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the present Clerk, John Bringle and Henry Russell. The town was incorporated December 7th, 1875.
There are two churches-Baptist and Methodist. A weekly newspaper, called the "Sentinel" is published there by J. P. Poynter. There are two hotels in the place.
Among the leading citizens of the place are Hon. W. H. HalliBurton, Colonel Robert H. Crockett, grandson of the celebrated David Crockett, the hero of the Alamo; James A. Gibson, E. L. Johnson, Robert P. Holt, U. R. Quatermouse, and John F. Park, lawyers; Drs. W. A. Gilson and B. R. Maxwell, physicians, and J. H. Hammett, dentist; J. P. Poynter and W. C. Freeman, editors; J. H. Merritt, John R. Maxwell, Thomas W. O'Bannon, Mrs. M. Myrick and Mrs. M. Brem, merchants; F. H. Hutchinson and J. E. Walker, druggists; J. G. Lyman, Postmaster.
Hon. William Henry HalliBurton became a resident of Arkansas county in 1845. He was born in Stewart county, Tennessee, November 4th, 1816, son of Thomas and Lucinda HalliBurton, who was Lucinda Herndon. He came to Arkansas in February, 1845, and lived at Arkansas Post, from April 14th, 1845, to May, 1857; at Dewitt, from May, 1857, to August, 1860; at Little Rock, from August, 1860, to May, 1862; in Old River township, from May, 1862, to August, 1866, at which date he became a resident of Dewitt, where he now resides, engaged in practicing law. He was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practiced in the counties of Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln and Jefferson, in the Federal Court at Little Rock, and the Supreme Court of the State. He was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Arkansas county, from December, 1850, to November 1852, and Rep- resentative of Arkansas county, in the Legislature of 1885 and 1887. He has been married three times. On the 27th of September, 1838, in Benton county, Tennessee, he was mar- ried to Miss E. C. Alton ; on the 4th of November, 1849, in Arkansas county, he married Miss Hannah Jacobs, and on
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the 9th of December, 1867, at Nashville, Tennessee, he married Mrs. M. S. Patrick, whose maiden name was M. S. Belknap. His children now living are one son, John Halli Burton, and four daughters, to-wit : Gulnare Garrison, Jennie B. Rasner, Kate H. Green and Lucinda Halli Burton.
Colonel Robert Hamilton Crockett became a resident of Dewitt in 1882. He was born at Paris, Henry county, Ten- nesee, February 15th, 1832, son of John W. and Martha T. Crockett, and grandson of the famous David Crockett, the hero of the Alamo, in the Texas Revolution. He was edu- cated at the Kentucky Military Institute and admitted to the bar in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1853. He came to Arkansas in 1855, and settled near Crockett's Bluff, on the White river, in Arkansas county, where he lived until 1882, when he moved to Dewitt, where he now resides, engaged in the prac- tice of law. He was State Senator from 1884 to 1888. On the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Confederate Army, being Captain of Company "H," of the First Ar- kansas Infantry ; James F. Fagan, Colonel; and was Colonel of the Eighteenth Arkansas Infantry when the war closed. He has been twice married. In 1852, at Memphis, Tennes- see, he was married to Miss Sallie F. Lewis. In 1855, at Memphis, he was married to Miss Mary B. Lewis, a sister of his first wife. He has two children now living, a daughter, to-wit: Mrs. W. M. Price, of Mount Adams, Arkansas, and a son, John Wesley Crockett.
LAWRENCE COUNTY.
Lawrence County was formed by the Legislature of Mis- souri Territory, January 15th, 1815, out of territory taken from New Madrid county, the second county formed of those now composing the State. It received its name from Captain James Lawrence, that naval hero of the war of 1812, who commanded the "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon," June Ist, 1813, and whose last words as he was being borne below, mortally wounded, were: "Don't give up the ship." The town of Davidsonville, which was founded in 1815, became the county seat, and was the local place of the Land Office of the Lawrence Land District until 1828, when the office was moved to Batesville. In 1829 the county seat was moved from Davidsonville and was es- tablished at a place called Jackson, from which place it was moved to Smithville, about 1832, and from there to Clover Bend in 1868, and to Powhatan in 1869, where it now is.
