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Thomas Mullins.
H. F. Reagan, 4 ..
J. B. Rainwater.
W. R. Phillips .. .....
Hugh Scott.
J. W. M. Trent.
1884 to 1886
Thomas Mullins ..
J. B. Shannon, 6.
W. S. Tunstill
W. R. Phillips. ....
William Mitchell ..
J. W. M. Trent.
1886 to 1888
H. P. Green.
J. B. Shannon.
W. S. Tunstill
G. W. Van Hoose.
William Mitchell ...
G. W. Morrow.
1888 to 1890
H. P. Green.
*John N. Tilman
W. S. Tunstill
G. W, Van Hoose .. B. F. Walker
Geo. W. Morrow.
1-Record of this term incomplete. 2-B. F. Little after resignation of Yoes. 3-Joe Holcomb, Circuit Clerk. 4-A. S. Gregg, Circuit Clerk. 5-Thos. Mullins from March, 1878. 6-J. N. Tillman, Circuit Clerk.
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J. E. Suttle
*John P. Scott.
J. W. Carney ..
Thomas Carlile
M. Gregg
1866 to 1868
L. Tankersley.
P. R. Smith, 3 ..
Jacob Yoes, 2
J. B. Simpson
Pete Mankins
1868 to 1872
1872 to 1874
P. R. Smith, 3 ..
Z. M. Pettigrew.
A. B. Lewis.
W. D. Holland.
L. A. Buchanan,
1840 to 1842.
Thomas Wilson
Benjamin Pearson.
P. R. Smith
L. W. Wallace
John McClellan
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
1964 to 1866
1 J. Galbreath
G. W. M. Read.
C. G. Galbreath
C. M. Henry.
G. F. Deane ..
George F. Deane ... I. G. Combs
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matter of fruit growing it stands first and best. It is the home of the Shannon apple, a pippin of excellence widely known. Its fruit products excel perhaps any other locality in the State. Grape growing is prosecuted with success, and small fruit growing is abundant.
Fayetteville, the county seat, was founded in the year 1828. The first settlement at the place was made in that year by James McGarrah, who built a cabin on the hill where the city now is, and lived there with his family, in which were his two sons, William and John McGarrah. The latter was Representative of Washington county in the Legislature of 1838 and 1840. William McGarrah kept a store at the place at an early date. In 1829 a postoffice was established there, and Brasil Newton was appointed postmaster. The name it then bore was Washington Court-house, but in October of that year the name was changed to Fayetteville by order of Postmaster-General Barry.
Seabron G. Sneed was a lawyer in Fayettville in 1829. Onesimus Evans, Abraham Whinnery, Judge David Walker, William T. Larremore, Ludovic Brodie, William McKnight Ball, Dr. G. W. Gray, Willis S. Wallace, James McKisick, Matthew Leeper, Williamson S. Oldham, B. H. Smithson, John Billingsley and Robert McAmy were early residents of the place.
The first Masonic lodge in Arkansas to receive a charter was Washington Lodge No. I, of Fayetteville, chartered in 1837.
Hon. James D. Walker, of Fayetteville, was born in Logan county, Kentucky, December 13th, 1830; removed in 1847 to Arkansas ; received his education at the private schools in Kentucky and at Ozark Institute, Arkansas; studied law, and was admitted to the practice in 1850 at Fayetteville, Arkan- sas ; in the late war he espoused the Southern cause, and was Colonel of a regiment; after the war he resumed the practice of his profession ; was Solicitor-General of the State of Arkan-
ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, FAYETTEVILLE,
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sas, which office he resigned and continued the practice of his profession at Fayetteville ; was chosen a Presidential Elector for the State at large in 1876, and voted for Tilden and Hen- dricks; was elected to the United States Senate as a Demo- crat to succeed Stephen W. Dorsey, Republican, and took his seat March 18th, 1879. His term of service expired March 3d, 1885.
