Maj. John D. Adams, of Little Rock, stands out in striking characteristics as a son of 
the Southwest, distinguished for business talent and integrity of purpose. He was born in 
Dixon County, Tenn., June 23, 1827. His father, Hon. Samuel Adams, who was a native of 
Halifax County, Va., and born in 1805, afterward became a State senator, president of the 
senate, and, for a time, Governor of the State of Arkansas. In 1824 he married Miss 
Rebecca May, a native of Dixon County, Tenn., born in 1807, and a daughter of John W. May, 
who served as the captain of a company under Gen. Jackson, and was wounded in the Battle 
of New Orleans. In the spring of 1835 they emigrated to Johnson County, Ark., where the 
mother died in 1840. The father continued to reside in Johnson County until 1846, when he 
was elected treasurer of the State of Arkansas, and removed to Little Rock, where he made 
his home until the time of his death, the sad event occurring in February, 1850. To their 
union were born five sons and one daughter, (who is also the eldest of the family) and 
Martha Izabella (now the wife of Dr. D. S. Mills, of Pine Bluff, Ark.) are living.  John 
D. Adams was reared a farmer boy in Johnson County, Ark. His father being a man of 
superior abilities gave his children the advantages of a practical education, considering 
this one of the best legacies to leave them, and trained his children in the school of 
virtue and industry. In 1846, when but a lad of eighteen years of age, John D. Adams 
volunteered for the Mexican War, joining Company C, commanded by Capt. George W. Patrick, 
in Yell's mounted regiment, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment was honorably 
discharged at Comargo, on the Rio Grande. His captain, in speaking of him, says: "John D. 
Adams was a noble boy, a gallant soldier, and as true and noble a young man as I ever 
knew. He was my orderly sergeant, and was so faithful, so competent, and so clever to all 
that every man in the company loved him. In the battle of Buena Vista, he was struck on 
the arm by a ball that did not penetrate his thick coat sleeve, but so bruised the flesh 
as to make a painful wound, the flesh sloughing and leaving a large permanent scar. In 
Memphis, twenty-two years later, on my return from California, I again met him and 
requested to see the wounded arm. He drew off his coat, rolled up his sleeve, and there I 
saw the scar as large and distinct as it was on his first recovery; and I found more, 
that prosperity and distinction had not changed the heart of my young friend.  He is not 
only a noble, true and splendid business man, but a wise one - a useful man in every sense 
of the word." Such a tribute from his old neighbor and commander, thirty-five years after 
their military service, coming, too, from one not unknown to fame, and of varied public 
service, is one of which any man may justly feel proud. Maj. Adams was private secretary 
to Gov. Thomas S. Drew from 1847 to the end of his term in 1850, and this worthy old 
Arkansan always spoke in terms of highest praise of Maj. Adams as a man of noble, generous 
heart, open-hearted and sympathizing, and as useful a man as ever did business in Arkansas. 
But in writing a biography of Maj. Adams we could not do better or state the case more 
accurately than by giving the eulogy paid him by his intimate friend, Gen. Albert Pike, 
who says: "I have known John D. Adams from his boyhood. He served a year in a regiment of 
Col. Archibald Yell on the march to and in Mexico, being at the battle of Buena Vista, and 
returning to Arkansas when his term of enlistment expired. There, as has always been the 
case, he was liked by every one for his unvarying good-humor, his readiness to do a favor, 
and his unstinted generosity. Afterward he was for many years a merchant in Little Rock, 
dealing in general merchandise. He married and built a house at Little Rock, where he 
resided for a period of several years before the war broke out between the States. Not 
successful as a merchant, he engaged in steamboating, owner by himself, and in partnership 
with Thompson Dean, of Cincinnati, during many years, of boats running on the Arkansas 
River and from Memphis to Little Rock, and Fort Smith and New Orleans, in which he 
displayed large business capacity, promptness and decision in action, great enterprise, 
courage and perseverance in surmounting obstacles and overcoming difficulties. When the 
State of Arkansas seceded, an attempt was made in the convention to confiscate the 
interests of Mr. Dean in their boats running on the Arkansas River, but the influence 
and popularity of Mr. Adams defeated the attempt. The march of events put an end to his 
steamboat enterprises, but he had in the meantime become a planter of cotton, and 
continued to be so during the war. His Personal attention to this being only 
occasionally needed, he entered the service of the Confederate States and was chief 
quarter-master under Gens. Hindman and Holmers, with the rank of major, continuing in 
service until the close of the war, and proving himself to be an active, energetic, 
spirited and faithful officer. Such was his faith in the cause and his devotion to it, 
that almost at its close he invested the proceeds of his cotton in bonds in the 
Confederate States; but when the cause was lost and he ruined by it, he accepted the 
result with unflinching courage and indomitable good-humor. After the war he 
established the commission house of Dean, Adams & Goff, at New Orleans, making advances 
on and selling cotton, and again established a line of boats from Memphis to Little 
Rock and Fort Smith. Since then he has been fiscal agent of the State of Arkansas, 
proprietor of the Arkansas Gazette, and a large contractor for many years for carrying 
mails. Meeting with reverses at different periods, he has always recovered from them 
quietly. He now devotes himself chiefly to his business of mail contractor, managing 
his steamboat interests and cotton planting. He is prosperous, fortunate in his family, 
owning a beautiful residence in Little Rock and dispensing a lavish hospitality, always 
foremost in the support of all measures and enterprises for the benefit of his city or 
State, with ever open hand and ever generous heart. One sees at a glance, by his erect, 
portly figure, frank, open countenance and hearty laugh, that he is one who does not 
permit the cares and vexations of life to harass and annoy him. Few men have displayed 
such resources as he under difficulties and embarrassments. His perfect integrity, 
honesty, truth and honor, have always been his best friends and enabled him to arise to 
his feet when prostrated by misfortune, under the pressure of which others would have 
remained prostrate for life. His intellect is clear and alert, always enabling him to 
say and so that which is most to the purpose, and surest to lead to success." During 
his residence here, Maj. Adams has done as much as any other citizen toward the 
advancement of Arkansas, but being of a modest, unassuming disposition, he has shunned 
rather than sought public office. A descendant of those sturdy northern races of 
England, Scotland and Ireland, he has inherited all the traits of character and sterling 
integrity, the attributes of those people.
He is in every respect a self-made man, having begun at the bottom of the ladder and 
climbed steadily upward. At times, beset by adversity which threatened to hurl him to 
the bottom of the chasm, his indomitable will which refused to bow to adverse 
circumstances has carried him safely through. There is no greater please in life than 
to look back over a past usefully employed, and be able to trace our progress in such 
tokens as awaken nought be admiration and esteem. Such enjoyment is afforded in its 
fullest measure to Maj. Adams, and his eminently successful career in life is a 
wholesome example to the youth of the rising generation, for it shows how certain he 
who, crying "Excelsior," and pressing manfully forward, will surely reap the reward. 
Maj. Adams was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Yeiser, a daughter of Dr. 
Daniel Yeiser, of Danville, Ky., and born in March, 1828. They were married at Little 
Rock, the beautiful wedding service of the Episcopal Church being performed May 2, 
1848. The results of this union have been four sons and one daughter, of whom but two 
still survive, as follows: Samuel B. Adams (member of the firm of Adams & Boyle, of 
Little Rock) and Dean Adams (secretary and manager of the Pulaski Gas Light Company). 
Maj. Adams and his estimable wife, as is also their son, Samuel, are respected members 
of the Episcopal Church, in which Maj. Adams and his son officiate as vestrymen, and 
of which organization Samuel is treasurer. They now reside in Little Rock, where they 
have a pleasant home, surrounded by the comforts of life, and enjoy in the sunset of 
their age the fruits of their early labors. In closing, Gen. Pike says: "He is withal 
a true and generous friend, a most kind and genial man of right royal nature, large 
hearted and forgiving, in nothing bigoted or narrow or vainglorious. The State of 
Arkansas may well feel proud of him, and it will be a sad day for many when his 
kindly, generous heart shall cease to beat."

    Mrs. Marie Archer, of Little Rock, an estimable and much respected lady owes her 
nativity to Berlin, Prussia, where her birth occurred on November 18, 1858, she being 
the daughter of Theodore and Emily (Echert) Strauss. The father was born in Berlin, 
in 1820, but attained his growth elsewhere in the Kingdom. He was an expert bookkeeper, 
and was in the lumber business from early manhood in Berlin. He was married in that 
city by a famous Lutheran minister named Strauss, and to his union were born four 
children, three sons and one daughter, of whom our subject is the youngest. The 
children were all born in Berlin and are names as follows: Waldemar, Albert, Paul 
(who died when a child) and Marie. The family moved to England when Mrs. Archer was 
a child, and her father embarked in the commission business in London for about two 
years, after which he emigrated to America, leaving his family in London in order to 
educate the sons at Cambridge and Oxford Colleges, from which they have diplomas. 
Theodore Strauss had to leave Prussia during the Revolution, as he was a Republican 
and opposed to the Crown. He came direct from London to St. Louis, Mo., and there 
engaged in his old business, first as lumber dealer and afterward as lumber inspector 
for the city. His wife followed to America at the close of the war, and there lived 
many years. Leaving St. Louis, Theodore Strauss went to Malvern, Ark., where he 
joined his sons in the lumber business, and there died in 1888. The mother, Emily 
Eckert, was born in Berlin about 1824, is still living and resides at Little Rock with 
her daughter, Mrs. Archer.  Mrs. Marie Archer was married in St. Louis, Mo., in 1873, 
to William B. Archer, and three children were the fruits of this union: Wallie B., 
Cora E. and Elsie M. Mrs. Archer came to Little Rock in July, 1889, and engaged in 
keeping a private boarding house, in which business she has continued with successful 
and popular results. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
The maternal grandfather was a Prussian veteran, fought in the battle of Waterloo as a 
lieutenant, and received the Iron Cross. On the Eckert side the family belong to the 
nobility, and have in their possession a coat of arms.

   W. E. Atkinson, attorney general of Arkansas, was born in Shelby County, Ala., on 
Jul 24, 1852, and is a son of W. W. and Barbara (Drake) Atkinson, natives of the same 
State. The father was a prosperous farmer in Alabama before the war, and during that 
event, a strong sympathizer with the Confederacy. Both parents are now residing at 
Falcon, in Nevada County, Ark., where the father is engaged in planting and commercial 
life. Five children were born to their marriage, all of whom are living and are 
residents of Arkansas. William E., the principal of this sketch, was reared in 
Arkansas, having come to this State when only five years old, received his education at 
the public and high schools of Arkansas, and also at the Falcon Academy. When nineteen
years of age, he entered the law department of the Washington & Lee University at 
Lexington, Va., under Judge Brookenbrough and J. Randolph Tucker. Mr. Atkinson 
graduated from this institution, in the class of 1872, and located at Rosston, in
Nevada County (then, the county seat), remaining there until 1877. Then removing to
Prescott, he first formed a partnership with Col. Ed A. Warren, now editor of the 
Texarkana Democrat. He was subsequently a partner of Mr. T. E. Webber, the present
prosecuting attorney of the Seventh judicial district, and later with Mr. W. V.
Thomkins. At the present time he is in partnership with Messrs. W. V. Tompkins and
M. W. Greeson, the firm being Atkinson, Tompkins & Greeson. In politics Mr. Atkinson
has always voted the Democratic ticket, and has served as justice of the peace of
Caney Township, in Nevada County, and also as mayor of Prescott for one term. In the
summer of 1888, he was a candidate before the Democratic primaries for attorney
general, and during the canvass had but one opponent, who, however withdrew before
the primaries, and at the convention Mr. Atkinson was nominated by acclamation, and
was elected on September 3 by a handsome majority. His first marriage occurred on
May 14, 1874, to Miss Hattie Williams, of Falcon, Ark., by whom he had four children,
two of them yet living: Sherman H. and Halycone. Mrs. Atkinson died January 24, 1883,
and Mr. Atkinson's second marriage occurred on December 24, 1884, to Miss Lillie
Williams, a sister of his first wife, by whom he had two children, one of whom, 
Willie W., still lives. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson are both members of the First Baptist
Church, and in secret societies the former belongs to Capitol Lodge No. 49, Knights 
of Pythius, at Little Rock.

