USA > Arkansas > A pictorial history of Arkansas, from earliest times to the year 1890. A full and complete account, embracing the Indian tribes occupying the country; the early French and Spanish explorers and governors; the colonial period; the Louisiana purchase; the periods of the territory, the state, the civil war, and the subsequent period. Also, an extended history of each county in the order of formation, and of the principal cities and towns; together with biographical notices of distinguished and prominent citizens > Part 68
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Wm. Phillips.
T. S. James.
J. J. Hammett
Sam Taylor.
M. C. Woodworth. R. E. C. Daugherty
1846 to 1848
J. W. Bocage.
T. S. James
J. J. Hammett.
Sam Taylor.
Martin Snyder
Jacob Brump ....
1848 to 1850
James Scull
T. S. James.
J. J. Hammett.
Wm. Wright
G. H. Walker ..
Jacob Brump ...
1850 to 1852
James Scull
D. B. McLaughlin ..
J. J. Hammett.
Wm. Wright
A. C. Randolph.
T. J. Ingraham.
1852 to 1854
M. C. Hudson
D. B. Mclaughlin
P. F. Morton.
Wm. Wright
A. C. Randolph ...
P. Simpson
1854 to 1856
N. D. English.
D. B. Mclaughlin ..
P. F. Morton
Wm. Wright
T. C. Johnson ..
P. Simpson
1856 to 1858.
A. J. Stephens
D. B. Mclaughlin ..
J. G. White
Wm. Wright
A. C. Randolph
P. Simpson
1858 to 1860
Z. Wells.
John DeBaun.
M. E. Hudson
B. F. Ingram.
Wiley Clayton
Jacob Brump ...
1860 to 1862
I. Holcomb.
John De Baun
A. F. Kendall
B. F. Ingram
Wiley Clayton
Jacob Brump ...
1862 to 1864
Z. Wells.
John DeBaun.
A. F. Kendall
P. G. Henry.
Wiley Clayton
1864 to 1866
1 L. S. Reed.
D. C. White
C. M. Bagg
J. H. Hawley.
Wiley Clayton
H. Seckendoff.
1866 to 1868
D. W. Carroll
W. P. Stephens.
C. M. Bagg
B. F. Hancock.
E. E. Forbish ..
John J. Martin
A. E. Beardesley.
1872 to 1874
R. H. Stanford, 2
J. F. Vaughan
H. H. Kenyon ..
Ed. Price.
John J. Martin
F. Havis.
1874 to 1876
C. H. Rice.
R. A. Dawson, 2.
J. F. Vaughan
H. H. Kenyon.
Ed. Price ..
John J. Martin.
John Ellis.
1876 to 1878.
Frank Silverman.
Paul Jacko, 2
John M. Clayton ..
A. S. Moon
J. T. Murray.
John J. Martin
R. Motley.
1878 to 1880
W. D. Johnson
A. Niven, 2 ..
John M. Clayton
H. A. McCoy ..
L. Shields.
John J. Martin
D. F. Ragan.
1880 to 1882
W. D. Johnson
A. Niven, 4
John M. Clayton ..
H. A. McCoy
L. Shields
John J. Martin
T. M. Phillips.
1882 to 1884.
W. D. Johnson .
A, Niven, 5
John M. Clayton
O. P. Snyder, 6
L. B. Boston
John J. Martin
M. Curry.
1884 to 1886.
G. W. Prigmore
N. Terry Roberts, 7 .. John M. Clayton
J. C. Battles ..
L. B. Boston.
John J. Martin
T. B. Blackwell.
1886 to 1888.
J. W. Owens.
N. Terry Roberts, 7 .. G. W. Prigmore ..
T. M. Phillips.
M. C. Boyd
John J. Martin ...
B. E. Benton.
1888 to 1890
J. W. Owens
N. Terry Roberts, 7 .. Frank Silverman
C. H. Triplett
L. B. Boston
John J. Martin
T. B. Blackwell.
Ferd Havis, 7.
1-Record this term incomplete. 2-G. W. Prigmore, Clerk of Circuit Court. 3-J. M. L. Barton, Judge of Criminal Court. 4-A. S. Moon, Circuit Clerk. 5-7-F. Havis, Circuit Clerk. 6-J. Burton Truelock, Treasurer, November 29, 1882, vice O. P. Snyder, deceased; elected R. G. Austin December 23, 1882.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
1840 to 1842
Wm. Phillips ..
