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The chief products of the county are corn and grain. Cot- ton is also raised to some extent.
There are forty-three free common schools in the county, and churches at all the chief points.
The towns of the county are Murfreesboro, Antoine, Star of the West, Huddleston, Brocktown and Royston.
The town of Murfreesboro was founded in 1834. It is sit- uated in a fertile spot on the Little Missouri river, thirteen miles from Nashville, in Howard county, which is the nearest railroad point.
In 1837, by Act of the Legislature of December 9th, Fon- taine Stone, Robert McDonald, John Hughes, Elijah Kelly and Henry Brewer were appointed Commissioners to sell lots in the town and with the proceeds to build a court-house and jail for the county.
The present population of the place is about 300 persons.
A weekly newspaper, called The Sentinel, is published there by J. O. A. Bush, County Clerk.
GREENE COUNTY.
Greene County, the twenty-eighth county created, was formed November 5th, 1833, out of territory taken from Lawrence county. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of Benjamin Crowley until perma- nently established. Commissioners selected for the purpose located the county seat at Paris, five miles northeast of the
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1833 to 1834.
L. Brookfield
L. Thompson.
James Brown
J. Sutfin
G. Hall
1834 to 1835
L. Brookfield
L. Thompson ..
Charles Robertson ...
J. Sutfin ..
G. Hall
1835 to 1836
W. Hanes ..
L. Thompson
Charles Robertson.
J. Fowler
G. Hall
1836 to 1838
George Daniel
G. L. Martin
J. Stotts.
James Ratchford
1838 to 1840
L. Thompson
H. L. Holt, 1
J. Clark.
John Anderson.
William Hatch
1840 to 1842
J. M. Cooper
J. L. Atchinson.
J. Clark.
G. W. Harley ... H. N Reynolds.
P. K. Lester.
J. B. B. Moore
1844 to 1846
N. Murphee
H. L. Evans.
J. Ragsdale
M. Carter.
J. Lawrence.
James Mitchell
1846 to 1848
J. M. Cooper
H. Powell.
A. F. Puryer
J. W. Poole.
J. Hunt.
James Mitchell
1848 to 1850
C. G. Steele
H. Powell.
J. Clark
J, W. Poole.
W. H. Mack.
James Mitchell
1850 to 1852
H. T. Allen.
M. T. C. Lumpkins .. ...
William Pevehouse .. J. W. Poole.
C. G. Jones ..
R. W. Dorsey ...
James Mitchell
1852 to 1854
J. Dellinger ..
J. W. McFarland
W. M. Peebles
W. Merridith
J. S. Hibbs .
James Mitchell
1856 to 1858
H. T. Allen
L. B. McNeil ..
W. M. Peebles
J. Payne
M. McDaniel ..
E. M. Allen
1858 to 1860
H. T. Allen
H. W. Glasscock
F. S. White
T. H. Wyse ..
A. P. Bobo .
W. C. Reyburn.
1860 to 1862
T. Clark
H. W. Glasscock
F. S. White.
T. H. Wyse .
H. B. Wright ..
R. G. McLeskey.
1863 to 1864
T. Clark
H. W. Glasscock
A. Eubanks
C. Wall
H. B. Wright.
J. P. Harris
T. C. Murphy. H. W. Glasscock.
1864 to 1866.
2 J. J. Wood
R. H. Gardner
F. S. White.
M. C. Gramling
J. R. Gentry.
R. C. Mack
M. C. Gramling.
1866 to 1868
H. T. Allen
R. H. Gardner
F. S. White.
Alex Wood ..
H. Jackson ..
L. M. Wilson
D. J. Edwards, 4.
1868 to 1872
A. Seagrove.
E. R. Seeley
M. Wright.
Sam Newberry.
