm of 120 acres, ninety-five acres being under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have had eight children, six of whom are living. Two of these belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as do their parents. Mr. Moore cast his first presidential vote for Buchanan, in 1856, and is a member of the I. O. O. F.

Ira Lain Morris Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Ira Lain Morris, & wealthy farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., is a son of Enoch and Mary (Sexton) Morris, both of whom were born in North Carolina, the former in 1794 and the latter in 1796. The family first came from Wales at an early day, and located in North Carolina, where the Sextons, who were of English birth, had also settled. Here the parents were married, and lived until 1827, when they moved to De Kalb County, Ga., and made that State their home the remainder of their days. The father was an expert carpenter, and was very handy with tools of all kinds, and in connection with his trade carried on farming. He died while visiting his children in Texas, in 1884, his wife having died in Paulding County, Ga., in 1868. They were devoted members of the Methodist Church, and were the parents of eleven children, six of whom are living. Four sons served in the Confederate army during the late war. The fifth child of the family, Ira Lain Morris, was born in Davidson County, N. C., April 17, 1825, and was reared on a farm, but received but little early education, as his boyhood days were spent on the Cherokee Purchase in Georgia, there being very few schools in the region at that time. He afterward acquired a sufficient knowledge of the common English branches to enable him to acquit himself creditably in the transaction of business, and he is now considered one of the most intelligent men in the community in which he resides. In 1847 he was married to Miss Nancy J. Simes, who was born in De Kalb County, Ga., January 14, 1829, and by her is the father of twelve children: Mary J., Sarah A., James W., William J., Martha E., George L., Frances O., Amanda M. (deceased), Enoch H., Nancy C., Charles H. (deceased), and Jennie L. In 1853 Mr. Morris moved to Texas, and during thirteen years in that State was a resident of the following counties: Cass, Wood and Upshire. In 1866 he came to Sebastian County, where he has since made his home, and is the owner of 220 acres of fertile land. The family are all members of the Methodist Church, and he is a Democrat and Mason. In February, 1863, he enlisted in Company R, Texas Volunteer Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and served until the close of the war. The chief battle in which he participated was Yellow Bayou, and he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner during his service.

Charles Munder Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Charles Munder, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg in 1821, and is a son of Charles and Dorodtha Munder, who were also natives of Wurtemburg, the former being a civil engineer, and a son of William Munder, who was a farmer and an only son. Charles Munder, the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, learned the stone-cutter's trade in his native land, and at the age of twenty-eight years came to America, landing at New York City. He only remained a short time in this place, then went to Philadelphia, where he worked at his trade for about two months. After a residence of three months in Cincinnati, Ohio, he located in St. Louis, Mo., where he made his home for nearly two years. He next took up his abode in Louisville, Ky., thence to Bradford, Ind., and back again to Louisville, and then to Memphis, Tenn., where he worked in the navy yard . He came to Fort Smith in 1852, and here has since made his home and worked at his trade. During the late war he served in the Confederate army and is now a Democrat in politics. He was married in Fort Smith to Miss Amelia Euper, by whom he became the father of five children: Paulina, Charley, Amelia, Anton and M. M. Amelia is deceased. The mother and children are members of the Catholic Church.

Hon. Caswell B. Neal (clipping added by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hon. Caswell B. Neal, attorney at law and real estate agent, of Greenwood, is a native of Anderson County, Tenn., where he was born in 1829, being the son of John O. and Permelia (Young) Neal, and grandson of Daniel Neal, who was a native of Ireland. John 0. Neal was born in Russell County, Va., in 1793, and was a young man when he went to Wbitley County, Ky., where Daniel Neal died. About 1820 John 0. Neal went to Tennessee, and soon after married Miss Permelia Young, who was born in the State of Virginia, Spottsylvania County, in 1808. She is still living, but her husbaud died in Tennessee in 1878 . They were the parents of eight children, only three now living: Caswell B., John R., who is a member of Congress from Chattanooga District, in Tennessee, and is now serving his second term, and Henry C., who is an itinerant minister in Holston Conference in Tennessee, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Hon. Caswell B. Neal was educated at Strawberry Plains, in Jefferson County, Tenn., and at the age of twenty-one he entered the teacher's profession, receiving $10 per month for compensation, and paying $2 per month for board. This was in Anderson County, Tenn. In 1848 he went to Scott County, Ill., and taught here four terms. In 1852 he returned to his native State, and became employed in the chancery court's office in Madisonville, Monroe Co., Tenn. He was there two years, and during that time became a disciple of Blackstone, his preceptor being Hon. George Brown, who now lives in Knoxville, Tenn. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar at Madisonville, and afterward left his native State, and in January 1860, he became a citizen of Greenwood, Sebastian Co , Ark., where he resumed his practice. He was a Whig in politics before the war, but since then he has affiliated with the Democratic party. In 1862 he was elected State representative, and in 1864 he was re-elected from Sebastian County, serving on the judiciary committee. In 1870 he was again elected as representative, and it was this Legislature that passed the articles of impeachment against Gov. Powell Clayton and John McClure, chief justice of the State. Hon. C. B. Neal was chosen to present the charges before the Senate and prosecute the same. This service he performed to the satisfaction of his party. He was also complimented by the Democratic vote for speaker of the House. He has devoted his time to his profession, his practice extending from Arkansas to Red River, and is one of the leading legal lights in Sebastian County. He has been wonderfully successful financially and is the largest landholder in Western Arkansas . He owns 1,500 acres, and at one time was the owner of 3,000 acres. He also owns fine property in Greenwood, about one-third of the village. In 1858 he married Miss Susan Inge, who was a native of Alabama, born in 1835, and who became the mother of four children: John M., dealer in stock; Caswell B., salesman in Greenwood; William H., attorney with his father, and Thomas W. Mrs. Neal died in 1876, and in 1878 Mr. Neal married Mrs. M. A. Robertson nee Brazier. He and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church; he is a Knight Templar, and has been a Master Mason for thirty-five years .

Anton Neis Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Anton Neis of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Alsace, France, in 1818, and is a son of Joseph and Susie (Aesanstack) Neis. The former was a butcher by trade, and also kept a hotel. His grandfather came to America with Marquis de Lafayette, and assisted the colonists in their struggle for freedom, returning home in safety. Joseph and Susie Neis died in their native land, having become the parents of five children, Anton being their youngest born. The latter learned the trade of butcher, and at the age of twenty-one years came to the United States, landing at New York City. He soon after went to Frankfort, Ky., where he worked at his trade for two years, and while in that city cast his first presidential vote for Gen. William Henry Harrison. From Frankfort he went to New Orleans, but after a short stay in that city went to Lexington, Mo., where he made his home for two years. Under the bankrupt law, during Harrison's administration, he was entirely broken up, losing about $6,000. After this he left Lexington and returned to New Orleans, where he began following his trade once more. In 1844 he came to Fort Smith, where he has since resided, and where he was married, about one year after his arrival, to Miss Catherine Sengel, by whom he became the father of five children: Susie, widow of Gen. Bonneville; Louise, widow of Charles Robinson; Tony, Albert, and Katie, who died at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Anton Neis was working at his trade in Fort Smith when Gen. Taylor was preparing for the Mexican War and was requested by the latter to join his command. He did so, and left Fort Smith November 1, 1845 and served throughout the entire war, being accompanied by his wife. He was afterward in a number of fights with the Indians, the principal engagements being with the Pawnees, and in one of their fights on Blue Creek, Neb., killed 130 Indians and lost only one man. The Indians were armed with bows and arrows. In 1849 he was sent to work in a saw-mill, where he met with an accident, and was seriously injured, but received no compensation from the Government until Grover Cleveland was elected President, since which time he has been receiving a pension. He has been engaged in butchering and in hotel keeping in Fort Smith for many years, and is doing a satisfactory business. The family attend the Catholic Church, and he is a Democrat in his political views.

Wiley Nelson Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Wiley Nelson, farmer, was born in Sevier County, Ark., in 1840, and is a son of William and Sarah (Mitchell) Nelson, who were born in North Carolina and Alabama, respectively. They removed from Alabama to Sevier County, Ark., about 1837, where the father died when our subject was three years old, and the mother died during the war. Mr. Nelson was of Irish descent, and Mrs. Nelson was a member of the Methodist Church. Wiley received a very limited education when a lad, and upon the outbreak of the war joined Company F, Nineteenth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, being first stationed at the Arkansas post. He then spent nearly three months imprisoned at Camp Douglas, now Chicago, after which he was taken to Richmond, Va., where he was exchanged and sent to the Army of Tennessee, at Chattanooga. He participated in the Georgia and Atlanta campaign, returning with Gen. Hood, and after the engagements at Franklin and Nashville joined Johnston's army in North Carolina, with which he surrendered. He then returned to Sevier County , where he was married, in 1865, to Helen, daughter of the Hon. David Carroll and Catherine Price. Mr. and Mrs. Price were born and reared in Alabama and Kentucky, respectively, and Mrs. Nelson is a native of Crawford County, Ark. Mrs. Price died in 1870, but Mr. Price is still a resident of Washington County, Ark . He was a soldier in one of the Indian wars and represented Crawford County in the Legislature when it included Sebastian County. For many years he served as justice of the peace. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. They have a family of nine children. After the war they settled in Washington County, and in 1873 came to Sebastian County, where Mr. Nelson rented land for five years. He then purchased his present farm of 110 acres, near Huntington. In politics he is a Democrat, his first presidential vote having been cast for Seymour. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and one of the self-made and respected citizens of the township .

Richard Nevill Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Richard Nevill was born in Fort Smith, Ark., in 1856, and is a son of James and Mary Nevill, the former being a native of County Leitrim, Ireland. He came to the United States at an early day and participated in the Florida and Texas Wars. He was a sergeant in the United States Army under Gen. B. L. E. Bonneville, and afterward came to Fort Smith and purchased land, which is now known as the Nevill Addition to Fort Smith, Richard Nevill, his son, grew to manhood in the latter town, and received a good English education. In 1878 he left the paternal roof and went to New Mexico, and worked at the blacksmith's trade, at which he had previously worked in Fort Smith and in Las Vegas. He returned to Fort Smith in the spring of 1882, and soon after engaged in his present business, which is bringing him in a comfortable income. He is unmarried, and in his political views is a Democrat. He attends the Catholic Church.

Willis W. Nolen Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Willis W. Nolen, farmer and general trader, was born in Madison County, Tenn., in 1827, and is a son of James and Nancy (Anderson) Nolen, natives of South Carolina, who, after their marriage, removed to West Tennessee in an early day. In 1847 they removed to Hempstead County, Ark., where the mother died in 1865 and the father in 1875. They were members of the Methodist and Baptist Churches, respectively. James Nolen, the grandfather of our subject, served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and was a son of Irish parents . Willis W. was the fourth of a family of four sons and three daughters. At the age of seventeen he left home to work on a farm in Hemps stead County, Ark. In 1849 he married Susan, daughter of Andrew & Rachel Henderson, a native of Illinois. Mr. Henderson died in that State, and the family afterward came to Arkansas, prior to 1844. The mother died in Texas. In 1869 Mr. Nolen came to Sebastian County, and until 1880 farmed and traded at various places. He then engaged in the mercantile business at Lavaca with M. Harwood for two years, after which he continued in business alone until retiring in the winter of 1887–88 . He is one of the wealthy businessmen of the town, and himself and wife are highly respected members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. During the war he served nearly four years in the Confederate army. He was one year in Company E, Twentieth Arkansas Infantry, and afterward in Bryant's regiment of cavalry. He operated in Arkansas, Mississippi and Indian Territory, and was discharged in the Territory at the close of the war. Besides many skirmishes he participated in the battles at Vicksburg and Corinth and accompanied Steele through Arkansas. He was formerly a Whig in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Taylor, but since the war has been a Democrat .

Bernard O'Keeffe Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Bernard O'Keeffe, merchant of Fort Smith. Ark. was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in May 1863, and is the son of Hugh and Mary (Murphy) O'Keeffe, who were among the sturdy yeomanry of County Wicklow. The family have lived on the same farm in the “Emerald Isle" for several generations, and the old homestead is now occupied by Mary (Murphy) O'Keeffe and four of her children. She was formerly a teacher in the national schools of Ireland. Her husband died March 17, 1876, at the age of eighty-three years, both families being devoted members of the Roman Catholic Church. They were the parents of six children: John, Anastasia, Jennie, Pat, Bernard and Joseph. September 10, 1883, Bernard O'Keeffe embarked on the steamer Republic for America, and landed at New York City on the 21st of September, remaining only one day in that city. He came almost immediately to Fort Smith, and here commenced life as a clerk, which occupation received his attention for about three and a half years, and then he engaged in the mercantile business for himself, his brother, Pat O'Keeffe, who came to the United States in 1887, being in his employ. Mr. O'Keeffe took out his naturalization papers in the fall of 1883. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

John L. Oneal Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John L. Oneal was born December 26, 1834, in Bedford County, Tenn., and is a son of Wiley and Phebe (LaRue) Oneal. His paternal grandfather was born in Virginia, of Irish parents, and was a soldier in the Revolution. The maternal grandparents were natives of Virginia, who immigrated to Tennessee in an early day. Wiley J. Oneal, the father, was born and reared upon a farm in Bedford County, Tenn., and during the late war served in the Confederate army. After being discharged in the Indian Territory he went to Texas, where he immigrated in 1860, and there died in 1884, aged seventy-four. Mrs. Oneal was born in Marshall County, Tenn., and died in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1872. She was the mother of eleven children. The following seven are living: John L., Jasper N., Andrew J., Tennessee C., R. J., Mary E. and Wiley I. B. Those deceased are William T., James M., Clara E. and an infant. John L. lived, until October 15, 1854, in his native country, where he received a common school education; then he immigrated to Newton County, Mo. A year later he settled in Franklin County, Ark., where Charleston now stands, and there farmed until September 1861. He then went to Texas, and enlisted in Company D, Thirteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war on station duty on the Brazos River. He then farmed in Van Zandt County until 1868, since which time he has been a resident of Sebastian County, Ark. In 1855 there were but few white settlers, and there were few schools and churches. He now owns 160 acres of land, eighty being cultivated, and is exclusively engaged in agriculture. January 30, 1856, he married Nancy M. Johnson, of Newton County, Mo., who was born in Davidson County, Tenn. This marriage has been blessed with seven children: William W. B., Pinkney A., Clara T., Robert L., James T., Phebe E. and Minnie L. Mr Oneal has been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church over thirty-eight years, and his wife is a member of the same church. He is a strong Democrat, and has served two terms as school director, although not desirous of public office.

Capt. George E. Otis Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Capt. George E. Otis, of Mansfield, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Wisconsin in 1849, and is a son of Joseph and Maria E. (Smith) Otis. The father was born in the "Green Mountain State" in 1809, and at an early day removed to Wisconsin, thence to Minnesota in 1855. Here he made his home until 1879, when he moved to Dakota Territory, and after residing there until 1888 came to Sebastian County, Ark. They were the parents of two children: George E. and Ada (Mrs. Graves, of Minnesota). George Otis spent his early days in Minnesota, and received his rudimentary education in the common schools, supplemented by an attendance in the high school at Chatfield, Minn. He studied civil engineering in the field, and began working at that occupation as chainman, and since his residence in Arkansas, has been "locating engineer” on the Frisco Railway about six years, the location of the Mansfield branch being a portion of his work. Since taking up his abode in Mansfield he has been engaged in the wholesale flour business, and also in the fruit and cotton business. He is a Mason, and a stanch Republican in politics .

