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come there from Philadelphia as a blacksmith and silver- smith a short time previously, and was an expert workman. Bowie gave him the size and pattern of the knife he wanted, cut from stiff paper. Black made the knife as directed, and Bowie used it in the duel, killing his antagonist with it. The pattern of the blade was peculiar, and all similar knives came to be called "Bowie Knives." In the course of time almost all large knives came to be so called without their really being anything like the original from which they are named.
Hope is the most important town in the county, being a thriving business place on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, fourteen miles from Washington. It dates its existence from about the year 1873, at the building of the railroad through the county. It contains two banks, two hotels, six churches, two newspapers, and a number of excellent stores.
Hon. Charles Augustine Bridewell became a citizen of Hope in 1875. He was born at Port Gibson, Claiborne county, Mississippi, August 14th, 1838, son of Owens and Elizabeth Bridewell. He attended Oakland College, Missis- sippi, graduating in 1858, and attended the Law Depart- ment of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, in 1860. In the same year he came to Arkansas in the month of June, settling at Helena. Was admitted to the bar at that place in 1860. In 1861 he was for a short time at Hampton, Cal- houn county. The war arising, he enlisted in the Confed- erate Army from there, as First Lieutenant in Company "B," of the Sixth Arkansas ; was then Captain of Company "F" therein, and then Adjutant. He was Quartermaster of the Seventh Arkansas, Brigade Quartermaster of Govan's Brigade, and also of Cleburne's Division, and Inspector of Field Transportation under General Joe Johnston, at the time of his surrender in North Carolina, in 1865. On the Ist of January, 1867, he landed at Camden, where he taught school, then at Magnolia, from February, 1872, and at Hope
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from December, 1875, being fifteen years engaged therein, resuming the practice of law at Hope, in 1881. In 1881 he was Mayor of Hope, and was in the Legislature of 1885. He was twice married. In June, 1865, he married Miss May F. Folsom. By this marriage there are two children, Charles Percy, a theological student at Hamden Sydney Col- lege, Virginia, and Robert Owens, a student now at Arkan- sas College, Batesville. In December, 1876, he was married at Hope, Arkansas, to Miss Jane A. Foster. By this mar- riage there are three children.
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MILLER COUNTY.
Miller County, formed out of the territory of Hempstead county, April Ist, 1820, was the sixth county to be formed in the Territory, and was named after Governor James Miller. The temporary seat of justice was fixed "at the house of John Hall, in the Gilliland settlement." In its earlier stages the county did not greatly progress, owing to the fact that the division line between it and Texas or Mexico had not then been determined, and people were uncertain whether, if they settled in it, their homes would, on a survey of the line, fall inside of Mexico or of the Territory. Consequently, immigra- tion was but scanty and restricted. But few courts even were held, and the growth of the county was greatly retarded. In point of fact, when the survey and locating the line was made, a large part of the county did actually fall in the limits of Texas. The county was abolished altogether in 1836, but was revived and reformed December 22d, 1874, embracing in its present limits most of the territory of the original county. In 1828 the Clerk's office of the county was destroyed by fire, involving the loss of all the county records, a disaster which has occasioned much inconvenience and confusion to the inhabitants, and those concerned in legal matters.
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In 1829, November 21st, Charles Burkem, James J. Ward and Charles Collum were appointed Commissioners to locate the county seat.
In the Congressional election of 1829 there were only 26 votes cast in Miller county, and in that of 1833 there were 16I. In 1830 the population of the county was 358, being 303 whites and 55 colored. In 1831 the population was 368, an increase of ten in a year. John Clark, G. C. Wetmore, J. H. Fowler, B. English, J. F. Colville, C .. Wright, G. F. Lawton, Joseph Mitchell, R. M. Hopkins and George Collum were early residents from 1821 to 1836.
In structure the county is level, and the soil of good char- acter. Cotton and corn are the principal products, of which heavy crops ar fally raised. The area of the county is over 600 square miles, embracing in its extent about 390,000 acres.
Miller county is a southwest county, lying along the State line. The county seat is Texarkana. The State line goes through the town, dividing it, so that one part is in Arkansas and the other in Texas. It is really two towns, having each a separate Mayor and city government, and called Texarkana, Arkansas, and Texarkana, Texas. The postoffice is on the Arkansas side. The town is a thriving and busy place, which has grown up rapidly, and has a number of hand- some and valuable buildings, both residence and business buildings. The Marquand Hotel, at the depot, a large and well kept hotel, was destroyed by fire. The town has suffered greatly by fires, and has in reality been built the second time, or oftener, in the business portions, but there is a great deal of wealth in the place, and each time of building has served to improve it over its former condition.