Hon. T. M. Gunter began the practice of law in Fayette- ville in 1853. He was born in Middle Tennessee, September 18th, 1826; graduated at Irving College in 1850; was Col- olonel of a regiment of Arkansas Volunteers in the war ; was Prosecuting Attorney in 1866, and Member of Congress 1875 to 1883.
One of the prominent objects of Fayetteville is the Arkansas Industrial University, a State institution, established by the State and assisted by the National Government. The build- ing is a handsome and imposing one of stone and brick, having all modern improvements and adornments, a credit to the city and the State. It is in a flourishing condition, and excellently conducted by an able faculty.
Judge David Walker was born in Kentucky, in what was then Christian county, but is now Todd county, February 19th, 1806, son of Jacob Wythe Walker. He grew up in Kentucky, studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in Scottsville, Kentucky, in 1829, and practiced law there until 1830, when he moved to Arkansas, reaching Little Rock October 10th, 1830. Shortly after this he settled at Fayette- ville, which ever afterwards was his home. From 1833 to 1835 he was Prosecuting Attorney, and was a Member of the Constitutional Convention of 1836. In 1840 he was elected to the State Senate and served four years. In 1848, and again in 1874, he was elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and, in 1866, was elected Chief Justice thereof, but was ousted by the Reconstruction Measures of 1868. In 1861 he was President of the Convention which passed the Ordinance of
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Secession, being at first a Union man, but voting for secession when the war had actually begun and the State of Arkansas was asked to lend her aid in the subjugation of the South. He served as Associate Justice from 1874 to 1878, when he resigned and retired to private life. He died September 30th, 1879, aged 73 years.
Judge Lafayette Gregg became a resident of Washington county in 1835, and of Fayetteville in 1849, and has resided there continuously since. He was born near Moulton, Law- rence county, Alabama, February 6th, 1825, son of Henry and Mary Gregg, who was Mary Murrill, a native of Vir- ginia, but who grew up in East Tennessee. In October, 1835, he came to Arkansas with his parents, they settling in Washington county. In December, 1849, he located in Fay- etteville. He received education in the country schools of Washington county and at Ozark Academy; studied law in the office of W. D. Reagan, in Washington ; was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice there, in which he has been continuously engaged, with the exception of the time he was on the Bench, enjoying a good practice ; and also now conducting a finely improved farm of 400 acres, and being engaged in banking, as President of the Bank of Fayetteville. He was a Member of the House of Representatives of the Session of 1854 and 1855 ; served as Prosecuting Attorney of the Fourth Circuit from 1856 to 1861, Chancellor of the Pu- laski Chancery Court 1867 to 1868, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1868 to 1874. During the Civil War he com- manded the Fourth Arkansas Federal Cavalry. On the 22d day of December, 1852, near Fayetteville, he was married to Miss Mary A. Shreve, then lately from Kentucky. By this marriage there are four children-three sons and a daughter.
Judge James Middleton Pitman is a native of Washington county, Arkansas. He was born near Prairie Grove, May Ist, 1838, and received his education in the country schools and at Ozark Institute in Washington county. He lived in the country
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until 1855, when he came to Fayetteville to live; lived there until 1858, when he moved to Carrollton, Carroll county, where he lived from 1858 to 1861, and from 1866 to the summer of 1867. At this latter date he returned to Fay- eteville, where he has since resided. He began reading law in 1855, and was admitted to the Bar in April, 1858. He practiced law at Fayetteville and Carrollton until 1874, when he was elected Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. He was re-elected in 1882 and in 1886, and now fills the position. In 1871 he was a Member of the Legislature from Washing- ton county. On the breaking out of the Civil War of 1861 he entered the Confederate Army as a Captain in Colonel J. D. Walker's Regiment Fourth Arkansas State Troops. After the disbandment of this regiment he was Lieutenant-Colo- nel of the Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry under Colonel David Provence, in Little's Brigade, under General Price; then in General W. N. R. Beall's Brigade under General Gardner, at the siege of Port Hudson. He was made a prisoner at the capitulation of this place, July 9th, 1863, and was impris- oned at Johnson's Island, Point Lookout and Fort Delaware, until July 24th, 1865. On the 16th of October, 1866, he was married in Carroll county, Arkansas, to Miss Margaret Peel. Of this marriage there are three children-two sons, Herbert N. and Robert, and a daughter, Jennie M.