Frank Parke (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Frank Parke, a resident of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, July 11, 1829, and is the son of Thomas Parke, and grandson of John Parke, who was born in England, and who owned property in that country. Later he immigrated to Ireland, where he died. Thomas Parke was born in Ireland, and here passed his entire life. He was the owner of considerable property, and married Miss Mary McGarry, who was born in Ireland, and who became the mother of twelve children, of whom Frank Parke is the youngest. The family came to America in 1849, settling in the State of Ohio, and here the mother died in 1875 at the age of ninety-four. The father died when Frank Parke was a young man. Previous to coming to America the latter followed merchandising, which he continued until the time of his leaving his native country. He located in Ohio, remained there three years, and then came to Fort Smith, where he followed merchandising until the outbreak of the Civil War. He then enlisted in the Confederate army as a private and resigned at the close of the war as a major of the quartermaster's department. After the war he followed mercantile pursuits in the Choctaw Nation for several years . Returning to Fort Smith in 1873, he engaged in merchandising under the firm name of Parke & Sparks. The firm was very prosperous, and was dissolved on account of the ill health of Mr. Parke, who for many years suffered greatly from inflammatory rheumatism, but has been entirely cured by the use of the waters of Biswell Springs, he having erected a cottage there in the summer of 1887, where with his family he has a beautiful summer resort. Mr. Parke is one of the largest real estate owners in the city, and owns valuable suburban property, and over 2,000 acres of the best coal lands in the county of Sebastian. He was married to Miss Sarah J. Ish, a native of Washington County, Ark., and a granddaughter of one of the early pioneers of Tennessee, who was killed by the Cherokee Indians. Her father was one of the early settlers of Washington County, Ark. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Parke, six of whom are now living: Myrtle, wife of Martin T. Dyke; Frank, Mary, Lady, Phoebe and A. H. Winfield Parke. Myrtle graduated at the Arkansas Female College, Little Rock, Ark., Frank graduated in law in 1888 at the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., and Mary was a graduate of Nashville College for Young Ladies in 1887, and took a post graduate course in 1888. Lady is now attending Nashville College for Young Ladies, and the two youngest children are attending the public schools of this city. The children deceased were named Lillie May, Lalla Rookh and Jane. When Mr. Parke discontinued merchandising he turned his attention to the real estate business. He is a Democrat and a Prohibitionist; is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His father, grandfather, and his ancestors as far back as the days of the Wesleys were Methodists.

Hon. Robert T. Powell Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hon. Robert T. Powell, of Greenwood, is a native of Bedford County, Tenn., and was born in 1853, to the marriage of Judge Richard H. and Jane Taylor (Temple) Powell. The father was born near Petersburg, Va., in 1826, and is of Irish-Scotch-Welsh extraction. At the age of five years he went to Tennessee with his father, Thomas Powell, who died about 1854. Judge Powell was married in Bedford County, Tenn., to Miss Jane T. Temple, who was born in the last-named county in 1831. She died in 1870. The Judge moved to Arkansas, and since becoming a resident of this State has resided in Independence and Izard Counties. He was in the late war and was a captain; was captured in Independence County, Ark., and was held a prisoner at Johnson's Island during the greater portion of the war. He is an attorney by profession; was educated in law at Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tenn., and commenced his practice at Louisburg, Tenn. In 1860 he moved to Arkansas, began practicing at Batesville, and soon became distinguished in his profession. He was a member of the Legislature from 1862 to 1866 and was elected circuit judge of the Seventh Judicial District in 1866. In the year 1878 he was re-elected to the same office in the Third Judicial District, and was re-elected in 1882 and 1886, the district now being the Fourteenth. Judge Powell has served constantly for the last ten years, and at the last election had no opposition. He is a man of prominence and a person of eminent legal ability. He has been married three times, and is the father of eight children living, six by the first wife and two by the last. Robert T. Powell was the second child born to the first marriage. He was educated at La Cross Academy, in Izard County, and then attended the North Arkansas College, at Batesville. At the age of twenty-one be became a disciple of Blackstone under his father's instruction, and in 1879 he entered the law department of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained seven months, being admitted to the bar at Nashville, Tenn., in 1890. The same year he returned to Arkansas, going to Fort Smith, where he was admitted to the bar. On October 3, 1880, he came to Greenwood, Sebastian County, opened an office, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Powell is Democratic in his political opinions, and in October 1882, was appointed deputy county clerk of Sebastian County, and served two years. He has devoted the greater portion of his time to the practice of law, and in connection he deals in real estate. Hon. Robert T. Powell is one of the leading attorneys of Sebastian County, and a man universally respected. March 21, 1883, he married Miss Ida M. King, a daughter of E. W. King, and a native of Virginia, born in 1855. They are the parents of one child, Arte Lee. Mr. Powell is the owner of 800 acres of land, and good town property in Greenwood and Fort Smith; is a Master Mason, is an ancient member of the I. 0. 0. F., belongs to the K. of H., and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Prendergast, McShane & Co. Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Prendergast, McShane & Co. The topmost round in the ladder of success in any undertaking can only be obtained by individuals of decided character and a masterful knowledge of the business to be undertaken, coupled with steady and persistent energy. All these characteristics can be found in the persons of William Prendergast and P. E. McShane, of the Arcade Dry Goods House of Prendergast, McShane & Co., Fort Smith Ark. This firm occupy a building over 100 feet deep, and proportionately spacious, on Garrison Avenue, in the central mart of the city. They keep an army of hands busy waiting on the crowd of customers that constantly throng their store. This is one of the new and prosperous firms of Fort Smith that have helped to lift it out of the old ruts and make it a prosperous and pleasant city. This firm opened business on March 1, 1887, and after having doubled the original capacity of their building they find it still inadequate to accommodate the trade and meditate enlarging it. Their first year's business amounted to over $75,000, and the second year will increase that amount by 50 per cent. They carry an average stock of about $40,000. P. E. McShane was born in County Donegal, Ireland, December 25, 1859, and was educated in the national schools of his native country. His natural inclination for mercantile pursuits manifested itself early in life, as he spent four years with his uncle, Con. McShane, merchandising in Carricktown, Ireland before coming to America. Thus, his natural proclivities for his favorite pursuit were early trained by actual application. He bid farewell to home and friends September 15, 1880, and on the 17th of the same month sailed from Londonderry for America, landing in the great metropolis of the United States ten days later. He came direct to Prescott, Nevada Co., Ark., where he met a relative with whom he went to Pittsburg, Camp County, of the “Lone Star State,” where he engaged in merchandising for three years. He then sold out his stock of goods at that place and went to Texarkana, where he sold goods for the firm of O'Reilly & O'Dywere for a short period. In March of 1887 he came to Fort Smith, and became a member of the present firm, where marked success has attended his efforts. Mr. McShane is the son of Patrick and Anna (Byrne) McShane, and the McShane’s have been farmers in County Donegal, Ireland, for generations back. Patrick and Anna McShane are the parents of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, and are now living in their native country. Four of their sons have come to America, and James and John are merchandising in Texarkana. P. E. McShane is a Democrat in his political views, belongs to the Catholic Church, and is a member of the Catholic Knights of America. William Prendergast, of the above-mentioned firm, was born in County Killkenney, Ireland, and is the son of Michael and Kate (Henlohan) Prendergast. The father was a farmer, and followed that occupation through life. The Prendergast family came originally from France, and settled in Ireland at the time of the invasion of the English to that country. Michael and Kate Prendergast became the parents of five children, all now living, and William Prendergast being the youngest. He is the only one of the family who has immigrated to America, and being naturally endowed with a shrewd business talent and a high conception of personal liberty, he resolved to break the ties that bound him to home, and risk his chances in the Republic of the United States of America. He reached this country in 1880, settling in the city of Chicago, where he served as a clerk in one of the principal dry goods houses in that city for two years. Leaving that position he went to St. Louis, from there to Texas, and finally to Fort Smith, where in March, 1887, he entered and became a member of the above mentioned firm. He is a member of the Catholic Knights of America, and is a first-class businessman.

Thomas A. Putnam Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Thomas A. Putnam was born April 26, 1845, in Hall County, Ga., and is a son of Berry B. and Martha F. (Tate) Putnam, natives of Georgia. The father was married in his native state, and from there immigrated to Johnson County, Ark., where he remained two years. He then lived four years in Franklin County, Ark., and after spending another year in Grayson County, Tex., settled in Sebastian County, where he has since lived. During the war he served two years in Company H, Second Arkansas Cavalry, being discharged at Memphis, Tenn. He also fought in the Florida War. He is a Republican and has served as justice of his township . He is now seventy years of age . Mrs. Putnam was born February 23, 1828, married in 1844, and died October 2, 1864. She was the mother of nine children, four of whom are living, viz.: Thomas A., Mary A. (wife of James P. Frye), Nancy M. (wife of John Luck) and Eliza J. (wife of J. A. Wilburn). Those deceased are George R., William E., Leonidas, Martha B. and an infant. In 1866 Mr. Putnam married Sallie Cardin, who has borne him one child, Millie, wife of Lon Carson. The paternal grandparents of our subject were of German Irish descent, and natives of South Carolina, where they spent their entire lives . The maternal grandparents passed the greater part of their lives in Georgia. Thomas A. Putnam was reared upon a farm in Arkansas, receiving but a common-school education, and when sixteen years old joined Company F, Seventeenth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Confederate Army . He fought in the engagements at Pea Ridge, Corinth and luka, and after two years' service was discharged at Port Hudson, La., in March 1863. He then returned to Fort Smith, and after the death of his mother went to Illinois, where he remained one year. He then returned to Sebastian County, and January 20, 1869, married Martha H., daughter of Castleton and Mary Ward, natives of Alabama. Mrs. Putnam was born in this county, and has borne six children: Vanonar V., Larosa L., Annie M , Pearl , Willie O. (deceased), and an infant, now deceased . Mr. Putnam lived within a mile of his present place until 1878, and then bought the farm he now owns . This contains 220 acres, eighty being under cultivation. Both himself and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Bernard Quante (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Bernard Quante, retired farmer in Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, in 1827, and is the son of G. and Theresa (Vieth) Quante. The Quante family lived in Prussia for many generations back, and the family are the descendants of some of the oldest and best families in Germany. G. Quante was born in Prussia in 1789 and was an architect by occupation. His father was also an architect and carpenter by trade. Mrs. Theresa (Vieth) Quante's people have also lived for generations in Germany. Bernard Quante was educated and grew to manhood in his native country, and at the age of twenty one years entered the German army, and served three years in the German Revolutionary War, in the Prussian army, from 1848 to 1851. When the war closed, he came to America, and landed in New Orleans in August 1852. He remained only two days in New Orleans, and went to Galveston, Tex., but after a few days' absence returned to New Orleans. From there he went to St. Louis, then to Cincinnati, and at the last-named place worked at the carpenter's and architect's trade for nearly a year. He then went to Dubois County, Ind., and resided there for seventeen years. He was there at the time of the Know-Nothing massacre, and after that exciting time he engaged in the carpenter's trade, and built St. Ferdinand's Church at Ferdinand, Dubois; St. Joseph's Church at Josephstown, Dubois; St. Henry's Church at St. Henry, Dubois County; St. Boniface, in Spencer County, Ind., and St. Anthony's Church at St. Anthony, Benton Co., Ind. Mr. Quante moved to the last named county , and remained there for ten years . He has traveled over all the Northern States. He was drafted into the Union army and sent a substitute. He then traveled west ward to look at the country, and then northward until the great Father of Waters dwindles to almost nothing, and here he met “Hole-in-the-day," chief of the Chippewas, who said: "Whites have nothing to do here.” Mr. Quante replied that he was recommended to come by a missionary, Father Piers. The chief then welcomed him. He came to Arkansas in 1877, and settled on the prairie in Upper Township, Sebastian County, where he is now the owner of over 800 acres of land, besides considerable town property. Mr. Quante was married in Dubois County, Ind., to Catherine Lesch, who was born on the Rhine, in Germany, in 1840, and who became the mother of fifteen children, thirteen now living: Mary, Frank, Henry, Joseph, Kate, Anton, Florenza, Christ., John, Annie, Ernest, May and Bennie. Two are deceased; the eldest son, Benoid, died at the age of about twenty years, and seemed to be a strong and hearty man; Barbara died when an infant. Mr. Quante is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Catholic Church.

W. T. Quinley Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 W. T. Quinley, senior partner of the furniture firm of Quinley & Co., was born in Haywood County, Tenn., in 1851, and is a son of R. B. and Amandy J. Quinley. The father served in the Civil War under Col. Adams, participating in a number of skirmishes, and in 1878 located in the northwestern part of Arkansas, where he died in 1882. Two sons and three daughters born to the parents of our subject are now living. W. T. Quinley was educated at Brownsville, Tenn., and after coming to Arkansas for fourteen years worked at the carriage and wagon trade. In 1886 he sold his business and came to Hackett City in the month of March, where he established a grocery store, doing business under the firm name of McBride & Quinley. A year later this firm was succeeded by Bolton & Lackey, and then Mr. Quinley went into the undertaker's business. In a short time he added furniture to his stock, and he now carries about $4,000 worth of goods, doing the largest furniture business in the city. In 1874 Mr. Quinley married Miss E. E. Peale, of Crockett Mills, Tenn., who died in 1886. He was the father of one child, also deceased. In 1887 Mr. Quinley married Mrs. E. G. Clark, of this city, who is a member of the Baptist Church, to which Mr. Quinley also belongs. Mr. Quinley is a Democrat in politics, and in 1886 served as postmaster of this city. In 1887 he was elected alderman. He is a well-to-do citizen, and owns 240 acres of land in Mississippi County, of this State. He is one of the largest land-owners of Hackett City, owning the building he occupies, a half interest in the one adjoining, and a half interest in the brick store occupied by the Kansas & Texas Coal Company, besides being a stock holder in the hotel at Hackett City. He also has several town lots and a half interest in the brickyard.

John Ray Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Ray, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in 1832, and is a son of Hamilton and Polly (Moses) Ray, natives of South Carolina and Georgia, respectively. They were married in Alabama, and when our subject was a small boy removed to Itawamba County, Miss., where their respective deaths occurred in 1880 and 1861. Mr. Ray was a farmer by occupation. He lost his father when a small boy living in South Carolina, but his mother afterward married and removed with the family to Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Ray were members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and to them a family of thirteen children were born, of whom our subject is the second. He, with a brother, Alfred, are the only survivors. He was educated at the country schools of early days, and in 1855 married Martha J., daughter of Ezra and Lucinda Brown, and a native of Ringo County, Ala. This marriage was blessed with ten children, of whom five sons and two daughters are living. One daughter, Mary Lucinda, was killed, while at home, by a cyclone, April 18, 1880. In 1859 Mr. Ray removed to Hempstead County, Ark., and in 1871 located upon his present place in Sebastian County, which was then a wilderness. He owns 200 acres, and has cleared and cultivated 100. He also cleared a farm while in Hempstead County. During the cyclone of 1880 all of his buildings and a great deal of timber was destroyed. The house was blown from the floor, and all the inmates injured to some extent, one daughter being killed, as above mentioned. During the war Mr. Ray served four years in the Confederate army, having enlisted in Company F, Twenty-fourth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, in 1862. In January, 1863, he was captured at Arkansas Post, and taken a prisoner to Camp Douglas, at Chicago, where he was held three months. He was then taken to City Point, Va., and exchanged, after which he joined his old company in the Army of Tennessee, under Gen. Bragg. He served in the battles of Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, and after the latter battle returned home. He also fought in many skirmishes but was never wounded. Mr. Ray cast his first presidential vote for Buchanan and has voted the Democratic ticket since. He has been a Mason for about eighteen years, and joined the Missionary Baptist Church prior to his marriage. Mrs. Ray is also a member of that church.

James H. Reed Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 James H. Reed, superintendent of the United States courthouse and post office, was born in Crawford County, Ark., in 1836, and is a son of Jesse and Sarah (Lloyd) Reed. The former was of Irish descent, and born in McNairy County, Tenn. He was a builder and bricklayer by trade, and in 1839 came to Fort Smith, where he was engaged in building the garrison. In 1833 he, in company with his elder brothers, Hamilton and Stephen, left Memphis and traveled to Little Rock on foot. Gradually journeying west, they came to Fort Smith in the year 1839, as above stated. Passing his youth here, James H. learned his father's trade, since which time he has erected a large number of buildings, among which are the Arkansas Industrial University, of Fayetteville, the Commercial Bank, the Hotel Main, Block and McKibben Hotel and residence, the Opera House and the Morrison Building. He superintended the building of the United States jail and court-house and has probably erected more buildings than any other man in Fort Smith. During the war he enlisted in the Confederate service, and for six months served as lieutenant in Reed's Battery, under Gen. Benjamin McCullough. He afterward joined the infantry, and served until the close of the war. His first battle was at Elk Horn. Mr. Reed has seen Fort Smith grow from a small settlement into a thriving town. He lighted the first gas lamp in the place and opened the first mail received in the post-office here. He served in the town council some time and was assistant postmaster two years. He was united in marriage here to Miss Martha Talula Marshall, a native of Georgia, by whom he has one daughter, Elizabeth, wife of George R. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Reed belong to the Presbyterian Church, and he is a member of the Blue Lodge in Masonry.