The city is one of great thrift and importance. It has four banks-The First National, The Texarkana National, The Inter-State and the Texarkana Savings Banks. It has a Board of Trade, of which J. Dutschman, of Texarkana,
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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE COUNTY OFFICERS:
MILLER COUNTY.
RE=FORMED DECEMBER 22, 1874.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1875 to 1876
E. Bancroft.
W. J. Watson.
J. A. Roberts.
T. J. Edwards.
W. F. Sears
J. T. Hogane.
W. W. McGee.
1876 to 1878.
M. T. Embree ..
W. R. Kelley.
J. A. Roberts.
J. M. Oats
J. A. Lynn
M. A. Bryant
T. J. Robertson
1878 to 1880
M. W. Edwards.
W. R. Kelley.
J. A. Roberts ..
A. B. McCollum ..
J. A. Lynn.
M. A. Brvant ..
J. V. Scott.
1880 to 1882.
Thomas Orr.
W. R. Kelley ..
J. A. Roberts
T. B. Trigg.
H. H. King
J. T. Hogane
Joseph Tisdale.
1782 to 1884.
W. T. Hamilton ..
W. R. Kelley.
C. E. Dixon ..
T. B. Trigg ...
Wm. H. Hawkins .. R. B. Hazel
N. W. Glover
1884 to 1886.
C. M. Hervey ..
W. R. Kelley.
Wm. T. Hamilton.
Thomas B. Trieg ... Martin Levy.
A. B. Matson
A. B. Little
1886 to 1888
Ira A. Church
Martin Foster.
C. E. Dixon.
R. R. Attaway ...
George Sherer ..
J. T. Hogane
J. G. Meagher
1888 to 1890
J. W. Yates.
B. W. Adams ..
A. S. Blythe ...
O. Whittemore ...... T. M. Dean .
P. B. Oats.
Lucilius Winham ..
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1821 to 1823
John Clark
J. F. Colville
J. Erving ..
1823 to 1825
J. H. Fowler
B. English.
C. Wright ..
1825 to 1827.
G. F. Lawton
C. Wright.
Thomas Polk
1827 to 1829
George Wetmore.
C. Wright ..
David Clark
J. G. Pierson
1829 to 1830
John Morton.
N. G. Crittenden
Charles Burkem.
George Collum ..
1830 to 1832
G. C. Wetmore.
D. C. Steele ...
G. F. Lawton.
George Collum.
1832 to 1833
G. C. Wetmore
N. G. Crittenden
R. M. Hopkins
George Collum.
1833 to 1835
G. M. Martin
J. W. Green.
R. M. Hopkins
Robert Nail.
Joseph Mitchell.
1835 to 1836
J. D. Harding ..
B. C. Fowler.
R. M. Hopkins
Robert Nail
Joseph Mitchell ..
1836 to
R. Lynn ..
P. L. Cowan .. .
E. Frazier.
John Morton.
J. J. Ward
J. Meachan
Texas, is President, and the Directors are chosen equally from both sides of the line. It has seven churches, the Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian, Episcopal, Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist and Catholic, representing a value of church property of about $50,000, and a membership of about 1,300.
Among its business enterprises are an oil and compress company; the Sulphur, Bowie, Kizer and Gate City Lumber Companies; the Allen and the Star Planing Mills; two brick yards, Varner Bros. and J. G. Skipwith ; a foundry, iron works, machinery company, ice factory, electric light, gas, water and street railway companies, and it has a telephone plant in successful operation.
GATE CITY LUMBER COMPANY, TEXARKANA.
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It was incorporated as a city August 10th, 1880. It has a number of enterprises in its midst, growing out of its rail- road facilities. A tile-pipe manufactory located there makes an excellent article of pipe and of pottery generally. The Texarkana Ice Company is located there, incorporated De- cember IIth, 1885, and the Texarkana Land and Live Stock Company, incorporated March 13th, 1886. By an Act of Congress of 1886, a session of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas is held there. It is a place of great importance in railroad affairs. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad there passes out of the State into Texas, and being the terminus of their line in this State, is made the centre of much of their company government, and it is the initial or connecting point in other railroad enterprises.