E. H. Roane ..
J. J. Hammett.
Sam Taylor.
J. Linberner
J. B. Outlaw
1842 to 1844
Wm. Phillips ..
R.
W. Walker
J. J. Hammett.
Sam Taylor.
N. Holland
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D. C. White, 2
J. F. Vaughan.
H. H. Kenyon.
J. M. Mitchell
John J. Martin
1868 to 1872
D. Cunningham, 3
J. J. Martin
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lying in Jefferson county, one of which was a tract of 80 acres for Saracen, a Half-Breed Quapaw Chief, "to be laid off so as to include his improvements where he now resides opposite Vaugine's." When his tribe moved Saracen went with them, but afterwards was permitted to return and live on his reserva- tion. He lived there until he attained the advanced age of 90 years. His history is more fully set forth in the history of the Quapaw tribe, elsewhere given.
Judge Euclid Johnson was the first Circuit Judge in Jeffer- son county. He died in 1846, and is buried in Mount Holly cemetery at Little Rock.
Jefferson is an interior county, southeast of Center, lying on both sides of the Arkansas river. Its area is about 800 square miles.
The soil is alluvial and of extraordinary fertility. Cotton is a crop largely grown, although all other crops are capable of production. Grains, fruits and vegetables produce well. It is traversed by three railroads, the Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas, or "Arkansas Valley" route, running from northwest to southeast, and the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway, crossing from northeast to southwest, the two roads intersecting each other at Pine Bluff ; and there is also a branch road from Altheimer in the county, on the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway, running thence to Little Rock. The first railroad to be built through the county was the Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas, which was built in 1880. In 1885 the St. Louis & Texas was constructed through it, and in 1887 and 1888, the branch from Altheimer to Little Rock.
The timber growth of Jefferson county is remarkably fine. Pine exists in large quantities, and cypress and oak timber abounds. A number of saw mills are in operation, and a vast quantity of lumber is cut and shipped each year.
Educational facilities of the county are excellent. The public schools are well conducted and there is one academy for girls, one for boys, and a public high school in Pine Bluff.
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The free common schools of the county number about 70. There are churches in all the principal neighborhoods, repre- senting all denominations.
Pine Bluff is one of the most active business places in the State. It is regarded as being a business point of fine advantage, being well supplied with shipping facilities by rail and river, and is in the midst of a fine country, rich and fer- tile, as to soil, and which is owned by persons of means. In the city itself there is much wealth, and great enterprise on the part of the people.
The first settler at the place where Pine Bluff now is was Joseph Bonne, the interpreter in the Quapaw treaty of 1818. He pitched his camp in the pine forest on the bank of the river in 1819, and lived there with no neighbor near until about 1830, when John W. Pullen came from North Carolina with his family, and pitched his camp near that of Bonne and bought land. After a while other settlers came, among them Dr. John T. Pullen, a brother of the former named, who bought land. In 1832 the Pullens caused a town to be laid off, sur- veyed by John E. Graham, and named it Pine Bluff, and had. a public sale of lots at the place August 22d, 1832. It com- prised 45 blocks. John W. Pullen kept a tavern, or "house of public entertainment" there in that year, and was Post-
master. In 1834 a substantial log court-house was built on the north side of Pullen street, north of the present "Commer- cial" office, a site which is now about midway the Arkansas river. In February, 1835, John W. Pullen was succeeded as Postmaster by his brother, Dr. John T. Pullen. Among the settlers of from that date to 1838 were Creed Taylor, the first Sheriff, William Kinkead, his successor in office, John Sel- den Roane, Peter German, W. H. Lindsey, S. Dardenne, J. J. Hammett, Joseph Fugate, Dorris, Buck, Johnson and Wright. In 1838 the town contained four frame houses and a dozen or so log huts. In 1839 Thomas Greenfield, Nimrod Kay, Robert and John Walker, Ambrose Hudgens
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and James Pike settled at the place. In 1839 the first brick structure in the place was erected. It was the second court- house, and stood until shortly before the war, when it was replaced by the present one. It occupied a site just north of the present one. The contractors were Jacob Brump, Anson Spalding and W. H. Lindsey. The present court-house was built in 1858 by Jacob Brump and George Keeler at a cost of $17,000. After the war, and particularly after the building of railroads to the city, Pine Bluff increased rapidly in popu-
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PINE BLUFF.
lation and assumed an extensive growth until now it numbers 12,000 inhabitants, and has an area of I 3-4 miles wide by 2 1-2 miles long, embracing 2,600 acres of land. There are 42 additions to the city proper, or old town. It has two lines of street cars, water-works, public parks, gas and electric light, with which latter the streets of the city are lighted, ice factory and many other city features.