James Hayden VanHoose became a resident of Fayette- ville in 1850. He was born January 8th, 1830, near Paints- ville, Johnson county, Kentucky, son of John and Lydia VanHoose, who were natives of North Carolina, but who died in Washington county. He came to Arkansas with his parents June Ist, 1839, they settling on the Middle Fork of White River, in Washington county. He received schooling in the "old-field" schools of the county, taught in log houses with dirt floors and split puncheons for desks and seats. He worked for his father until 21 years of age; then went to Ozark Institute, near Fayetteville, for 15 months, working to
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pay his board. He then went into the store of James Sutton as clerk, and sold goods for him for four years. Next he went into the mercantile business with William McIlroy, and con- tinued selling goods until 1881, when he entered into insur- ance business, which he now follows. In 1856 he was appointed Notary Public by Governor Elias N. Conway, and has continued in the office since that date. He was Mayor of Fayetteville from April, 1880, to April, 1881, and in April, 1888, was elected again for two years. He has been twice married. On the 9th of August, 1855, in St. Paul's Episcopal church in Fayetteville, he was married to Miss Melinda Ann McIlroy, and after her death he was married in the same church June 13th, 1869, to Miss Martha W. Skelton. There are no children now living of these marriages. He, however, raised an orphan girl, Mary W. Eaton, who is now the wife of Samuel Jarman, of Burton, Phillips county, and is now educating another, Minnie Brooks. Taking an active part in Masonry, he has been highly honored by that Frater- nity, having been Grand Master, Grand High Priest and Grand Commander. He joined that order in 1853, and has never changed his membership in 35 years. He was born and raised a Methodist, but out of respect to the memory of his first wife, who was an Episcopalian, became a member of the Episcopal church in 1868, being confirmed by Bishop Henry C. Lay. He was an ardent Henry Clay Whig in politics, and reverenced Albert Pike, Absolom Fowler, Frederick W. Trapnell, Robert Crittenden, David Walker and other Whig leaders in Arkansas, but since the demise of that party has been a Democrat and acted fully with that party.
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POPE COUNTY.
Pope County, the nineteenth county formed, was created out of territory taken from Crawford county, by an Act of Novem- ber 2d, 1829, and was named after Governor John Pope, the then incumbent. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of John Bollinger, but an election for Com- missioners was directed by the Act to be held to locate the county seat permanently. The place selected for the purpose was Scotia, the residence place of Judge Andrew Scott, which was the next house to Bollinger's in the neighborhood settlement, and was made the county seat in 1830. A post- office was established there in June, 1830, and Twitty Pace was appointed Postmaster. Upon the formation of Johnson county in 1833, which took off a portion of Pope, the county seat of Pope county was established at Dwight-usually called Old Dwight, the name of a mission station for the Cher- okee Indians, established in 1820 by Rev. Cephas Washburn, and who labored there for more than 20 years. The name Dwight was given it in honor of Rev. Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College. The county seat was next estab- lished at Norristown in 1834, and from there was moved to Dover in 1841. It was located at Dover by Benjamin Lang- ford, Webster Jamison and James Burton. It remained there until March 19th, 1887, when by a vote of the people it was moved to Russellville, where it now is.
Judge Andrew Scott was also an early resident. He set- tled there in i828 on a farm, which he named Scotia, which became the county seat. The land was purchased from an Indian named Mackey, and afterwards purchased from the United States. Besides having been a Judge of the Superior Court, as we have seen, he was the first County Judge, 1829
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1829 to 1830.
Andrew Scott.
Twitty Pace.
H. Stinnett.
W. Garrott.
W. Mitchel
1830 to 1832
S. K. Blythe ..
A. E. Pace ..
J. J. Morse.
F. Heron
1832 to 1833
Thos. Murray, Jr.