Hon. Lawrence Alexander Byrne became a resident of Texarkana in 1878. He was born at Lewisville, Lafayette county, Arkansas, July 12th, 1852, son of Alexander and Frances Byrne. He lived in Lafayette county, at Lewisville, until June, 1878, when he moved to Texarkana. . In No- vember, 1884, he was elected Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit, to 1886, and at that date was elected State Senator of the Twenty-first Senatorial District. On the 9th of October, 1888, he was married at Clinton, Mississippi, to Miss Lulie R. Hamilton, daughter of Dr. S. W. Hamilton, of that place.
Paul Jones became a resident of Texarkana in 1878, en- gaging in the practice of law. He was born on a plantation in Phillips county, son of Hon. John T. and Caroline Jones, who was Miss Caroline McEwen. His father was a native of Essex county, Virginia, and his mother of Nash- ville, Tennessee. He graduated at the University of the South, at Sewanee, in 1877. He was an Elector on the Democratic ticket for President, in 1888, for Cleveland and Thurman. On the 25th of July, 1883, he was married to Miss Callula Flye, of San Antonio, Texas. By this marriage there is a son, Paul Jones, Jr.
SISTERS OF ST. AGNES CONVENT, TEXARKANA.
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Oscar D. Scott became a resident of Texarkana in 1875. He was born at Townshend, Windham county, Vermont. Graduated at Middleburg College, Vermont, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts in 1868. Was admitted to the Bar in St. Albans, Vermont, in 1869. Came to Arkansas in 1870, locating at Magnolia, Columbia county. He lived there until 1873, when he moved to Lewisville, Lafayette county, and lived there until 1875, when he moved to Texar- kana. He served in the Federal Army during the war, in the Seventeenth Vermont Infantry Volunteers. In 1875, at Wallingford, Vermont, he was married to Miss Cornelia F. Hulett. By this marriage there are four children, two sons and two daughters.
Judge Charles Elmore Mitchell became a resident of Tex- arkana in 1885. He was born at Washington, Hempstead county, Arkansas, February 12th, 1846, son of Senator Charles Burton and Sallie Ann Mitchell. He entered the Western Military Institute, at Nashville, in 1859, and St. John's College in 1860. While attending this institu- tion the war began, and he enlisted in May, 1861, in the Hempstead Rifles, the first company from that county, in Gra- tiot's Third Arkansas Regiment, of General N. B. Pearce's Brigade of State troops; afterwards was in the Twentieth Ar- kansas Infantry, in Rust's Brigade. He was Collector of Revenue for Hempstead county for 1872, Member of the State Senate for 1879 and 1881, and twice elected Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, in 1882 and 1886. He has been twice married. In May, 1868, at Washington, he was married to Miss Eudora Jones, and on the 20th of September, 1871, to Miss Laura E. Ferguson. He has four children, two sons and two daughters.
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PHILLIPS COUNTY.
Phillips County, formed May Ist, 1820, the 7th county created, was taken from the limits of Arkansas county, and was named after. Sylvanus Phillips, an early resident of that county, representing it in the Legislature of 1820. The Act creating it directed that the seat of justice should be the town of Monticello. In 1830 the county seat was established at Helena, where it has since remained.
The principal towns are Helena, Marvell, Trenton, Poplar Grove and Barton.
The county is an eastern county, lying along the Mississippi river. Its soil is fertile, producing all manner of grain crops, fruits, and cotton, the usual staple, in abundance. It is tra- versed by two railroads : the Arkansas Midland, from Helena to Clarendon, in Monroe county, and the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Helena to St. Louis, intersecting the Memphis and Little Rock Railway, at Forrest City, in St. Franciscounty. The area of the county is about 659 square miles.
The City of Helena dates its existence from as early as the year 1829. On the 2 1st of November of that year, by an Act of the Legislature, Hampton Montgomery, James H. Mckenzie and Joseph Robins were appointed Commissioners to superintend the building of a court-house for the county of Phillips, and were directed to assemble together at the town of Helena, on or before the first day of January, 1830, and lay off a site for the court-house on the public square of the town. George W. Fenebee was Postmaster at that date. The town was established at a place where there had been a large cotton field, with gin house and necessary plantation buildings erected. By 1835 it had grown but little. At that date it is described as having three mercantile establishments, one of which was
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THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE HELD OFFICE IN THE COUNTY :
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1820 to 1821
W. B. R. Hornor
Daniel Mooney.