The public school system of the city is excellent, and would be a credit to any place.
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There are four weekly and one daily papers published in Pine Bluff : Pine Bluff Commercial, daily and weekly, C. G. Newman, editor and proprietor ; Pine Bluff Press-Eagle, Arthur Murray, editor and proprietor ; Pine Bluff Graphic, I. W. Adams, editor and proprietor ; Pine Bluff Republi- can, S. P. & Ferd. Havis, editors and proprietors.
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Banks in the city are the Merchants and Planters and the Citizens.
There are two compresses, Standard Compress Company and F. C. Howell & Company.
In 1888 the oil mill near the Valley Route depot, was built. It is a large and substantial structure of brick and is
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well adapted for the purpose. In the same year also a large cotton compress, one of the largest anywhere in the Southwest, was built, being completed in the latter part of the year.
Pine Bluff has the following churches :
For the white race: Main Street Methodist, Sixth Avenue Baptist, St. Joseph's Catholic, Trinity Episcopal, First Pres- byterian and Jewish Synagogue.
For the colored race : St. Paul's Baptist, Strangers' Rest, Baptist, First Baptist, Barraque Street Baptist, St. John's
CATHOLIC CHURCH, PINE BLUFF.
Methodist, South ; St. James Methodist, North ; and Presby- terian.
On the Ist day of July, 1888, the Methodist church was occupied for the first time, 900 persons being present on the occasion. The pastor, Dr. J. F. Carr, delivered an eloquent and appropriate sermon. The corner stone of the building was laid November 9th, 1887. The church was built at a cost of about $16,000, and is a credit and ornament to the city. Jacob Thalheimer was the architect.
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The new Catholic church was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on Sunday, December 23d, 1888, Rev. Father J. M. Lucey being the pastor in charge. The building was erected by Charles J. Fischer, of Little Rock, and is a com- fortable and commodious structure.
Judge J. W. Bocage settled in Pine Bluff in 1839, engaging in the practice of law. He was born in New London, Con- necticut, in 1819. In 1843 he was Prosecuting Attorney of the District, and was County Judge 1846 to 1848. He is now engaged in real estate matters and machinery. At the commencement of the war he assisted in raising the Second Arkansas Infantry, of which he became Lieutenant-Colonel. On the 22d of May, 1840, he married, in Jefferson county, Miss Frances L. Lindsay, who was born in Fairfax county, Virginia. By this marriage there were thirteen children, of whom six are now living.
John Selden Roane was a citizen of Pine Bluff from 1837 to 1842, at which date he moved to Van Buren. While a resident of the latter place he was elected Governor of Arkan- sas. A fuller biographical notice of him will be found at Chapter XX., at the mention of his administration.
Jacob Brump was an early resident of the place, and a worthy citizen. He died June 13th, 1862, aged 53 years, and is buried in Bellewood Cemetery.
Judge Samuel Calhoun Roane was a resident of Pine Bluff from an early date, probably from shortly after its founding. He was born February 27th, 1793. He held many impor- tant offices in the Territory and State. ; was United States District Attorney, Judge of Circuit Court, President of Legis- lative Council, and of the Senate. He died December 8th, 1853.
In 1844 Judge D. W. Carroll settled in Pine Bluff, on his coming the second time from Maryland, and lived there till 1846, and again from 1852 to 1878. He was born in Mary- land in 1816. In 1836 he came to Arkansas, and settled at
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Little Rock ; returned to Maryland in 1844, but soon after came back to Arkansas and settled in Pine Bluff, remaining there until 1846, when he came to Little Rock, and served as Deputy under William Field, Clerk of the United States Court. He read law in 1848 in Little Rock, and in 1850 was elected to the Legislature with Frederick W. Trapnall.
SYNAGOGUE, PINE BLUFF.