   Thomas W. Baird, manufacturers' agent, Little Rock, Ark., has been a resident of 
this city for the past nine years, although his actual residence in the State covers
a period of about twelve years. He was born in Boonville, Cooper County Mo., and
remained there until ten years of age. His parents were Thomas W. and Mary A. 
(Carter) Baird, of Erie, Penn., and Danville, Ky., respectively. The former, who was 
a prominent steamboatman on the Mississippi, Arkansas and Ohio Rivers, died in 1853,
while the mother is still living at age of seventy-nine, in Louisville, Ky. When ten
years of age, Thomas W. accompanied his parents to the vicinity of Louisville, Ky.,
where he received a fair English education, and after his father's death, went into
the steamboat business. He also had an uncle, Capt. William Baird, whose name was
famous on western waters in early days, he being commander of the first iron steam-
boat built for traffic in the rivers of that section, the "Valley Forge." After six 
years of river life, young Baird entered the employ of the Adams' Express Company, 
where he remained during the Civil War, traveling through Kentucky, Tennessee and
Georgia. He next moved to Bowling Green, Ky., and embarked in the hardware business,
continuing in the line for ten years, after which he was engaged by the Blymeyer
Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, to travel for them, his territory lying
through Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, and
in the winter of 1880 he located in Little Rock. Mr. Baird was married on May 7, 1863,
to Miss M. P. Huddleston, of St. Louis, by whom he has had three children: Harry P.
(with his father in the capacity of shipping clerk), Irene and Mamie. Mr. and Mrs.
Baird are both members of the Christ Episcopal Church. In secret orders Mr. Baird has
been a life-long Mason.

   T. W. Baldwin, one of the most prominent citizens of Argenta, was born in Meggs
County, Tenn., but moved to Missouri in 1843. He is a son of James C. and Sarah A.
(Underwood) Baldwin, both natives of Tennessee, and of English descent. Mr. Baldwin
first came to the State of Arkansas in 1868, and has resided here ever since. He 
located in Argenta in 1875, and for ten years carried on a live-stock commission
business, in which he was very successful. He is now practically retired from
active commercial life, but has an interest in one of the largest mercantile houses
in Argenta, and owns considerable town property besides his own handsome residence.
On December 31, 1863, Mr. Baldwin was married to Miss Sarah R. Parker, of Arkansas,
by whom he had one child that died in its third year. They have an adopted daughter,
five years old, upon whom they lavish great affection and care, and who promises to
become a lady of true worth. Mr. Baldwin is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, 
Little Rock Lodge No. 2, and has belonged to Blue Lodge since 1869 besides serving
as representative to the Grand Lodge on several occasions. In politics he is a strong
Democrat, and a valuable man to his party, his influence in the community having 
great weight upon any matter in which he takes an interest. He is one of the leading
citizens of this section, and manifests a commendable willingness to share in push-
ing forward the development of the county; this, added to his generosity and rare
personal qualities, rendering him very popular. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are both members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and take an interest in all religious and
educational matters.

   Dr. J. N. Barnett.  Few men are better known in Pulaski County or have attained a
higher degree of perfection in their profession than has Dr. Barnett. He was born in
Alabama in 1834, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Holingshad) Barnett, of North
Carolina and South Carolina, respectively. The Doctor received his education in the
City of New Orleans, and also graduated from the University of Louisiana in that city
in 1857. He first commenced to practice medicine in Noxubee County, Miss., during the
same year, and continued to reside there until 1875, when he moved to Argenta, Ark.,
where he has been practicing ever since. In 1858 he was married to Miss Anna Boyakin,
a talented young lady of Mississippi, by whom he has had three children, and after
the loss of his first wife he was married to Miss Louisa Slocum, who has made the
Doctor's home one of the most attractive in Argenta. Dr. Barnett is a member of the
Masonic order, I. O. O. F. and Knights of Honor. His charitable disposition, unim-
peachable character and integrity have made him a valued and popular citizen, and as
a professional man his practice at one time was one of the largest in Pulaski County.
Of late years, however, he has relinquished not a little on account of failing health,
and now enjoys a lucrative office practice, in connection with which he carries a
select stock of drugs. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate army, and
joined Company C, Wright Invincibles, Fourth Mississippi Regiment, and served for
some time. In politics he is a strong Democrat, having first voted for Buchanan.

   George L. Basham, attorney at law in Little Rock, was born in Johnson County, Ark., 
March 23, 1848; and is the son of O. and Martha (Patrick) Basham, natives of Virginia
and Alabama, respectively. The former, who was born in 1810 (his wife's birth occurring
in 1826) came to Arkansas in 1839, and was in a regiment stationed at Fort Gibson 
during the Mexican War, serving one year. He was a member of the legislature during
the terms of 1851, 1852 and 1853, and was State treasurer in 1861 and 1862. Mr. and
Mrs. Basham were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are now living. Entering
the Confederate army in 1861, he served until his death, in September, 1864, at the
charge of Pilot Knob, Mo. At that time he was a lieutenant-colonel. His widow is still
living at the old homestead in Johnson County. George L. attended the subscription
schools of his birthplace, and in his sixteenth year entered the Confederate army,
enlisting in Capt. Comb's company, Hill's regiment, and participating in the battle at
Pilot Knob, being with Price on his last raid. Upon his return he was discharged near 
Marshall, Tex., May 28, 1865. After the war he resumed his studies, and in 1871 attend-
ed St. John's College at Little Rock. He began the study of law under Gallagher & New-
ton in the fall of 1872, and was admitted to the bar in the winter of 1878. For one
and one-half years Mr. Basham was in partnership with a Mr. Ford, but the latter's
death occurred a few years after, and since his death Mr. Basham has practiced alone;
and while never having held a political office he has been city and county attorney,
and his good judgment, refined and strong speech, would and do win for him approval 
and admiration from men of keen intelligence. On October 1, 1870, Mr. Basham was marr-
ied to Miss Julia P. Beall, daughter of Milton Beall, a descendant of the Mississippi 
Bealls. Her mother's people were of German extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Basham are the 
parents of three children: Nuberry L. (almost two years old) and two little girls who 
died in early childhood. Mr. Basham practices in all the courts, circuit, supreme, 
chancery and United States courts. He is also engaged in the real-estate business, in 
which he has been quite successful. Politically he is a Democrat, and is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity. Himself and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South, and to all enterprises of an educational, social and religious nature
he is a liberal contributor.

   A. D. Beach, of the Beach Abstract Company, Little Rock, Ark., owes his nativity
to New York State, where his birth occurred in 1849, and in that State he grew to man-
hood and received his early education. He followed civil engineering for about ten
years on the canals of New York and its various railroads, as well as in the New 
England States and in Canada, and served one year in the employment of the United
States, in preliminary ship canal survey across the Isthmus of Darien. He attended the
Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in the summer of 1876, and came south in 1877,
locating in Little Rock, Ark., which change was made for the benefit of his health.
Here he has established the Beach Abstract Company, of which he is the business 
manager. Besides attending to the business of the Abstract Company, after locating in
Little Rock Mr. Beach was in the employ of the Iron Mountain, and also the Memphis &
Little Rock Railroad, and traveled over this portion of the State, paying taxes for
them. In 1881 he wedded Miss Mary Hendree, in Atlanta, Ga., and she has borne her hus-
band four children: Virginia H., Lewise B., Edward H. and Alberta D. Mrs. Beach was
born in 1855, and after performing the noble duties of wife and mother, she was called
away from her young children and husband on January 17, 1889. She was a member of the
Episcopal Church. Mr. Beach is the son of Robert and Rhoda (Douglass) Beach; the for-
mer was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., and the latter in Onondaga County, of the same
State. Robert Beach was a farmer, and died at the age of seventy years. The paternal
grandfather of our subject was a native of New York, and became a pioneer settler of
that State. He and his two eldest sons were soldiers in the War of 1812. The mother of
A. D. Beach is of Scotch descent, and a descendant of the Douglasses of Scotland.

   Orvill Bearden, a leading farmer and well-known citizen of Lonoke County, was born
in Alabama o June 16, 1823, and is a son of James and Mary (Jones) Bearden, the father
a native of Georgia, and born in 1759. He was one of the first settlers of St. Clair
County, Ala, and died in that State at the age of one hundred and fifteen years. The
mother was born in Virginia about the year 1703, and died in 1873. They were the par-
ents of nine children, of whom eight lived to maturity. Orvill was the youngest of 
this family and was reared in alabama and educated in the public schools of that State.
He was married in August, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Washburn, of the same State, who died
in 1865, leaving him five children: One daughter is now a widow; Jane, Sabine (wife of
J. M. Morgan), Joseph C. and Amanda (wife of J. M. Hall. He was again married on Sept-
ember 23, 1865, his second wife being Mrs. Michette, an attractive widow lady, who bore
him one child, Thomas M. Mr. Bearden moved from Alabama to Prairie County, Ark., in 
1849, and in 1858 he came to where he now resides. He here owns 320 acres of valuable 
land, and has placed about 150 acres under cultivation. The land is well adapted for 
stock raising, and is watered by several natural springs. It is, in fact, some of the
finest soil in that section, and has been greatly improved since Mr. Bearden came upon
it. In 1862 he enlisted in Company C of the Second Arkansas Mounted Rifles, and served
almost through the entire war. In 1864 he was captured at Cassville, Ga., and taken to
Rock Island, Ill., where he was confined for about ten months before being paroled. He
took part in a great many of the important engagements and minor skirmishes, and bore
himself bravely throughout his entire army career. In politics he is a Democrat, and
cast his first presidential vote for James K. Polk. Mr. Bearden is a representative
citizen, and a popular man with the entire community. His sterling worth and fine
character have won for him a host of friends, and his influence is very great, both 
politically and otherwise.

   David Bender, one of the oldest and most respected citizens now living in 
Little Rock, Ark., was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., in 1809. He remained in his
native State until December, 1839, when he concluded to come to Arkansas, and locate
land claims on soldiers' patents he had obtained. In this enterprise he was successful,
and while traveling over the State at that early day he found the people, the pioneers
of Arkansas, as hospitable as any people he had ever met. Soon after getting his land
business settled, he engaged as salesman in a dry-goods store in Little Rock, in which
capacity he remained until 1843, when he concluded to go into business for himself.
With this end in view he paid a visit to New York City, purchased a small stock of
goods, and returning, engaged in general mercantile pursuits on his own responsibility.
In this as in all his other business Transactions he had for his motto the word 
"Honesty." He purchased nothing but the best goods, and so well was he liked as a 
business man, and so rapidly did his business grow, that he soon found himself in
possession of a trade, by order or otherwise, from all over the State. At that day a
variety of first-class articles was hard to find, and Mr. Bender found himself in
constant receipt of orders from professional men, whose trust he never betrayed in 
price or quality of goods. Many an aged couple, whose grandchildren are now occupying
honorable places in Arkansas, will remember Mr. Bender kindly as having furnished them
the wedding apparel through the mail when other modes of transportation were tedious
and uncertain. Thus his trade grew until he became one of the most flourishing mer-
chants in the State. He continued in business with unabated vigor until 1862, when the
Civil War forced him to discontinue. He was a Union man in principle, and having 
traveled over the East and North, knew full well which way the list of arms would
determine the cause. Over this question he was by no means silent, but remonstrated
strongly with friends and acquaintances. He advocated that "secession would kill
slavery." the truth of which prophecy has been fully demonstrated. Mr. Bender enjoyed
the perfect confidence of the Confederate soldiers and officers while in charge of
Little Rock, and when this city fell into the hands of the Federals he was recommended
to the authorities as a stauch Union man, and his advice and council was sought by the
men in command. In this situation Mr. Bender was the instrument of many kind deeds to
the needy on either side. During the war he lived on a farm close by Little Rock. After
that eventful period, his fame as a merchant having reached them, he was induced to
enter the wholesale business in Little Rock with Woodruff & Co., of Chicago. This
alliance lasted a few years and subsequently Mr. Bender went in with a man by the name
of Cole, the style of firm being Cole & Bender. This firm closed by bankruptcy, and Mr.
Bender lost many thousands of dollars. He has ever since been dealing in land, and
although he sustained some very heavy losses he still owns several thousand acres. Mr.
Bender was married in Pennsylvania, the first time to a Miss Elder, and the second
time to a Miss Whipple, of Vermont. He has been a native of eastern States many years,
and is a strong member of the Presbyterian Church.

   Dr. Edwin Bentley, United states army surgeon, Little Rock, ARk. As a leading
exponent of general surgery in its many various branches, Dr. Bentley is worthy of
mention in a review of the foremost professional man of this locality. He was born in
Connecticut in 1850, and holds diplomas from four of the leading medical schools in 
the city of New York. He is one of the most successful practitioners, and has been
prominently connected with the Medical Department of Arkansas University since its 
beginning or organization. He entered the United States army early in life, and has
figured thus far as a surgeon in the employ of the United States. He was prominently
identified with some of the most renowned medical colleges of the West, when located
principally on the Pacific slope. From there he went to New Orleans, and thence to
Little Rock, where he is now residing, and where he is not only held in great respect
as a professional man, but is social and genial in all his intercourse with the public.