Thomas Newton Reed The Province and the States Weston Arthur Goodspeed, LL.B. Editor-in-Chief Thomas Newton Reed, of Fort Smith, Ark., is county clerk of Sebastian county, and was born in Hempstead county, Ark., December 22, 1865. His father, Finis Young Reed, Jr.. was a native of Tennessee and removed to Hempstead county, Ark., when he was fifteen years of age, and very successfully engaged in farming until 1868, at which time he removed to the county of Sebastian and resided there until his death on May 4, 1900. The mother of Thomas N. Reed was Nealy Miller, a native of Georgia, who, at the age of twelve years accompanied her parents to Sevier county, Ark., and now resides at Greenwood. The subject of this sketch was reared in Sebastian county, educated in the splendid public schools of this section and was graduated from the high school at Booneville, Ark. For the several succeeding years he taught school in Sebastian county with great success. Mr. Reed is deservedly very popular in his county and has been honored with many positions of public trust. In 1891 he became deputy county clerk of Sebastian county and held this position until his election to the office of county clerk in 1896. He has filled this office with great ability and untiring courtesy and was re-elected in 1898, 1900 and 1902 and has always received a majority over all opponents, though at times there have been several strong men opposed to him. He is a prominent Mason, having received the Knight Templar degree, and is thoroughly identified with the Elks. Woodmen and Ancient Order of United Workmen. On religious matters he is quite broad-minded, believing that all denominations achieve the same results, but his preference is the Presbyterian faith and he affiliates with this church. He was married in Sebastian county. Ark., August 22, 1894, to Ida Bell, a native of that county, and they have one son, Reuben, a student of Fort Smith public schools.

James D. Richmond (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 James D. Richmond, farmer, was born in Chester District, S. C., in 1843, his parents being Robert G. and Louisa (Cornwell) Richmond, also natives of that State, where they were reared and married. In 1853 the family moved to Floyd County, Ga., and five years later went to Jackson (now Lincoln Parish), La. In 1867 they came to Scott County, Ark., where the father is now a well-to-do farmer. While in Georgia he served some time as justice of the peace. Gunning Richmond, the grandfather, came to America with his parents, prior to the Revolution, from Ireland, and after attaining his growth lived in South Carolina until his death. Davis Cornwell, the maternal grandfather, lived and died in South Carolina. The parents of our subject were Presbyterians in faith and reared a family of seven sons and four daughters, of whom James D. was the second child. At the age of eighteen he joined Company I, Twenty-eighth Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he participated in the famous Red River expedition. He fought at Pleasant Hill, Alexandria, Yellow Bayou and other places, and was wounded at Franklin, near New Orleans, April 14, 1862. He was then held a prisoner by the enemy until his recovery, when he was exchanged, and rejoined his company, remaining in service until the same was disbanded at Shreveport. In 1867 he accompanied his parents to Scott County, and was there married, in 1869, to Jane, daughter of M. and Amanda Larimore, early settlers of Sebastian County, where Mrs. Richmond was born. They are now living in Scott County. Mr. Larimore was in the Government employ during the late war. In 1879 Mr. Richmond left Scott County and settled upon his present farm, which was then a wilderness. He now owns 200 acres of land, 130 of which he has cleared and cultivated. Himself and wife are Methodists. They have had ten children, six of whom are living, and who have enjoyed the advantages of a good education. Mr. Richmond is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Seymour in 1868.

Pinckney J. Roberts Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Pinckney J. Roberts, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Marion County, S. C., in 1839. His father, William D. Roberts, was born in the same county, August 29, 1806, and there married Miss L. Manning. He still lives in the place of his birth, where he has a large farm. Prior to the war he was a large slave holder. The great-grandfather of our subject. Roger Roberts, was one of a large family, and when a boy accompanied his parents to America from Wales, prior to the Revolution. He served in that war, and then settled in the South, where many of his descendants now live. His son, Redding Roberts, was born in North Carolina, and served in the War of 1812, under Gen. Marion. He died in Marion County, S. C., in 1873, nearly a century old. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Roberts was a native of Ireland. Our subject is the third child of ten born to his parents, three being sons and the remainder daughters. He received a common-school education during his boyhood, and at the age of twenty-three, in 1862, joined Company E, First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. He served in the Army of Virginia until the surrender at Appomattox, and was with Gen. Stonewall Jackson at the time of his death. He was wounded in the jaw in the second battle at Manassas, lost a finger at Gettysburg, and was wounded in the hip at the battle of the Wilderness. Among other engagements in which he anticipated were Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and the Seven Days fight. In 1866 Mr. Roberts removed from his native county to Louisiana, and the following year came to Scott County, Ark. In 1871 he married Ruth Ann, daughter of James and Mary Gregory, formerly of White County, Ga., where Mrs. Roberts was born. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory came to Arkansas in 1869, where the father died the same year and the mother is still living. Mr. Roberts settled upon his present farm in 1874, which was then in a wild and uncultivated condition. He has 170 acres in all, and devotes seventy acres to agriculture. Mr. Roberts is a self-made man, his property being the result of hard labor and economy. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Hancock, in 1880. He joined the Masonic fraternity November 17, 1888.

William T. Roberts Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 William T. Roberts, a well-to-do farmer of Prairie Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Monroe County, Miss., in 1838, and is a son of Eli and Permelia (Walpool) Roberts. The father was born in Alabama, on the 13th of December, 1808, and when a young man went to Monroe County, Miss., where he married and passed the remainder of his days, dying in 1872. His wife was born in the “ Old North State," June 9, 1814, and died October 4, 1878. Five of their eight children are living: Harriet C. (widow of Thomas J. Savage), Anvie C. (wife of Andrew Hawkins), William T., John C. and Jasper, all of whom are living in Monroe County, Miss.,except William T. After residing with his parents until he was twenty-three years of age, he was married (in 1861) to Miss Martha Jane Gilmore, a daughter of Simeon and Lettie (Reece) Gilmore, who were born and died in Monroe County, Miss., both dying whenMrs. Roberts was quite small. She was born in Yalobusha County, Miss., in 1846, and became the mother of one child, Fannie Ella, born August 5, 1865, married, July 2, 1879, to Dr. W. L. Gillespie, and bore one child, William J., born April 27, 1880. Dr. Gillespic was born in Tennessee July 24, 1848, and died near Fort Smith, Ark., March 3, 1882. His widow was subsequently married, November 20, 1884, to W. B. Milam, who was born February 20, 1861, in this county. They have one child, Claudie Leander, born September 15, 1885. Mr. Roberts resided in Monroe County, Miss., until 1882, when he immigrated to Sebastian County, Ark., and purchased ninety-three acres of land four miles of the county seat. He is now the owner of 243 acres of land, 120 acres of which are under cultivation. Mr. Roberts is one of the worthy citizens of the county, and his political views is a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Breckinridge in 1860.

Thomas Franklin Rodden Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Thomas Franklin Rodden, farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., and native of North Carolina, was born in 1826, and is a son of Spencer H. and Elizabeth (Hill) Rodden . The father was born in the “Palmetto” State (S.C.) June 7, 1799, and afterward moved to Tennessee, locating first in Monroe County, thence to McMinn County. His wife was born in Virginia December 15, 1805, and died in Sebastian County, Ark., in 1880. Thomas was only an infant when his parents moved to Tennessee, and he was there reared to manhood and married, the latter event taking place in 1846. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary C. Morris, was born in 1820, and became the mother of nine children: Eliza Jane (born February 20, 1847, married Andy M. Cameron ), James S. (born October 10, 1848, died March 27,1849), Elisha F. (born June 12, 1854, died February 6, 1855), George W., John B., William M., Thomas M., Joseph M., Andrew J., Winnie Berthena (deceased), Mary Jane and Alice. Mrs. Eliza Cameron left two sons at her death in 1872: James F. and Archibald W. George W. is married, and is the father of five children: Cornelius, Mary A., Thomas, Louella and Tennessee. John B. has also five children: Amanda, Eliza, Emma, Thomas and Rosa. William M. has four children: Franklin, Ora J., Charles C. and an infant. Thomas M. has one child, Frederick C., and Andrew J. also has one child, Bertha. Joseph M. is married and has two children. After his marriage Mr. Rodden located in Polk County, Tenn., and in 1850 moved to Cherokee County, N. C., where he resided twelve years, and again returned to Tennessee. In 1867 he came to Arkansas, and the following year purchased 160 acres of land in Sebastian County, on which he is now residing. He and wife have been members of the Missionary Baptist Church for the past forty years, and he has been deacon for eighteen years. He is a good citizen and an accommodating and obliging neighbor. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, Twenty - ninth Regiment North Carolina Infantry, and was orderly- sergeant of his company. He is a Democrat in politics .

William T. Roberts Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 William T. Roberts, a well-to-do farmer of Prairie Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., was born in Monroe County, Miss., in 1838, and is a son of Eli and Permelia (Walpool) Roberts. The father was born in Alabama, on the 13th of December 1808, and when a man went to Monroe County, Miss., where he married and passed the remainder of his days, dying in 1872. His wife was born in the ‘‘ Old North State,” June 9, 1814, and died October 4, 1878. Five of their eight children are living: Harriet C. (widow of Thomas J. Savage), Annie C. (wife of Andrew Hawkins), William T., John C. and Jasper, all of whom are living in Monroe County, Miss., except William T. After residing with his parents until he was twenty-three years of age, he was married (in 1861) to Miss Martha Jane Gilmore, a daughter of Simeon and Lettie (Reece) Gilmore, who were born and died in Monroe County, Miss., both dying when Mrs. Roberts was quite small. She was born in Yalobusha County, Miss., in 1846, and became the mother of one child, Fannie Ella, born August 5, 1865, married, July 2, 1879, to Dr. W. L. Gillespie, and bore one child, William J., born April 27, 1880. Dr. Gillespie was born in Tennessee July 24, 1848, and died near Fort Smith, Ark., March 3, 1882. His widow was subsequently married, November 20, 1884, to W. B. Milam, who was born February 20, 1861, in this county. They have one child. Claudie Leander, born September 15, 1885. Mr. Roberts resided in Monroe County, Miss., until 1882, when he immigrated to Sebastian County, Ark., and purchased ninety-three acres of land four miles south of the county seat. He is now the owner of 243 acres of land, 120 acres of which are under cultivation. Mr. Roberts is one of the worthy citizens of the county, and in his political views is a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Breckinridge in 1860.

Capt. Hugh L. Rogers Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Capt. Hugh L. Rogers, of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in County Armah, Ireland, in 1812, and is an old and prominent citizen of Sebastian County. His parents, James and Alis (Cassly) Rogers, were natives of Ireland, and came to America in 1824, locating in Pittsburgh, Penn., where they both received their final summons. They were the parents of ten children. Hugh L. Rogers received a good practical education in Pittsburgh, learned the engineer's trade, went on the Ohio River, and navigated on the Mississippi and its branches for several years. He was a judicious financier, saved bis money, and finally left the river, going to Washington City, where he worked as overseer for his brother, I. C. Rogers, on the Alexander Canal for some time. Abandoning this he went with his brother on the railroad from Hicksford, Va., to North Carolina, where they took a forty-two-mile contract on the Raleigh & Garton Railroad. He had by this become the owner of many slaves, and when this contract was finished he moved his force into South Carolina and took a contract on the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Road, and with a brother-in-law of Wade Hampton took a contract on the Central Railroad, the same road being torn up by Gen. Sherman in his march to the sea. He next moved his forces on James River Canal, Va., and took a contract that lasted one year. After this he went through to Raleigh, N. C., and gathered up the blooded horses he had been purchasing. He then made an extensive trip over the South, visiting all the principal marts, and selling all kinds of stock, including, negroes. He had become the owner of some of the fastest running horses of the day, and visited the principal racecourses of the country, matching races for fabulous sums. In Galena, Ill., he beat O'Kelly and Maurice O'Connell with his stock. He next went to Mineral Point, Wis., won a race and sold stock, selling one filly for $2,000. After this he went to Raleigh, N. C , and rode horseback from Nashville, Tenn., to that place. Mr. Rogers was familiarly known as one of the leading sportsmen of his day. On reaching North Carolina he found his experience as a sportsman had not been very successful financially, so he returned to the river. The first steamer he owned was the “Osprey,” and on her he moved the Mormons from Nauvoo, Ill., to Iowa. He finally sunk her. He afterward owned several boats, but finally built the “General Shield ”, and ran her for many years, doing much shipping on the Arkansas River with her to Fort Smith. After this he made an extensive trip over the West, and saw many of the Mormons, at Salt Lake, whom he had moved some years before from Nauvoo, Ill. Capt. Rogers finally settled down in Fort Smith, where he still resides as an object of interest to all who know him. The Captain is a member of the Catholic Church.

Thomas Rogers Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Thomas Rogers, retail liquor dealer of Fort Smith, Ark., is a native of McMinn County, Tenn., and was born on the 30th of January 1849. His parents, Thomas and Letitia (Wallin) Rogers, were also Tennesseans, the father's birth occurring on the 5th of October, 1818. He was reared in his native State, and in 1837 assisted in moving the Indians west of the Mississippi River. In 1867 he moved his family to Texas, thence to the Choctaw Nation, and in 1869 reached Fort Smith, where he is spending his declining years. His wife died on the 12th of April, 1888, having borne a family of eight children, six of whom are living. She was a devoted mother, a true wife, and of noble qualities of mind and heart. Their son Thomas was in his eighteenth year when they left Tennessee, and after locating in Fort Smith, in 1879, he was married November 10, 1881, to Miss Alice Neville, who was born in Arkansas, and is a daughter of James and Mary (Nagle) Neville, who came to America from Ireland at an early day, being among the pioneers of Fort Smith. They had two children, who still survive them. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are the parents of two children, Agnes Letitia and Mollie. ... Mr. Rogers began business in Fort Smith a poor man, but now owns two retail liquor stores, two business houses on the great business thoroughfare of the city, besides residence property, most of which he has accumulated by industry and close attention to business. He is a member of the K. of P., and has always voted the Democratic ticket. His family are members of the Catholic Church. He is a Protestant in belief.

Styles T. Rowe & Robert A. Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Robert A. and Styles T. Rowe, attorneys at law, real estate agents and abstractors of titles, are natives of Crawford County, Ga., and Pike County, Ala., born March 5, 1857, and May 28, 1861, respectively. They are sons of Daniel and Margaret A. (Taylor) Rowe, and grandsons of Joshua and Elizabeth (Rigby) Rowe, who were natives of South Carolina, born in 1780, both of whom died on the same day in Crawford County, Ga., in 1840. Joshua Rowe was a Missionary Baptist preacher. Daniel Rowe was born in Georgia in 1822 and was of English descent. He was a farmer, and also a minister in the Missionary Baptist Church. He was married three times, his first wife being Miss Caroline Dearn, his second Miss Sarah Horn, and his third Miss Margaret A. Taylor, who was born in Crawford County, Ga., in 1832, and a descendant of Gen. Zachary Taylor. She was married to Mr. Rowe in 1856. Daniel Rowe resided in Georgia until 1857, when he moved to Pike County, Ala., and in the first of 1872 became a citizen of Sebastian County, Ark., settling one and a half miles east of the county seat. He died November 19, 1876. He was engaged in his ministerial duties the greater part of his life, and had charge of four churches in Alabama, and two in Sebastian County. His wife is yet living, and is the mother of four children: Robert A.; Daniel, who is residing on the old home place; Mary F., wife of John Carter, and Styles T. Robert A. was educated in the common schools and in the State University of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, where he attended two years. At the age of twenty years he commenced teaching school and followed this occupation nine terms in all in Sebastian County, meeting with good success. In 1877, or during his teaching, he began the study of law, his preceptor being Hon. C. B. Neal, and was admitted to the bar November 28, 1882, in Greenwood, Ark. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Jarrell, who was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., September 23, 1864, and who bore him one child, Mamie A. Styles T. was educated in the home schools, and at the family fireside, and at the age of nineteen he entered the teacher's profession, which he followed for three terms in Sebastian County. In 1878 he began the study of law under Hon. C. B. Neal, and was admitted to the bar the same year as his brother, Robert A. Immediately after being admitted they opened a law office, with the firm of Rowe & Rowe, and have since been actively engaged in the practice of law. They have met with excellent success , and in connection with their legal pursuits are also handling real estate. They are temperate and are men much esteemed by all who know them. Styles T. was married May 23, 1884, to Miss Emma C. Patton, who was born in Sebastian County, Ark., August 20, 1859, and who became the mother of three children by her marriage: Prentiss E., Cherub (deceased) and Emma. For the past six years Robert A. Rowe has held the office of deputy circuit clerk for Sebastian County, and is a member of the city council of Greenwood. In 1884 he was a candidate for clerk before primary, and was defeated by nine votes. Styles T. Rowe has also held a commission as deputy court clerk for five years. Both brothers are Democrats in politics, and both are members of the K. of H. Styles T. Rowe and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mrs. Robert A. Rowe is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The brothers both clerked in the store of Thomas McCord, Robert A. for a year, and Styles T. for two years.