A post-office was established at Davidsonville, June 28th, 1817, and Adam Ritchey was appointed Postmaster. This was the first post-office established in Arkansas. The next one was established at Arkansas Post four days later.
One of the early settlers of Lawrence county was Richard Searcy, who emigrated from Tennessee and settled there in 1817. His name afterwards became prominent in the an- nals of the State. He died at Batesville, December 25th, 1832, aged 36 years.
In 1819 Colonel Hartwell Boswell was appointed by the President, Register of the Land Office of the Lawrence Land District, with office at Davidsonville; and John Trim-
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ble, of Kentucky, was appointed Receiver of Public Moneys at the same place.
William Thompson, Samuel Gibson, John Wells, John Bridges, Fielding Stubblefield, William Jarrett and John Rodney were early settlers of the county. They were ap- pointed October 20th, 1828, as Commissioners to locate the court-house and jail of the county.
Joseph Hardin, J. M. Kuykendall, James Campbell, H. R. Hynson, D. W. Lowe, H. Sanford, John Rodney, T.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, IMBODEN.
McCarroll, R. Richardson, Postmaster at Davidsonville in 1827; J. M. Cooper, William Jones, William Humphreys, J. S. Ficklin, C. Stubblefield and David Orr were all early residents of the county, from 1820 to 1840.
Eli Thornburgh, an early settler of the county, was Post- master of the town of Smithville for twenty years, was Mayor of the town four years, and Justice of the Peace for four years.
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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF ALL WHO HAVE BEEN COUNTY OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY :
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1819 to 1821
R. Searcy.
Joseph Hardin
Robert Blane.
1821 to 1823
H. Sanford.
Joseph Hardin
John Reed
1823 to 1825
H. Sanford .
Joseph Hardin
John Reed
1-25 to 1827
R. Richardson
J. M. Kuykendall
1827 to 1829
H. R. Hynson
J. M. Kuykendall
John Rodney.
1829 to 1830 James Campbell
[David W. Lowe.
J. M. Kuykendall
Thomas Black.
John Rodney
1830 to 1832 James Campbell.
David W. Lowe ..
J. M. Kuykendall
M. Archer.
J. M. Cooper
1832 to 1833 Thomas S. Drew
David W. Lowe ..
J. M. Kuykendall
H. N. Waddle.
J. M. Cooper
1833 to 1835 John Hardin
David W. Lowe.
J. M. Kuykendall.
H. N. Waddle ..
J. M. Cooper
1835 to 1836 John Hardin ..
David W. Lowe, 4.
J. M. Kuykendall
James Underwood N. W. Crawford.
1836 to 1838|John Hardin
David W. Lowe ..
T. McCarroll
C. T. Stewart
Uriah Smith ..
T. Johnson
1838 to 1840|John Hardin
J. S. Brown
T. McCarroll
C. T. Stewart
John Kidd.
1840 to 1842 J. C. Floyd
J. S. Brown.
T. McCarroll
J. B. Wilmeth
Henry Tucker.
L. B. Lang.
1842 to 1844|J. C. Floyd.
J. B. Wilmeth
T. McCarroll.
Henry King.
J. M. Johnson.
G. Durham
1644 to 1846 J. Ficklin.
J. B. Wilmeth
F. B. Wilmeth
Stephen Justus.
G. Durham
1846 to 1848 A H. Nunn
A. Hammon
L. B. Poer
C. C. Straughan ...
N. Moffit.
T. Johnson
1848 to 1850 A. H. Nunn 1850 to 1852 John Milligan.
N. C. Steadman
C. C. Straughan
Edward Holt.
T. J. Warner
T. Johnson
1852 to 1854 George McGehey
N. C. Steadman, 9
C. C. Straughan
Edward Holt
W. Swain.
J. T. Perkins.
1854 to 1856 George McGehey
....
J. N. Hillhouse
T. C. Steadman ..
James McCarroll
J. M. Hill.
Alfred Gay.