   Dr. J. L. Blakemore, Little Rock, Ark. Dr. Blakemore's career as a practitioner is
well and favorably known to the many who have tested his healing ability, and, although
young in years, he has been unusually successful, promising a bright outlook for the
future. At present he is the second assistant physician of the State asylum at Little
Rock, which position he fills in a manner satisfactory to all. He was born in Sebastian
County, Ark., in 1862, grew to manhood in that county, and supplemented his common-
school education with a course at Emery & Henry College, Virginia, graduating in 1885.
Having concluded to pursue the study of medicine, he attended his first course of
lectures at Memphis, Tenn., and afterward was a student at Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tenn., from which he graduated in the spring of 1887, being appointed to his
present position in July, 1888. He is the son of Dr. William and Nannie (Tramel) Blake-
more, the former a native of Tennessee, and a physician of good standing in Greenwood,
Ark.

   Dr. Thomas P. Blunt, one of the leading physicians in Pulaski County, was born in
that county on August 1, 1856, and is a son of William S. and Polly Ann (Lamb) Blunt,
the former a native of Maryland, but reared in Bowling Green, Ky., where his parents
died when he was a boy. After the decease of his parents he went to reside with an
uncle, with whom he remained until attaining his maturity, when he removed to Pulaski
County, Ark., where he was married to his first wife, Miss Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, who
died in 1850. The following year he was married to Mrs. Eliza Marshall, who died in
1852, and in 1858 he was married to his third wife, Miss Polly Ann Lamb. This lady
also died after a happy married life, and he was married a fourth time, his next wife
being Mrs. Elizabeth Lee. He resided in Maumelle Township a great many years, and was
a millwright during that time, but the declining years of his life were spent in Little
Rock, where he died in September, 1880. He was a valued and highly esteemed citizen 
during his residence in Pulaski County, and built a great number of mills throughout
Central Arkansas. The Doctor's mother, who died in August, 1861, was a daughter of
Judge David R. Lamb, a native of Tennessee, who was one of the earliest settlers of
Pulaski County, where he served as judge of the county court for a number of years.
The Doctor was the second child in a family of two sons and one daughter. Though early 
deprived of his mother by death, his subsequent training was most carefully attended to
by his stepmother (Mrs. Elizabeth Lee at the time of her marriage to Mr. Blunt), and
the Doctor refers tenderly to her kind and earnest efforts to properly guide him, 
ascribing to her all the credit for whatever position he has reached in later life. He
received a common-school education in his youth and in 1878 began to study medicine in
the office of Dr. J. M. Pintle, a well-known physician of Little Rock. Since that time
he has practiced with good success, and his name has become a household word in many
homes throughout Pulaski County. He was married in 1878 to Lulu, a daughter of John and
Mary S. Custer, of Little Rock, Ark., the former a prominent contractor and builder of
that city. After a very short married life Mrs. Blunt died, in June, 1870. In 1880 the
Doctor met and won Miss Annie Henry, the daughter of George W. and Mary J. (Davis) 
Henry, of Tennessee, and by this union has had one son and one daughter. After their
marriage the Doctor and his wife resided in Little Rock and vicinity until 1889, when 
he moved to Maumelle Township, where he owns 700 acres of land, in different tracks,
and has about 200 acres under cultivation, all of which he has made by his own enter-
prise, tact and good judgment. As an illustration of his pluck and determination in
overcoming all adverse circumstances, and rising superior to those calamities that
would utterly prostrate an ordinary man, it would be well to add that, on his marriage,
the Doctor was presented with $500, by his father, as a wedding gift. This was all he
ever inherited or received outside of what he made himself, but in 1882 he had 
increased it to such an extent that the less of his finest farm represented $5,000,
which was washed away by the flood in that year. In 1888 his cotton-gin, one of the 
finest in that section, was devoured by fire; but, despite the misfortune that seemed
to follow him, he has gone to work again with a perseverance that is worthy of the
highest admiration, and has once more accumulated a comfortable fortune. Doctor Blunt
also deals considerably in real estate, and his shrewdness in that line has enabled 
him to be very successful. He is a Democrat in politics, and, with his wife, attends 
the Methodist Church.

   Frank Botsford, chief of police, Little Rock, Ark., was born in Onondaga County,
N. Y., on September 26, 1888, and is a son of Amazeah Bradford and Emily Thrall
Botsford, of New York. The father died in 1879 at Waukegan, Ill., while the mother
is still living at the age of eighty-three years, and resides at Little Rock. Their
son Frank, the principal of this sketch, was reared at Port Huron, Mich., and re-
ceived a good English education in that city, as also at Little Fort, now Waukegan,
Ill. In his youth he was brought up and instructed in the duties of farm life and
also assisted his father in handling lumber. During the great gold excitement on the
Pacific Coast he went to California and mined for several years, and also engaged in
railroading. In December, 1869, Mr. Botsford came to Little Rock, and for two years,
he was the warden of the Arkansas penitentiary. The following year he was appointed 
chief of police, but only held that office for one year, when he entered the sheriff's 
office and remained there for several years. In the year 1882 he was again elected
chief of police by the city council, and has served continuously ever since, a period
of almost seven years. The force at present consists of the following men: one chief,
two sergeants, sixteen patrolmen, two sanitary officers, one day prison keeper and
one man in the same capacity for the night. Under the able management of Chief 
Botsford, the police force has undergone a complete change for the better. His men
have become better disciplined, more efficient and do the work of a city double its
size. Mayor Whipple, recognizing Mr. Botford's ability, reappointed him in the spring
of 1889, and his good judgment in making this selection is now evident to both mayor
and citizens. Mr. Botsford was married in 1858 to Miss Harriett Freland, but lost his
wife by death in 1866.

   Rev. S. H. Buchanan, D. D., is one of the well-known citizens of Little Rock, and
since 1870 has been pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at that point. This
church he organized and by faithful labor for the Master, and by consistent and ear-
nest endeavor, he has now a large congregation in the city and his church is firmly
established. His early education was acquired in the common schools and in Cane Hill
College, of Washington County, Ark., in which establishment he took the degree of A.
B., graduating at the age of twenty-one; and in 1861, when twenty-three years of age, 
he finished his theological course in the University of Lebanon, Tenn. When the alarms
of war were sounded he did not at first espouse either cause, but until 1862 was pastor
of a church at Monticello, Ark. He then became chaplain of a regiment in the Confed-
erate army, and until the cessation of hostilities remained faithful at his post. In
the year 1866 he was not engaged in ministerial labors, but the following year he went
to Bentonville and succeeded in organizing the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at that
point, remaining as its pastor until the year 1870, since which time he has been a
resident of Little Rock. His birth occurred in Washington County, Ark., March 5, 1888,
and his marriage to Miss Annis Feemster, of Fayetteville, Ark., April 15, 1802, their
union resulting in the birth of three children: W. F., Ruth and S. H. Dr. Buchanan is 
a profound scholar and is especially gifted in the languages and in mathematics, his
contributions to various mathematical and scientific journals being very interesting,
and are universally quoted as the highest authority. He inherits Irish blood from his
father and Scotch blood from his mother, and in the Doctor is embodied the quick wit
and light heartedness of the former race, and the shrewdness and good judgment of the
latter. His family have been Presbyterians for many generations back. His father, who
was also a Presbyterian minister, espoused the cause of Christianity in his early 
youth. The latter was a native Kentuckian and in his early youth removed to Arkansas,
which State continued to be his home until his death at the age of seventy-six years.
The mother is a Virginian and although she has attained the age of eighty-one years, 
is yet hale and active. During the present year (1899) Dr. Buchanan planned to attend
a reunion of his old army brigade at Hope, Ark., and to preach to his old comrades
from the same text that he last did at the close of the war, the third verse of the
125th psalm, but was prevented by sickness in his family.

   H. Buddenberg, president of the Buddenberg Furniture Company, one of the prominent
commercial interests of Little Rock, was born in Hanover, Germany in 1846. During his
boyhood he was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker, a trade which he thoroughly learned in
its various branches in three years. To this he gave his attention for two years before
coming to America, and after arriving in this country located in St. Louis, where he
started in business for himself at the corner of Sixteenth and Chambers Streets. At
first he employed four men in his factory, and the furniture was made almost entirely
by hand; but one year later his business had increased considerably, so that he pur-
chased horses and worked by horsepower. After two years he bought a boiler, engine and
machinery, and established a regular manufactory, employing about forty men. His busin-
ess rapidly advanced under his judicious management, and in 1880 he employed 130 men,
having the largest and most complete furniture factory in St. Louis, occupying a large
four-story brick building and brick warehouse, the erection of which cost him $14,000.
During the same year he sold out his immense business and removed to Little Rock, where
he went into the Little Rock Furniture Company as third partner. He afterward disposed 
of his interest in that firm and established his present business, which is one of the
most successful in the furniture line in Little Rock. Mr. Buddenberg was married on
June 11, 1868m in St. Louis, to Miss Caroline Meyrose, a native of Germany, by whom he
has had eight children, five of them yet living: Annie, Minnie, Louisa, Henry and Joe.
Mr. and Mrs. Buddenberg both attend service at the Lutheran Church.

   Augustus L. Breysacher, M. D., Little Rock, Ark. Dr. Breysacher is well known and
universally respected throughout the State, not only as a successful and skillful 
physician and surgeon, but as a genial, whole-souled gentleman. He was born February
2, 1831, and is the son of George and Elizabeth (Keller) Breysacher. His father was
born in Strasburg, Germany, graduated at Heidelburg University of that country, and
later emigrated to America, locating in Ohio, where he practiced medicine for a number
of years. Some time in the 30's he moved to Missouri, located in St. Louis County,
near the city of St. Louis, and there practiced medicine until he was very old. He
spent the latter part of his days among his friends in Ohio. Dr. Augustus L. Breysacher
passed his boyhood in St. St. Louis County, Mo., and supplemented his common-school
education with a literary and classical course in St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati,
Ohio. He passed a rigid examination in the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, and
graduated from that institution in 1859. Receiving an immediate appointment as acting
assistant surgeon in the United States army, he was sent out to "the Far West" border,
Camp Alert, Kas., and his first year's practice was among the soldiers on the frontier.
At the end of one year he returned to St. Louis, Mo., and practiced medicine nine 
months. At this time the agitation of Civil War claimed the attention of all thinking
men, and Dr. Breysacher cast his fate with the Confederacy. During his service of 
nearly four years, he was not an hour absent from duty, which was always on the field,
as surgeon successively of battery, staff, brigade and corps, with Hardee. These ser-
vices, rendered so faithfully, gave him a breadth and professional experience seldom
afforded to any man. The surrender found him still at his post at Greenville, N. C.
Soon after the war he located at Pine Bluff, Ark., and there for six years he was
actively engaged in the practice of medicine. Removing then to Little Rock, he located
permanently, identifying himself with the medical profession, of which he is an honor-
ed member. Recognizing the deficiency in the knowledge of medical science among the
practitioners in may parts of the State, and the fact that no satisfactory advancement
could be expected for years to come, unless the facilities for attaining such know-
ledge were placed close at hand, the Doctor became a strong advocate for having located
in Little Rock a medical school. In this he was sustained by other leading physicians,
and the result of the agitation was that he and seven others formed a joint-stock com-
pany, purchased a building, and opened the Medical Department of Arkansas Industrial
University. This institution has grown beyond the hopes of its most sanguine advocates,
until graduates from it practice not only in the city of Little Rock and over the State,
but in neighboring States as well, and the fame of the institution is established. Dr.
Breysacher has been professor of obstetrics ever since it was founded. He was married
in 1867 to Miss Carrie D. Pynchon, of Huntsville, Ala., daughter of Edward E. Pynchon,
a native of Massachusetts, and descendent of John Pynchon, "the worshipful major," who
founded the city of Springfield, A. D. 1635-40. Dr. Breysacher has three children:
Harriett P., A. L., Jr., and Mabel. The Doctor is a member of the Arkansas State Med-
ical Society, of which he has been treasurer since its organization, of the American
Medical Association, and of the Pulaski County Medical Society. He was a delegate to
the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876, and is a member of the
Episcopal Church.