Elias Russell Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Elias Russell, farmer, blacksmith and wood-worker, of Big Creek Township, was born in Atalla County, Miss., about 1832, his parents being William and Polly (Williams) Russell, natives of South Carolina. They were married in the Choctaw Nation, Miss., where the father died when our subject was a lad. The mother died in Mississippi in 1850. The grandfather, John Russell, was born in South Carolina and died in Mississippi. The maternal grandfather, James Williams, was a full-blooded Indian, born in South Carolina, and served in the War of 1812 under Jackson. Elias Russell is an only child, and during his youth received but a limited education, as he was obliged to support his mother. When about grown he learned his trade, at which he has worked at different times since. In 1853 he went to California as a wagon-master, and until 1865 remained there working in the mines. He then engaged in teaming and stage driving, and during the year 1865 went to Adams County, Ill., where he was married the following year to Elizabeth P., daughter of Malavary Inman. Mrs. Russell was born in Brown County, Ill., and to her union with our subject eight children were born, of whom four sons and two daughters are living. Mr. Russell has lived upon his present farm since 1868, and is one of the pioneers of this vicinity. He has 173 acres of good land, and has greatly assisted in the upbuilding of the surrounding neighborhood. Himself and wife belong to the Union Baptist Church, and have taken great pains to educate their children. Mr. Russell is a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860.

James Russell Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 James Russell, superintendent of the Kansas & Texas Coal Company's Works at Huntington, was born in Scotland in 1848, and when four years of age accompanied his parents to the United States. He grew to manhood in Mercer County, Penn., receiving but a limited education, and until 1879 was employed in mines in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. He then passed six years in the Indian Territory as superintendent of the Osage Coal & Mining Company. He then went to Ray County, Mo., and superintended the Scullin Coal & Mining Company's business, in which he still has an interest. He then went to Crawford County, Ark., where he was employed as assistant superintendent for the Western Coal & Mining Company, of the Missouri Pacific Railway, where he remained from May, 1887, until coming to Huntington to accept the above named position. In July 1870, he married Jane Reid, daughter of Adam Reid, and a native of Mercer County, Penn., and now the mother of six children. Mr. Reid was born in Scotland, and in 1853 came to the United States. He engaged in mining all his life, and died in Mercer County, Penn., about 1874. Mr. Russell is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the I. O. O. F. Encampment, and belongs to the United Workmen and Select Knights. In politics he is a Republican, having cast his first presidential vote for Grant in 1872. His parents, Robert and Jeanette (Calderwood) Russell were natives of Scotland. The father was a Democrat, and died at Washington, D. C., March 11, 1862, while serving his country in Company C, One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, aged fifty-two. The mother is now sixty-four years of age, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Their oldest son, Capt. Thomas Russell, now a farmer at Leavenworth, Kas., was engaged in mining until a few years ago. He commanded Company F, Seventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, during the war, and had charge of the miners at Vicksburg, Miss., when Fort Hill was blown up. He is a member of the G. A. R., K. of P. and the societies to which our subject belongs with the exception of the order of United Work men. James' youngest brother, John, succeeded him in the management of the Osage Mines, and is now superintendent for the Western Coal Company in Barton County, Mo.

Ashley W. Rutherford Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Ashley W. Rutherford was born June 8, 1849, in Butler County, Mo., and is a son of Shelby R. and Charity (Thurman) Rutherford. The father was born in Logan County, Ky., and during his youth learned the blacksmith's trade, which he afterward followed. He immigrated to Missouri, and until 1859 lived in Butler County. He then came to Sebastian County, where he died in April 1879. The mother was born in Blount County, Tenn., and married in Missouri. She is now living in this county, aged fifty, and is the mother of four living children: Harriet, wife of John McDaniel; Taylor, Ashley W. and Shelby R. The children she lost were Archie, James and Catherine. The paternal grandparents of our subject were born in Virginia, and in an early day immigrated to Kentucky. The maternal grandparents were natives of Tennessee, who went to Missouri. The grandfather died in Arkansas. Ashley W. Rutherford came to this county when ten years old, where he received a good education. He began farming on his own account in 1867, and January 30, 1872, married Mollie, daughter of James Lorgen. The latter went to Georgia from Virginia, and in an early day came to Arkansas. Mrs. Rutherford was born in Murray County, Ga., and died here March 8, 1888. Eight children were the result of her union with our subject: Fred, Edgar and Earl (twins), Jennie, Ida, Sammie, Ashley G. and Morton O. Mr. Rutherford is a well to do citizen, owning 100 acres, sixty-five of which he cultivates, and in connection with his farming is interested in general milling. Politically he is a Democrat, and as such has served his township as constable. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.

S. M. Rutherford Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 S. M. Rutherford, deputy sheriff of Sebastian County, Ark., is a graduate of Emory and Henry College, Virginia, having completed a classical course and taken the degree of A. B. from that institution in 1883. He graduated with the second honors of his class, and bears with him from his alma mater the “debater's medal.” Since leaving college he has been pursuing the study of law, and is now preparing to be admitted to the bar. In 1885 he was appointed deputy sheriff of Fort Smith District, of Sebastian County, and is still filling that position with a marked degree of success. He is a young man of brilliant attainments and has the promise of a bright future before him. His birth occurred in Lewisville, La Fayette Co., Ark., in 1859, and he is a son of Robert B. and Sallie W. (Butler) Rutherford, grandson of Samuel M. and Eloise M. (Beall) Rutherford, and the great-grandson of W. B. Rutherford, who was born in Virginia, and moved to Tennessee about 1812, settling near Nashville, where he spent the remainder of his days. His son, Samuel M., was born in Virginia in 1797, and removed to Tennessee with his father, and in 1814 enlisted in the War of 1812, being with Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and after the close of that war remained in New Orleans until 1817. He then sailed up the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers until he reached a point about four miles above where Fort Gibson is now situated, where he established a trading post among the Osage Indians, and remained two years. He was the first sheriff of Clark County, being appointed September 1, 1819, and served until 1823. He then moved to Phillips County, and acted as clerk of the circuit court from 1823 to 1825, and from that date up to 1830 was sheriff of Pulaski County. He was treasurer of the Territory of Arkansas for three years, but previous to that time had represented Pulaski County in the Legislature. From 1836 to 1840 he was register of the land office at Little Rock, and at the latter date was elected presidential elector on the Van Buren ticket. In the spring of 1846 he was appointed to what was then the western superintendency of Indian affairs, by President Polk, which position he filled until the summer of 1849. He was the first representative from Sebastian County to the State Legislature (in 1851), and was county and probate judge of Sebastian County from 1854 to 1856. The following year he was appointed by President Buchanan as agent for the Seminole Indians and held this position until the breaking out of the late Civil War, in 1861. He then retired from public life, and died on his farm in 1867 at the age of seventy years, having lived a long, useful and prosperous life. His son, Robert B. Rutherford, was born at Little Rock, Ark., and was reared in Pulaski and Sebastian Counties. He graduated from Arkansas College, at Fayetteville, in 1854, after which he became a disciple of Blackstone, and practiced his profession in LaFayette County from 1857 to 1867. At the latter date he returned to Fort Smith, where he was elected justice of the peace in 1874, and afterward served as county and probate judge two terms, commencing the duties of the office in 1878. From 1882 until 1886 he served as judge of the Twelfth Judicial District, and since that time has been engaged in the practice of law. His wife was born in South Carolina in 1837, and became the mother of seven children: Samuel M., whose name heads this sketch; William B., attorney at law and civil engineer; R. B.; Raymond P.; Jane G., wife of William Smith; Emmala Elise and Ethelende Butler. The mother is a daughter of Dr. William Butler, of South Carolina, who represented that State in the United States Congress in 1844, and a niece of the late Senator A. P. Butler, also a niece of the late Gov. P. M. Butler, who was colonel of the Palmetto regiment of South Carolina volunteers, and was killed in the Mexican War. She is a sister of Gen. M. C. Butler, the present United States Senator from South Carolina. Her parents were of English-Irish descent, and she is a worthy descendant of illustrious ancestors. Mrs. Rutherford is also a niece of Commodores Oliver and Matthew C. Perry, her mother being their sister.

George Sengel Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 George Sengel was born near Strassburg, France, November 11, 1852, and is a son of John and Siloam (Metzger) Sengel, natives of Alsace, France. The father served fourteen years in the French army, and was stationed at France during the deposition of Louis Phillippe. He remained in the army from the age of twenty until thirty-four years old, and when thirty-six years of age married, coming some years after from Alsace directly to Fort Smith, with his wife and three sons, Charles, John and George. Louis, the fourth son, was born at New Orleans, and Edward was born at Fort Smith. Of this family only Charles, George and Edward survive John Sengel, Jr., died, leaving a family of three sons and two daughters, and Louis was drowned when twelve years of age. The father died at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. When thirteen years old our subject left school to clerk in a hardware store. When twenty-five he went into business, and until 1888 did business under the firm name of Sengel & Schutte, at which time he purchased Mr. Schutte's interest. Mr. Sengel is a self-made man, and is secretary of the Fort Smith Board of Trade, president of the Fort Smith Home Land Company, and a director and the secretary of the Fort Smith Gas Light Company. He assisted materially in the organization of the Western Arkansas Fair Association, and until 1888 was one of its directors. He is now the treasurer of the Fort Smith Evaporating Company, president of the Hayes Ferry Company, and was a director of the Merchants' and American National Banks, both of which he helped to organize. Mr. Sengel married Miss Nannie Kirchherr, a lady of fine education, who is now the mother of three sons and one daughter: Ethel, George, Jerome and an infant. Both himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and for over twenty years Mr. Sengel has taught in the Sunday-school. He is one of the leading merchants of Fort Smith, and controls a business aggregating about $100,000 per annum. He is a member of the Chapter of the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the German Saengerverein.

Mrs. Elizabeth (Goode) Smith Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 . The agricultural interests of Sebastian County, Ark., are well represented by the lady whose name heads this sketch, and who was born in Alabama January 5, 1827. Her father, Holbert Goode, was also a native of Alabama, and died in 1833, and three years later Mrs. Smith removed with her mother to Arkansas, locating in Franklin County. Here Mrs. Smith spent her early life, and was married in 1845 to Pleasant W. Richardson, who was born in Georgia January 11, 1815, and a son of William Richardson. He died in 1848, leaving a wife and two children to mourn his loss: Mrs. Emily J. Smith, of Texas, and Mrs. Mary E. Colter, now residing in California. In 1851 she was married to her second husband, John W. Putman, a son of Samuel and Mary Putman (the former from Vermont), and three children, Mrs. Sarah J. Hill, Mrs, Lucy Carroll, and John H., blessed their union. Lucy’s husband, Hugh Carroll, was a son of Col. John Carroll, of Carroll County, Ark. He (Hugh) and wife are deceased. Mr. Putman died in 1862. Two years later his widow wedded Augustus H. Smith, who was born in Washington County, Ark., October 8, 1832, and by him became the mother of two children, James A. and Ada G. The father of these children died in 1879; he was a son of Burt and Mary Smith. Since 1851 Mrs. Smith has resided on the farm where she now lives. She at first owned 350 acres of land but has divided it among her children until she now owns only sixty acres. She moved to Kansas in 1864, but returned to Arkansas in the fall of 1865, where she has been contented to make her home since that time. She is a lady of rare good sense, and is noted for her liberality and charity to the poor and unfortunate.

D. B. Sparks Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 D. B. Sparks, boot and shoe merchant, at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in that city in June, 1850, being the son of Mitchell and Hannah (Bennett) Sparks. The father was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and was educated in Trinity College, Dublin Institute. He graduated in medicine, but never practiced his profession. He immigrated to America when a young man, locating at Fort Smith, where he engaged in merchandising up and down the river, and entered business with a man by the name of Miller, who was one of the leading merchants of Fort Smith for many years. Mr. Sparks was married in New York, in 1847, to Miss Hannah Bennett, a native of Massachusetts. After marriage they moved to Fort Smith, and here Mitchell Sparks died in 1864. Mrs. Sparks is still alive, and is now residing at Fort Smith. She was the mother of six children, four of whom are yet living, three sons and a daughter. D. B. Sparks was educated in Massachusetts, and afterward returned to Fort Smith, where he was for some time connected with the Elporaso Stage Company, was again associated with the transfer, and for two years was engaged in the saddler's business. He has now, for six years, been occupied in the wholesale boot and shoe business. D. B. Sparks was married to Miss Lillie Pryor, daughter of one of the early settlers of Fort Smith. Four children have been the result of this union: George, Jerry, Kate and Bennett. Mr. Sparks is a member of the A. F. & A. M., also the K. of H., and his wife is a member of the Episcopal Church.

John Speaker Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Speaker, retail liquor dealer of Fort Smith, Ark., was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, May 16, 1848, and is the son of Ernest and Catherine Speaker. Earnest Speaker was also a native of Germany, born in 1825, and served some time in the army in Germany. He came to America when his son John was quite small, settling in Fort Smith, and here followed the stone mason's trade for some time. He has also followed various avocations in that city. Catherine Speaker died in Fort Smith with cholera. She was the mother of seven children, John Speaker being the eldest: J. H., L. M., Charles, Annie, Mary and Lena. The father is still living and resides in Fort Smith. John Speaker was reared and educated in Fort Smith, and in early life followed the brick business, being a brick molder by trade. He was married. in 1875, to Miss Bettie Schuster, a native of New York, and the daughter of Anton Schuster. Of the five children born to this union three are now living: John, Mamie and Frank. Two are deceased: Nettie, who died at the age of seven years, and Charley, who died when five years of age. Mr. Speaker is a member of the Lutheran Church, and a Republican in politics.