T. C. Steadman.
James McCarroll
James Mckinney ...
1860 to 1862 C. S. Wainwright .....
A. Lowe
J. D. Wyatt
James McCarroll ...
T. Robinson.
J. Patton ..
T. Johnson
Alfred Gay
T. B. Goforth ..
S. G. Sharp, 3
1872 to 1874
Wm. McBryde, 7
W. G. Wasson
J. N. Campbell
John Carter ...
G. Mathews
J. B. Judkins
1874 to 1876 J. N. Hillhouse.
James P. Coffin.
W. G. Wasson.
J. N. Campbell
John Carter, 4.
L. T. Morris, 5.
C. G. Dent, 6
1876 to 1878 David Wagster
James P. Coffin
James P. Coffin
W. A. Townsend.
W. Childers.
J. W. Patton
John Darter
E. A. Vinson
1880 to 1882 Alex Jackson.
James P. Coffin
John Darter
W. Childers.
J. W. Patton.
W. Brannon
T. J. Moore
1882 to 1884|Alex Jackson.
James P. Coffin.
John Darter
M. D. Hudson.
M. G. Jones.
W. Brannon
J. H. Moseley
1884 to 1886 W. A. Townsend
James P. Coffin.
John Darter
M. D. Hudson.
M. G. Jones.
Wm. Brannon
Samuel A. Harris
1886 to 1888|David C. Smith ..
Clay Sloan
C. A. Stuart
M. D. Hudson
J. M. Barlow
M. H. Agee.
James H. Doyle
1888 to 1890|W. A. Townsend . .
Clay Sloan
IC. A. Stuart
J. N. Campbell
N. P. Farmer .. .
Wm. Matthews
J. N. Childers
1-Record for the term incomplete. 2 J. P. Coffin from October 1871. 3-J. W. Haughton from October, 1868, to January, 1870, and S. Saffel remainder of the term. 4-J. H. Walling from February 1876. 5-John Darter from February 1876. 6-M. D. Hudson from February 1876. 7-Resigned November 23, 1873 ; J. P. Coffin appointed. 8-Failed to qualify; B. F. Matthews was appointed. 9-Died August 31, 1853; J. N. Hillhouse appointed.
LAWRENCE COUNTY.
W. W. Wright B. F. Mathews Alfred Gay
1866 to 1868 George McGehey ..
A. Lowe.
J. H. W. Campbell ... J. B. Judkins.
Samuel Sharp.
W. M. Toney
H. L. Roberts, 2.
1868 to 1872 Josiah Dent.
J. H. Snyder
W. G. Wasson ..
J. N. Campbell
A. N. Robins
John Darter
w. A. Townsend
1878 to 1880 Alex Jackson
A. Lowe .
B. F. Matthews
L. W. Robertson ..
Eli Thornburgh.
1864 to 1866 Solomon Yeager 1.
H. W. Harlow
John Wolf, 8
E. Taylor
Lemuel Yeager
T. Johnson
L. B. Toney
L. B. Poer
C. C. Straughan ..
A. J. Morrell
Samuel Moser
T. Johnson
J. N. Hillhouse.
W. J. Hudson.
Edward Holt
1856 to 1858 W. C. Smith
1858 to 1860 George McGehey ...
Z. P. McAlexander.
Alfred Gay ..
1862 to 1864 George McGehey.
Edward Holt
L. Toney
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The present area of Lawrence county is about six hundred square miles, and the soil is generally of a good fair charac- ter ; good timber abounds, and the agricultural lands pro- duce fine grains and grasses, as well as the usual staples. Black river, which is navigable at all seasons of the year, flows through the county, and Cache river, which forms its eastern boundary, is serviceable for rafting and flatboating, but is not navigable. Fourteen steam mills, saw and grist, are in opera- tion in the county. Two railroads intersect the county, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, and the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis, which cross each other at Hoxie. There are churches in all the principal towns and neighbor- hoods. A woolen mill at Powhatan manufactures good woolen cloth and yarn.