   George Russell Brown, president and principal owner of the Press Printing Company,
State printers of Little Rock, owes his nativity to Rochester, N. Y., where his birth
occurred October 10, 1852. He was the eldest in a family of four children, born to the
union of Leverett Russell and Catherine (Ostrander) Brown, both natives of the State
of New York. In 1852 the father embarked in the patent-roofing business, and the same
year moved to Hamilton, Canada, where he continued the same business. In 1857 he moved
to Galesburg, Ill., followed his former occupation, and in 1860 became connected with
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and later with the Chicago & Northwestern,
running the first trains from Harvard Junction, Ill., to Madison, Wis. He then went
east and followed railroad contracting for several years on the New York & Oswego Mid-
land. He came to Arkansas in 1871, to take position as conductor on the Cairo & Fulton
Railroad, now St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, and ran the first passenger train
from Little Rock to Little Red River, a point across the river from where the town of
Judsonia is now situated. Mr. Brown is now connected with the United States mail ser-
vice in Arkansas, and makes his home in Little Rock. His son, George Russell Brown
(the subject of this sketch), attended the free schools of Galesburg, from 1858 to 
1865, and then in Madison, Wis., from 1865 to 1868, after which he was a carrier on
the Wisconsin State Journal, when that paper was owned by Atwood & Rublee. He returned
with his parents to New York State in 1868, and subsequently attended school at Deposit,
Broome County, for one year. At that time he was apprenticed to Watson & Stow, publish-
ers of the Deposit Courier, and worked the first year for $1.25 a week. The second year
he received $5 a week and the third year $8, when his trade was completed. He went to
Binghamton, the county seat, and there worked on the Times, under D. E. Cronin, now an
author and artist of New York City. Mr. Brown arrived at Little Rock, in September,
1872m and obtained a position as compositor on the Gazette, when it was owned by Wood-
ruff & Blocher. In 1873, he was appointed reporter of the same paper by J. N. Smithee, 
then editor, and who was afterward State land commissioner. The following year he was
promoted to city editor, and in 1875 was reporter on the Star, an evening paper, the
apparatus of which was afterward purchased by Mr. Smithee, who established the present
Arkansas Democrat. He was with this paper under the ownership of Smithee, Blocher &
Mitchell, and Mitchell & Bettis, but resigned the position of city editor in 1883,
having bought stock in the Arkansas Gazette. Mr. Brown was then appointed city editor
of that paper, was soon promoted to the office of secretary, treasurer and business
manager, and one year later was elected president of the company, which position he
held until June 14, 1889, when he disposed of his stockholdings to Horace G. Allis,
and purchased controlling interest in the Press Printing Company, incorporated Sept-
ember, 1887, with $25,000 capital. They do an extensive business, aggregating from
$80,000 to $100,000 a year. They also print and publish the Arkansas Press, a weekly
paper owned by Mr. Brown and Charles H. Lewis. This paper is devoted to real estate,
building, banking, railroad, river, manufacturing, timber, mineral and agricultural
news, having classified reports from the various counties of the State. Mr. Brown
was married in Memphis, Tenn., to Miss Mary E. Bateman, daughter of the late Dr. Bate-
man, November 25, 1878. To this union have been born two children: Katie Russ (born
November 16, 1880, at Memphis) and Eleanor Courtney (born at Little Rock, December
19, 1882). Mr. Brown is a member of Damon Lodge No. 3, K. of P., of Little Rock, and
also a member of Little Rock Lodge of Elks.

   John F. Calef, proprietor of the Capital Hotel, the largest and most popular hotel
of Little Rock, is a native of Alabama and the son of Josiah Bartlett Calef, who was a
prominent merchant in Mobile for over thirty years. He is also a direct descendant of
Josiah Bartlett, one of the memorial signers of the Declaration of Independence. He
was born and lived in Mobile, Ala., and up to 1883 was engaged in the cotton business
in Mobile and Little Rock, coming to this city in 1881, where he still gives his
attention to cotton interests. In the spring of 1884, Mr. Calef, in company with John
W. Deshon, purchased the Capital Hotel, and continued in partnership until 1888, when
he bought his partner's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. Mr.
Calif was married in 1885 to Miss Emily Churchill, daughter of ex-Gov. Churchill, one
of the well-known citizens of Arkansas, and a man who has been called upon to serve
his native State in various prominent official capacities. The Capital is probably the
best-known hotel south of St. Louis, being very large, well-arranged, and fitted with
all modern improvements. Indeed, it is to Little Rock what the Palmer House is to
Chicago, and the Southern Hotel to St. Louis. The popularity of this "home-comfort
hostelry" is largely due to the personal supervision of the proprietor, who under-
stands exactly the wants of his guests.

   Jonathan Wilson Callaway. In reviewing the lives of prominent citizens of Little
Rock, the name of J. W. Callaway is justly given an enviable position, for it is
difficult to find one of the present day more entitled to honorable mention, or who
possesses to such an extent the universal esteem of his acquaintances. Born in
Arkadelphia, Clark County, Ark., January 27, 1834, he is the son of Jonathan O.
Callaway, who came to Arkansas with his father, John Callaway, in 1817. John Hemphill,
the maternal grandfather of J. W. Callaway, came to Arkansas from South Carolina in
December, 1811, and in 1814 erected large salt mills one mile east of the present
site of Arkadelphia. For this purpose he purchased about sixty sugar-kettles in New
Orleans, which were used in the manufacture of salt. The labor employed was principally
that of the negroes brought by Mr. Hemphill from South Carolina. These salt works were
operated mostly by the family until 1851, and supplied a large territory. They were
rebuilt in 1861, and were operated by the Confederate States Government during the
late war, and several additional furnaces were erected at the same place during that
time by private enterprise. Grandfather Callaway came to the Territory of Arkansas
from Fredericktown, Mo., and settled near what is now Arkadelphia. The family were
pioneers in Kentucky with Daniel Boone, and with him went to Missouri. Flanders 
Callaway, a brother of the paternal grandfather, married the daughter of Daniel Boone,
and Callaway County, Mo., was named for Capt. James Callaway, a son of Flanders
Callaway. For many years Jonathan O. Callaway was engaged in the salt works of his
father-in-law, John Hemphill, but at the time of his death, in 1854, was an extensive
cotton planter. At the age of sixteen years Jonathan Wilson Callaway was employed as
copyist in the county clerk's office, and subsequently held the position of book-keeper
in a large establishment. In 1858 he began merchandising in Arkadelphia, which was
abruptly discontinued at the breaking out of the war, that active part be taken in the
struggle. He was appointed first lieutenant in Capt. Flanagin's Company (E), McIntosh's
regiment, later being made commissary of subsistence in the regimental brigade and
division. He was afterward assigned to duty as assistant to the chief of bureau of
subsistence for the Trans-Mississippi Department, with headquarters at Shreveport, La.,
and Marshall, Tex. His final surrender was made with the Confederate forces, at Shreve-
port, at the close of the war, in May, 1865, following which he walked the whole dis-
tance back to Arkadelphia. In October, 1865, Mr. Callaway embarked in the commission
business at Camden, Ark., which he continued until 1872, a part of the time residing at
New Orleans in connection with his business interests. In 1874 he was elected clerk of
the State senate, and in 1876 received the nomination of the Democratic State Convention
for clerk of the chancery court, to which position he was elected. Removing to Little
Rock he held the office for five terms, or ten years, then voluntarily retiring, much
to the regret of those whose interests he had so well and faithfully served. The year
1867 witnessed his marriage with Miss Annie Vickers, and to their union three children
have been born: Lizzie, Mary and Estelle. Mr. Callaway occasionally acts as commissioner
or receiver of the Pulaski Chancery Court, and is lending his valuable assistance in 
populating Arkansas with immigrants and developing the immense resources of the county
and State. He enjoys a wide acquaintance and the respect and esteem of a host of friends.

   Maj. W. P. Campbell, the well-known Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court, has been a
resident of Arkansas for thirty-one years, and was born in Muhlenberg County, Ky., on
August 23, 1838. He was a son of Alexander and Sarah W. (Kincheloe) Campbell, natives
of Ireland and the State of Kentucky, respectively. The father, though born in the
Emerald Isle, was of Scotch descent, and a farmer by occupation. He left his native
country and came to America about the year 1808, settling in Kentucky, where is resided
the remainder of his days, dying in 1846 at the age of forty-six years. The mother 
continued in Kentucky after his death until 1875, when she came to Arkansas to take up
her abode with her sons, and died in that State at the age of seventy-six years. W. P.
Campbell was reared on a farm in Kentucky until his fifteenth years, receiving a fair
English education at the public schools of his native place, after which he was em-
ployed as clerk in a business house at Nebo, Ky. One year later he went with his brother-
in-law, J. M. Percival, to Arkansas, locating at Powhatan, and was there engaged in
the drug business. He remained at Powhatan one year and a half, when, becoming settled
at Augusta, Woodruff County, he embarked in the same business and continued until
September, 1860k when he commenced the study of law with James H. Patterson. The follow-
ing year he enlisted in what was known as the First Arkansas Mounted Riflemen, with the
rank of third lieutenant, and was afterward promoted successively to the intervening
ranks until commissioned major of his regiment at Murfreesboro. On December 31, 1862,
he was wounded in the left leg by a minie ball, which fractured the bone and caused ampu-
tation, and three days later he was captured and held prisoner of war for about four
months. After being released the returned home and remained until the following fall,
when he rejoined his command and was made commissary, remaining in service until Feb-
ruary, 1865. Reaching home he farmed for a year, and in 1866 was elected clerk of 
Woodruff County, serving as such until July, 1868, when, as he remarks, "I was recon-
structed out of office." Maj. Campbell gave his attention to mercantile life until 1874,
when he was re-elected clerk of the county, discharging his official duties until 1882,
but declining a renomination. In the summer of 1882 he received the nomination of the
Democratic State convention as commissioner of State lands, and was elected that fall,
serving until March, 1884, when he resigned and once more entered into business. In 1886
he was appointed clerk of the supreme court by that body. In secret societies Maj.
Campbell is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor and Knights of Pythias fra-
ternities, and in religious belief he is an Old School Presbyterian and belongs to the
First Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, in which he is also an elder. He was married
in October, 1868, to Miss Virginia C. Davies, of South Carolina, and their union has
given them four daughters and five sons. Mrs. Campbell and her five oldest children are
also members of the same church.