1821 to 1823
S. Phillips ..
Daniel Mooney ..
1823 to 1825
S. M. Rutherford.
George Seaborn
Peter Edwards.
N. Righton
1825 to 1827
H. L. Biscoe
Daniel Mooney ..
1827 to 1829
G. W. Fereby ....
H. L. Biscoe.
1829 to 1830
J. H. Mckenzie.
Austin Kendrick.
H. L. Biscoe
W. H. Calvert
N. Righton
1630 to 1832
J. H. Mckenzie ..
J. R. Sanford .. S. C. Mooney.
F. Hanks.
W. H. Calvert
B. Burress
1832 to 1833
J. J. McNeal
J. R. Sanford.
H. L. Biscoe
S. S. Smith
C. P. Smith
1835 to 1836
I. C. P. Tolleson ..
J. R. Sanford ..
M. Irvin
P. Pinkston.
Charles Pearcy
1836 to 1838
W. E. Butts
M. Irvin ..
J. B. Ford.
W. Bettis.
C. P. Smith.
1838 to 1840
T. B. Hanley
J. S. Hornor
M. Irvin ..
J. B. Ford.
J. Skinner
H. Turner.
1840 to 1842
W. E. Butts.
J. S. Hornor .
M. Irvin
J. B. Ford.
A. Sanders ..
J. H. Ponner
1842 to 1844
A. G. Underwood.
William Kelley.
M. Irvin ..
J. B. Ford ..
S. Weaver.
1844 to 1846
J. S. Hornor
L. D. Maddox ..
W. M. Bostick
J. B. Ford.
W. H. Calvert.
S. Goodman.
1846 to 1848
A. G. Underwood ..
W. M. Bostick.
J. B. Ford.
W. H. Calvert
J. Thomas
1848 to 1850
A. G. Underwood ..
D. Thompson ..
J. B. Ford ..
W. H. Calvert.
S. K. Goodman
1850 to 1852
A. G. Underwood.
R. H. Yates ..
Thompson ..
J. B. Ford ..
M. Platt ..
E. H. Gilbert
1852 to 1854
A. G. Underwood.
E. H. Cowley ..
A. Thompson ..
E. P. Scantland. M. Platt ..
E. H. Gilbert
1854 to 1856
A. G. Underwood ..
E. H. Cowley ..
A. Thompson.
J. Locke.
J. M. Odle ..
E. H. Gilbert
1856 to 1858.
A. P. Ewarts ...
E. H. Cowley ..
A. Thompson.
W. D. Hornor.
R. Goodwin ..
E. H. Gilbert
B. W. Green
William Lonford ...
[W. A. Dickson ..
E. H. Gilbert
1860 to 1862.
J. B. Shell
E. H. Cowley.
B. W. Green.
E. K. Harris.
W. A. Thorn
M. D. Norton
1862 to 1864
A. P. Ewarts, 1
J. H. Maxey .. ...
B. W. Green, 1
R. A. Yerby, 1 ..
T. Wallace, 1.
H. Gilbert ..
J. C. Watson, 1.
1866 to 1868
Ceorge West ..
E. H. Cowley.
B. Y. Turner
W. H. Crawford ..
H. E. Gilbert
J. A. Bush.
1868 to 1872
Q. K. Underwood ..
S. J. Clark
D. C. Jordon
S. H. Brooks
F. Trunkey ..
M. M. Robinson,
T. Grisson.
1874 to 1876
S. J. Clark.
D. W. Elison ..
H. B. Robinson ..
N. Straub ..
Sam Hill
M. M. Robinson
A. Barrow.
1876 to 1878
S. J. Clark.
D. W. Elison ..
H. B. Robinson.
N. Straub.
Sam Hill
W. W. Bailey. ...
M. G. Turner.
1878 to 1880
M. T. Sanders.
N. Thompson 2,
B. Y. Turner.
S. H. King
T. H. Quarles.
B. F. Thomasson .. B. W. Green.
1880 to 1882
M. T. Sanders.
N. Thompson, 3 ..
B. Y. Turner.
E. M. Ford
John Grenshaw .... B. F. Thomasson ...