The towns of Lawrence county are Powhatan, Walnut Ridge, Minturn, Alicia, Clover Bend, Portia, Black Rock, Smithville, Imboden and Ravenden. Opposition, Straw- berry and Sedgwick are also small settlements with from fifty to seventy-five inhabitants, and Hoxie is a railroad station of importance.
Powhatan, the county seat, is an interior town, not on any railroad. It was founded about the year 1820. Its present population is about three hundred. It contains two churches, frame buildings both. A Methodist Church, Rev. E. W. Arnold, Pastor ; and a Presbyterian Church, having no Pastor at this time. There are two hotels in the place. The Rogers House, kept by Mrs. Noyes, and the Morrison House, kept by Mrs. N. E. Morrison. There are two daily mails to the place by way of Black Rock, a station on the Memphis & Kansas City Railroad. The corner stone of the new brick court-house was laid May 10th, 1888.
Hon. Milton D. Baber became a resident of Powhatan in the year 1858, engaging in the practice of law, which pro- fession he now follows. He was born at Rumsey, Kentucky, February 3d, 1837, son of Charles and Lucy Baber. He
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graduated in the Law Department of the University of Louis- ville, at the session of 1857 and 1858, and in 1858 came to Arkansas, locating at Powhatan. He lived there until 1868, when he moved to Pocahontas, Randolph county, where he resided until 1879, when he moved back to Powhatan, where he now resides. He was a Member of the State Convention of 1861, from Lawence county, and was Prosecuting Attorney of the Third Judical Circuit from 1866, until removed by the Re-construction measures. On the breaking out of the war
he entered the Confederate Army, in the Seventh Arkansas Regiment, as a Captain, the Regiment being commanded by Colonel R. G. Shaver, in Hardee's Division. After May, 1862, he served in the Trans-Mississippi Department, in Colonel Shaver's Regiment, the Second Regiment Com- manded by him, and in 1864, was Colonel of a Cavalry Regiment, serving as such to the end of the war. He was twice married. In 1861 he married Victoria Watkins, and in 1879 married Mrs. M. J. Sloan. By this last marriage there is one child living, a daughter, the wife of F. C. Sloan.
Walnut Ridge is an incorporated town on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, in Campbell township, Lawrence county, 120 miles from Little Rock, eleven miles east of Powhatan. It was settled in 1873, and now contains three churches-one Presbyterian and two Methodist. The " Telephone," a weekly paper, is published there. There are a number of stores, general and special, and it has daily mail, telegraph and express communication.
Hon. George Thornburgh, son of Eli Thornburgh, was born in Havana, Mason county, Illinois, January 25th, 1847. In 1855 his father settled with his family in Smithville, Lawrence county. Here George Thornburgh grew up. After the war he taught school in Lawrence county, and studied law in the office of Colonel M. D. Baber, of Pow- hatan. He attended the Lebanon Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the Bar in that year by Judge Elisha Baxter,
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afterwards Governor. He became Deputy Circuit Clerk, and served for two years. In June, 1873, he moved to Powhatan, and began the practice of law, forming a partnership with his former preceptor, Colonel Baber, the firm being Baber & Thornburgh. The partnership continued till 1886, when he moved to Walnut Ridge, and began editing the Walnut Ridge "Telephone," and in 1887 also edited the " Masonic Trowel," the only Masonic paper published in the State. These he continued until November, 1889, when he sold out his inter- est in the "Telephone," and moved to Little Rock, becoming connected with the business department of the, "Southern Methodist," and editing the " Trowel " there.
He was a Member of the Legislature of 1870, 1873 and 1880, was elected Speaker of the House at this last named session, and was again a Representative in the session of 1885. On the 30th of September, 1868, he married Miss Mar- garet C. Self, daughter of Dr. J. M. Self, a Methodist Minis- ter. By this marriage there were five children, of whom two are now living: Misses Margaret Elizabeth and Georgia Edna Thornburgh.