   William Armour Cantrell, M. D. In every community, the career of some one man may be
traced by a thoughtful observer as an influence for good or evil in that especial
community, elevating the standard of morals and manners or degrading it, and so
acknowledged as the blessing or bane of his fellow citizens. The subject of this sketch
is justly accorded a conspicuous and honored place among those whose course of action
has gone to promote the welfare and moral excellence of Little Rock, the city of his
adoption and the field of his manhood's achievements. Forty years of citizenship have
tested the worth of principles of integrity, habits of regularity, moderation, fore-
sight, the beauty of dignity, virtue and courtesy, and no clearer proof is needed than
that given in the result to show that the peculiar characteristics of the individual go
far to promote the prosperity of the multitude. In life as in nature, all streams may
be traces to their source. If that be pure, no turbid tributaries can permanently 
pollute the parent stream. Dr. William A. Cantrell is one of a host of grandchildren of
Stephen Cantrell, Sr., who seems to be the earliest progenitor of the family on record
in this country. He was born in 1758, near Abington, Va., where he was brought up, with
one brother and two sisters older than himself. His father died during his boyhood. On
approaching manhood he wandered into North Carolina, where he was employed in the ser-
vice of the continental commissioners of the State. For his zeal and perseverance in 
the performance of these services, he received a grant of 640 acres of land in Tennessee,
as shown by the records of Davidson County, April, 1788. He went to Tennessee either
with, or shortly preceding the astounding expedition of Col. John Donelson, a brave and
wealthy old Virginian surveyor, the destined father-in-law of Gen. Andrew Jackson. This
company of emigrants, with their dauntless leader, to avoid crossing the wilderness
between Jonesboro and Nashville, then infested with 20,000 Indians, the most warlike 
and intelligent of their race, attempted and accomplished the journey "down the river
Holstein to the Tennessee, down the Tennessee to the Ohio, up the Ohio to the Cumberland
to a new home." During the years of 1795 and 1796, Stephen Cantrell commanded as captain
a company of sixty-three men, in the famous Nickajack expedition against the Indians.
He was known to have said, in those days of early adventure, that he "prized a lump of
salt or bread as large as his fist, more than he would have prized a lump of solid gold
of equal size." About 1782 he married Mary Blakemore, daughter of Capt. John Blakemore,
who, with his family, accompanied the Donelson expedition to Nashville.
Stephen Cantrell, Sr., and William Montgomery were the first representatives from
Sumner County to the first legislature of Tennessee, which convened at Knoxville, March
28, 1796. He died at his place in Sumner County, February 5, 1827, aged sixty-eight
years and some months. His wife, Mary Blakemore, born March 8, 1865, died August 2,
1849, aged eighty-four years. The family numbered eleven children, viz: Stephen, Sarah,
Otey, Alfred, John, William, Zebulon P., Mary, Darby H., James M. and George Clinton
Cantrell, nine sons and two daughters, besides an adopted son, John Cantrell, who be-
came a wealthy salt manufacturer and merchant on the Kanawha River, W. Va., and an
influential man and member of congress. Stephen Cantrell, Jr., the eldest son (father
of our biographical subject) was born in Sumner County, Tenn., at his father's place,
March 10, 1783, and was brought up there receiving an education as ample as the country
afforded. When a young man he entered the store of George Michael Deaderick, with the
view of qualifying himself for mercantile pursuits. In the course of time he became
interested with Mr. Deaderick as junior partner, and so continued until the death of
the latter, in 1816. Perhaps this partnership opened the way for another life-long one,
with the lovely niece of his business associate, for this notice appeared in The
Impartial Review, of Nashville of date, January 17, 1807: Married on Thursday evening
last, Mr. Stephen Cantrell to the agreeable and justly admired Miss Juliet Wendell, 
both of this place.
Some years later Mr. Cantrell engaged in merchandise with Mr. Hinchey Petway, of
Franklin, Tenn. They had stores in Nashville and Franklin and interests in cotton
planting near Florence, Ala. During this period he served as commissary and quarter-
master in the Creek War, pension agent of the Government, mayor of the city of Nash-
ville, magistrate of the county and president of the Bank of Nashville, successor of
his former partner, George Michael Deaderick. About 1825 he withdrew from business
pursuits entirely, and retired to his farm five miles west of Nashville. This place
subsequently became the property of Mark R. Cockrill, the celebrated sheep raiser and
wool grower. Some years later, he was induced again to embark in the cotton commiss-
ion and steamboat trade of Nashville and New Orleans. From heavy ventures in cotton
a disastrous failure ensued, involving the labor of a life-time. The death of his wife,
in 1839, was the climax of these misfortunes, and in 1843 he retired to a small cotton
farm near Pine Bluff, in Jefferson County, Ark., separated from his friends and the
companionship of his children, except that of the youngest surviving, Dr. William A.
Cantrell, who went to live near him, and attended him at the time of his death, in
1854. Mr. Cantrell's wife was the direct descendant of David Diedrich, of Wurtemburg,
Germany, who may have been the identical hero whose old saddle bags supplied the
charming Knickerbocker "History of New York," edited by Washington Irving, and who
was the progenitor of the Deaderick and Cantrell family, here under consideration.
The kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany, of which Stuttgart is the capital, suffered much
in consequence of the "Thirty Years' War" and Roman Catholic intolerance, being almost
entirely Lutheran. The emigration from that place to our shores needs no further ex-
planation than that offered in our motto, "Peace and Liberty."
David Diedrich was born in Wurtemberg, and emigrated to the United States before the
Revolutionary War (in which he served as a soldier), not later than 1750. He settled
first in Pennsylvania, but afterward removed to WInchester, Va., which had been settled
by Pennsylvania Germans in 1732. He was a member of the Lutheran Church as early as 
1764, as shown by the copy of the paper deposited in the corner stone of the church
there at that date. After his emigration to this country he married a lady of American
birth, but German ancestry, whose name was Boher. The two conversed exclusively in
German. The children of this marriage (who accepted the anglicised name of Deaderick)
were David Deaderick, Jr., George Michael, Thomas, John, Susanna and Elizabeth. The
wife survived, and afterward married Dr. May, an Englishman, by which union there were
three children: Samuel, Frank and Rosanna May. The eldest son, David Deaderick, Jr.,
who married Margaret Anderson, sister of Joseph Anderson, United States senator from
Tennessee, and appointed by President Monroe first comptroller of the United States
treasury, settled at Jonesboro, Tenn., January 1, 1795, and the other three brothers
established themselves at Nashville. The youngest of David Deaderick's children is
James W. Deaderick, who has filled the office of chief justice of Tennessee since 1870.
George Michael Deadrick, the next brother (mentioned before as senior partner of
Stephen Cantrell, Jr.), was a prominent and influential man in the early days of Nash-
ville, from 1785 to the period of his death. He was a large property holder in the town, 
and on Brown's CReek, two miles south of it, and was extensively engaged in merchandise.
The ground of Deaderick Street, leading from the public square southwest to Cherry 
Street, was donated by him to the city of Nashville, and hence received its name. His
habit and style of living was liberal, his intercourse with others courteous and kind,
his principles upright and humane. His style of dress was that of the Continental period, 
top boots, short pantaloons, silver knee-buckles, swallow-tailed coat, slightly
powdered hair, arranged with a queue. When the moss and lichens were removed from his
tombstone, which may yet be seen at his old residence at "Westwood," the only legible
inscription on it was his name, "George Michael Deaderick, president of the Bank of
Nashville." in view of limited space, all mention of the other two brothers, Thomas
and John, and Elizabeth, the younger daughter, may be omitted, and the history of
Susanna Deaderick, the elder daughter, continued, who became the wife of David Wendel,
Sr., and mother-in-law of Stephen Cantrell, Jr. Whether David Wendel, Sr., came with
the Deadericks to Tennessee or not, is a matter of conjecture. There is a tradition
that two brothers Wendal emigrated from Germany to the United States and afterward
separated, one going north and the other south. A descendant of this latter, David
Wendel, married Susanna Deaderick. They had nine children, viz: David Wendel, Jr.
(married Sarah Nelson), William (never married), Rebecca (married Judge Foster), 
Rachel (married J. P. Wiggin), Rosanna (married Judge Howell Tatum), Polly (married
Judge Bennett Searcy), Elizabeth (married Col. Robert Searcy), Juliet Ann Deaderick
(married Stephen Cantrell, Jr.,), Matilda (married Alfred M. Carter). Juliet Ann
Deaderick Wendell, whose marriage with Stephen Cantrell, Jr., January, 1807, has been
noticed before, was born in Winchester, Va., April 8, 1787. At the time of her marri-
age, the Searcys, Fosters, Tatums and Wiggins were prominent and influential citizens
of Nashville and its vicinity. They were high minded and progressive people, kind and
hospitable almost to a fault. Mrs. Cantrell was richly endowed with personal attrac-
tions, and proved an ornament to the circle. Tall and graceful in movement, with a 
sweet benevolence of countenance, clear blue eyes and soft voice, she attracted every-
one, and her piety, charity and compassion for suffering in any form riveted the
friendship of all who knew her intimately. She was for many years a devout communicant
with the Presbyterian Church. She died, deeply lamented by her devoted family, July
3, 1839. A miniature picture, taken in girlhood and caused to be copied by her grand-
daughters (Mrs. Decatur Axtell, of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. Benjamin S. Church, of New
York City) for the different members of the family, is in possession of Dr. Cantrell, 
a relic of almost a century. The children of Stephen Cantrell, Jr., and Juliet Ann
Deaderick Wendel were: George Michael Deaderick (married to Clara Walker), Mary Ann
(married to Dr. T. J. J. Howard), Emmeline Susanna (married to Alex. A. Casseday),
Elizabeth Searcy (married to Abram Van Wyck), Matilda Carter (married to William F.
Mason), Elvira Searcy (married to Edwin Ferguson), David Wendel (born 1832, died 1885,
William Armour (married to Ellen M. Harrell, Margaret Armstrong (born 1829, died 1834.
William Armour Cantrell, M. D., the eighth member of the group, was born January 22,
1826, at his father's farm near Nashville. At a later date the family removed to the
city, where he attended the primary schools until her was thirteen years of age. He
was then sent to Princeton, N. J., and placed at Edgehill Seminary, where he made
good record as a student. While there he met with the great bereavement of his life,
the death of his mother. Preceding this came the financial wreck of his father. He
was recalled and became a student at the Nashville University, but soon began the
study of medicine with his cousin, Dr. James Wendel, of Murfreesboro, Tenn. In 1845
he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, Ky., where his
kinsman, Dr. Lunsford P. Yandell, Sr., professor of chemistry and pharmacy, was one of
his preceptors. Drs. Gross, Short, Cobb, Drake, Miller and Caldwell occupied chairs at
the same time, and S. S. Nicholas was president of the department. Dr. Cantrell grad-
uated at this university March 6, 1847. The year following he spent in New York, where
he received the appointment of assistant physician in Bellevue Hospital. He was then
appointed to relieve Dr. Winterbottom as physician of the Nursery Hospital at Black-
well's Island, and remained there during the summer of 1848. The following year he
went to New Orleans, La., where, feeling qualified, he proposed to enter upon his life
work. The solitary condition of his father, however, impelled him to abandon this pur-
pose. After one winter of medical experience at New Orleans, where he treated yellow
fever in epidemic form, he established himself at Pine Bluff, Ark., in the vicinity of
which his father resided, and later, at Little Rock. Here, in 1849, he met his future
wife, Miss Ellen M. Harrell, who had lately arrived with her family from Nashville,
Tenn., fleeing from cholera, then decimating the city of Nashville. On February 13,
1852, Dr. Cantrell and Miss Harrell were married in Little Rock, by the Rev. A. R.
Winfield. During what proved to be the last year of his father's life, Dr. Cantrell
took his family to live on an adjoining plantation, and was with him at the time of 
his death, in September, 1854. Afterward he resumed his practice in Little Rock, where
he rapidly built up a solid reputation as a practitioner. In 1857 he purchased three
lots on the southwest corner of Scott and Fourth Streets, where he built an ornamental
frame cottage. This he sold afterward to Ex-Gov. Miller, then auditor of State, and
purchased lots on the northeast corner of Scott and Seventh Streets, where he built a
commodious two-story brick building, in which he has resided with his family since 1860.
He also invested in real estate near the city, which, in the course of years, has be-
come valuable property. During this long interval he has filled successively and honor-
ably the positions of city physician, county physician, president of State board of
medical examiners, president of College of Physicians and Surgeons, delegate to the
public health association, besides attending to a heavy practice among the most intell-
igent refined and wealthy families in the community. He is the only surviving member 
of the first medical society of Little Rock, which he helped to organize, the managing
board being R. A. Watkins, M. D., president; W. A. Cantrell, M. D., secretary; A. W.
Webb, M. D., Craven Peyton, M. D., George Sizer, M. D., Corydon McAlmont, M. D. In
1861 he was appointed surgeon of First Mounted regiment of Arkansas, in the Confederate
army. After Lee's surrender, he was solicited to take charge of the United States Post
Hospital, at Little Rock garrison. He accepted and held this position of acting assist-
ant surgeon during the command of Brevet-Maj-Gen. Arnold, captain Light Battery G,
Fifth artillery, and that of Col. C. H. Smith, Twenty-eighth Infantry, a period of
five years. His record as physician at this hospital added much to the reputation for
sagacity and skill already earned. Very lately he has had charge of the sick at the 
school for the blind in this city. Dr. Cantrell is sixty-three years of age, enjoying
good health, is in comfortable circumstances, and blessed with a wife and seven child-
ren, the youngest of whom, a son, has just completed his nineteenth year.  His home,
built in the old Southern style, with wide hall, verandas front and rear, spacious
rooms and windows is seated in the center of four lots, shaded with elms, maples, fruit
trees and evergreens of his own planting. It looks like a vertible home, with fine 
specimen fowls enjoying the lawn, the rearing of which, together with gardening, affords
the proprietor a chosen relaxation from the arduous duties of his profession. It has
been the scene of merry-makings without number for children and youth, and one of the
centers of art culture to the literati, so well represented by his accomplished wife and
children. The making of this home is a fair exponent of the energy and domestic virtues
of the builder, whose only inheritance was sound health, sound discipline and sound prin-
ciples. Dr. Cantrell became a confirmed member of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
1855, and served as a member of the vestry of Christ Church, Episcopal, Little Rock, 
during the incumbency of Rt.-Rev. Henry C. Lay, bishop of Arkansas and rector of Christ 
Church, Rev. J. T. Wheat and Rev. P. G. Robert, and is now junior warden of the same,
Rev. Wallace Carnahan, rector. While the social amenity of his disposition and grace of
manner have caused him to be sought by the most polished circles, the earnest simplicity
and sympathy of his nature have endeared him to the most humble in rank. Like a full
river, bravely bearing its own burdens to the sea, yet dispensing life and refreshment
on every side, his course has shown a long succession of private and public services,
proving that the prominent desire of his soul has been to be useful. The children of
Dr. and Mrs. William A. Cantrell, all born in Little Rock, and to each of whom has been
given a classical education, are: Lillian (who finished her course of study at St. 
Mary's Hall, Episcopal, Burlington, N. J., married to Joseph Lovell Bay, of St. Louis,
Mo.), Ellen May (graduate of Franklin College, Holly Springs, Miss., married to Decatur
Axtell, C. E., of Elyrin, Ohio), Daisy (first graduate of Arkansas Female College,
married to Lucius Junius Polk, of Columbia, Tenn.), Wendell (born October 28, 1860,
died October 1, 1861, Isadore (graduate of Arkansas Female College, married to Philo
Hiram Goodwyn, of New Orleans, La.), Bessie (graduate of Arkansas Female College, un-
married), Deaderick Harrell (student at Washington and Lee University, Virginia, lic-
ensed as an attorney and counselor at law, June 24 1889), William Armour, Jr. (now
student at University of the South, Sowanee, Tenn.) They have had eleven grandchildren,
Mrs. Ellen Catherine Harrell, the widow of Rev. Samuel Harrell, late of Halifax Court
House, Va., whose history would grace the annals of womanhood anywhere, deserves
honorable mention here. Four children were born during the brief period of her wedded
life, viz: John Mortimer, Ellen Maria (who died when about three years old), Mary Eliza
and Ellen Maria second (who was named for the deceased baby sister). After the death
of her husband, who ended his career as preacher and teacher before he reached the
meridian of life, Mrs. Harroll nobly determined to exert all her powers to supply his
loss, and her affections thereafter seemed to flow in one undeviating channel, that
of motherhood. She resolved to quit the scenes made desolate by this calamity and seek
a home in Tennessee. Crossing the mighty barriers that intervened, in company with a 
party of friends, she arrived in safety at the place of her destination in 1839. When
the young widow, with her little family of three children, reached Nashville, from the
home of Jacob Donelson, in Rutherford County, where they had been entertained for some
months, she had one friend, as she thought, with whom she deposited $1,000 at interest,
bravely resolving to maintain her children by her own genius and industry. She rented
a large brick house that had lately been a church, and opened a school. The venture
proved successful, otherwise the family might have lapsed into oblivion, for the
"friend," a respectable citizen and head of a family, betrayed her trust, and the 
$1,000 was lost, irrevocably. She rallied from the shock, and for four years labored 
unceasingly, and at length entered upon her reward. There may be some still living in
Nashville, who remember a scene at the market-place on the public square; when the then
handsome brick residence near the northwest corner of Vine and Union Streets, built 
with a concert hall in the rear, by William Nash, professor of music, was cried at
auction to the highest bidder. On the outskirts of the throng of men assembled there
for real-estate exchange, was seen the small and trim figure of the widow, attended
by her son, a handsome boy of ten, and two little daughters. A veil, half removed,
disclosed a magnetic face; a broad, square brow, shaded with brown waves of hair,
clear, fair complexion and intense blue eyes, then almost black with restrained 
emotion, as they were bent on the auctioneer. The bidding went on, rose and languished.
A slight flutter of a white handkerchief and the sale was accomplished. The little
group retired and entered into the new partnership of a solid home. There was now no
obstacle in her path that might not be overcome. Faithful in her church duties as
communicant, teacher in Sunday-school and almoner for the poor, she found strength
and inspiration to accomplish the object of her life. The children each completed the
usual classical course of study, with music and art combined. The son graduated at
the University of Nashville, and was one of the class orators at commencement. The
daughters took diplomas from the Nashville female academy. The elder daughter, Mary,
also took a post-graduate course at Patapsco Institute, Maryland, where the learnedly
famous Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps presided. During he fearful scourge of cholera in
1848 and 1849 Mrs. Harrell leased her property, and, with her family, took refuge in
Little Rock, Ark. She opened a school and finally concluded to remain. She disposed
of her property in Nashville afterward, and invested in cotton lands on the Arkansas
River and slaves. She died in Little Rock, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr.
W. A. Cantrell, to whom she went for medical attention, under permit of Maj.-Gen.
Fred W. Steele, then in command of the United States troops at this place. Thus was
extinguished in forest seclusion amid the fumes of prejudice, war and barbarism, a
light that had burned with steady brilliancy for a quarter of a century, diffusing
warmth, light and color to all who came within its range. She was buried, at her own
request, by the Rev. E. Steele Peek, Federal, Episcopal chaplain of Maj.-Gen. Steele's
division. In this choice she disclosed the ruling passion of her heart, sympathy for
the oppressed, for this clergyman had recommended himself to her by his holy ministra-
tions and dying support to the young "rebel," Owen, who was condemned and executed as
a spy at this place, to the undying regret of all. This holy, gentle man, offered
daily prayers at her dying bedside also, and preached a funeral sermon over her re-
mains. When the news came, a few years later, of his death on the Pacific shore, her 
bereaved children, with profound emotion, echoed the word selected by him on the
occasion of their mother's burial, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my
last end be like his!" By way of supplement to the foregoing biographies, a clipping
from the Little Rock Republican, of date January 7, 1888, is appended, where, in a
series of "Personal Sketches," written by the Hon. W. Jasper Blackburn, editor, this
sketch is given:
   Mrs. William Cantrell is a lady of scholarly attainments, and from early life has 
evinced an ambition for literary work. At the age of sixteen, she wrote a series of
stories for Godoy's Lady's Book, then the most popular literary journal in the United
States.
   Since her marriage to Dr. Cantrell she has made various valuable contributions to
magazines and newspapers, usually over a nom de plume; but, realizing that all her
time and talents were justly due her growing family, she laid aside her pen, and for
over twenty years had done little writing, though often tempted to by her natural
proclivities.
   A series of papers entitled "Romance of History," and a story called "Vesta" are
among her most successful productions.