L. Steadman
J. Seeley, 3
W. F. Clements.
1874 to 1876
David Thorn
D. B. Warren ..
J. P. Wilcockson.
R. Jackson
E. Daniels ..
R. H. Gardner -..
J. Hurkaby.
1876 to 1878
J. P. Culver.
J. F. Lythe.
1878 to 1880
J. McDaniel
D. B. Warren.
F. S. White ..
G. W. Stevenson, 6 .. A. J. Wood, 7. R. Jackson J. W. Hardy ..
R. H. Gardner
P. G. Light.
1882 to 1884
J. O'Steen.
R. H. Gardner
T. R. Wilcockson .....
R. Jackson
J. R. Gross ..
O. S. Newson.
P. G. Light.
1884 to 1886.
John O'steen
R. H. Gardner
J. M. Highfield ..
J. N. Johnson
V. Looney
O. S. Newson .. ---
Jno. R. Thompson.
1886 to 1888
John O'Steen
T. B. Kitchens
T. R. Wilcockson
H. S. Trice
J. M. Hammond ..
O. S. Newson ..
J. R. Thompson.
1888 to 1890.
W. C. Jones.
T. B. Kitchens.
T. R. Wilcockson .....
H. S. Trice.
B. Terrell
Len Merriweather E. L. Babbett.
5-F. S.
1-J. L. Atkinson from November, 1838. 2-Record for this term incomplete. 3-From January, 1870. 4-P. G. Straughn from January, 1870. White from January, 1877, vice Owen died. 6-R. Jackson, on resignation of Stevenson. 7- W. M. McKay, on failure of Wood to qualify.
GREENE COUNTY.
1842 to 1844
H. Powell.
J. L. Atchinson
J. Clark ..
John Anderosn.
J. J. Johnson.
R. W. Dorsey ..
James Mitchell
M. T. C. Lumpkins ..
W. M. Peebles
1854 to 1856
H. T. Allen
J. H. Dudley
R. H. Gardner
1872 to 1874
D. B. Warren.
M. C. Gramling ..
R. Jackson
H. C. Swindle ..
J. A. Little .
R. H. Gardner
1880 to 1882.
M. C. Gramling ..
D. B. Warren.
T. R. Wilcockson ...
R. H Gardner
W. S. Ledbetter.
D. B. Warren.
J. A. Owen, 5.
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present town of Gainesville. In 1847 or 1848 the county seat was moved to Gainesville, where it remained until 1884, when it was moved to Paragould, where it now is. The order for the removal was made by the County Court about October 7th, 1884.
The name of the county is now generally spelled with the final e, but in the Act creating the county, as published in the volume of Acts, is without the final e.
Greene county is situated in the northeastern corner of the State, bounded on the east by the St. Francis river, which alone separates it from Missouri. Its area is about 625 square miles.
Its soil is fertile and embraces a large portion of alluvial soil, which produces fine crops of the staple products. Crow- ley's ridge, a high back-bone of land, runs through the county.
The timber growth of the county is varied and valuable, and the shipping facilities for it are excellent. The St. Francis and Cache rivers afford floating facilities to the east and west, while the county is traversed through the interior by four rail- roads: The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; the Hel- ena Branch ; the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas, and the Mem- phis & Kansas City roads.
The towns of the county are Gainesville, Paragould, Till- manville, Delaplaine, Maxville, Crowley and Halliday.
Paragould, the county seat, is on the Texas & St. Louis Railway. Its name was manufactured out of the combined names of two railroad magnates of the day, J. W. Paramore, President of the company which built the road, and Jay Gould. It is a thriving place of about 2,000 people. It dates from the year 1881, and was located on lands belonging to W. S. Pruett and J. J. Lambert & Son. In that year the narrow gauge, or "Paramore" road, now known as the "Cotton-belt route," and the Helena Branch of the Iron Mountain road were built, intersecting at the place, and the town was thereupon laid off and began to build up.
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There are three church-houses in the town. The Metho- dists and Baptists each have a neat frame church, and the Christian denomination have a good brick church.
It has three newspapers, the Press, the Lynch-pin, and Daily Times.
Gainesville, the next town of importance in the county, is : eight miles north of Paragould, and contains a population of about 500. It was settled about the year 1840, and has three churches, a district school, a weekly paper-the Greene County Events, telegraph and express offices and daily mail.