A. E. Pace.
J. J. Morse
S. M. Hayes.
R. S. Witt
1833 to 1835
Isaac Brown
R. T. Williamson.
W. W. Rankins.
S. S. Hayes
R. S. Witt
1835 to 1836
J. J. Morse ..
J. B. Logan.
S. M. Hayes.
W. C. Webb.
R. S.
Witt.
1836 to 1838
Benj. Langford.
J. B. Logan.
S. M. Hayes
Jno. R. Homer Scott|J. Baker.
R. S.
Witt
1838 to 1840
Benj. Johnson
J.Ferguson.
S. M. Hayes.
E. Baker
R. S. Witt.
1840 to 1842
W. Bryan.
J. Ferguson
S. M. Hayes.
E. Raker ..
R. S. Witt.
.
1842 to 1844
Isaac Brown ..
Jno. R. Homer Scott S. M. Hayes.
D. F. Williamson.
R. R. Fleming.
R. S. Witt.
1844 to 1846
Jesse Mallory.
Jno. R. Homer Scott J. W. Jones ..
D. F. Williamson.
M. Tackett.
R. S. Witt.
1846 to 1848
David West ...
Jno. R. Homer Scott J. W. Jones.
D. F. Williamson.
J S. Banker
J. H. Brearley
1848 to 1850
A. J. Bayliss
Wm. Stout
J. Hickey ..
J. H. Patterson.
J. S. Banker ..
J. H. Brearley.
1850 to 1852
A. J. Bayliss
Wm. Stout Wm. Stout.
R. H. Howell
G. R. Davis.
J. S. Banker.
J. Ferguson ..
1854 to 1856
Cabel Davis.
R. H. Howell.
J. L. Linton.
W. S. Johnson ..
J. S. Banker.
J. W. Miller.
1856 to 1858.
N. D. Shinn
R. H. Howell.
J. L. Linton.
W. S. Johnson.
J. A. Bradley .....
J. W. Miller
1858 to 1860
N. D. Shinn
R. H. Howell.
J. L. Linton.
D. M. Hornbeak.
J. A. Bradley ...
J. W. Miller
1860 to 1862
N. D. Shinn.
R. H. Howell.
D. C. Brown.
W. S. Johnson
W. A. Walker.
J. W. Chambers
W. S. Johnson
L. Macomb.
J. W. Miller.
1864 to 1866
J. B. Brooks, 2.
A. J. Bayliss
G. B. Fondren, 2
D. F. Williamson, 2 .. L. Macomb, 2 ..
J. Brearley, 2.
1866 to 1868
Cabel Davis.
A. J. Bayliss.
Joseph Petty ..
S. R. Parker.
L. Macomb.
J. W. Miller.
1868 to 1872
W. T. Brown
W. H. Hickox.
J. W. Stout, 3
J. A. Rradley.
L. M. Hale
J. F. Clear, 4
1872 to 1874
E. H. Poe
J. B. Erwin.
Wm. White
James Potts.
C. E. Toby.
1874 to 1876
Frank Thack.
H. A. Bayliss
Joe Petty.
J. P. Langford
J. J. Potts.
G. W. O. Davis.
1876 to 1878.
R. B. Wilson.
A. J. Bayliss
R. B. Hogins.
F. C. Falls
J. W. Jones
James Potts.
W. M. Peeler.
1880 to 1882.
E. C. Bradley ..
W. J. Reynolds
R. B. Hogins
F. C. Falls.
D. R. Grant.
James Potts.
A. R. Robinson.
1882 to 1884
E. C. Bradley.
James Potts.
J. W. Quinn.
Joe Petty ...
D. R. Grant.
W. R. Hale
A. R. Robinson.
1884 to 1886.
J. S. Linzy
James Potts.
J. W. Quinn.
George Baird
G. A. Jamison.
W. R. Hale
P. M. Austin.
1886 to 1888.
J. T. Bullock
James Potts.
John R. Young.
Jos. Petty ..
James H. Shinn.
W. R. Hale
J. A. Hickman.
1888 to 1890 ..