Rev. Wallace Carnahan, the rector of Christ Church at Little Rock, Ark., and an 
eminent and much respected citizen, is a native of the Old Dominion, where his birth
occurred April 18, 1843. His father dying when he was eight years old, his mother
removed with him to Newport, Ky., and there he received his literary education.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar, and afterward practiced for about three
years in partnership with the late Hon. Thomas L. Jones, member of Congress. At this
period of his life, Mr. Carnahan's attention was drawn to the ministry of the 
Episcopal Church, and feeling called to that work, he abandoned the bar and entered
upon the study of theology, which he pursued under Bishop Smith, and the Rev. John N.
Norton, D. D., and was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Smith, June 9, 1869, and
ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Green, in 1870. He spent the first four years
of his ministry in the diocese of Mississippi, and the seven years that followed in
Western Texas as a missionary. From Texas he was called to Grace Church, Anniston,
Ala., and that parish was the field of his labors for six years. From Alabama he was
called to Christ Church, Little Rock, September 1, 1886. In this church Mr. Carnahan's
work has been greatly blessed, and he is recognized as an able and eloquent preacher.
Rev. Wallace Carnahan was married in Mississippi to Miss Mary S. Hart, a daughter of
Capt. John D. Hart, a planter of Madison County, Miss. Mr. Carnahan is the son of
James and Caroline (Smith) Carnahan, natives of Virginia. The grandfather was born in
County Antrim, Ireland, and was a noted Orangeman. The mother was a daughter of Maj.
Henry Smith, a native of Maryland and one of the original settlers of Wheeling, Va.

   L. D. Cassinelli is a native of Italy, born near Genoa, September 23, 1840, and 
came to America with his parents when seven years of age. The father located permanently 
in St. Louis, Mo., and here the subject of this sketch received his education in the 
Christian Brothers' College of that city. After leaving school, he worked in the fruit
business until about the age of sixteen, when he left St. Louis and went to Tennessee,
thence to Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, and finally Missouri, before settling
down to business. He has been obliged to depend upon himself for a livelihood since the
tender age of ten years, and understands thoroughly what it means to "hustle for a 
living." He came to Little Rock, Ark., in 1870, and was here united in marriage to Miss
Elizabeth Bertola, a native of Austria, who bore him one child, a son, Louis Humbert.
Mr. Cassinelli is engaged in selling fruit, and is interested in the real-estate 
business. He also follows farming, and raises fruit of all kinds which are sold on the
main street of Little Rock. Mr. Cassinelli is a large, fleshy man, and is a member of
the Roman Catholic Church. He owns ten lots in the suburbs of the city and 112 1/2 acres
of land close to the city. He is noted for his honesty and integrity, and is one of the
best citizens of Little Rock. What is termed genius has little to do with the success of
Mr. Cassinelli; keen perception, sound judgment and a determined will, supported by 
persevering and continuous effort, are essential elements to success in any calling, and
their possession is sure to accomplish the aims hoped for.

   Hon. Benjamin B. Chism, Secretary of State, is a life-long resident of Arkansas. He 
was born in Logan County, in 1845, being the son of Dr. S. H. Chism, a native of 
Tennessee, who, when an infant, was taken by his parents to Missouri. He received a good 
education at Jefferson City, and early chose the medical profession for his occupation 
through life, finally coming to Arkansas in 1840, and locating in what was Scott (now 
Logan) County, where he practiced until his death. He was a highly respected citizen and 
successful physician, and was State senator from 1848 to 1852. He died in 1863, at the 
age of sixty-nine years. He was married to Miss Jeannatte Logan, a daughter of Col. James 
Logan, of Missouri, who was appointed one of the commissioners to locate the State 
Capital at Jefferson City, and who came to Arkansas in 1823. He was a descendant of the 
Logan family, who were contemporaneous with the Boone family of Kentucky. The county of
Logan was named for him after his death. Mrs. Chism died when our subject was an infant.
B. B. Chism was reared in Logan County and educated in the schools of Charleston. When
sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the Seventeenth Arkansas Infantry, Confederate army,
in which he served from May, 1861, to May, 1865, being engaged in the battles of Oak Hills
and Elkhorn, and he commanded a company at the battle of Corinth when only eighteen years
of age. Following this, he served on the brigade staff of Col. Griffith. After his return
from the army, Capt. Chism engaged first in farming,  and next in the mercantile business.
In 1874 he was made colonel of the State militia by Gov. Baxter, and in 1887 was tendered
an honorary appointment by Gov. Hughes, as a member from Arkansas on the staff of Gov.
Gordon, of Georgia, to meet President Cleveland at the Georgia State Fair. In the summer
of 1888, he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for secretary of State, and was elected
by a large majority. Capt. Chism is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is a modest
man, of dignified habits, but sanguine in disposition, and a friend whom it is one's good
fortune to know. His highly complimentary vote is a fitting testimonial of his great
popularity among the rich and poor of the citizens of Arkansas.

   Charles Choinski, a representative farmer, and one of the leading merchants of Pulaski
County, was born in Poland, on November 17, 1858, and is a son of T. and L. Choinski. The
father was born in Poland, and a graduate of two of Germany's most famous universitias,
in one of which he was afterward a professor for a number of years. He took part in the
struggle that Poland made to throw off the yoke of Russia, and after the war was over
migrated to America. He first settled in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1873, and after learning the
English language, his superior knowledge upon other branches soon placed him as a teacher
in the public schools of that city, and professor of German language in "Engelman's
Academy." In 1876 he left Milwaukee and moved to Pulaski County, bringing with him a
colony of 200 Polish families, who had left their native country on account of the dark
cloud of Russian tyranny that hung over it and made them slaves. In 1847 he was married
to Miss L. Dembinska, by whom he had ten children, seven of them yet living, Charles
being the fifth child. The Choinski's are of noble birth, their forefathers being among
the leaders of the aristocracy in former days and favorites of the king. Charles Choinski
came to Pulaski County with his parents when eighteen years old. He was educated in the
public schools of Milwaukee, and instructed in the higher branches by his father, and
before twenty years of age started in business for himself at Marche, and has been
successful at every turn. In 1884 he was united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Ray, a
daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Frazier) Ray, of Tennessee and Alabama respectively.
Three children were born to this union: Roy, Carrie and Josephine. Mr. Choinski rapidly
made a reputation for himself and became widely known in the surrounding country. When
only twenty-one years old, he was honored by the people of Pulaski County in being
elected to represent them in the legislature, and served through the term of 1882 in a
manner that won distinction for himself and gave satisfaction to his constituents. For
a number of years he has been postmaster of Marche. In politics he is a strong Democrat,
and in religious faith attends the Catholic Church.