Charles Coffin became a citizen of Lawrence county in 1869. , He was born at Rogersville, Hawkins county, Ten- nessee, April 23d, 1842, son of Charles H. and Eliza Coffin, who was Eliza Park, In 1842 the father moved to Knoxville, where Charles Coffin grew up, living there until 1865, when he moved to Memphis, and lived there until 1869, when he came to Arkansas. He was educated at Knoxville and Princeton, New Jersey, but before completing his collegiate course the war arose, and he enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in Company "I." of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, and served till the close of the war. He conducted mer- chandising in Memphis, from March, 1867 to July, 1869, and at Clover Bend, Lawrence county, from July, 1869 to 1881. In 1874 he was a Member of the Legislature from Randolph county, where he then resided, and in 1878 and 1880 he was
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Prosecuting Attorney of the Third Circuit. In 1873 he taught school, edited a weekly newspaper, called the " Observer," at Pocahontas, Randolph county, studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1874, and located at Walnut Ridge. In 1876 he was editor of the Little Rock " Gazette," but in 1877 resumed the practice of law, in which he is now engaged. In 1888 he took an active part in the Presidential Canvass, speaking at many places in the interest of the Democratic nominees.
PULASKI COUNTY.
Pulaski County, the third county created in what is now the State, to count them in the order in which they are men- tioned in the laws, was formed by Act of the Legislature of Missouri Territory, December 15th, 1818. In the same Act, but in subsequent sections, the counties of Clark and Hemp- stead were also created. It derives its name from Count Pulaski, the Polish patriot, who aided the Americans in the War of the Revolution. It embraced all the country from the mouth of Little Red river to the Arkansas river, at Plum Bayou, thence up the Arkansas river, and with the Cherokee lines, to a point north from Little Red river, thence down the Little Red to the beginning. Subsequently about half of the Quapaw purchase was added to it.
As there was no town in it, at the time of its creation, to designate as the seat of justice, courts were directed to be held at the house of Samuel McHenry. On the 18th day of De- cember, 1818, Frederick Bates, Secretary and Acting Gover- nor of Missouri Territory, appointed Edmund Hogan, a for- mer officer of the United States Army, a Justice of the Peace "for the several townships of Pulaski county," and on the 25th of December of the same year appointed Samuel Mc- Henry, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Lemuel
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Currin, Sheriff ; and these were the first persons to hold these offices in the county.
Robert C. Oden practiced law in these courts in 1818 and 1819, the first lawyer to settle in the county. On the 28th of June, 1820, the county seat of the county was established by the Legislature at a place called the Cadron, where a settlement had been commenced in 1818, but in 1821, after the seat of the Territorial Government was located at Little Rock, the county seat was moved there also, where it has since remained. In 1820, a post office was established at the Cadron, and Thomas H. Tindall was appointed Postmaster. In April, 1820, a post office was established at Crystal Hill in the county, northwest, and Edmund Hogan was appointed Postmaster.
Two early settlers of Pulaski county were Jacob Peyeatt and Samson Gray. Peyeatt settled in it while it was a part of Missouri Territory, and was the first Coroner. Both names are preserved in the names of townships of the county. Gray was from North Carolina. He died November 9th, 1834.
Archibald McHenry was an early resident of 1819 or 1820, living some ten miles southwest of Little Rock. He died in 1839. Hutson Martin was a resident of 1819, living on the north side of the river. David Rorer, a German, settled on the same side in 1827, practicing law and keeping a ferry. Gustavus Klingelhoeffer came about the same date, and set- tled north of town, but moved higher up, and when Perry county was established, his farm fell in its limits. He had been a soldier in the Prussian army against the First Napoleon. He died about 1879, aged 90 years. Charles Fenton Mercer Robinson, born in Virginia in 1817, settled in the county in 1828, and is still a resident. Still earlier than any of these, were the Lefaves, Francis Lefave having settled in the country as early, probably, as 1807. Mr. Leon Lefave, brother of Francis, is still living, at an advanced age of near 90 years, having lived about 80 years in the county.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS:
PULASKI COUNTY.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1819 to 1821
Robert C. Oden
Lemuel R. Curran.
Jacob Peyatte ..
1821 to 1823
A. H. Renick
G. Greathouse.
Mat. Cunningham.