R. A. Blount
B. W. Green.
1884 to 1886
R. W. Nichols.
W. Jarmin
E. D. Pillow ..
E. M. Ford.
R. W. McKenny .... R. A. Blount.
B. W. Green.
1886 to 1888.
R. W. Nichols.
Whitley Jarmin
E. D. Pillow.
Charles H. Hicks ..
Thomas M. Jacks ..
B. W. Green.
1888 to 1890
R. W. Nichols.
James C. Rembert ...
E. D. Pillow.
Abe Crawford.
Thomas M. Jacks .. M. G. Turner.
*J. F. Humphries ..
*Jas. F. Humphries.
H. B. Robinson.
1872 to 1874
S. J. Clark
A. Barrow.
N. Straub ..
C. Williams.
T. N. Upshaw ..
1882 to 1884
R. W. Nichols.
Whit Jarmin, 3.
B. Y. Turner
E. M. Ford
B. W. Green.
1858 to 1860
A. G. Underwood ..
E. H. Cowley ..
H. L. Biscoe.
Enor Askew.
C. P. Smith
1833 to 1835
J. R. Sanford.
L. D. Maddox R. H. Yates ..
D.
W. H. Calvert.
PHILLIPS COUNTY.
4-E. G. Cook, County Judge; A. B. Schroder, County Clerk; J. Graves, Sheriff; A. Neal, Coroner; H. Campbell, Assessor; from July, 1865. 2-J. P. Clopton, Circuit Clerk. 3-J. F. Humphries, Circuit Clerk. *- Circuit Clerk.
Nicholas Straub. N. Straub.
1864 to 1866
J. J. Mulky
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J. H. Mckenzie's; two taverns; the Arkansas Hotel, and several trading boats. Dr. George W. McElrath, William Dobson, William F. Breckenridge, J. C. Buster, H. F. Mooney, John W. Beloit, I. C. P. Tolleson, Samuel S. Smith, H. L. Biscoe and Dr. Charles E. Nash, were residents of that date. Edwin T. Clark and Austin Kendrick were among the earliest residents.
In 1833 the first newspaper, called the "Helena Herald," was established at the place. John Steele, who came from St. Louis, was its editor, but in a short while he moved to Little Rock, and Samuel S. Smith succeeded him as editor. Mr. Smith died September 21st, 1835.
On the first of February, 1836, William T. Yeomans, who had been in the "Gazette" with William E. Woodruff, com- menced the publication of the Constitutional Fournal there.
By the Legislature of 1836, Henry L. Biscoe, John Sand- ford, James Martin, Peter Edwards, Ferdinand S. Horner, William F. Moore and Boyd Bailey were appointed Com- missioners to build a court-house and jail in Helena.
The city of Helena contains a population of about 5,000 persons. It has Baptist, Catholic, Episcopalian, Presby- terian and Methodist churche's ; four schools; a Catholic con- vent school ; two cotton seed oil mills ; lumber mills; cotton gins and compress ; planing mills; a foundry and machine shops ; a splendid opera house, capable of seating 800 per- sons; a number of hotels ; banks ; gas works; an efficient and well equipped fire department ; is lighted by gas ; has a tele- phone exchange; electric light, and street railways; tele- graph and express offices ; numerous daily mails, and is in every way a thriving, prosperous place. The city contains a number of handsome and attractive business buildings of brick, and many elegant private residences built with elegance and taste.
Hon. William K. Sebastian was a resident of Helena from 1835 or 1836 till 1861. He was born in Hickman county,
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Tennessee, about 1812, and moved to Arkansas in 1835, settling first in Monroe county, but shortly afterwards moving to Helena. In 1840 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Helena Circuit, which position he filled till 1843, when he was appointed by Governor Yell Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1846 he was elected to the State Senate, and on the organization of the Body was elected President of the Senate. In 1848 he was appointed by Governor Drew, United States Senator, to fill the unexpired term of Senator Chester Ashley, deceased. In November of that year he was elected by the Legislature for the full term, and was again elected in 1853 and 1859, his term ending March 4th, 1865. He was one of the two Southern Senators who did not resign their seats in the Senate ; Andrew Johnson being the other. He was expelled from the Senate on suspicion of sympathy, with the South, but in 1878, which, however, was after his death, the resolution of expulsion was rescinded. He died in Memphis in the latter part of the war. In 1838 he married Miss Amelia Dunn, of Phillips county, who died during the war.