Judge L. L. Mack became a resident of Gainesville in 1851. He was born in Maury county, Tennessee, December 18th, 1817, son of Lemuel D. and Mary Mack, who was Mary Taylor. In 1837 he began reading law with his uncle, Robert A. Mack, who died in a few months thereafter, after which he continued to read part of the time without a pre- ceptor and at others under a great-uncle, Robert Mack, until 1838, when he was admitted to the Bar, and practiced law at Waynesville until 1844. He was Clerk of the County Court from 1844 to 1848; then practiced law until December, 1850, when he came to Arkansas. He stopped first at Marion, Crittenden county, then in Poinsett county, but in 1851 made his home in Gainesville, where he has since resided. In 1855 he was Prosecuting Attorney, and again in 1861; Member of the Legislature in 1860. In 1865 he was elected Circuit Judge, but was ousted in 1868. In 1874 he was re-elected Judge of the Second Cir- cuit. On the 16th of October, 1844, in Wayne county, Ten- nessee, he married Miss Felicia Ann Cypert, sister of Judge J. N. Cypert, of White county. By this marriage there were eleven children, seven sons and four daughters.
David Berry Warren has lived in Greene county continu- ously since October 1856. He was born in Giles county, Tennessee, October 3d, 1827, son of John B. and Rachel Warren, who was Rachel Hunt. He came to Arkansas
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October 23d, 1856, locating in Greene county, and is now a resident of Gainesville, a minister of the gospel and farmer. He was licensed to preach as a Southern Methodist in August, 1856 ; was ordained a Deacon at Dover, Arkansas, Novem- ber 3d, 1867, by Bishop Marvin, and Elder at Augusta, Arkansas, by Bishop Kavanaugh November 18th, 1877. He was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Greene county from May, 1873, to October, 1882. On the 4th of March, 1855, in Giles county, Tennessee, he was married to Miss Lucy Jane Ford. By this marriage there are five children now living. Three married, to-wit: Mrs. Alice Newberry, Ezra Warren, and Mrs. Ida Walden; and two single, to-wit: Miss Minnie Warren and Albert Warren.
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SCOTT COUNTY.
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Scott County, the twenty-ninth county formed, was cre- ated November 5th, 1883, out of territory taken from the counties of Crawford and Pope, and was named in honor of Judge Andrew Scott. The Act creating it provided for an election for Commissioners to be held, at which Walter Cauthron, Robert Mayes and William Wood were appointed Judges, and William W. Fleming, Joseph Tomlinson and Robert Cauthron were appointed Commissioners to receive subscriptions for the building of the court-house and jail. The Commissioners elected located the county seat at Cauthron, in April, 1834, where it remained for some time, when it was moved to Waldron, where it now is.
Scott is a western county, bounded west by the Indian Territory ; area, about 1000 square miles. It contains some hilly sections, but has level lands.
The soil is fertile and produces well all indigenous products. In the growth of fruit and vegetables it makes an unusually fine display.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1833 to 1835
Elijah Baker
S. B. Walker
James Riley
W. Cauthron ..
1835 to 1836
James Logan ..
G. Marshall
Charles Humphrey.
1836 to 1838.
James Logan ..
G. Marshall ..
Charles Humphr. y ..
W. Cauthron
G. C. Walker.
T. J. Garner
1838 to 1840
Gilbert Marshall
w. Kenner
Charles Humphrey .. | W. Cauthron
J. R. Choate
1840 to 1842
G. Marshall.
S. H. Chism ..
William Garner, I ...
Jesse Perkins
H. A. Patterson
1842 to 1844
Levi Bradley
E. Featherston.
J. B. Garrett
1844 to 1846
William Kenner.
John Baxter
A. Harland
G. W. Read.
James Stewart
J. Anthony.
1846 to 1848
Elijah Arnold.
William Kenner.
J. B. Garrett
G. W. Read ..
W. Hodge.
Charles Cauthron.
1848 to 1850
M. H. Blue
J. B. Garrett.
J. R. Baxter
J. M. Swinney.
W. B. Carr
E. H. Featherston.
1850 to 1852
J. H. Thompson
William Kenner ..