1823 to 1825
Samuel Anderson .... H. Armstrong ..
Mat. Cunningham.
1825 to 1827
Thos. W. Newton 1. Sam. M. Rutherford.
Arch. McHenry ...
Allen Martin
1827 to 1829
Thos W. Newton ....
Sam. M. Rutherford.
J. H. Caldwell
1829 to 1830 Samuel S. Hall 2
J. Henderson
Sam. M. Rutherford.
Wm. Atchinson ...
Allen Martin
1830 to 1832 David Rorer
J. Henderson
J. K. Taylor.
Wm. Atchinson ..
R. N. Rowland
1832 to 1833 James H. Cocke.
William Badgett
J. K. Taylor ..
R. H. Calloway. .... A. L. Langham.
1833 to 1835
W. Badgett ....
J. K. Taylor.
F. A .. McWilliams. J. Gould
1835 to 1836 R. Graves
John P. Fields.
J. K. Taylor
W. C. Howell.
J. Gould.
1836 to 1838|David Fulton ...
John P. Fields 4
Allen Martin
J. N. Boyle.
D. Royster
R. N. Rowland
1838 to 1840
Lemuel R. Lincoln.
James Lawson, Jr ..
James Lawson, Sr. L. H. Elder.
G. Douglas 5
1840 to 1842 James C. Anthony ... 1842 to 1844| Lemuel R. Lincoln ..
H. Harralson ..
James Lawson, Jr ...
Charles Lewis.
Hugh Brogan ..
Samuel H. Webb
1844 to 1846 A. Smith.
Gordon N. Peay.
W. B. Burden ..
Charles Lewis.
Hugh Brogan
Samuel H. Webb.
1846 to 1848 A. Smith
Gordon N. Peay.
Andrew L. Hutt
Charles Lewis.
D. L. Lewis
Wm. McIntosh
1848 to 1850 A. Smith.
Gordon N. Peay
Ben. F. Danley ..
Charles Lewis.
C. Stone.
Wm. McIntosh
1850 to 1852 Benjamin F. Owens.
Gordon N. Peay.
Ben. F. Danley ..
Charles Lewis.
C. Stone ..
Wm. McIntosh
1852 to 1854| W. G. Campbell
Gordon N. Peay.
John C. Peay.
S. T. Hudson 6 ..
S. C. W. Lewis .. ...
Samuel H. Webb ..
1854 to 1856 W. G. Campbell.
Gordon N. Peay. .
John C. Peay ..
William B. Easley S. C. W. Lewis.
Samuel H. Webb.
1856 to 1858| W. G. Campbell
William B. Easley ... Ben. F. Danley ..
Thomas Fletcher.
J. B. Moore ..
Nathan Ring
Samuel H. Webb ..
1860 to 1862 Moses H. Eastman.
William B. Easley 8 Thomas Fletcher ..
W. N. Parish.
Henry C. Brookin. J. Jones, Jr ...
1862 to 1864
Thomas H. Walker. Josiah M. Giles. 11
Thomas Fletcher
Thomas Parsel
S. H. Webb
K. H. Williford.
J. S. Wolf. J. S. Wolf, 16.
1874 to 1876 Wm. F. Blackwood .. 1876 to 1878 Moses H. Eastman .. 1878 to 1880 Richard C. Wall.
Robert W. Worthen. R. W. Worthen 17
H. H. Rottaken
M. D. McCabe.
Wm. Woolford.
Francis H. Conway. B. Bourland.
J. Butler.
1880 to 1882 James Coates.
R. W. Worthen 20 ..
John G. Fletcher ..
Joseph Griffith
Isaac Gillam
L. S. Dunscomb
H. H. Rottaken
1884 to 1886 Wilbur F. Hill.
George W. Clark
Robert W. Worthen.
Joseph Griffith
John B. Bond.
1886 to 1888 Wilbur F. Hill ..
Robert W. Worthen.
Joseph Griffith
John B. Bond.
King H. Williford ... Francis H. Conway.
Calvin Pemberton.
1888 to 1890 William F. Hill
Ham. O. Williams ... William W. Field 21 Ham. O. Williams ... *William W. Field.