In 1852 he was appointed State Land Agent at Pine Bluff, when he took up his residence there again and remained until 1878, when on becoming Chancellor he moved to the Capital, where he now resides. He was Prosecuting Attorney in 1860, and County Judge in 1866 to 1868,
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Hon. William Porter Grace became a resident of Pine Bluff in 1847, and has resided there continuously ever since. He was born in Caldwell county, Kentucky, November 22d, 1822, son of Preston and Jane Grace, who was Jane Killgore, a daughter of Daniel Killgore. His father was a contractor, brick maker and brick layer, and he and his five brothers were all brought up to the latter occupation. He followed it until 1844. When 22 years of age he concluded to try and get a better education and read law. In pursuance of this plan he attended Cumberland College, at Princeton, Ken- tucky, for one year, then read law for two years in the office of Judge Livingston Lindsay, at Princeton, and then came to Arkansas, locating at Pine Bluff, April 24th, 1847, engaging in the practice of law, which he has since pursued with success and distinction. From 1854 to 1856 he was Prosecuting Attor- ney of the Second Circuit, composed of the counties of Chicot, Desha, Ashley, Bradley, Drew, Arkansas, Jefferson, Dallas, Hot Spring and Calhoun. He was a Member of the State Convention of 1861 ; was Chairman of the Committee on Ordi- nances, and as such assisted in preparing the Ordinance of Secession, adopted May 6th, 1861. He entered the State serv- ice in the war as Commissary-General of General N. B. Pearce's Division of State troops, from June to September, 1861, when the division was disbanded. He took part in the battle of Oak Hills, August 10th, 1861, as Volunteer Aide to General Pearce. He has been twice married ; first in Pine Bluff, in May, 1853, to Miss Harriet Boyd, daughter of George W. Boyd. She died December 18th, 1863. On the 2d of April, 1868, at Pine Bluff, he married Mrs. Emily V. Hud- son, widow of Marion Hudson. Colonel Grace is an able and forcible speaker. He has of late been prominently iden- tified with the temperance movement in Arkansas.
In 1852 Colonel Marcus L. Bell became a citizen of Pine Bluff, and still resides there. He occupies a place in the front rank of his profession, and is one of the leading lawyers of
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the State. He was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, July 27th, 1829, son of a Presbyterian minister. In 1845, at the age of 16, he entered Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, but being recalled by the death of his father, did not have an opportunity to finish his full course there, and before long set out in the struggle of life on his own account. In May, 1849, at the age of twenty years, he came to Arkan- sas and settled in Little Rock. In a short while he became Private Secretary to Governor John Selden Roane, who had
BAPTIST CHURCH, PINE BLUFF.
then recently been elected. During the time of his residence in Little Rock he studied law under the direction of Judge E. H. English. In 1852 he was admitted to the Bar, and removed to Pine Bluff and began the practice of law, in which he rose rapidly. In 1861 he entered the Confederate Army as a Captain, and was Adjutant-General on the staff of Gen- eral John Selden Roane. This position he held until the 62
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PINE BLUFF.
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fall of Little Rock, in 1863, when he was transferred to the Indian Department, and was on the staff of General S. Mackey. After the close of the war he resumed his practice again, in which he attained eminence and success. In 1872 he was a candidate for Congress in the Second District, against O. P. Snyder. There is every reason to believe that he was elected by from 1,500 to 2,000 majority, but the cer- tificate of election was given to Mr. Snyder. Colonel Bell contested the seat before the House of Representatives, ably and vigorously, but was unsuccessful in obtaining it. Other than this instance he has not been a candidate for political honors. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Juliet Roane, a daughter of Hon. Samuel C. Roane. She died November 14th, 1877, without children. On the 2d of December, 1878, he married, at Pine Bluff, Mrs. Ellen Lee, a daughter of Adam Van der Werker, one of the Knicker- bocker families of New York. By this marriage there are two children-Marcus L., Jr., and Robert Davis.
John M. Clayton became a resident of Pine Bluff shortly after the war, and was Sheriff of the county for ten successive years, from 1876 to 1886. He was Representative in the Legislature in 1871, and in the Senate in 1873, a part of the time President of the Senate. He was Republican candidate for Congress in the Second District in 1888. He was foully murdered at Plummersville, on the 29th of January, 1889, by unknown parties. He was an affable and courteous gen- tleman, and very popular. He was born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, October 13th, 1840, a twin brother of William H. H. Clayton, of Fort Smith. Colonel Clayton was a widower at the time of his death, leaving a family of six children, two daughters and four sons.
Judge William M. Harrison became a resident of Pine Bluff in 1869. He was born in Dorchester county, Mary- land, June Ist, 1818. He came to Arkansas in 1840, and made his home in Columbia, the county seat of Chicot county,
BRANCH OF STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, PINE BLUFF.