Benjamin F. Spears Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Benjamin F. Spears was born in Mecklenburgh County, N. C., April 8, 1836, and is a son of William and Jane (Gray) Spears. The father was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., and there learned the mechanic's trade, although he lived upon a farm until eighteen. He was also a tailor by trade but worked at the first named trade the greater part of his life. For a short time he kept a tavern at Charlotte. He died in the prime of life, in North Carolina, in the year 1842. The mother was a native of Mecklenburgh County, where she was educated and married. She died aged eighty-one years, on April 10, 1877, and was the mother of nine children, of whom three are now living: James M., Flornoy G. and Benjamin F. Those deceased are Washington, Wallace, Charles, Edgy, Stanhop and Mary. The paternal grandfather, Wallace Spears, was born in Ireland, of Irish parents, and when twelve years old came to North Carolina, where he married Betsy Gilmor. He never heard but one minister after settling in North Carolina. His wife, Betsey Spears, was born in North Carolina, and was of Scotch parentage. Nelson Gray and Olivia his wife, the maternal grandparents, were natives of Wake County, Va. Mr. Gray had a brother who was killed in the Revolution, and two of Mrs. Gray's brothers served in the same war. Benjamin F. lived in his native county until 1847, and then went to Lafayette County, Miss., where he lived until 1879. He received a common-school education, and in April 1862, enlisted in Company G, Fourth Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, Confederate Army. He was in the fights at Chickasaw, Vicksburg, Port Gibson, Big Black, Resaca, Franklin and Nashville, among many others. At Nashville he was captured and held a prisoner at Camp Chase for six months. He was paroled at Vicksburg but was afterward ex changed. He was discharged June 12, 1865, and then resumed farming in Mississippi. January 4, 1859 , he married Marina M., daughter of William and Lucinda Giles, natives of North Carolina, who immigrated to Mississippi when Mrs. Spears was a child. She bore three children, McKindrey, Delia and Eugene, and died February 19, 1873, in Mississippi. December 11, 1879, Mr. Spears married Dorcas Ross, also a native of North Carolina, who immigrated to Mississippi. In 1879 Mr. Spears came to Sebastian County, Ark., where he now owns a farm of 200 acres, which he bought after renting land two years. Fifty acres he keeps under cultivation. Politically Mr. Spears is a Democrat, and himself and wife and McKindrey and Delia belong to the Old School Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Isabella (McKamey) Spessard Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Mrs. Isabella (McKamey) Spessard of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in East Tennessee in 1841, and is a daughter of John C. and Zerelda (Tunnell) McKamey, both of whom were born in East Tennessee and died in Arkansas, where they moved in 1869. The father was a farmer but served one year in the army in 1838. Two of their children are living: Isabella (Mrs. Spessard), and John S., a merchant of Huntington, Ark. William T. is deceased. The grandparents, John and Mary McKamey, were born in Virginia, and removed to East Tennessee at an early day. The maternal grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Worthington) Tunnell, were born in North Carolina and Virginia, in 1774 and 1781, and died in 1861 and 1862, respectively. The grandfather was a farmer, and a colonel in the War of 1812. He was sent ten times to the Legislature at Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Spessard spent her early life in East Tennessee and received some education in Robertsville Academy. September 12, 1867, she was married to William R. Spessard, who was born in East Tennessee, in 1844, and by whom she became the mother of seven children: Zerelda A. Lipard, William M., Nancy E. and Mary E., living , and John F., Robert L., Ada D. and William R., deceased. Mr. Spessard was a Master Mason in good standing when he died, March 22,, 1880. His parents, William and Delapa (Leach) Spessard, were both born in Tennessee. In 1862 he enlisted in Col. Cain's Artillery, and was captured at Cumberland Gap, and taken to Camp Douglas, III., but was not exchanged until near the close of the war. He then returned home and resumed farming.

Lieut. George N. Spradling Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Lieut. George N. Spradling, merchant of Greenwood, and ex-county clerk of Sebastian County, Ark., is a native of Hickman County, Tenn, born in 1840, and the son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Norris) Spradling, and grandson of David and Ann Spradling. Leonard Spradling was born in the State of North Carolina in 1806 and was of German descent. At the age of twelve years he moved with his parents to Alabama, and about 1822 he moved to Hickman County, Tenn., where David Spradling and wife received their final summons. Leonard Spradling was a young man when he went to Hickman County, Tenn., and here he was married about 1829. In 1842 he became a resident of Crawford (now Sebastian) County, Ark., and located eight miles north of Greenwood. He was a farmer and entered 200 acres. In 1845 he moved and settled seven miles north of the county seat, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was commissioner of the county, and was one of three men who located the county seat, the other two being Jeremiah Bell and Green F. Bethell. This was in 1856 and was the second location of the county seat. Leonard Spradling died in November 1858. His wife was born in North Carolina in 1806 and died two weeks previous to the death of her husband. They were the parents of nine children who lived to be grown, four of whom are now living: Ephraim, Nancy E., George N., and Martha M., wife of Thomas Wingfield. George N. Spradling was but one and one-half years old when his parents moved to Sebastian County, Ark., was reared and grew to manhood on a farm, and remained with his parents until their deaths. In 1859 he attended school, and afterward became employed as bookkeeper in Fort Smith, about the time of the breaking out of the late war. In February 1863, he went to Springfield, Mo., where he enlisted in Company E, First Arkansas Infantry, in the Federal army, and in the summer of the same year be returned with the army to his home. In October 1863, he raised a company for the Second Arkansas Infantry, went out as private, and in a few months was commissioned as second lieutenant, and served during the remainder of the war. He was in the battle of Prairie Grove, at Jenkins' Ferry, and at the last fight was acting aide-de-camp for Gen. Edwards, who commanded the brigade. He was in the Federal army, and was discharged at Clarksville, Ark., August 8, 1865. After the war Mr. Spradling established a general store at Clarksville Ark., but later engaged in merchandising at Greenwood, Ark. He sold out at Clarksville, and returned to Sebastian County in February 1867, where he again engaged in merchandising at Greenwood. In 1872 he sold out, and was elected county clerk, holding that position two years. The following six years be was proprietor of a gristmill at Greenwood but sold the mill in 1879 and again resumed merchandising, which he has since continued. In January 1865, he married Miss Mary A. King, of Johnson County, Ark., where she was born in 1845. To them were born nine children, four of whom are still surviving, viz: Maggie, wife of W. J. Hodgens; Lulu, George B. and Rebecca McCord. Mr. Spradling lost his wife in February 1888. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was an excellent woman. Mr. Spradling is a member of the Masonic order, of the K. T., a member of the K. of H. and is a Republican in his political views .

Joseph Cole Stalcup Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Joseph Cole Stalcup of the firm of Garrett, Stalcup & Co., liverymen, was born in McMinn County, Tenn. February 20, 1851, and is a son of Moses and Nancy (Black) Stalcup. The father was a native of Virginia, and one of the first settlers of McMinn County, Tenn. He lived upon the farm be first cleared and located upon in that county for over half a century, and there reared a family of eleven sons and two daughters. One son was killed during his youth, while on duty at Vicksburg, serving as lieutenant of Company F, Thirty–first Tennessee Infantry. Another died at the close of the war at Jeffersonville, Ind. Seven of his sons were soldiers in the Confederate army. The Stalcup family originally came from Massachusetts and settled in Virginia, where they became well- to- do planters. The family upon the side of our subject's mother were influential people of Greene County, Tenn., being early settlers of that place. Joseph C. lived in his native county until 1869, when he left home and spent three years in Southwestern Missouri and one year in Kansas. He then engaged in farming in Sebastian County, near Fort Smith, and in 1880 was chosen by his friends to fill the position of deputy circuit clerk and took charge of the office at Fort Smith. In 1882 he was elected circuit clerk, to which he was successively elected until 1888. He then retired from public life and went into the livery and transfer business with Mr. Garrett. He was united in marriage at Bolivar, Mo., to Miss Fannie A. Miller, a native of McMinn County, Tenn., and daughter of the Rev. John W. Miller, a minister in the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Stalcup have one son and two daughters: Ada, a student at Baird College, Clinton, Mo.; May and Hugh. Mr. and Mrs. Stalcup have buried two children in Hackett City Cemetery, named Frank and Lilly. Both himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church, in which the latter is an active worker. He is a Master Mason.

J. R. Stephens Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 J. R. Stephens was born near Petersburg, Va., August 8, 1858, his parents being William and Mary (Stacey) Stephens. The father was a native of Virginia, and a builder by occupation and trade. In 1839 he removed to Tennessee, and there J. R. Stephens grew to manhood and began to learn his father's trade. At the age of seventeen he went to Sherman, Tex., and there, with an elder brother, completed his trade, which he followed until the breaking out of the war. He then enlisted in Company C, Eleventh Texas Volunteer Cavalry, and served throughout the war, being on detached duty in the South and West the last two years. After peace was declared he returned to Sherman, but in 1868 came to Fort Smith, where he has since been prominently identified with building interests. Among the many buildings he has erected may be mentioned the Belle Grove schoolhouse, the Peabody school, the New Hope school building and the residences of D. B. Sparks, Herman Bair, Frank Bolinger and F. J. Klein. Mr. Stephens was united in marriage in Texas to Miss Mary Akhalt, a native of Maryland, and daughter of M. L. and Elizabeth Akhalt, also natives of Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South. They have one daughter, Lillie, a young lady of excellent literary and musical attainments. Mr. Stephens is a K. of H.

Adam Stinebaugh (photo added by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Adam Stinebaugh, farmer, of Prairie Township, was born in Lincoln County, Mo., in 1821, his parents being Jacob and Nancy (Cannon) Stinebaugh, who were born in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, respectively. They were married in the latter State, and in 1819 removed to Lincoln County, Mo., living there until 1850, from which time they made their home in Dallas County until the war. They then returned to Lincoln County, and after peace was declared removed to Texas. There the father died, about 1882, aged eighty-seven. The mother died some years previous. Both were members of the Baptist Church, Mr. Stinebaugh was a skillful mechanic. The grandfather, Jacob, was born in Germany, and with nineteen others joined the English army during the Revolution, with the intention of coming to America, and as soon as possible deserting the English army to join forces with the colonists, in which project they were successful. Mr. Stinebaugh settled in Pennsylvania when the father of our subject was a boy; he next went to West Tennessee, and later settled in Kentucky, where he died. The maternal grandfather was born in South Carolina, and became a pioneer of Lincoln County, Mo. , where many of his descendants now live. Adam Stinebaugh is the oldest of a family of ten children, and during his youth received a common-school education. In 1884 he married Mary Daniels, in Lincoln County, who was a native of Fauquier County, Va . She died in Sebastian County in 1876, leaving seven daughters and two sons, who married and reared families. Two have since died. In 1882 Mr. Stinebaugh married Mary E. Cloppon, who was born in Arkansas, and is the mother of four children. In 1845 Mr. Stinebaugh removed to Dallas County, Mo., and in 1850 spent some months in California. He returned home on account of his health, making the trip via the Isthmus of Panama. During the winter of 1850–51 he traveled in Central America, familiarizing himself with the customs and social habits of the people of that country. After an interesting and eventful journey homeward, he taught school a few years in Dallas County, and engaged in cattle dealing . From 1859 until 1868 he farmed and dealt in stock in Texas, and then came to Sebastian County. He has always lived in the same vicinity, and by the exercise of business ability and industry has accumulated a fortune. He is an experienced cattle dealer, and for fifteen years drove cattle and horses from Texas to this county, sometimes making four trips in one season. He probably handles as much stock as any other man in the county, and is the owner of 600 acres of land, besides property in Dayton, where for a year be sold goods. He is a Democrat, as his father was before him, and although a public-spirited man has never desired public office. He has been a member of the Baptist Church over forty years, and holds a license to preach, but has never done so. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of thirty years standing and has taken most of the degrees conferred by that order.

Capt. Hubbard Stone Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Capt. Hubbard Stone, merchant, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 20, 1827. His father, Wilmot Stone, was born in Guilford, Conn., of an old New England family, and in after life engaged in shoemaking in Cincinnati. The mother was Miss Ann Eddy, a native of Vermont, and a lady of character and energy. Our subject was reared in the place of his birth, and in 1850 joined a company of 130 who started by water for California. He remained in that State, engaged in mining and merchandising, until April, 1854, when he returned home and sold goods until 1856. He then went into the hardware business at Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1857 began to deal in real estate. Upon the outbreak of the war he joined the Union army as a private. He was afterward made sergeant-major and then first lieutenant of Company A, Fifty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the fall of Vicksburg he was made captain of Company H of the same regiment. He was wounded by a shell at the battle of Resaca, and was disabled at the battle of Ezra Church, near Atlanta, Ga. After the war he again returned to Cincinnati, and in 1865, on April 1, landed at Fort Smith, where he has since been engaged in the mercantile business. He is a well-to-do man, although he has twice suffered heavy losses. He was married in Cincinnati to Miss Miriam E. Meader, daughter of Daniel F. Meader, a furniture manufacturer and dealer of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have an adopted daughter, Bettie, now the wife of Howard B. Wier, and a lineal descendant of Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. She has two children, Hubbard Stone and Mary. Mr. Howard B. Wier is a son of the Rev. Wier, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (of Mississippi). For twelve years he served as a school director of Fort Smith, during which time he assisted in obtaining from the Government a donation of 365 acres of land in the Government reservation for school purposes. He is a director and stockholder in the First National Bank and the Water Works Co. and has served as secretary of the latter association. He is treasurer of the Western Arkansas Fair Association, and one of its leading spirits. Both himself and wife are active members and liberal donators to the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the G.A.R., K. of H. and A. F. & A. M.

Henry Suratt Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Henry Suratt, captain of police at Fort Smith, was born at Corinth, Miss., June 12, 1850, and is a son of William and Amanda (Harris) Suratt. The father was born in France, and came to America with his parents, who settled near Huntsville, Ala., where he grew to manhood. In 1844 he was married, and in 1872 came to Arkansas, locating at Arkadelphia, where he still lives. He served throughout the entire war. Capt. Suratt attained his growth in Mississippi, and early in life engaged in farming near Corinth. He served two years during the war in company A, Nineteenth Tennessee (Confederate )Cavalry, commander by Col. Jeff Forrest. After 1870 he farmed in Arkansas five years, and then for nine years clerked for William Breen at Fort Smith. He then was employed as receiving and billing clerk by Echols & Johnson for two years. In 1885 he was elected city marshal, which position he held two terms, or until made captain of the police. Mr. Suratt married Miss Belle Harrison, daughter of Willis Harrison, of Alcorn County, Miss., a descendant of Gen. W. H. Harrison. His parents, Luke and Mary Harrison, were from Ireland, and early settlers of Alabama. They died in Alabama. To Mr. and Mrs. Suratt three sons and two daughters have been born: Clara, Willie, Ernest, Mary and Albert. Mrs. Suratt is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Capt. Suratt is a Knight of Honor.

Col. Mark T. Tatum Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Col. Mark T. Tatum, general merchant of Greenwood, is a native of Dallas County, Mo., where he was born in 1836, and is the son of Eaton and Charlotte B. (Reynolds) Tatum. Eaton Tatum was born in South Carolina in 1792, and was of Scotch descent. At the age of eighteen years he went to West Tennessee with his brother, Wilkins Tatum, and here married Miss Charlotte B. Reynolds, who was born in West Tennessee in 1810. About 1828 they moved to Dallas County, Mo., and in 1843 became a citizen of Sebastian County, Ark., locating at Jenny Lind, five miles northwest of the county seat. He here entered 160 acres of land , and here resided until 1862, when he sold out, and moved two miles east. He was a trader and speculator in lands and owned about 500 acres the greater portion of the time. He died in 1872. His wife died in 1852, and after her death Mr. Tatum married Mrs. Josie Little, who is now living on the old homestead. Eaton Tatum was the father of eight children by the first wife and two by the second, all now living but one. Col. M. T. Tatum was the fourth child by the first marriage and was only seven years of age when his parents moved to Sebastian County, and virtually he has passed his entire life in that county . He remained on the farm until eighteen years of age, dealt in stock for four years, and in 1858 he was appointed deputy sheriff of Sebastian County, serving four years. In 1861 he made the assessment of Confederate taxes of Sebastian County, and May 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Thirty-sixth Regiment Arkansas Infantry. He went out as third lieutenant, and in 1863 was promoted to the rank of major of his regiment. Later, for his bravery and meritorious conduct, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He was in the fights at Helena, Jenkins' Ferry and several severe skirmishes. He was in service over three years, being paroled at Marshall, Tex. After the war he taught a term of school in Jefferson County, Tex., and in 1866 returned to Sebastian County. In 1867 he taught the public schools in Greenwood and became employed as salesman in a general store of Neal & Kersey, for whom he worked five years. In 1874 he established a general store of his own in Greenwood, at which business he has since been engaged. In 1860 he married Miss Lucinda Cauthron, of Scott County, Ark., and daughter of Col. Walter and Bashiwa Cauthron. Mrs. Tatum was born in Scott County, Ark., in 1843, and by her marriage became the mother of twelve children, eight now living: Walter E., Marshall, Mary E. (wife of E. W. Yates), Pearl R., Tennessee, Louisa May, Thaddie and Eddie. Col. Tatum began business in Greenwood as a poor man, but by economy and industry has met with good success. He deals largely in buying cotton and produce of all kinds. In 1879 he purchased 1,628 bales of cotton, and on an average he buys 1,000 bales per year. He is doing the largest business of the kind of any man in Greenwood. He is Democratic in his politics, was postmaster for seven years at Greenwood, is a member of the Masonic order, having taken the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch and Commandery degrees, and is a K. of H. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is steward and Sunday-school superintendent of the same.