J. T. Bullock.
R. B. Hogins.
J. R. Young ..
W. M. Peeler ..
D. R. Grant ........
A. Q. Davis
J. A. Hickman.
Frank Thack, 5 .. ...
A. J. Bayliss.
R. B. Hogins
S. R. Parker, 6.
C. N. Benefield
James Potts.
W. M. Peeler.
1862 to 1864
J. B. Brooks
A. J. Bayliss
J. B. Erwin.
D. F. Williamson. J. Bradley.
J. H. Brearley.
1852 to 1854
A. J. Bayliss
J. Hickey.
D. F. Williamson.
D. Williamson.
POPE COUNTY.
1-W. B. Young, from April, 1853. 2-W. A. Strickland, Judge; W. H. Williams, Sheriff; James Bradley, Coroner, and J. W. Stout, Surveyor, from July, 1865. 3-J. F. Clear, from March, 1870. 1-J. H. Martin from July, 1870. 5-Died, and R. B. Wilson elected March, 1878. 6-Died, and R. C. Falls elected September, 1879. 7-P. J. Rallow, Assessor, March 13, 1884.
John Hughes ..
W. L. D. Ewing ....
S. R. Parker.
1878 to 1880
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to 1830, and its first Representative in the House, in the Legislature of 1831. He was born in Virginia, August 6th, 1788, and went with his father and his brother, John Scott, Delegate in Congress from Missouri in 1817, to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, in 1808. In 1819 he moved from Ste. Genevieve to the Post of Arkansas, and, on the 8th of July, assisted in organizing the Territorial Government. In 1821 when the Territorial Government was moved to Little Rock, he, being one of the Judges, moved there also, and lived there until 1829. He died March 13th, 1851, aged 63 years.
When Judge Andrew Scott went to Scotia in 1828, his son, John R. Homer Scott, then a boy 15 years old, came with him, and is still a resident of the place. He was born in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, October 16th, 1813 ; went with his father first to the Post of Arkansas in 1819, and then to Lit- tle Rock in 1821, and to Scotia in 1828, where he has since lived. He represented the county in the Constitutional Con- vention of 1874, and was County Treasurer 1836 to 1838, and Clerk 1842 to 1848. He studied law under his father when a young man, but never practiced. In 1836 he com- manded a company of U. S. cavalry in the Florida War, and in 1861 he raised a company of cavalry, which was transferred to the Confederate Army. Subsequently he com- manded a squadron of four companies of cavalry in that Army, doing duty in Missouri and Arkansas, and with it took part in the battles of Elk Hornand Farmington. On the 11th of December, 1834, he married Miss Nancy Evans Jamison in Johnson county. She was a daughter of George Jamison, and was born in Potosi, Missouri. She died October 13th, 1878. By this marriage there were three children, of whom two are now living, to-wit: Dr. Andrew H. Scott, a promi- nent physician of Little Rock, named after his grandfather, and Leonora Augusta, who is Mrs. H. Clabe Howell.
Another distinguished citizen of Pope county was C. P. Washburn, an artist, son of Reverend Cephas A. Washburn.
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C. P. Washburn was an artist of excellence, and painted the picture of the Arkansaw Traveler, which obtained for him a national reputation. It is the picture, copies of which are usually seen with each representation of that subject. He worked on the painting for some time, but finally completed it about the year 1860, and upon being exhibited it attracted universal attention and favorable notice.
Pope county is in a northwest direction from the center of the State. It is north of the Arkansas river, which is its southern boundary for the distance of thirty miles. Its area is about 750 square miles, comprising about 500,000 acres of land. In surface the county is considerably broken, about one-third being hilly and mountainous, and the remainder level and of alluvial soil.
Russellville, the county seat, was first settled in 1848, and became the county seat in 1877. It contains a population of about 1,500; has five churches, Presbyterian, Baptist, Chris- tian and two Methodist churches, a fine public school, a weekly newspaper, the Democrat, B. F. Jobe, Editor ; has telegraph and express offices, daily mail, many handsome and thrifty stores, and all that constitutes a thriving town.