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and engaged in teaching. While so engaged he read law at leisure times, and in 1845 was admitted to the Bar. In 1847 he moved to Drew county. From 1852 he was State Sena- tor four years, and in 1860 was a Member of the House of Representatives. From 1865 to 1868 he was Circuit Judge, and from 1868 to 1872 was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and again from 1874 to 1882, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law at Pine Bluff. In 1848 he married Miss Pamelia M. Fairchild.
Captain James Franklin Ritchie became a citizen of Pine Bluff in 1878. He was born in Selma, Alabama, in the year 1836, son of John Calhoun and Jennie Ritchie, who was Jen- nie Campbell. He was raised and educated in Mississippi ; studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1858. He came to Arkansas in that year, and settled in Hampton, Calhoun county, where he lived until November, 1860. At that time he moved to Little Rock. The war coming on shortly after, he enlisted from there in the Capital Guards of that place, in the Sixth Arkansas Infantry, Colonel Lyons. He was Quar- termaster-Sergeant in Hardee's Brigade; then was Second Lieutenant in Desha's Battalion, and Captain after consolida- tion with the Eighth Arkansas Regiment, in Liddell's Brigade, of Cleburne's Division. He was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, losing his right arm. After this, on being discharged in 1863, he settled at Camden, and lived there until 1874, when he moved to Hot Springs. He lived at Hot Springs until 1878, when he moved to Pine Bluff, and is engaged in the real estate and loan agency, also owning a farm. In 1860 he was elected Land Attorney and State Col- lector, and in 1866 was District Attorney in the Camden Dis- trict. On the 9th of December, 1863, he married, in Cam- den, Miss Maria Ella Powell. By this marriage there are three children : two sons and a daughter.
JACKSON COUNTY.
Jackson County, the twenty-fourth county created, was formed November 5th, 1829, out of territory taken from Independence county. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of Thomas Wideman. By an Act of the succeeding Legislature, October 26th, 1831, it was directed that Commissioners be chosen the following January to permanently locate the county seat. The town of Litch- field was chosen, and remained the county seat until 1839, when it was moved to Elizabeth, and remained there until 1852. In that year it was moved to Augusta, now in Wood- ruff county, and in 1854 it was located at Jacksonport, where it has since remained.
When the county was created it was but very sparsely settled. For more than a year after its formation it had neither post- office, Post-master nor post-road in its limits, the nearest post- . office being the town of Batesville, forty miles away, in the neighboring county of Independence. It had no roads, but mere bridle paths to connect scattered settlements. Its popu- lation in the census of 1833, the first census taken after its formation, was only 333.
The first court was held at the residence of Thomas Wide- man, a few miles east of Litchfield, May 3d, 1830, Thomas P. Eskridge, Judge; John C. Saylors, Clerk. The Clerk was "sworn into office" and court adjourned until "Court in course."
On the 5th day of November, 1831, the court was held at the "court-house in the town of Litchfield," Hon. Edward Cross, Judge.
Litchfield was a very small town, and is now a farm. It is about two miles east of Newport, where the Augusta road and the Batesville & Brinkley Railroad cross Village creek.
At this term several new names appear on the jury list.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1830 to 1832
Hiram Glass
J. C. Saylors
Isaac Gray
Hiram Glass.
John Robinson
1832 to 1833
E. Bartley.
J. C. Saylors ...
Isaac Gray ..
Hiram Glass.
John Robinson
18333 to 1835
J. Robinson ...
A. M. Carpenter
Isaac Gray
sam Matthews
Hall Roddy
1835 to 1836.
D. C. Waters ..
P. O. Flynn
James Robinson
1836 to 1838
John Rodby.
J. C. Saylors
James Robinson.
G. W. Cromwell
Sam Matthews.
Hall Roddy ..
1838 to 1840
D. C. Waters
J. C. Saylors
Isaac Gray
B. Bailey
1842 to 1844
O. M. Stephenson.
Garlen Silvey.
J. Robinson
J. Webb.
J. Williams
J. Gibson.
1844 to 1846
John Robinson ..
W. J. Haggard
J. J. Waddle
J. R. Frost.
James Patten
Wm. Hughes.
1846 to 1848
John Robinson.
A. H. Logan
J. J. Waddle
J. R. Frost
I. Hamilton ..
Jesse Oats
1850 to 1852
J. H. T. Webb
A. H. Logan
G. Silvey.
John Cowdry.