J. R. Baxter
J. M. Swinney ..
A. Kuykendall
S. H. Prowell.
1852 to 1854
J. R. Raymond ..
William Kenner
R. C. Reed.
J. M. Swinney ..
Drew Choate.
W. T. Dallıns.
1854 to 1856
W. E. Elkins
E. H. Featherston .. J. Gibson.
William Gibson :.
J. C. Moles
John Pace
W. T. Dallins.
1858 to 1860
H. Hine ..
J. C. Gibson
William Gibson.
J. C. Moles
J. E. Moore.
J. H. Johnson
1860 to 1862
J. H. Smith.
S. Graves
William Gibson.
J. C. Moles .
A. Ross.
J H. Johnson.
1862 to 1864
William Olive ..
L. D. Gilbreath.
C. C. Lewis
J. W. Evatt.
R. H. Halley
C. L. Hough
1864 to 1866
J. T. Harrison
F. M. Scott ..
G. Kincannon.
J. W. Evatt.
C. L. J. Hough
J. Bethel
1868 to 1872
N. Ellington, 3.
1 .. D. Gilbreath
N. Floyd
J. W. Evatt ..
W. D. Riley
D. P. Davis, 4.
C. Malone.
1874 to 1876
L. D. Pendery.
J. C. Gilbreath
F. C. Gaines.
W. D. Looper.
G. W. Smith
C. L. Hough
W. H. Highfill.
1876 to 1878
S. Howell ..
J. C. Gilbreath
J. C. Gilbreath
Samuel Leming, 5 ...
E. McCray ..
T. F. Smith
G. W. Blair ..
C. M. Vise.
1880 to 1882
J. H. Brown
J. C. Gilbreath
John Rawlings.
A. D. Peace ..
T. F. Smith
G. W. Blair.
P. H. Young.
1882 to 1884
J. H. Brown
J. C. Gilbreath.
C. M. Vise.
A. D. Peace
C. H. Bell.
W T. Brown
P. H. Young.
1884 to 1886
J. H. Brown
J. C. Gilbreath
C. M. Vise.
T. M. Evatt ..
J. L. Baker.
W. T. Brown
E. B. Young.
1886 to 1888
Roland Chiles
J. C. Gilbreath
C. M. Vise ..
T. M. Evatt ..
F. G. Thomas ..
W. J. King ..
E. B. Young.
1888 to 1890.
Daniel Hon ..
T. H. Duncan.
W. T. Brown
F. M. Bottoms.
W. L. Tollesen ....
W. J. King
E. N. McRay.
1856 to 1858
J. H. Forbet
L. D. Gilbreath
J. W. Barnett
J. W. Evatt ..
W. D. Riley
T. Suddith.
1872 to 1874
W. B. Turman
N. A. Floyd.
M. Johnson
William Chitwood C. L. Hough
C. L. Hough
C. M. Vise.
F. C. Gaines
W. D. Looper.
G. W. Rea
1878 to 1880
J. H. Payne ..
1-T. P. Sadler, Sheriff, until formation of Yell county. 2-N. Ellington, Judge; C. H. Olive, Clerk ; and J. W. Barnett, Sheriff, from July, 1865, 3-M. M. Tate from April, 1871. 4-C. A. Bird from December, 1870. 5-Died, and A. P. Walker appointed August, 1879.
SCOTT COUNTI.
W. Wheat.
Jesse Perkins
George Carroll
James Stewart
G. W. Reed.
T. I. Gates
1866 to 1868
N. Ellington
J. R. Choate
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
The county contains coal of good quality, found in the western part, and minerals in the southern part. Limestone is found, and iron ore is plentiful; and a large petroleum yield has recently been discovered.
Waldron, the county seat, is on the Poteau river, forty-five miles south of Fort Smith. It is a substantially built town, partly of brick houses of modern style. It has a population of about 1000, and has about thirty business houses. It con- tains steam, grist and planing mills, a cotton gin, four churches, a district school, two weekly newspapers, the Waldron Reporter, M. M. Beaver, editor ; and Scott County Citizen, P. C. Stone, publisher.