UNION COUNTY.
Union County, the twentieth county established, was created out of portions of the counties of Hempstead and Clark, November 2d, 1829. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of John Nunn, but Commis- sioners were by a separate Act provided for to be elected by the votes of the county, and the Commissioners were required to meet at the house of John Nunn in September, 1830, and select a place for the county seat. Accordingly, the Commis- sioners assembled at the time appointed, and fixed on the point known throughout the county as Ecore a Fabre, or
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1829 to 1830
John T. Cabeen ..
John Black, Jr ...
1830 to 1832.
John Black, Sr.
Benjamin Gooch ....
John Black, Jr ... ..
Alex Beard
Thomas O'Neill.
1832 to 1833.
Green B. Hughes
Benjamin Gooch ..
John Cornish
John Hogg.
1833 to 1835
Hiram Smith
J. R. Moore.
J. H. Cornish.
John Henry ..
John Stokeley
1835 to 1836.
Chas H. Seay ..
W. L. Bradley.
J. H. Cornish.
John Henry ...
A. J. May .....
1836 to 1838
Thomas Owens.
W. L. Bradley.
J. H. Cornish
J. N. Henry ..
J. T. Cabeen
1838 to 1840
W. H. Wise.
A. G. Hill.
J. H.
Cornish
A. Scarborough
J. N. Henry ..
Albert Rust.
1840 to 1842
Joel Tatum
A. G. Hill.
J. H.
Cornish
A. Madera.
J. N. Henry.
1842 to 1844
Z. Wakefield
J. R. Moore ..
J. H. Cornish
A. Madera. .
J. N. Henry ..
Shelton Watson,
1844 to 1846
Jarvis Langford
R. M. Hardy.
J. H. Cornish.
W. G. Gresham ..
Wm. Cornish.
R. J. Black
1846 to 1848
E. R. Brown
B. R. Matthews.
W. G. Gresham
Wm. Cornish
R. J. Black
1848 to 1850
E. R. Brown
T. T. Shepard ..
J. H. Cornish
W. G. Gresham ..
Wm. Jones.
R. J. Black
1852 to 1854
James Grumbles
W. J. Locke.
s. D. Drenon
W. G. Gresham ..
A. Madera.
R. J. Black.
1854 to 1856
James Grumbles
W. E. Morgan.
W. R. Cowser.
James Simmons.
A. Madera.
R. J. Black.
1856 to 1858.
James Grumbles
C. W. Locke
W. R. Cowser
James Simmons ..
A. Madera ..
R. J. Black
1858 to 1860.
James Grumbles.
C. W. Locke
Robert Sewel ..
J. M. Cobb
R. K. Cornish
J. S. Kelley.
R. G. Terrell.
1862 to 1864 ..
T. W. Chipman, 1 ..
W. E. Morgan
J. D. Holloway ..
James Simmons
John Langford
E. W. Quinn, 1
J. G. McCain.
1864 to 1866
Henry Brown
P. Beeman
Robert Sewel ..
James Simmons
John Langford ..
J. R. Langford.
L. Trimble.
1866 to 1868
J. H. Morris ..
P. Beeman
Robert Sewel ..
W. K. Greenwood ..
A. Mckinnon
James Kelley ..
W. B. Colt, 3
1868 to 1872.
W. Brown ...
W. A. Coit
Lee Clow ...
John Hearin
T. J. Parish ... John Nelson.
J. G. Fanning w. B. Sorrells.
R. G. Terrell, 5.
1874 to 1876
W. D. Jameson. H. Brown.
B. W. Cook
J. M. Smith, 6
J. H. Pinson, 7 ...
A. W. Franklin
W. B. Sorrells .. J. G. Fanning.
J.M. M. Flenniken.