L. R. Clay.
John Towey.
1852 to 1854.
A. J. Langford.
W. R. Jones
G. Silvey ...
L. R. Clay.
Chas. Mckinney ...
1856 to 1858
H. D. Casey ..
C. W. Board.
A. II. Logan.
W. F. Mason
Chas. Mckinney ...
J. C. Mullins
1858 to 1860
J. C. Kirkpatrick. ...
R. R. Kellogg
A. H. Logan.
W. F. Mason.
C. H. Jackson
J. M. Mullins.
1860 to 1862.
J. C. Kirkpatrick ...
R. R. Kellogg
A. H. Logan.
P. S. Wisdom ..
J. L. Quinn
John Glass
1862 to 1864
A. J. Lankford
R. R. Kellogg
J. R. Jelks
P. S. Wisdom ..
A. J. Greenhaw.
Inatins Sprigg ..
1866 to 1868
A. J. Lankford
R. R. Kellogg
J. R. Loftin ..
W. F. Young
W. H. Watkins
Inatius Sprigg . B. F. Chandler
Wm. Brian, 4 ..
1868 to 1872
T. J. Randolph
Wm. Akers, 3 M. McCannany ..
H. N. Faulkinbury ...
G. Brandenburg
1874 to 1876
John W. Stayton
F. R. Hargrave ..
John R. Loftin.
w. S. huford.
R. O. Duffer ..
M. Hawk
J. G. Bandy.
1876 to 1878
John W. Stayton
H. C. Lowe
John R. Loftin
1878 to 1880
J. W. Phillips ..
R. W. Bandy.
John R. Loftin
W. H. Heard
R. O. Duffer ...
F. Simmons ..
G. C. Buford.
1880 to 1882
J. W. Phillips ...
R. W. Bandy.
John R. Loftin
W. S. Shuford ..
W. D. Shackelford F. Simmons ..
J. R. West.
1882 to 1884
J. W. Phillips.
R. W. Bandy.
T. S. Stephens
W. S. Shuford
R. O. Duffer ...
Felix Simmons .....
J. R. West.
1884 to 1886
W. H. Jago.
J. J. Walker
T. S. Stephens
W. S. Shuford.
R. W. Wallace
Felix Simmons.
J. S. Jones.
1886 to 1888
M. M. Stuckey ..
J. J. Walker
T. S. Stephens
W. S. Shuford.
F. Harrison
F. Simmons
J. S. Jones.
1888 to 1890
M. M. Stuckey
J. J. Walker
T. S. Stephens.
W. S. Shuford.
Tom Nance.
T. W. Jamison
F. R. Dowell.
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
J. Mullins ..
1854 to 1856
J. C. Johnson
D. C. Perry
R. Hudson
A. H. Logan ...
W. J. Sweat
J. R. Siddell
1864 to 1866
A. J. Lankford
R. R. Kellogg
L. R. Clay ..
W. F. Young ..
A. J. Greenhaw.
J. J. Green
Geo. Gordon
C. E. Brizzell.
F. W. Lynn.
1872 to 1874
R. O. Duffer.
W. P. McDonald
G. C. Buford.
1848 to 1850
John Robinson.
A. Crow ..
J. H. T. Webb
J. C. Pugh
A. Crow .
Wm. Scruggs
1840 to 1842
W. J. Haggard
Isaac Gray ..
G. W. Cromwell
Sam Allen.
R. Montgomery ..
H. H. Pongur.
J. G. Newbold
B. Ford
R. Kinman
w. S. Shuford.
M. Copeland.
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JACKSON COUNTY.
The second session of the court, held at Litchfield, April 27th, 1835, bears the signature of Archibald Yell, who held court up to November, 1836. In 1839 the court was held at Elizabeth, a small village on the east bank of White river. There is no inhabited house there now, but the ruins of a weather-boarded double log house are still to be seen on the right-of-way of the Batesville & Brinkley Railroad, 1 1-2 mile south of Jacksonport, which is all that is left of the place. In May, 1852, the court was held at Augusta, which was and is
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH, NEWPORT.
a considerable town, now the county seat of Woodruff county, formed from part of Jackson in 1862. In May, 1854, the court was held at Jacksonport, where it has been held ever since, and where there is one of the most substantial court- houses in the State, with fire-proof vault for records, and all the modern improvements; built in 1878.
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