Hon. A. G. Washburn, Member of the House of Repre- sentatives of the session of 1885, 1887, 1889, is one of the prominent citizens of the place, engaged in the practice of law, as a member of the firm of Washburn & Wallace.
- VANBUREN COUNTY.
VanBuren County, the thirtieth county created, was formed November 11th, 1833, out of territory taken from the counties of Conway, Izard and Independence, and was named after Martin VanBuren. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of Nobadiah Marsh until the per- manent place could be selected. In the following year Com- missioners chosen for the purpose located it at Bloomington, on the Little Red river, eight miles east of Clinton, where it remained until 1844, when it was moved to Clinton.
Van Buren is an interior county, north of center, lying north of Conway and Faulkner, and east of Pope counties. Its area is about 700 square miles.
The general surface of the county is hilly and mountainous, but in the southeastern portion are level lands, and along the streams there are bottom lands. The soil is fertile and pro- duces well the usual crops. The southeastern part of the
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1833
J. L. Lafferty ..
P. O. Powell
N. Daugherty.
Phillip Nail.
L. Williams.
1833 to 1835
J. B. Craig
P. O. Powell
N. Daugherty
Phillip Nail ..
L. Williams ..
1835 to 1836
J. M. Baird ..
P. O. Powell
N. Daugherty ..
J. McAlister
L. Williams ..
1836 to 1838
Wm. Daugherty ..
P. O. Powell.
A. Morrison
A. Caruthers
R. Bain
L. Williams
1838 to 1840
Wm. Daugherty ..
George Counts
A. Morrison.
W. W. Trimble.
J. M. Grigg
L. Williams.
1840 to 1842
J. C. Gainer.
A. Daugherty.
J. O. Young.
George Hardın.
A. W. McRaines ...
L. Williams
1842 to 1844
A. Allen ..
H. Matthews
J. M. Pearce
Daniel Griggs.
Joshua James
Thomas Moss.
1844 to 1846
W. B. Sullivan
George Counts.
J. M. Pearce
Daniel Griggs.
Wm. Lay
Thomas Moss
1846 to 1848
H. W. Moss.
George Counts
J. M. Pearce
J. M. Baird
Thomas Moss.
1850 to 1852
J. Robinson ..
J. Harpham ..
L. R. Venable
M. Griggs.
J. McAllister.
A. G. Barlow ..
1852 to 1854
D. V. Mason
George Counts.
L. R. Venable.
M. Griggs
W. Leonard.
A. G. Barlow.
1854 to 1856
L. W. Chandler ..
J. T. Bradley.
L. R. Venable.
G. W. Maxrow.
Joshua Smith
Enoch Brewer.
1858 to 1860
R. S. Hill
J. T. Bradley ..
A. B. Gaylor
George Brown
1864 to 1866
W. K. Bradford.
Allen Lay.
D. H. Lay.
George Brown
1866 to 1868
F. H. Brittain
A. S. Lay
D. H. Lay.
W. E. Wilson.
C. R. Rogers.
E. Brewer ..
R. W. Emerson.
1874 to 1876
G. W. Holbrook.
A. C. Robinson
J. L. Brewer.
J. K. Hatchett
E. Heening ..
W. E. Wilson
J. M. Blassingame
1876 to 1878
G. W. Holbrook
W. T. Poe.
J. L. Brewer.
J. K. Hatchett.
W. D. Hunter.
F. R. Battershell ..
J. M. Blassingame.
1878 to 1880
G. W. Holbrook.
W. M. Peel
J. L. Brewer
J. K. Hatchett.
P. C. Menees ...
C. H. Culpepper ... J. M. Blassingame.
1880 to 1882
J. W. Middlet n.
W. M. Peel
R. R. Poe
J. K. Hatchett
A. Skillern .
C. H. Culpepper.
J. M. Blassingame.
1882 to 1884
G. W. Holbrook ....
W. M. Peel
R. R. Poe
K. H. Hutches.
J. T. Bradley ..
W. S. Mitchell
J. M. Price.
1884 to 1886
J. B. Duncan
W. H. Norman.
W. M. Peel
B. P. Boykin
J. T. Bradley.
Robert Rowe
W. T. Davis.
1886 to 1888
J. B. Duncan
W. H. Norman ..
Zack Thompson.