Gen. Zachary Taylor The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Gen. Zachary Taylor, whose history is familiarly known by every intelligent school-boy, commanded the United States troops at the post of Fort Smith for two or more years, and left here to take command of the troops which invaded Mexico in 1846. Of him Col. Ben. T. Duval, in his historical address of 1876, spoke as follows: “ Many of our citizens remember him well. He was remarkably plain and unpretending in his manners. His social and hospitable habits made him generally popular. No one, judging from his appearance, would take him for a military man. I remember a circumstance that will show how little of the pomp and circumstances of the military there was in his dress and deportment. A couple of young brevets, fresh from West Point, were attached to the army in this department, and arrived here on a steamboat about daylight. Gen. Taylor, being an early riser, went on board the boat about sunrise, as was his custom to go to the boats when they arrived to hear the news, he being a large planter in Louisiana, and our mail facilities then were limited to a semi-weekly mail. The young men had just arisen, and seeing the old gentleman, whom they took for a farmer, accosted him as follows: “Good morning, old fellow, how’s the crops?” Gen. Taylor responded, 'Purty good.' They pressed him to take a drink, and amused themselves at his expense for some time, and as he left they sung out, “Give our love to the old woman and the gals,” which he promised to do. You can judge of their surprise when later in the day they called, in full dress, to pay their respects to the commanding general, and found him to be their 'old fellow' of the morning. Gen. Taylor presented his wife and his daughter, Miss Bessie, remarking to them, 'Here are the old woman and my gal.'“

William J. Teaver Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 William J. Teaver, farmer, was born June 27, 1862, in Little River County, Ark., his parents being James and Sarah (Jetton) Teaver. The father was a farmer by occupation, and served during the greater part of the Civil War, being a Confederate soldier. He passed the greater part of his life in Little River County and died in 1865. The mother was born in Tennessee, but received her early education in Franklin County. After moving to Little River County, she was married and bore three children: William J., Martha and Juan (deceased). The maternal grandparents of our subject were natives of Tennessee and early settlers of Arkansas. They died in 1870 and 1883, respectively. William J. came to this county when three years old with his mother, and until the death of his grandparents made his home with them. He then lived with his mother until his marriage, in 1885, to Rosa S., daughter of Robert and Josephine McClendon, and born January 5, 1870. Mrs. Teaver was born and reared in Franklin County, and her father and mother were natives of Tennessee and Alabama, respectively, the latter being reared in Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Teaver are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and the parents of one child, Bertie Lee, born September 18, 1887. His mother being left a widow when he was a lad, Mr. Teaver had few educational advantages, and as he was reared on the farm, he learned no trade. He is a young man of industry and enterprise, and he is now the owner of 135 acres of land, eighty-five of which he cultivates. His home place is well improved, and he also owns 100 acres of land in Little River County. Mr. Teaver is a strong supporter of the present public-school system, being a school director, and in politics he is a Democrat.

Mrs. M. J. (Byrd) Thomas Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Mrs. M. J. (Byrd) Thomas, an enterprising and successful lady farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in Hardin County, Tenn., October 17, 1840, and is one of ten children, seven living, born to the marriage of Thomas Byrd and Maria Smith, and is a granddaughter of William Byrd, who was born in the “Palmetto State," and who removed with his family to Tennessee at an early day. His wife's maiden name was Lovey Cherry. John Smith, the maternal grandfather, was a farmer, a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in Tennessee in 1854. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Thomas' parents were born in South Carolina in 1812, and Tennessee in 1814, and died in the latter State in 1884 and 1864, respectively. The names of their children who are living are as follows: William R., Emeline (Bryson), Susan (Counts), Calvin C., Thomas J., Elizabeth and M. J. (Thomas). The last named was reared in Tennessee, and was there married in 1856 to James Thomas, a native of the State, born in 1837, and a son of James and Adaline (Young) Thomas, who were early immigrants to Tennessee. James, the son, was a farmer by occupation, and in 1863 enlisted in the Confederate States army, and served until the close of the war, when he returned home and resumed the peaceful pursuit of farming. In 1875 he came to Sebastian County , Ark., where his death occurred in 1881. He was a Mason, a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for John C. Breckinridge. He and wife became the parents of seven children: Newton S., Walter E., Mattie M., James A., Maude, Claude and Nellie.

John Marion Thompson (photo submitted by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John Marion Thompson was born in Perry County, Tenn., in 1834, and is a son of William G. and Elizabeth C. (Haga) Thompson. The father was of Irish and Scotch descent, and was born in Mecklenburgh County, N. C., in 1804, and at the age of nine years was taken by his father, John Thompson, to Bedford County, Tenn., where he received the education and rearing of the average farmer's boy of that period, and was married in 1825. In 1852 he located in Henry County, Tenn., and in January 1880, became a resident of Sebastian County, and on the 23d of the same month died at the home of his son, John M., having contracted a cold on his way here. His wife was born in Middle Tennessee in 1804, and died October 10, 1874, having borne a family of ten children, five of whom are living: Margaret, wife of W. L. Cole; Rebecca J., wife of Thomas Ary; John Marion, Martha K., and Amanda, wife of W. W. Holden. John Marion resided under the paternal roof until twenty-two years of age, and during the late war was one of the boys in gray. May 20 , 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Fifth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States Army, and was a participant in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfeesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Jonesboro and many severe skirmishes. He was neither wounded nor captured during the war and was only sick when he had the measles. He was paroled at Johnsonville, Tenn., May 23, 1865, but surrendered at Greensboro , N. C. His service extended over a period of four years and three days. After the war he returned to Henry County, Tenn., and February 22, 1866, was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Cole, a daughter of Joseph and Polly Cole. She was born in 1834 or 1835, and died in Sebastian County, Ark., April 24, 1885, having borne a family of five children: Emma B., wife of Harvey Oliver; Joseph E.; Lulu D., who is keeping house for her father; Albert S. and Mary M. In 1870 Mr. Thompson moved to Calloway County, Ky., and seven years later came to Sebastian County, Ark., and the following year purchased eighty-seven acres of some of the most fertile land in the county . He has since increased bis land until he now owns 105 acres, and throughout the county is considered one of its foremost farmers. His farm is about six miles from the county seat, and he has a pleasant and comfortable residence. He is a Democrat in his political views.

Col. F. W. Tillay Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Col. F. W. Tillay, contractor and builder, at Huntington, was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1831, his parents being F. B. and Mary E. (Gwathmey) Tillay. The father was born in Ohio, and when a boy went to Louisville, where he engaged in the wholesale mercantile business until his death, in 1851. The grand father, John B. Tillay, came to America from France in an early day. The mother of our subject was born in Louisville, Ky., and was of Virginian descent. She died at St. Louis in 1876, where she had lived since 1853. During his youth the Colonel attended the schools of Louisville, and when his mother removed to St. Louis, he accompanied her. There he married Mary, daughter of Col. Robert Renick, who has borne him two children. While in St. Louis Mr. Tillay engaged in the commission business the greater part of the time. Mrs. Tillay's father was one of the prominent citizens of St. Louis, and at the time of his death was serving as a water commissioner. He was a banker, and having graduated from West Point, he served during the war as colonel of the Missouri state Militia. Mrs. Tillay and her husband, while in St. Louis, became members of St. George's Episcopal Church. The latter is a member of the Blue Lodge in Masonry, having belonged to the fraternity since 1852. He is also a K. of H., and belongs to the L. of H. In politics he is a Democrat, his first presidential vote having been cast for Pierce in 1852.

William Tyler William Tyler and son Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 William M. Tyler, farmer, was born in Gibson County, West Tenn., in 1837, and is a son of Roderick and Tampa (Williams) Tyler, natives of North Carolina, where they were married and lived until 1845. They then went to Gibson County, and in 1858 settled in Dayton Township, this county, where their deaths occurred in 1872 and 1887, respectively. They had for many years been members of the Christian Church. The father was a carpenter by trade, and was of Irish descent, his grandfather having come to America from Ireland and located in South Carolina, where he taught school. William M. is one of a family of eight children, of whom two sons and two daughters are living. He received but a limited education, and accompanied his parents to this county, where in 1861 he married Caroline, daughter of Hansel and Louisa Caleb, who came here from Tennessee in 1856. They died in Scott County. Mrs. Tyler was born in Tennessee, and is the mother of eleven children, eight of whom are living. Since his marriage Mr. Tyler has lived near Dayton, but has only been a resident of his present farm about a year. He owns 150 acres in two farms, all of which he has become the possessor of since the war, as he lost all his property at that time. He served a short time in the Confederate army with Capt. William Oosley, under Col. William Brooks, but was discharged at Fayetteville in 1862 on account of disability. He voted for Breckinridge in 1860, and in politics is a Democrat. Himself and wife are worthy members of the Baptist Church, and he is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He is now a well-to-do citizen, and has given his children the advantages of good educations.

Theodore and Francis Vogel Theodore Vogel Katherine (Kate) Thienes Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Theodore and Francis Vogel, of the grocery firm of Vogel Brothers, at Fort Smith, Ark., were born in that city in 1851 and 1860, respectively. Their parents, Trangott and Appelinia (Fink) Vogel, were both natives of Germany. Trangott Vogel was born in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1819, and is the son of William Vogel, who was also a native of Prussia, and who was forced to join the army of Napoleon when but seventeen years of age, and served under him four years. Trangott Vogel served his time in the Prussian army and came to America at the age of twenty-four years. After staying two years in New Orleans he came to Fort Smith, where he located in 1845. He is one of the sturdy citizens now living who witnessed the gradual growth and development of the country, and who, by his unswerving energy and perseverance, amassed considerable wealth, owning some of the best property on Garrison Avenue, the central part of the city. By his marriage to Miss Fink he became the father of four children: Theodore, William, Frank and Henry. Trangott Vogel is now living a retired life in Fort Smith. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and his wife and sons are members of the Catholic Church. Theodore Vogel supplemented his common school education with a literary course at Cane Hill College, at Boonsborough, Washington Co., Ark. On leaving school he commenced life as a clerk in a store, and in 1876 he engaged in the grocery business for himself, which he has since continued. He was married to Miss Kate Shumes(surname on records is Thienes. lr ), who bore him three children: Lena, Kate and an infant (deceased). Mr. Vogel is a member of the Catholic Knights of America. Francis Vogel is one of the competent business men of the city, was educated and reared in Fort Smith, where he also served an apprenticeship at the shoemaker's trade, and afterward followed agricultural pursuits for five years. He then clerked in a grocery store for two years, after which he became a member of the present firm.

Mrs. Martha J. Walker Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Mrs. Martha J. Walker is a native of Winchester, Tenn., born on the 6th of January 1822, and is a daughter of Capt. William M. and Martha (Baldwin) Raines. The former was a Virginian, born near Richmond , and was a merchant by occupation. At an early day he left his native State and went to Georgia, and during the Creek War acted as captain under Gen. Jackson. After the close of the War of 1812 he moved to Winchester, Tenn., being one of the pioneers of that place. Here he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and followed the occupation of merchant tailor for many years. While in Virginia he was married to Miss Baldwin, by whom he had seven children, only four of whom are now alive: Dr. C. B. (of Mineral Wells, Tex.), Col. Henry A. Raines (deceased), Martha (Mrs. Walker), Mrs. M. B. Ake (of Las Cruces, N. Mex.) and Mrs. A. M. Ward (of Little Rock, Ark). R. P. was an eminent lawyer of Trenton, Tenn., and is now deceased. Mrs. Martha Walker came to Arkansas in 1838 and has been prominently connected with the schools of Sebastian County ever since. She has been married twice, her first husband being Dr. C. B. Ake, and in 1854 she was married to Calvin Walker, who was killed during the late war, while at home. She has one living child, Mollie, who is the wife of Edward Pennington, editor and proprietor of the Deming Head Light, of Deming, N. Mex. One of Mrs. Walker's grandchildren is living with her.

James S. Weaver, Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 James S. Weaver, who has been an agent for the Kansas & Texas Coal Company at Huntington, since 1887, was born in Maryland in 1837, and is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Wetzel) Weaver, who were born in Pennsylvania and Maryland, respectively, and married in the latter State. The father died there in 1883, and the mother in 1886, in the city of Baltimore. The father was a farmer by occupation, and of German descent. His father, Daniel Weaver, passed his life in Adams County, Penn. James S. Weaver is the eldest of a family of fourteen children. of whom eleven are living. All with the exception of one have families. James is the only one living West. He received a common-school education during his youth, and in 1858 went to Alton, Ill., where for a number of years he was interested in the grocery and grain business. While there he was married, in 1868, to Mary E., daughter of John Darneille, of Madison County, Ill., where Mrs. Weaver was born. Mrs. Weaver's father was one of the well-to do farmers, traders and pioneers of Madison County, Ill. Since that time Mr. Weaver has been engaged in the grain or grocery business, one year at Des Moines, Iowa, Oswego, Kas., six years, and two years, at Salina, Kas. From 1879 until 1887 he engaged in the grain business at Stanberry, Mo., when he removed to near Kirkwood, St. Louis Co., Mo. Since the fall of that year he has been employed in Huntington, as above stated. Mr. Weaver has a nice home in town; in politics he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Douglas, in 1860.

John F. Weaver Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hon. John F. Weaver was born at Fort Smith September 11, 1849, and is a son of W. J. and Catherine (Minmier) Weaver, natives of Philadelphia, Penn., and Germany, respectively. His father was a tradesman, and was a son of Emmor T. Weaver, born in Chester County, Penn., of English parents; he was a goldsmith or jeweler. The great-grandparents of our subject were of Quaker faith, and early settlers of Pennsylvania, landing with William Penn. They were people of temperate habits and fine physique and were engaged in agricultural pursuits. Their descendants were mostly farmers, but many became ministers and lawyers. Catherine Minmier was born in Prussia, near Minden. John F. Weaver grew to manhood on a farm in Henry County, Ill., where he received a common school education. At the age of sixteen he began to learn the printer's trade, at Salem, Ohio, working in the office of the Salem Journal. After having learned his trade, he worked two years on a farm, and in 1871 came to Fort Smith, Ark. Here he worked three years at his trade in the office of the New Era, and then spent five years on the Western Independent. In 1880 he assumed the management of the paper, which became known as the Independent Democrat, with which he remained until 1885. He then took an active interest in the publication of the Elevator, with which he is now connected. Mr. Weaver has always been an active politician and is now a representative of his county in the Legislature. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, and an honored and respected citizen.

Thomas J. Webb Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Thomas J. Webb was born near Nashville, Tenn., in 1821, and is the oldest of four children born to Kendall and Mary (Dugal) Webb, natives of Maryland and Pittsburgh, Penn., respectively. They were married in Tennessee, where the mother died about 1834. The father re-married two years later, and then removed to where Ozark, Ark., now stands. In 1853 he went to California, where he spent about three years, after which he located in Franklin County, Ark. He was left an orphan when young, and being bound out to a Quaker in Philadelphia, learned the shoemaker's trade, which he afterward engaged in extensively. He was a prominent Mason, and died near Ozark in 1873. Thomas Webb, the grandfather, came with a brother to the United States at an early day. The maternal grandfather was of Irish origin, the name formerly having been McDugal, but it was changed by the Pennsylvania Legislature. Thomas J. Webb passed his boyhood in Nashville, Tenn., and when fifteen accompanied his father to Arkansas. In 1846 he enlisted in the Mexican War for twelve months, and served in Company D, Arkansas Cavalry, under Gen. Taylor. He was captured previous to the battle of Buena Vista, and taken on foot to the City of Mexico, a distance of 1,000 miles, where he was held a prisoner six months. In 1852 he crossed the plains to California, where he remained until 1883, engaged in mining and farming. During the late war he served three years and one month in Company L, First California Cavalry, being engaged the greater part of the time in fighting the Indians in Arizona. He had charge of supply stations several times. After returning to Arkansas from California he engaged in cattle trading for some time in Franklin County, but since 1885 has farmed in Sebastian County. By the exercise of industry and economy Mr. Webb has become a well-to-do man, and in partnership with his brother he owns 1,200 acres of choice land in this county. He is devotedly fond of reading, being well-informed on all current topics, and his library contains a number of good works by well-known authors.