   C. W. Clark, one of the best known citizens of Little Rock, and probably the largest
brick manufacturer in Arkansas, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 28, 1848. His
father, Z. W. Clark, was a native of Pennsylvania, and in early life a cooper, but in
later years adopted a farmer's life in which he was very successful. His wife was, be-
fore her marriages, a Miss Sarah A. Stout, of Ohio, who is still living and resides in
Auburn, Neb., while the father died at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1878. C. W. Clark, in his
young days, was known as a "hustler," if that strong yet appropriate term may be used;
in other words he was a worker, a man of untiring energy and with the brains and skill
to carry out whatever he undertook. During his early manhood, he drove a team across
the plains eight different times, four trips being made in the dead of winter. He next
entered the drug store of H. C. Lett, at Brownsville, Neb., in order to learn the 
business; but after eight months' experience, his health failed him and he was forced
to find some other occupation where physical labor would bring back his strength. He
then engaged with Mr. C. W. Wheeler, a carpenter, and for three or four years remained
at that trade, at the end of which time he went to St. Louis, where he resided for six
years, and in November, 1877, moved to Little Rock to do some work for a St. Louis
contractor. While here he contracted to build a house for Mr. Samuel O. Smith, and
subsequently one for Mr. W. S. Davis. By this time he concluded to locate here, and
upon taking another contract to erect a house for Mr. R. W. Martin, he entered into
partnership with Mr. John H. Thalman. Mr. Clark's next work was in building the fourth
story of the Arkansas Industrial University at Fayetteville, and while there first
received the idea of entering into brick manufacture. After coming back to Little Rock,
he purchased his present property, borrowing $500, to make the first payment, and $1,000,
with which to commence operations. The business went along smoothly until June, 1880,
when he secured his first large contract, which was to erect the State Lunatic Asylum
at a cost of $144,440, taking 4,500,000 brick to complete this building. In the winter
of 1887, two wings were added to the Asylum, and 2,000,000 more brick were used. After
the building was completed, he bought out his partner's interest and purchased seven
additional acres of ground, and has now made his business one of the great successes
of the State. Mr. Clark always keeps posted on the best real-estate markets, and his
investments are sure to be valuable. He owns considerable property at Birmingham, Ala.,
the Pittsburg of the South. He was married on January 23, 1879, to Miss Susie R. Quinn,
a daughter of Dr. J. W. Quinn, one of the pioneers of this city. They are both members
of the Winfield Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Clark's brick-yard is beyond
doubt one of the largest in the State. He uses the most improved patterns of machinery,
and employs from fifty to seventy-five men at his establishment, and last year turned
out 3,500,000 brick, and this year will probably aggregate 4,000,000 brick.

   Charles W. Clay is a name well known in business circles throughout Pulaski County,
for it stands as the representative of a man who is noted for his enterprise. Mr. Clay
was born in Granville County N. C., in 1831, and is a son of Pleasant and Mary (Malory)
CLay, born in North Carolina in 1796 and 1803 respectively. The parents were from
Virginia and North Carolina, where they were married. The father became a prosperous
and highly respected farmer, dying there in 1876,and the wife following him in 1887.
Pleasant Clay was a son of Peter Archie Clay, of Mecklenberg,  Va., an old Revolutionary
soldier, of Scotch-Irish parentage, who died in North Carolina, as did also Charles
Malory, the father of Pleasant Clay's wife. Charles W., the oldest child of four sons
and two daughters, received very little education in his youth, but upon reaching 
maturity he obtained knowledge by his own efforts. He commenced clerking at fourteen
years of age, and continued in that capacity until twenty-two years old, when he started
in business on his own account. In 1856 he was married to Miss Fannie, fourth daughter
of Col. James and Edna (Rowland) Stirk, of Pennsylvania and North Carolina respectively,
and settled down with his bride in Granville County, N. C., whence they moved to Arkansas
in 1869. Six children were born to this union: Sophia (widow of John Skinner Fletcher,
deceased, now wife of Dr. Richard Chennault, of Arkansas), and wife of Dr. F. P. Keller,
of Texas, Thomas L. (who married Miss Bettie Thompson, of Alabama) and James Stirk Clay
(the youngest of the four living children). In 1869 Mr. Clay came to Pulaski County and
commenced farming at a point on the river, where he resided for seven years. He then
moved to his present home, about eighteen miles west of Little Rock, where he owns a
splendid tract of land, and has placed some 100 acres under good cultivation. In addition
to his farm, he is interested in ginning and milling. He is a man of great integrity and
fine business qualities, and a representative citizen of Pulaski County. He served as
justice of the peace for several years, and at the present time is holding the office of
deputy assessor. Previous to that time he was deputy sheriff, and has filled every office
with distinction. Mr. Clay has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. since his twenty-first
year, and at the present time belongs to Mary Williams Lodge No. 307, of which he has
been treasurer for a number of years. He is also a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and,
with his domestic wife a member, attends the Missionary Baptist Church.

   Fred B. Coleman, one of the principal stock raisers and dairymen of Pulaski County,
was born in Peoria, Ill., in 1851, and is a son of E. B. and Mary Ann Coleman, the 
father a native of New York State, and the mother from Illinois, in which State they 
were married. Fred, was partly reared in Illinois, and came to Arkansas with his parents
in 1864. The elder Coleman established a fruit and nursery business, and his son re-
mained with him until 1877, when the father died. Young Fred then opened up the Evergreen
dairy, and ran the same in connection with a stock business. He has the graded Jersey
stock, which he is now crossing with the Holstein, and milks about fifty cows per day,
collecting from them on an average seventy-five gallons. Aside from his dairy and stock
interests, he owns 300 acres of valuable land, all of which is under fence, and 100 acres
in a fine state of cultivation. Mr. Coleman's dairy interests are among the largest in
Pulaski County. He has secured a lucrative patronage by his square and honest methods of
doing business, and as a stock dealer he owns some of the finest cattle in that section.
In 1881 he was married to Miss Anna Rogasku, a daughter of John and Wandy Rogasku, by
whom he has three children: Flora, Mamie and Minnie, the latter being twins, who have
since died, as also his wife, who died in 1885. During the Civil War, Mr. Coleman served
in the Federal army as sutler of the Second Arkansas Infantry (holding a commission when
he was fourteen years old), one year and a half, belonging to the Second Arkansas Regi-
ment. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious faith a Roman Catholic. He is one
of the leading spirits in all public and private enterprises that tend to the advancement
of his county.

   Dr. E. Collins is one of the leading dentists of Little Rock. He entered the 
profession when a mere boy, and although the average life of the dentist is about thirty 
years, after a practice of forty years he is still in the vigor of his manhood and the 
oldest practicing dentist in the Southwest. He is a native of Ohio, being reared until 
his sixteenth year in the town of Ripley, Brown County, and is a descendant from sires 
of some Revolutionary fame. He is the youngest of his parents' family, the elder of
whom is still living at the age of ninety-five years and comes from an ancestry of great
longevity. At the age of sixteen, being anxious to adopt some profession, he chose that
of dentistry, and left the home of his childhood to enter upon the career of his choice.
Going to Xenia, Ohio, he commenced the study of his profession under the guidance of
his brother-in-law, Prof. J. Yapt, a gentleman whose genius and skill, and the publi-
cation of standard and other works upon dental surgery, have long since obtained for
him a world-wide reputation. After completing his preparatory course of three years,
young Collins determined to seek his fortune farther west, and left Xenia for Cincinnati.
Arriving at that city, he immediately took passage upon a canal-boat packet for 
Connersville, Ind., a town of some 3,000 inhabitants, situated in the beautiful and
fertile valleys in the White Water River. In this town and neighboring country he
commenced the practice of his profession, and in his leisure moments continued to study
his specialty, together with general medicine and surgery. After a year's residence in
Connersville, he met and was married to his present wife, Miss Mary A. Smiley, a lineal
descendant of the same Puritanical stock from which President James Buchanan was an
illustrious scion. The issue of this union was three children, two of whom reached
maturity and still live: one a son (a young man of promise in the medical profession),
the other a daughter (the wife of Judge Y. W. Wilson, of Little Rock). Dr. Collins
practices in Connersville and vicinity for about fifteen years, when he was called to 
fill a vacancy in the faculty of the Ohio COllege of Dentistry at Cincinnati, the same
institution from which he graduated in 1854. This being a time when civil war was
convulsing the country, and business of all kinds was at a standstill, save that of
carrying on the bloody struggle, he resigned, as the position was not sufficiently
remunerative to justify a longer continuance. After a time other fields more promising
opened to his view, and he again went westward, locating at Bloomington, Ill. Here he
made many friends and acquired a large and lucrative practice, but at the end of five
years a change came over the spirit of his dreams; his daughter married and must needs
migrate to the city of Little Rock with her husband; hence, in a short time, dissat-
isfied at having his little family dissolved, the Doctor followed them to the city,
landing here on December 15, 1869. He has remained here an honored citizen of this
community, serving the afflicted public in a manner commensurate with his superior
knowledge and skill; dealing ever generously with the poor and justly with the rich.
In former years he has done much with his pen and otherwise to build up his profession,
and enlighten the public mind with respect to its merits. He is a deep thinker as well 
as a bold and aggressive writer upon subjects that affect the public welfare, and has
allowed no obstacles, religious or political, to deter him from the exercise of his
inalienable rights as a man and citizen. His theology is pre-eminently that of Nature,
which he claims teaches that the invisible things of universal nature (God, if you 
please) can in no wise be known save through and by the things that are seen or tang-
ible to the physical senses, guided by an unfettered reason and conscience. As an
inventor, Dr. Collins has conceived several devices, chief among which is the Railroad
Coach Heater, which has just been passed upon by the patent-office officials and allowed.
This invention is destined to supersede all others for that purpose, as it will be an
incalculable saving of property to railroad corporations, and a great source of comfort
and increased safety to the life of the traveling public.

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The following sketch reached the publishers too late to insert in regular order, and consequently is given 
prominent mention at this place:
   *** Francis H. Conway, county surveyor of Pulaski County, Ark. A number of years 
passed in a sincere and earnest endeavor to thoroughly discharge every duty incumbent
upon the official positions Mr. Conway has filled, have served to show that he has
established the reputation of being an accurate business man. He was born in St. Louis,
Mo., on May 17, 1848, and was the youngest son of Frederick Rector Conway, and his wife,
Martha L. Conway, a native of Orange County, Va., and a daughter of James and Lucy
(Burton) Collins. Frederick Rector Conway and Martha L. Collins were married on May 18,
1836, in Howard County, Mo., and had in all six children, all natives of St. Louis, Mo.
The eldest, James Rector Conway, was born on April 7, 1837, and died on September 14,
1837. The next was Lucy Ann Conway, born on December 15, 1838; Thomas Frederick Conway
was born on July 29, 1841; Andrew May Conway, October 8, 1842; Mary Elizabeth Conway,
born October 18, 1845, and died January 4, 1848. The mother, Martha L. Conway, died on
June 1, 1849, and was buried in lot No. 329, in block No. 93, in Bellefontaine cemetery,
near St. Louis, Mo., where her two children who had died were buried; and there her
brother, May B. Collins, was afterward interred. 
Francis H. Conway, the youngest child mentioned, was placed by his father with his
brother-in-law, William Shields and his wife, Eliza Shields, in Boone County, Mo., who
took care of him six or seven years until his father moved from St. Louis to Boone
County, and settled near Columbia. In the year 1859 Frederick Rector Conway was married
to Mrs. Ellen A. Jarvis, a daughter of Richard Chinn, of Kentucky, and the widow of Dr.
Jarvis (deceased). By this marriage two sons were born. The elder, James Langridge
Conway, born January 31, 1861, is a printer in Kansas City, Mo., and the younger, Elias
Cabell Conway, born about two years subsequent, is engaged in mining near Silver City,
N. M. At Silver City, N. M., Thomas Frederick Conway, a lawyer resides, and his sister,
Lucy Ann Conway, lives with him. Andrew May Conway makes his home in Ashley, Pike County,
Mo., and is a physician. Francis H. Conway, lives in Little Rock, Ark. None of the
children of Frederick Rector Conway have married, except Dr. Andrew May Conway. Thomas
Conway, the father of Frederick Rector Conway, moved with his family from Tennessee
(where he had settled after he was married) to Missouri, and resided for some time in
St. Louis, afterward going to Howard County, Mo., and settling and making a plantation
three miles east of Glasgow, and ten miles west of Fayette, the county seat of Howard
County, where he lived until his death. Frederick Rector Conway, remained in St. Louis,
and after the lapse of years was made United States recorder of French and Spanish land
claims in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and was one of the board of three commission-
ers (the other two being Dr. Lewis F. Lynn and J. J. Harrison) for adjudicating French
and Spanish land claims in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and he was also afterward
United States surveyor general of the district composed of the States of Missouri and 
Illinois, which was the last public office held by him. He died on December 16, 1874,
and was buried in the cemetery at Columbia, Boone County, Mo., in the same lot where the
remains of his father, Thomas Conway, and his brother, Thomas Asbury Conway (who was the
sixth son, and who had been a merchant and die about the age of twenty-four years) now
rest. His mother, after she became a widow, went and lived with her youngest son, Elias
N. Conway, at this home in Little Rock, Ark., until her death, and was there buried in
Mount Holly cemetery; there in the same lot is also buried her fifth son, William Conway,
who had been judge of the circuit court, and also a judge of the supreme court of the
State of Arkansas. Frederick Rector Conway has in all six brothers and three sisters. His
oldest brother, Henry Wharton Conway, was a lieutenant in the war with England, in 1814
and 1815, under Gen. Jackson, until detailed to aid Com. Laurence, in battle of Mobile
Bay, which resulted in the capture of the British fleet there. After the war was over,
Henry Wharton Conway was retained in the regular army of the United States, until he
resigned. After the United States land office was established at Little Rock, for the
district of Arkansas, he was appointed the first receiver of public moneys of the United
States, for said district, and not long after, he was elected delegate in congress, for
the Territory of Arkansas, and was subsequently twice re-elected to that position. After
his third election, he received a wound in a duel, from which he died on the ninth day,
and was buried at the Post of Arkansas. Henry Wharton Conway was the oldest child of
Thomas and Ann Conway, and next came their daughter Eliza, who married William Shields,
a native of Maryland, for many years county surveyor of Boone County, Mo., and an
accurate and efficient business man of the strictest integrity; he and wife, Eliza, 
having died, were buried in the cemetery at Columbia, leaving two of their children
surviving: Mrs. Sarah Maria Pratt ( of Columbia, Boone County, Mo., now the widow of
the late George C. Pratt, who had been a professor in the State University of Missouri,
and afterward a civil engineer on various railroads, and subsequently secretary for the
board of railroad commissioners of Missouri, and after that, before his death, was
elected and served for many years as one of the railroad commissioners), James Rector
Shields (the surviving son of William and Eliza Shields, is a lawyer, now of Wichita,
Kas). James Severe Conway, the second son of Thomas and Ann Conway, was the first 
United States surveyor general of public lands, for the district of Arkansas, and after-
ward the first Governor of the State of Arkansas, and he died at his residence, at
Walnut Hill, La Fayette County, Ark., on March 3, 1855, and was there buried; his widow
subsequently died, and was also buried there. Next came Frederick Rector Conway, the
fourth child, and third son mentioned, and following him was John Rector Conway, the
fourth son, who was a physician of high standing, and died and was buried in San Fran-
cisco, Cal. Then came William Conway, before mentioned, and afterward Sarah Hundley
Conway, whose first husband was Joseph M. Sheppard, who was a merchant, and later, 
until his death, a surveyor of public lands of the United States, and is buried in
Mount Holly cemetery, at Little Rock, Ark., leaving surviving him his widow and three
children: Thomas C. Sheppard (who was a first lieutenant in the Confederate Army, during
the last Civil War, and was killed in battle, near Atlanta, Ga.), and his younger 
brother, William A. Sheppard (who was a soldier in a regiment of Confederate troops of
Texas, died while in service at Pine Bluff, Ark., and was buried there). His daughter,
Ann Elizabeth Sheppard, first married Thomas Cryar, a cotton planter on Big Red River,
Ark., and some years after his death, she married Dr. Bronson, of Columbia, Hempstead
County, Ark., and they now live, near Los Angeles, Cal., where Dr. Bronson is a pract-
icing physician. Next came Thomas Asbury Conway, before mentioned. All of the relatives
of Francis H. Conway, herein referred to, are dead. Elias Nelson Conway, the seventh
son was auditor of public accounts of the State of Arkansas twelve years, and afterward
Governor of the State of Arkansas for eight years, and went out of office November 14,
1860, since which time he has declined to hold any office, and is still living in Little
Rock, Ark. Mary Ann Conway married William Pelham, who was United States surveyor
general for the district of Arkansas, and after the acquisition of New Mexico and the
adjoining country to the Pacific Coast was appointed surveyor general of the public
lands of the United States for the district established, with the office at Santa Fe,
N. M., and held the office until he resigned, and returned to his home, near Manchack
Springs, Tex., where he died, leaving his widow and one child: Mrs. Teneyck (who is also
a widow), surviving him, and they are both still living. Thus all of the ten children
of Thomas and Ann Conway, the grandfather and grandmother of Francis H. Conway, are
mentioned. Thomas and Ann Conway were natives of Virginia, and their children were all
natives of Greene County, Tenn.