1880 to 1882
F. L. Neal ..
J. C. Wright
H. C. Norris ..
J. H. Pinson ...
W. F. Miears ..
J. G. Fanning
J. F. Gray.
1882 to 1884
C. W. Smith
J. C. Wright ..
H. C. Norris.
J. H. Pinson
W. F. Miears, 9.
J. G. Fanning.
J. F. Gray.
1884 to 1886
C. W. Smith ...
J. C. Wright.
H. C. Norris.
J. H. Pinson
W. J. Taylor
J. W. Freeman
J. F. Gray.
1886 to 1888
F. L. Neal ..
O. A. Miles ..
Alex Perdue
E. Mahoney ..
W. R. Goodwin ....
J. W. Freeman
1888 to 1890.
W. M. Van Hook
C. W. Hearin
T. F. Goodwin ..
J. H. Pinson
J. C. Massey.
J. W. Freeman ...
A. C. Johnson.
1-Henry Brown from March, 1863. 2-John Langford, Surveyor after Quinn's resignation. 3-Wm. Ogden from August, 1868, to 1871. 4-C. C. Wood- ford, Circuit Clerk. resigned May, 1873, and J. S. Smith accepted the office for the unexpired term. 5-Died, and J. G. McCain elected March, 1878. 6-J. E. Thompson elected December, 1877. 7-Major Ammons elected, died and Pinson held the office. 8-J. W. Freeman, Surveyor, elected April 4, 1888, vice J. G. Fannin, failed to qualify. 9-W. J. Taylor, Coroner, elected April 4, 1883, vice W. F. Miears, failed to qualify.
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
W. S. Norman,
1872 to 1874
J. A. Barnes, 4
Lee Clow ..
John Hearin
J. H. Pinson
W. S. Hill ..
J. G. McCain.
1878 to 1880
J. B. Moore.
J. M. Smith
J. E. Thompson.
J. H. Pinson
W. F. Miears ...
B. F. Avery ....
1860 to 1862.
W. C. Langford ..
W. E. Morgan
J. D. Holloway ..
James Simmons
D. A. Shaw ...
W. G. Gresham ..
J. H. Capers
R. J. Black.
1850 to 1852.
E. R. Brown
T. T. Shepard.
S. D. Drenon
C. H. Seay.
The Sheriff did the assessing up to
1862.
1876 to 1878
J. C. Wright ..
J. M. Smith.
C. C. Woodford ..
C. C. Woodford.
J. H. Cornish
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UNION COUNTY.
"Fabré's Bluff," after one Fabre, a Frenchman, who had settled there at a very early date. This place afterwards grew to be the town which is now called Camden, and by a subsequent division of the county, on the establishment of Ouachita county, in 1842, that town fell in the limits of Ouachita county, and the town of El Dorado became the county seat of Union county. The Legislature of 1836 moved the county seat to the house of Jeremiah Smith, but the one of 1837 moved it back to Ecore a Fabre.
Union county is an extreme southward county, its south- ern boundary being the Louisiana line. On the northeast the Ouachita river flows and forms its partial northern bound- ary. Its area is about 1,080 square miles. The general face of the county is level and with fertile lands. All the usual products are grown. The cotton crop is large, and the yield per acre is probably above the average. Fruits are grown to a considerable extent ; among grapes a principal variety being the Scuppernong.
El Dorado, the county seat, was founded and laid off into town lots in 1844, upon land owned by Matthew Rainey. Among the settlers of that date was John Cornish, who was for eighteen years continuously sheriff of the county from 1832 to 1850; R. M. Hardy, a brilliant lawyer, who settled at Champagnolle when that place was the county seat, but moved to El Dorado when the county seat was established there ; William Davis, known as "Buck" Davis, a lawyer, farmer and well-to-do gentleman; Reverend William S. Lacy, a Presbyterian minister from Virginia, an educated and accomplished gentleman, with all the courtesy and hos- pitality of the men of the old school, and much beloved. He lived to the advanced age of 83 years, and died in El Dorado in 1884, retaining in a wonderful degree his faculties to the last. There were also his son, William Lacy a lawyer ; Hugh D. Mason, Shelton Watson and John Quillin, the last two being afterwards Circuit Judges, Quillin in 1849, and
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