Anderson Mills ..
H. E. Glidewell.
John B. Bond.
Francis H. Conway.
Calvin Pemberton.
1-D. E. Mckinney, the latter part of the term. 2-P. T. Crutchfield, from September, 1830. 3-A. S. Walker, from September, 1830. 4-L. R. Lincoln, from March, 18337. 5-C. E. Moore, from February, 1840. 6-W. B. Easley, from May, 1863. 7-G. W. Hardy, from November, 1857. 8-T. H. Walker, from July, 1862. 9-J. M. Giles, from October, 1862. 10-D. R. Lamb, from January, 1865. 11-J. W. Jay, from April, 1864. 12-J. R. R. Adams, from April, 1-64. 13-F. J. Ditter, from April, 1864. 14-T. M. Fuel, from April, 1864. 15-S. H. Webb, from April, 1864. 16-L. E. Baker, from May, 1874. 17-T. H. Walker, Clerk Circuit Court. 18-T. W. Newton, Circuit Clerk. 19-J. W. Bay, from September, 1881. 20-J. L. Bay, Circuit Clerk. 21-W. W. Field, Circuit Clerk.
Neill McLean was the first Circuit Judge, appointed in 1819. and was succeeded by Thomas P. Eskridge.
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1866 to 1868|Moses H. Eastman ... 1868 to 1872 David Reeve
Thomas H. Walker. Geo. W, McDairmid. James R. Rowland ...
William S. Oliver
John Reigler
Henry Jacobi.
L. S. Dunscomb.
1872 to 1874
William S. Oliver
John Regler.
J. Kirby
S. McCormick
Francis H. Conway. Ferd. A. Sarasin.
H. H. Rottaken,
James A. Henry ... S. H. Webb.
Wm. Woolford
L. S. Dunscomb.
Blanton Baldwin, 19.
1882 to 1884| William J. Patton.
R. W. Worthen 18 .. Wm. N. Parish 18
M. D. McCabe ..
Joseph Griffith
Wm. Woolford.
S. C. Martin.
William S. Oliver.
Joseph Griffith
John H. Newburn. James D. Butler ...
J. F. Ward 7. .
1858 to 1860 W. G. Campbell.
William B. Easley. .
Thomas Parsel
John Woolford ..
Lemuel R. Lincoln ..
James Lawson, Jr ...
Jared C. Martin ..
C. E. Moore ...
Calvin Pemberton.
He resigned October 10th, 1820,
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
The county did not build any separate court-house until 1888, seventy years after its creation. A log house, built in 1821, was used for the purpose, but by 1832 this had become so dilapidated that it had to be abandoned, and the county rented a brick house, where the city hall in Little Rock now stands, one of a brick row standing there ; and in 1840 moved into the east wing of the State-house. By William Russell's Bill of Assurances of 1821, the west half of the block in Little Rock, on which the post office building now stands, was con- veyed to the county on condition that they should build a court-house thereon within ten years from that date. In 1827, October 27th, Samson Gray, Joseph Henderson and Arch- ibald McHenry were appointed Commissioners to build a court-house on the place, but none was ever built there, and so the donation was forfeited. When the State-house was be- ing built, the State having no need for the east wing of the building, the county authorities, in 1840, were permitted to use it for court-house and office purposes. They occupied it contin- uously without objection from that date until 1882, forty-two years, when the Legislature passed a Bill requiring the county to vacate. As the county officials were a little slow to do so, the State brought an action of ejectment to dispossess them. The county interposed equitable defenses, and the case was moved into the Pulaski Chancery Court. There the Chancellor decreed for the ouster of the county, and she appealed from this decision to the Supreme Court, but that court, in November, 1883, affirmed the decision of the Chancery Court, and the county was obliged to vacate the building. For some time courts and offices were held in rented houses until 1888, when Judge W. F. Hill, County Judge, erected a splendid court- house, built of native Fourche Mountain granite, at a cost of $80,000.00. It is one of the handsomest structures of the kind in the southwest, and is a pride and credit to the county.
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