   J. J. Culbertson, manager of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, Little Rock, Ark., has
been a resident of that city ever since the erection of the mill. He is a native of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, which he left when very young, and took up his abode in New York City,
where he was reared and spent the greater portion of his life. While there he was engaged
in the dry-goods commission business, and this his business tact and enterprise made very
successful. Continuing in that line until the year 1882, he entered into the cotton-seed
oil trade, and first located at Paris, Tex., where he joined in with a party of capital-
ists from Montgomery, Ala., erecting the cotton-seed oil-mill at that point, under the
firm name of Culbertson, Gaston & Co. This mill was absorbed by the American Cotton Oil
Trust, and some time afterward the Southern Cotton Oil Company was organized, with Mr.
Culbertson as manager of the Little Rock mill, which is now one of the principal 
industries in that section. In secret societies he is a member of the American Legion of
Honor, Royal Arcanum, and also belongs to the Mechanics' Building & Loan Association.
Mr. Culbertson's marriage occurred in 1881, to Miss Emily Lee, of Plainfield, N. J.
Three children have been born to their union: Emily, John J., Jr., and Florence. Mrs.
Culbertson is a devout Christian lady, and a member of the First Baptist Church.

   Charles E. Cunningham, a well-known resident of Little Rock, Ark., was born in 
Frederick County, Md., July 1, 1823, and was one of five children, four sons and one
daughter, born to James Cunningham and wife. Capt. James Cunningham was a British
officer, and came to America shortly after the War of 1812. He located in Frederick
County, Md., and there married a Miss Catherine Campbell, a native of Maryland. The
daughter and Charles (the subject of this sketch) are the surviving members of this
family, the father, James Cunningham, having died in 1833 and the mother in 1834.
After her mother's death, Miss Cunningham went to live with and was chaperoned by
Mrs. Jane Washington, at Mount Vernon, and afterward married Mrs. Washington's nephew,
Thomas B. Washington, of Jefferson County, Va. During the war, Mrs. Washington was 
living at Charlestown, Va., but was banished out of the lines, and also lost two sons
with Stonewall Jackson. She is now residing in England. Charles E. was educated in the
schools of Maryland and Virginia, receiving a practical English and classical education.
In 1849 he was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Jones. Mrs. Cunningham died in 1883. By
this union eight children were born, three sons and five daughters: Kate C. (living at
home and now editing the Woman's Chronicle, a popular paper of Little Rock), Nannie R.
(wife of S. B. Sparks, of Warrensburg, who is State senator of his district), Mollie,
(unmarried, died at the age of twenty-one), James W, (living at Sedalia, and is assist-
ant paymaster of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad), Bessie (wife of John J. 
Cockrell, a son of Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, and living in New Mexico), George E.
(holding a responsible position in the establishment of Thomas W. Baird, of Little
Rock, Ark), Nettie (wife of J. E. Clark, of Warrensburg) and Charles F. (at home). Mr.
Cunningham was in the first immigration to California, across the plains, in 1849, and,
after his arrival, engaged in freighting with Mexican pack trains, and mining. He 
returned in 1853, having been quite successful. In 1854 he moved to Johnson County, Mo.,
but, his eyesight failing to some extent, in 1862 he went to St. Louis, and placed him-
self under the care of Dr. Pope, a celebrated occulist, deriving great benefit from the
treatment received. He resided there until 1865, when he moved to Little Rock, and
engaged in the lumber traffic, owning and operating a saw-mill, planing-mill, etc. In
this departure he was also fortunate, and has since retired from business. The school
board of Little Rock found in him an officient and influential member, and one whose
opinion was never far from right. His first vote for president was cast for Henry Clay,
but after coming to Arkansas he was a Democrat, through the reconstructive days, then
going over to Peter Cooper, in 1876. Since that time he has been a third party man, and,
though stanch to his party principles, he takes no special interest in local politics.
In 1882 Mr. Cunningham was nominated by the Greenback party, to mae the race for 
congressman at large against Breckenridge, and in 1883 the Wheelers nominated him to 
make the race for Governor against Hughes and Judge Gregg. At the Cincinnati convention,
held in May, 1888, he was nominated on the Union Labor ticket for vice-president. It is
quite unnecessary to add that Mr. Cunningham is a popular gentleman, for his career
through life, as a public and private citizen, has been an enviable one, and his record
such as any might be proud to possess.

   Isaac A. Dale, one of the oldest living citizens of Little Rock and one of the
eminently respectable men of the county, was born in Middle Tennessee on January 1, 1823,
and reared on the farm, where he remained until eighteen years of age. He then served an
apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, working at this until 1847 in Nashville, Tenn.,
after which he commenced steamboating as an engineer. He settled in Little Rock, January,
1840, and traveled up and down the Mississippi River and all its tributaries for twenty
years, and can relate many interesting incidents connected with his trips. He then took
charge of the steam fire-engine at Little Rock, ran it over twenty years, when he had to
give it up on account of failing health. To prevent ennui, he erected a small store, and
this he conducted for some time. During the late war he was a member of the State militia.
He selected for his companion in life Miss Nancy F. Long, and four children are the fruits
of this union: Drucilla R. (wife of L. M. Kumpe), Matthias A., John L. and Horace G.  Mr.
Dale is the son of John E. and Anna F. (Green) Dale, natives of Eastern Maryland, born in
1785 and 1795, respectively. The parents moved to Tennessee in 1809, and there the father
followed agricultural pursuits. He was a powerful man, was six feet one inch in height,
and weighed 205 pounds. He died in 1840. The mother's death occurred in 1873. Twelve
children were born to this union, nine of whom grew to maturity. The paternal grandfather
was of Welsh descent, and lived for many years in Snowhill, Md., and served four years in
the Revolutionary War. Isaac A. Dale has a powder-horn used by his grandfather at that
time. The maternal grandfather was captain of a ship, and died and was buried at sea.

   Monte C. Davies was born in Decatur, Ill., in 1856, being a son of L. and Elizabeth
(Carter) Davies, natives of Maryland and Kentucky, respectively. Moving to Macon County,
Ill., in 1855, the senior Davies came to Little Rock in 1871, and was senior member of
of the book and stationery firm of Davies and Son & Co., in which business he was engaged
up to the time of his death, in 1887. He was the father of five children, three of whom
are still living: A. A. (who continues in the business), M. C. (our subject) and Leonidas.
Mrs. Davies died in 1873. Monte Davies was but fifteen years of age when his parents moved
to Little Rock. He then attended school until entering the store when his father and bro-
ther, where he remained until 1880, being appointed mail carrier at that time, and two
years later finance clerk under Postmaster Edgerton; afterward he was made money-order
clerk, and finally assistant postmaster. In 1884, while in the postoffice, he entered into
partnership with T. B. Rayburn, a photograph artist of Little Rock. In 1889 the firm 
dissolved partnership, and Mr. Davies has since continued the business alone, and has been
very successful. He is probably the only artist in the South who takes life-size pictures
direct from the camera, having the largest camera west of the Mississippi. Mr. Davies is 
a member of Bayard Lodge No. 8, A. F. & A. M. He is a prominent Democrat and a highly
respected citizen.

   Dr. Roderick L. Dodge, one of the earliest citizens of Little Rock, was born in
Hartland, Vt., on September 7, 1808, and grew to manhood in that place. He graduated from
Dartsmouth College in 1834, after taking a full course in medicine there, and subsequently
at the Philadelphia Medical college. In 1835 he went as a missionary physician to labor
among the Indians, under the patronage of the "American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions." After some years spent among the Creeks and Cherokees on our western border, he
was induced to enter the United States army as surgeon, at Forts Gibson and Coffee. In
1842 he came to Little Rock, and located here to practice his profession, afterward 
embarking in the drug business upon the site where Carroll's shoe-store now stands, on 
East Markham Street. In later years, he was engaged in  a private banking business, and at
one time was the only banker in the city. Dr. Dodge remained in the drug business for over
thirty years, at the end of which time he sold out to what is now the C. J. Lincoln Drug
Company, and has retired from business for about fifteen years. He was one of the origin-
ators of the old Little Rock Gas Company, and was always interested in the upbuilding of
his city, several of its finest brick blocks having been erected by him. Dr. Dodge was
never a politician, but was called upon by his friends and citizens to act as alderman
and mayor. He is a man of sterling worth and honesty, always self-dependent and straight-
forward. He was made a member of Western Star Lodge No. 2, of Little Rock, in 1843, and
from that time to this, has advanced in the fraternity. He is also a member of Union
Chapter No.2, Occidental Council No. 1 and Hugh de Payne Commandery, of which he was
Eminent Commander at one time, all of Little Rock. In these orders he has held nearly all
of the offices at different times, and for a great many years was Grand Treasurer of all
the Masonic grand bodies. In 1878, on account of ill-health, he resigned every office he
was holding at that time, but by a vote of the Grand Lodge, he was made a permanent member,
and at their request a fine portrait of himself hangs on the wall at their headquarters.
Dr. Dodge was also treasurer of St. John's College for several years, and for about forty-
four years has been a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church of this city, having
been largely interested in the development of that congregation, and devoted to its 
interests ever since. He was married to Miss Emmeline Bradshaw, a native of New England,
who accompanied him West. They were the parents of two children: Ellen E. (who afterward
married the Rev. WIlliam A. Sample, of Fort Smith, but who died about two years ago) and
Dr. S. D. Dodge, a practicing physician of Litt