Judge Thomas B. Hanley, a distinguished citizen of Arkan- sas, was for many years a resident of Helena. He was Circuit Judge of the First Circuit about the year 1846, and was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1858. He was Representative of Phillips county in the Legislature of 1842 and 1843, in the House, and in the Senate at the session of 1852, 1853, 1854 and 1855, and was a Delegate in the State Convention of 1861. He was again a Representative in the Legislature of 1879, in the House, which was his last public service. He was a prominent and leading lawyer in the eastern part of the State. He died in Helena about the year 1881.
General James C. Tappan settled in Helena in 1848, and has since resided there. He was born in Williamson county, Tennessee, about 1826. He graduated at Yale College, and
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then read law under Judge George S. Yerger, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was admitted to the Bar in 1848, and the same year settled in Helena. In 1851 he was elected to the Legislature from Phillips county, and from 1852 to 1860 was Receiver of the United States Land Office at Helena. On the breaking out of the war he entered the Confederate Army as Colonel of the Thirteenth Arkansas Infantry, and was afterwards promoted to Brigadier-General in the Trans- Mississippi Department, where he served till the close of the war. After the war he resumed the practice of law in Helena, becoming associated with Major J. J. Horner, the firm being Tappan & Horner as at present. He married a daughter of Judge Samuel Anderson, of Tennessee, and niece of the late Governor Aaron V. Brown.
Judge Leonard Henderson Mangum became a resident of Helena in 1857. He was born at Hillsboro, North Carolina, May 26th, 1837, son of Prestley H. and Rebecca H. Man- gum, who was Rebecca H. Southerland. He was educated at Wake Forest College, of North Carolina, and Princeton, New Jersey, graduating in 1857. He came to Arkansas in December of that year, and located at Helena. He was admitted to the Bar in 1858, and practiced law in Helena from that date until 1885, when he accepted the position of Chief of Division in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C., under the administration of President Cleveland. On the breaking out of the war, he volunteered in the Yell Rifles, from Helena, early in 1861, in the First Arkansas Reg- iment of State troops, commanded by Col. Patrick R. Cleburne, a regiment which subsequently became numbered the Fifteenth Regiment in the Confederate States Service. He remained in this regiment until after the battle of Shiloh, in which engagement he was wounded in seven places. Being unable from these wounds to perform active field service, he accepted a position on general Cleburne's staff and served till the end of the war in the Army of Tennessee. In 1866, he
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PHILLIPS COUNTY.
was commissioned by Governor Isaac Murphy Special Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit; in 1867 was elected Probate and County Judge for Phillips county; was Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis in 1876, and was a Member of the Committee on Platform ; and has at all times taken an active interest in politics. He has been twice married. On the 24th day of December, 1867, he was mar- ried at Helena to Miss Anna Scanlan, grand-daughter of Judge Shelby of Mississippi. She died December 16th, 1872, and on the 14th of January 1879, at Helena, he married Mrs. Fannie Metger, whose maiden name was Fannie Clement. By the first marriage there is a son, Wilie Person Mangum, named after his uncle, Hon. Wilie P. Mangum, ex-Senator from North Carolina.
General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne became a citizen of Helena about 1851. He was born ten miles west of Cork, Ireland, March 17th, 1828. He came to America in 1849, and located in Cincinnati, with a druggist named Salter. On moving to Helena, he engaged as a prescription clerk in the drug store of Grant & Nash. In a few years he bought out the interest of Dr. Nash, and the firm became Grant & Cle- burne. After a while he gave up the drug business for the study of law, and read law in the office of Judge T. B. Han- ley. He was admitted to the Bar in 1856, and formed a partnership with Mark W. Alexander, as Alexander & Cle- burn, and later with J. W. Scaife and L. H. Mangum, as Cleburne, Scaife & Mangum. He was a successful lawyer, and had acquired a good practice by the time of the breaking out of the war. He enlisted immediately as a private in the ranks of the Yell Rifles, but eventually rose to the rank of Major-General. His military history, which is one of extra- ordinary brilliancy, has been already given. From his exploits he was called "the lion hearted." He was killed at the battle of Franklin, November 30th, 1864, and his remains were brought to Helena in 1869 by the Ladies' Memorial
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