J. C. Welch Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 J. C. Welch was born in Sevier County, Ark., on the 4th of March 1861; was principally reared in Scott and Yell Counties, Ark., on the farm. In 1879 he entered school at Booneville, Logan Co., Ark, and remained in school the better part of three years. After quitting school he went to Brazil Station, I. T., and entered into the mercantile business in connection with his father, D. R. Welch, who had been doing a large business at that place as merchant and planter since 1871. After carrying on a very successful business at Brazil Station for three and one-half years, he came to Hackett City, Ark., and in September, 1886, opened a general merchandise store, and has since been one of Hackett City's leading merchants, carrying a stock of from $12,000 to $15,000, owning the store building in which he is doing business, and, besides, quite a number of valuable town lots, a fine residence, etc. October 30, 1887 he was united in marriage to Miss Mollie Forbes, daughter of Dr. J. H. Forbes, one of Hackett's leading physicians and oldest residents. One child is the result of the happy union, named Gussie.

O. D. Weldon Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 O. D. Weldon, local editor and business manager of the Fort Smith Weekly Elevator, was born near Cleveland, Ohio, September 23, 1847, and is a son of Oliver and Augusta A. (Smith) Weldon. Oliver Weldon was a native of Connecticut, and a clock-maker by trade, though in his younger days he followed the life of a sailor. He was one of the inventors of the spring ... During his early married life he lived in Connecticut, but being of a roving disposition moved to Ohio, and thence to the State of Michigan. in 1854 he traveled extensively as a peddler, and, with his two horses and watch dog as companions, made his way from Michigan to the line of the Indian Territory, and here set up a store in a log hut and engaged in trading with the Indians. While at this point he became interested in lead mine discoveries, and sent for his family, who traveled the entire distance from Dewajack, Mich., to Polk County, Ark., in a two horse wagon, being about eight weeks on the road, his son-in-law, A. L. Strong, accompanying them. After living in Polk County about one year he drifted to Fort Smith, where he died in 1872. Augusta A. (Smith) Weldon is still living, is seventy-six years of age, and a resident of Fort Smith, so well preserved that a casual observer would not take her to be more than fifty-five or sixty. She was the mother of seven children, O. D. Weldon being her youngest child and only son, five of whom she survives. The paternal grandmother of the subject of this sketch was twelve years of age at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and lived to be one hundred years old. She was one of twelve who organized the first Baptist Church in the then town of Hartford, Conn. O. D. Weldon began learning the printer's trade in 1861, just at the breaking out of the war, in the office of the Thirty-fifth Parallel, a weekly paper edited and published by Gen. A. G. Mayers at Fort Smith. This paper only survived a short time after the beginning of hostilities between the North and South. Weldon remained in the Confederate lines until 1863, when the Federals, under command of Gen. Blunt, captured the place, and occupied it until after the close of hostilities. During the war he learned the butcher's trade, and assisted in slaughtering beef for the army. In 1866 he again went to work at the printing business in the office of the Fort Smith Herald, owned by Judge John F. Wheeler, and from that time engaged alternately in the butchering and printing business until 1877, having spent one year at Fort McKavett, on the Texas frontier, furnishing beef to the soldiers under command of Gen. Clitz. He has been constantly connected with his present paper for ten years, and previous to that was connected with the New Era, the late V. Dell being editor and proprietor. He was first married to Miss Elona Haag, of Fort Smith, and one child, Lorena A., was the result of this union. Mrs. Weldon died in 1876, and in 1880 Mr. Weldon married Miss Lue Brown, who bore him three children, one now living. Jimmie. One child, John Carnall, died at the age of two years, and Ollie D. at the age of five months. Mr. Weldon is the regular correspondent at Fort Smith for the New York Herald, Chicago Times, Globe Democrat, Fort Worth, Tex., Gazette, and Little Rock, Ark., Gazette, and occasionally writes for other papers. He is a Democrat in his political views, and his wife and eldest child are members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Weldon is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society, and was educated at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Their daughters, Lorena and Jimmie, are members of “The Little Helpers’ society.

Master Lewis Joseph White Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Master Lewis Joseph White, only son of Edward S. White, deceased, was born June 27, 1881, in Louisville, Ky. His father was a native of New York City, born October 14, 1856, and was the son of Lewis Joseph White, a very prominent and wealthy capitalist, of New York, who in his younger days had been a very extensive and successful wholesale merchant in the hide and fur trade. Edward S. White came west, when a young man, to Fort Smith, and engaged in the cattle business in the Indian Nation a short time. He there met and married Miss Bessie Hurley, who was born February 19, 1860, in Ottawa, Canada, and is of Irish ancestry. Mrs. White's parents died when she was quite young, and she married Mr. White, whom she survives. One child is the result of this union. He is named Lewis, and is the heir to a large estate, consisting of all kinds of property in New York, Louisville and Fort Smith.

Harvey D. Wilkinson Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Harvey D. Wilkinson, farmer, was born July 9, 1863, in Polk County, Ark., and is the son of Benjamin J. and Sallie A. (Arbuckle) Wilkinson. Benjamin J. Wilkinson was born in Mississippi, and there lived to be grown, and was by profession a lawyer, graduating, both in the academic and law department, at Lebanon, Tenn., and establishing himself in the profession at Fort Smith with Judge Walker as his law partner. He had previously read with Judge Brown, of Van Buren, and subsequently continued in practice in Fort Smith until the breaking out of the war. Then he went to Texas and remained there until his death in 1864. Sallie Arbuckle was born and reared in Sebastian County, on Arbuckle Island, and was educated by private tutor. Here she grew to woman hood, and married Mr. Wilkinson, and bore him one child, Harvey D. After Mr. Wilkinson's death she was married to John Jacoway. James A. Wilkinson, the paternal grandfather, was a native of Tennessee, and was there reared and married, going thence to Mississippi and Texas, returning finally to Tennessee. He is now living in Texas. John D. Arbuckle, the maternal grandfather, was born near Hopkinsville, Ky., leaving there when about twenty years of age. He remained in Missouri some time teaching school, and then came to Sebastian County, having married, however, in Missouri, Louisa Jones. On coming to Arkansas, he settled on Arbuckle Island, which now bears his name. During his early life he was elected colonel in the State Militia in Kentucky. He and wife both died on the farm where our subject now lives, he at the age of sixty-five, December 8, 1873, and while occupying the senatorial seat from the Eighth District, having been elected over Col. B.J. Brown, and in an article taken from the Fort Smith paper we find the following: "The noble old man, whom the people all delighted to honor, passed away from earth to an assembly where we trust he will wear brighter than any earthly honors. Arkansas has lost a valuable representative, the community an estimable citizen, and the family a loving husband and father.“ Gen. Mathew Arbuckle, of Kentucky, was an uncle, and a graduate of West Point, and it was through him that Arbuckle Island was acquired by a patent from Martin Van Buren in 1839. The first court-house site of the county is now on land owned by Harvey Wilkinson, he having acquired the property through his grandfather, John D. Arbuckle. Harvey D. Wilkinson was principally reared in this county, being cared for after the death of his parents by his grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle. He lived with them until their deaths, and from 1879 until 1886 attended the Fayetteville University. He is the owner of 700 acres of land, 200 of which he cultivates, the old homestead being included. In connection with his farming he is engaged in milling and ginning. In politics Mr. Wilkinson is a Democrat, and he belongs to the Masonic fraternity .

James C. Wilkinson Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 James C. Wilkinson, dairyman and breeder of Jersey cattle, in Sebastian County, Ark., was born in England in 1843, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Beard) Wilkinson, who were also born in England. In 1863 James C. Wilkinson crossed the ocean as a volunteer in the United States army, and enlisted in the Sixteenth Kansas Volunteers, operating in Kansas and Missouri until the close of the war. He then went to New Mexico, as agent in charge of the Comanche Indians, and was afterward appointed sub-agent to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. He next located in Fort Smith, Ark., where he was United States Marshal for fourteen or fifteen years, and then moved to the country in Sebastian County, where he purchased 245 acres of land, which he fenced and made into a fine dairy farm. He resides in a large two-story frame house, and his barns are commodious and convenient, there being ample room for fifty cows. He finds a ready sale for dairy products in Fort Smith, and also handles pedigreed Jersey cattle. In 1876 he was married to Miss Mary J. Majors, a daughter of Robert T. and Nancy (Petty) Majors. She was born in Sebastian County, and is the mother of five children: James C., Cassius E., Robert, Mary J. and Bertha Catherine. Mr. Wilkinson is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to the K. of H. and the G. A. R. He is a stanch Republican and cast bis first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. The family worship at the Episcopal Church.

Charles H. Willhaf Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Charles H. Willhaf, manager of the mammoth store of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company, at Huntington, was born in Crawford County, Ark., in 1848, and is a son of Leonard and Mary (Beckel) Willhaf, who were born in Wurtemburg and Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. When young they came to the United States, and after their marriage at Fort Smith they settled at Van Buren, where for Years Mr. Willhaf kept a bakery and grocery store. He was a lieutenant in Yell's Arkansas regiment during the Mexican War, and one of the first merchants of Van Buren, where he died in 1866, and the mother still lives. Our subject was an only child and passed his youth in Van Buren, receiving but a limited education, and at an early age began life for himself by clerking. In 1868 he went to Oswego, Kas., where he clerked until 1881, and since that time has been employed by the Kansas and Texas Coal Company, with the exception of two years at Pittsburg, Kas., Monett, Mo., Hackett City and Huntington, Ark. He has been a resident of the last named place since August, 1887. Mr. Willhaf was married in 1876, at Oswego, Kas., to Caroline J., daughter of Isaac A. Marks, formerly of Crawfordsville, Ind., where Mrs. Willhaf was born. Mr. and Mrs. Willhaf have but one child. The former is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

James A. Williams Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 James A. Williams was born at Dripping Springs, Crawford County, Ark., in 1836, and is a son of Hansford and Cyntitha (McDonald) Williams . His parents were married in Arkansas in 1830, and have reared a family of fourteen children. All lived to be grown with the exception of one. In 1839 the father left Tennessee and came to Crawford County, locating on Lee's Creek, where he farmed until after the war. He then engaged in the mercantile business near Hackett City until a few years ago when he again resumed farming. He now lives upon his farm with his wife, enjoying in his old age the fruits of his youthful industry. James A. Williams passed his youth in Crawford County, where he farmed until 1870. He then embarked in the dry goods business at Greenwood, but ill health compelled him to give it up. He afterward established the Horse-Shoe, a newspaper, of which he is still editor. In August, 1862, he entered the Southern army. He served in Company H of the Thirty-third Texas throughout the entire war, and was in the quartermaster's department, a brother of his serving in the Sixth Kansas during the war. Mr. Williams is now interested in the real estate business and owns five town lots and a handsome residence. In 1886 he was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 1,465, his opponents being Dr. H. W. Fanner and Cash Barnes, and in 1888 was re-elected to the same office by a majority of 1,100, his opponents being Thomas Lathern and Robert Claybourne. Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has for five terms served his lodge as Worthy Master. In 1858 he married Miss Malvina F. Kelly, of Kentucky, a niece of the late Winright Flanagan, of Texas. This union has been blessed with eleven children, seven of whom are living: Hansford A., Philander M., James W., Lillie E., Joseph F., Noval A. and Pauline M. Mr. Williams is a K. of H., and himself and wife belong to the Christian Church.

John F. Williams Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John F. Williams, sheriff of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., in 1847. His father, I. O. Williams, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1827, a mechanic by trade, and moved to Missouri soon after his marriage to Miss Sarah Lee. He located in Ste. Genevieve County, where he was engaged in farming, and in 1850 came to Arkansas, dying in Sebastian County in April 1887. His wife was born in Illinois in 1829, and died in Arkansas April 1, 1888, their union resulting in the birth of seven children, four living. The paternal and maternal grandparents were of Scotch and German descent, respectively. John F. Williams was reared in Sebastian County, Ark., and worked at the mechanic's trade until he was elected to the office of sheriff in 1884 and is now filling his third term. He was married to Miss Alice Jones, of Tennessee, a daughter of Henry Jones, who died in 1861, and was an extensive planter in Weakley County, Tenn. Mrs. Williams became the mother of the following children: Beulah, Minnie, Hervey, Jim and Effie. The family attend the Methodist Church, and Mr. Williams is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the K. of H., and is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party. He is one of the best informed men of the county relating to the agricultural condition of the country, and has one of the finest stock farms in the county, and is preparing to engage in the stock business on a large scale in a short time. Mrs. Williams belongs to the Eastern Star Lodge and is a member of the Ladies' Christian Association.

Hon. S. A. Williams Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Hon. S. A. Williams, present mayor of Fort Smith, was born in Charleston, S. C., January 24, 1841. His grandfather, Charles Williams, though of Scotch descent, was a native of Hamburg, Germany, from whence he immigrated with his family about the year 1789 to this country, and settled in South Carolina. In religion he was a Lutheran which faith is adhered to by the family to this day. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His son Andrew, the father of our subject, was born in 1799, who, when twenty-five years of age, paid a visit to Hamburg, Germany, the former home of his father, and while there married, and upon his return established himself at Charleston, S. C., as merchant tailor. Samuel A., when about ten years of age, came, by consent of the parents, with his uncle, John H. Williams, to California, where the latter engaged in mining. Schools in those days being something unheard of in the mining regions of California, the uncle taught the boy at night and rainy days as best he could. About four years after their arrival in California an accident caused the death of the uncle, and Samuel A., at the age of barely fourteen, found himself, without any relatives, in a strange land with no means whatever, the uncle having been unfortunate in all his mining ventures. Making his way on foot to Sacramento City (170 miles), Samuel A. worked at anything he could get to do during the day, and with a portion of these earnings educated himself at night schools. In 1860 he went to Virginia City, Nev., and found employment as book-keeper. After the outbreak of the war in the spring of 1862, the Second California Volunteer Cavalry passed through Virginia City on their way to the front (as they were told and believed), and Mr. Williams left his desk, and together with a number of others joined that regiment as privates. When arriving at Salt Lake City, greatly to the disgust and sore disappointment of all the troops, they were ordered to stop and build quarters, and never afterward during the war got further east than Fort Laramie, where, after four years of hard fighting with Indians on the plains, Mr. Williams was mustered out. After leaving the army Mr. Williams engaged some in grain dealing in Chicago, and in 186 went to Kansas City, where he carried on a small mercantile business. He arrived in Fort Smith in January, 1869, where he has since resided. Here he has been engaged as deputy clerk of the State Circuit Court and of the United States Court until elected mayor of the city in 1887. He has filled a great many honorary positions in the city, among them six terms as alderman and four years as director and secretary of the school board. All public enterprises received his hearty support. He assisted in organizing and putting in operation the Fort Smith Evaporating Company, the Fort Smith Canning Company, two building and loan associations, of one of which he is still the president; also the fair association, which he served as secretary for eight years, an enterprise acknowledged to have contributed more than any other one agency to the growth and prosperity of the city. He is a charter member of the K. of H. Lodge, and an active member of a number of other societies and organizations. The family, back to the great-grandfather, being practically of German descent, that language is no foreign tongue to Mr. Williams or his family, all of whom worship at the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Williams married Miss Paulina Geiger, daughter of the late Mr. William Geiger, and is the father of four sons and two daughters: Benjamin C., Annie E., Pauline M., Elias J., Oscar G. and Andrew H. In politics Mr. Williams is a Republican.

Constant P. Wilson Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Constant P. Wilson, farmer of Upper Township, Sebastian Co., Ark., and native of the county, was born in 1856, being a son of Thomas E. and Mary A. (Dillard) Wilson, who were born in Kentucky and Virginia, July 6, 1804, and April 27, 1822, respectively. The father removed from Kentucky to Fort Gibson, and in 1832 located at Fort Smith, Ark., where he was engaged in surveying, and acted as sutler for the soldiers. He owned a large farm of 1,200 acres, and from fifteen to twenty slaves. The following are his children: Neosho L. (deceased), Thomas E., Virginia T. (Baxter), John D., Constant P., Sallie P. (Falconer), and Macha M. He has one stepdaughter, Mrs. Marcus Boyd. Mr. Wilson's death occurred September 11, 1880, his wife dying on the 11th of January, seven years later. Her parents, John and Sallie P. (Moore) Dillard were born in Virginia, and in 1822 removed to Arkansas, where the father engaged in merchandising, farming and stock dealing. He was one of the prominent men of his section of the country and represented his county in the State Legislature. He died in 1846. His maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Polly (Price) Moore, came from Virginia to Arkansas in 1821, and the descendants of this noble couple are among the leading citizens of Arkansas. Constant P. Wilson, whose name heads this sketch, has spent his entire life in Sebastian County. He was married on the 30th of May 1881, to Miss Nellie Collins, who was born July 4, 1860. From 1877 to 1885 he was in the saloon business at Fort Smith, but since that time has been manager of the Wilson and Collins farms, comprising 1,600 acres of land, and is the most extensive planter in North western Arkansas. Throughout life Mr. Wilson has been the architect of his own fortune and is of a very energetic and determined disposition. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and in his political views is a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Samuel J. Tilden. Mrs. Wilson's father, James M. Collins, was born in Virginia in 1830, and died on the 2d of March 1887. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania by his grandfather, Christopher Riley, and after attaining man's estate went to Texas and engaged in the stock business on a large scale. While in the "Lone Star State” he became acquainted with and married Mary J. Whitsett, a daughter of Dr. William C. and Elizabeth L. (Edmunds) Whitsett. Although not in the army, Mr. Collins gave valuable assistance to the Confederate cause in furnishing the army with provisions. In 1866 he came to Fort Smith, and engaged in the mercantile business, and also purchased 1,200 acres of land in Sebastian County, on which be located in 1869. Here he died March 2, 1887. His parents, John and Elizabeth (Riley) Collins were natives of Virginia. His wife's parents were born in Kentucky August 7, 1812, and December 15, 1815, and died January 9, 1882, and January 22, 1883, respectively, and her paternal great-grandparents, Gen. William and Emily (Haden) Whitsett, were Virginians, the former dying in 1841. Her maternal grandparents, William and Mary A. (Penn) Edmunds were Virginians, Mary A. being a descendant of William Penn, of historical renown .

Green B. Wimberley Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Green B. Wimberley, land agent of the Kansas & Texas Coal Company, at Huntington, has held that position since the location of the company at that place. He was born in Choctaw County, Ala., in 1846, and is the second of a family of twelve children (nine of who are living) born to William and Susan (Needham) Wimberley, natives of Enterprise, Miss., and Greensboro, Ala., born in 1814 and 1820, respectively. They were married in Choctaw County, Ala., where they still live. In younger days the father was an overseer, but he is now a well-to-do farmer and planter. When a boy he lost his father, John Wimberley, who was of Irish origin. The great-grandfather of our subject, Capt. William Wimberley, came to America with Gen. La Fayette, and served as a captain in the Revolution. The maternal grandfather, Benjamin Needham, was of Scotch descent, born in North Carolina, and died in Choctaw County, Ala. In 1862, at the age of fifteen, Green B. Wimberley joined Company G, Fortieth Alabama Infantry, in which he served until discharged in September of the same year for disability. The following December he enlisted in company E, Ninth Alabama Cavalry, as second sergeant, and operated afterward in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia. June 24, 1864 be was captured at La Fayette, Ga., and taken to Camp Morton, Ind., where he was held ten months. He was paroled in Virginia a few weeks before the general surrender, and then returned home. In the winter of 1865–66 he went to Louisiana and was there married, in November 1867, to Mary Ann, daughter of C. C. and Mary Brewster, who were formerly from Mississippi, the State of Mrs. Wimberley's birth. Mr. and Mrs. Wimberley have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for over twenty years. To them four sons and four daughters have been born. In December 1869, our subject settled near the present site of Huntington, and until the establishment of that town made farming his sole occupation. His farm now consists of 200 acres, all of his property being the result of his own labor. He is a Democrat, and since 1884 has held the office of deputy sheriff of Sebastian County. He is a member of Pulliam Masonic Lodge No. 133 of which he was Master six years.

T. P. Winchester Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 T. P. Winchester, attorney at law, of the law firm of Winchester & Bryant, at Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1850, and is the son of George W. and M. H. (Gaines) Winchester. George W. Winchester was born May 14, 1822, in Sumner County, Tenn. He was an attorney, was in the State Legislature before the war, and was a member of the secession convention. He was a Confederate soldier, was a major on Gen. W. B. Bates' staff, and was captured at Missionary Ridge. He was imprisoned at Johnson's Island until the close of the war. He was the seventh son and the youngest child of Gen. James Winchester, an officer of the Revolutionary War and of the War of 1812, and one of the pioneers of Middle Tennessee. The family is of Welsh descent. T. P. Winchester was reared in Sumner County, Tenn., and lived there until 1865, read law under his father, and also studied one year in the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Memphis, Tenn., seven years, and in 1880 located in Fort Smith. The present law firm was organized in September, 1883. In Albemarle County, Va., he was married to Miss Nanna Thurman, in the year 1874, and to them have been born three children, one (Agnes) now living. Two died in infancy. Mr. Winchester is a member of the K. of P. and the Methodist Church, South.

Capt. William J. Witcher (photo from lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Capt. William J. Witcher, postmaster and farmer at Witcherville, was born in Surrey County, N. C., in 1829, and is a son of Lacy and Elizabeth (Lyon) Witcher, natives of North Carolina, where the father passed his entire life, dying when William J. was an infant. The mother afterward married Edward Crossen, and about 1835 moved to Johnson County, Ark., going from there to Sebastian County, where Mr. Crossen died at Fort Smith during the war. Mrs. Crossen was a daughter of Col. William Lyon, who always lived in North Carolina. She was a member of the Christian Church and died at Witcherville in 1860. Her grandfather, Col. Lyon, was an officer in the Revolution, and among his descendants is the Hon. Frank Lyon, a cousin of our subject, who, for many years, was a member of Congress from Alabama. William J. has a twin sister, who, with himself, was reared and educated by their maternal grandfather, in Virginia. In 1848 they came to Johnson County, Ark. In 1849 Capt. Witcher married Mary E., daughter of Abram L. Lester, formerly of Wilson County, Tenn., where Mrs. Witcher was born. There are seven living issues of this marriage. In 1850 Capt. Witcher located upon 160 acres of land in Sebastian County, where he was one of the early settlers. The town of Witcherville was afterward built upon his farm and received its name in his honor. In 1862 he organized Company D, of Col. W. H. Brooks' infantry regiment, and after serving some time as first lieutenant he was made captain of the company. In the fall of 1863 he was captured while at home, and until February 1864, was held a prisoner at Fort Smith and Little Rock. Finding it impossible to rejoin his company he joined Gen. Shelby's army, with whom he operated in Missouri and Arkansas, and participated in the engagements at Perry Grove and Helena. In the fall of 1864, he joined his family in the Choctaw Nation, and soon after the surrender returned to Sebastian County. From 1868 until 1884 he engaged in the mercantile business at Witcherville, and since March 1888, has been the post master of that place. Prior to the war he was twice elected internal revenue collector, which position he resigned to enter the army. Mr. and Mrs. Witcher and three of their children are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which the former has been an elder since 1854. He is a charter member of Pulliam Lodge, No. 133, and in politics is a Democrat, his first presidential vote having been cast for Cass in 1848.

H. C. Wyman Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 H. C. Wyman, chief of police at Fort Smith, was born in Rock County, Wis., June 16, 1855, and is a son of C. L. and Emily (Adams) Wyman, natives of New York State. Our subject attained his growth in Knox County, Ill., whither his parents had removed, and in 1869 went to Jefferson County, Iowa, spending four years at Fairfield. He then ran a stage line in Henry County, Mo., three years, went to New Albany, Ind., and spent two years in Kansas, after which he located at Fort Smith. In 1878 he established a stage line, which ran from Fort Smith to Muskogee, and engaged in the liquor business. He spent some time in Kansas and Texas before Fort Smith became a thriving city. In 1887 he was appointed sergeant of the police, and upon the resignation of John Nevil, in 1887, became the chief. He was married in 1882, at Fort Smith, to Miss Eliza Dodson, daughter of Joseph Dodson. [See sketch..] Mrs. Wyman is a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. They have a family of two children: Mamie and Henry. Mr. Wyman's father was born in Syracuse, N. Y., and traced his ancestry to a period prior to the Revolution, in which war the grandfather of our subject, John Wyman, participated.

John C. Yadon Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 John C. Yadon is one of the enterprising farmers of Sebastian County, Ark., and was born in East Tennessee in 1835. His father, Thomas Yadon, was born in Washington County, Va., March 27, 1801, and when a small boy was taken by his parents to East Tennessee, where he met and espoused Nancy Haynes, October 14, 1819, who was born in North Carolina March 1, 1803, and moved with her to Missouri in 1839, and to Sebastian County, Ark, in 1849. Here he entered 160 acres of land and spent the remainder of his days, dying January 18, 1886. He served as justice of the peace for twenty years, and held the office of postmaster for a number of years. The following are his children who are living: M. A. (Long), M. J. (Condran), Minerva A. (Douglas) and John C. The mother of these children died February 14, 1881. Joseph Yadon, the grandfather, was born in County Down, Ireland, December 17, 1856, and during the early part of the Revolutionary War crossed the ocean as a soldier in the British army, and served in Burgoyne's command until the latter surrendered to Gen. Gates on the 17th of October, 1777. He then took the oath of allegiance to the colonies and joined the American army, fighting for its interests until the close of the war. He was discharged in 1782, at the falls of the Ohio, and went to Virginia, where he met and married Mary Pennabaker, and moved to Tennessee in 1805. His death occurred September 8, 1838. The maternal grandfather, John Haynes, was born in North Carolina, and was married to Mary McCarver. He died in 1842 or 1843. John C. Yadon spent his boyhood days in Tennessee and Missouri, and on the 17th of March, 1859, was married to Susan A. Douglas, who was born in East Tennessee August 31, 1836, by whom he became the father of six children, four of whom are living: William Thomas, Margaret L. (Williamson), John P. and Joseph M. Those deceased are Nancy E. and Samuel H. The mother of these children died January 11, 1879. Her parents, William R. and Margaret A. (McConnell) Douglas, were born in East Tennessee, October 24, 1796, and December 22, 1806, respectively; The father died in August, 1864, but the mother is still living, and is a resident of Sebastian County. W.R. Douglas was an old line Whig, during the Civil War was an uncompromising Union man, and though too old and feeble to be in the service, he gave substantial aid to the Union cause and Union sympathizers. He was a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and for a number of years a colporteur for the American Tract Society. Mr. Yadon owns 346 acres of land, 115 of which are under cultivation and well improved. In 1863 he enlisted in company E, First Arkansas Infantry, United States Army, and served until the cessation of hos tilites in 1865. He is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, belongs to the Republican party, and cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan.

D. J. Young (photo added by lr) Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 D. J. Young, resident agent for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, of St. Louis, for Fort Smith and adjacent territory, was born in Illinois September 4, 1848, and is the son of William and Sarah (Wells) Young, who were married in Ohio, and soon afterward went to Illinois, where they were pioneer settlers of Bureau County. Here they both died, William at the age of seventy one, and Sarah at the age of sixty-eight. The Young family were of old New England stock. Sarah (Wells) Young was also a native of Ohio, was of German descent on the mother's side, and on the father's side for several generations back were Americans. She was the mother of nine children, of whom D. J. Young is next to the youngest in order of birth. He grew to manhood on a farm in Illinois, and received a good education for the chances he had. At the age of twenty he left Illinois, went to Missouri, and here followed the railroad business for nine years, being conductor for six years. He ran a train, principally in Missouri, on the St. Louis, Salem & Little Rock Railroad. In 1877 he quit the railroad, and engaged in merchandising for about three years, when he became agent for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, of St. Louis, residing at Seligman, Mo., while that was a railroad point. He left that city and moved to Fort Smith in 1883, though he had an agency here in 1882. Mr. Young has also been engaged in the brick business, under the firm name of Braden & Young, and furnished all the large contracts in the city while in the business, principal the United States court-house, the county court-house, the Anheuser-Busch building, Masonic Temple and others. He is sole proprietor of the Fort Smith Steam Bottling Works, in Fort Smith, and has enlarged the business to its present proportions. He became sole proprietor in March, 1888. Its capacity will supply a trade of 50,000 inhabitants. Mr. Young has been the prime mover in having the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association invest nearly $60,000 in buildings in the city. He was married in Steelville, Mo., to Miss Angie Jamison, June 16, 1873, daughter of Preston and Mary (Early) Jamison. This union resulted in the birth of four children: James Roswell, Imogene, Maude and Agnes Early. Maude died at the age of four months and eight days. Mr. Young is a Republican in politics, and is a stockholder in the American National Bank, of Fort Smith. He is also a stockholder in the Fort Smith Canning Company, Fort Smith Building & Loan Association No. 3, Fort Smith Journal Publishing Company, Fort Smith Fair Association, Van Buren Ice & Coal Company, Border City Ice & Coal Company, of Fort Smith, and Border City Soap Factory, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar of that order in four lodges; a K. of P., both subordinate and uniform rank; A. O. U. W., and uniform rank of the order, in which he carries $5,000 life insurance. He is also insured for $2,000 in the Masonic fraternity, and the same amount in the New England and New York Mutual. Mr. Young owns business property on Towson Avenue and on Rogers Avenue, and residence property on Fifth Street and Twelfth Street, and has great confidence in the future prospects of Fort Smith. He avoids serving as a director in any of the many enterprises he is interested in, as he has enough business of his own to look after.

Joseph W. Young Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin & Sebastian Counties. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 Joseph W. Young, mayor and postmaster of Huntington, was born in Pickens County, S. C., in 1853, and is a son of Archibald M. and Margaret E. (Sewright) Young, natives of South Carolina, born in 1826 and 1824, respectively. The father served during the entire Civil War as a blacksmith in Ferguson's Flying Artillery, having charge of the battery. He was captured at Missionary Ridge, and died a prisoner at Nashville March 2, 1864. The grandfather, Joseph Young, was of English descent, and born in Kentucky in 1785. He passed his entire life, after becoming seventeen years of age, in South Carolina, and served many years as justice of the peace and postmaster at Branch Island. He died in 1870. His father, Levi Young, was born in Pennsylvania in 1750, and after serving in the Revolution settled in Kentucky. He died in South Carolina in 1845. He was quite a writer, having written many poems besides a history of his life. Our subject is the eldest of a family of four sons and one daughter, and consequently, his help being needed at home, he attended school but five months during his youth. He was but eleven when he lost his father, and notwithstanding the many difficulties which beset his way, he became a well informed man by persistent application when the opportunities offered. In 1874 he married Mrs. Martha M. Looper, daughter of Robert and Jane McWhortor, of South Carolina, where Mrs. Young was born. Her paternal grandfather was a native of Ireland. In 1882 Mr. Young sold goods at Excelsior, and in 1883 bought a farm in Center Township, and remained on the farm till October, 1886. He then went into the drug and grocery business at Witcherville, and remained at Witcherville till January, 1888, when he came to Huntington. His grocery stock is valued at $1,800, and he has a well-improved farm of 280 acres in Center Township, stocked with several head of horses, mules and cattle, and besides this owns a lot on Broadway, in Huntington, besides a two-story frame house. All this is the result of his own industry and good management. He is a public, spirited man, and in April, 1888, was elected mayor of Huntington, and the following September made postmaster. Mr. and Mrs. Young belong to the Missionary Baptist Church. Mr. Young has a family of seven sons and three step-sons. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity four years. Since December, 1887, he has been the Worshipful Master of Pulliam Lodge No. 133, at Witcherville. He is also a K. of L.