S. H. Bradley.
J R. Rowe
J. R. Rowe
Wm. Hardy.
1888 to 1890
J. B. Duncan
B. H. Thompson ..... Zack Thompson.
S. H. Bradley ..
James Greeson ....
Robert Rowe.
G. G. Perkins.
1856 to 1858
J. McAllister
J. T. Bradley
W. H. Griggs
J. M. Brooks
C. R. Rogers.
Enoch Brewer
1860 to 1862
J. G. Nixon.
J. M. Bailey ..
Benjanıin Holmes ..
1862 to 1864
J. F. McAllister
1868 to 1872
David Wilson
N. A. Sanders ...
M. C. Rerdell, 4.
J. M. Holderfield
1872 to 1874
N. A. Sanders, 3
M. C. Rerdell
J. M. Hine
J. L. England.
W. E. Wilson ..
J. G. Nunn.
1848 to 1850
J. L. Sanders.
H. Matthews
J. O. Young
Dani, 1 Griggs.
L. Williams
Daniel Griggs.
J. M. Baird
Thomas Moss.
L. R. Venable
G. Cotrel
Joshua Smith
A. G. Barlow ..
J. T. Bradley
J. T. Bradley.
Josiah Smith
A. J. Leonard ..
VANBUREN COUNTY.
1-Record of this term incomplete. 2-John Jackson from November 7, 1870. 3-R. C. Robinson from July, 1874. 4-Thomas Poe from June, 1874. 5- Wm. Hardy, Assessor, elected April 23, 1884, vice, J. M. Price, deceased.
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
county is particularly favorable for the growing of grain, and fruits produce well anywhere in the county.
Coal is found in the county and is locally used to a consid- erable extent. Many mineral springs exist in the county, whose waters are of value, the best known being the White and Black Sulphur, and the Price springs.
There are sixty-one school districts and many churches.
The towns of the county are Clinton, Liberty Springs, Choctaw, Scotland, Oak Flat and Bee Branch.
Clinton, the county seat, was founded by George Counts in the year 1842. It contains one church house, a frame build- ing belonging to the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at which services are held every first and third Sundays, by Rev. Z. M. Lindsey, pastor. The court-house is a modest frame structure.
A newspaper, called the VanBuren County Democrat, is published there by P. C. Bennett and J. W. Allen.
A male and female academy is conducted there by G. B. Hodge, principal.
JOHNSON COUNTY.
Johnson County, the thirty-first county formed, was cre- ated November 16th, 1833, out of territory taken from the county of Pope, and was named in honor of Judge Benjamin Johnson. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the residence of Elijah B. Alston, but Commissioners were directed to be elected in January, for the purpose of locating it permanently. It was not, however, located until 1836, at which date it was established at Clarksville, where it has since remained.
Johnson county is an interior county, northwest; bounded south by the Arkansas river, east by Pope and west by Frank- lin counties. Its area is about 700 square miles.
In surface, the county is mountainous. The Boston and
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
.
1833 to 1834
George Jameson ..
Thomas Janette.
S. F. Mason.
J. P. Kessie.
1334 to 1835
George Jameson
Thomas Janette.
[A. Sinclair
J. P. Kessie
1835 to 1836
J. P. Keesie.
William Fritz
W. J. Parks ..
R. S. McMicken
Augustus Ward.
1836 to 1838
J. L. Cravens.
A. M. Ward.
W. J. Parks
M. Rose.
A. L. Black.
W. A. Anderson.
1838 t > 1840
J. B. Brown ..
A. M. Ward
A. Sinclair
A. Lewis
A. Brown
J. W. Ryan .
1840 to 1842.
J. B. Brown ..
A. M. Ward
A. Sinclair
William Adams.
B. G. Clark
John Ward, Sr
1842 to 1844
J. B. Brown.
A. M. Ward
W. M. H. Newton
R. A. Latimer.
Chas. Dennings ..
Alfred Allen.
1844 to 1846
J. B. Brown
A. M. Ward
W. M. H. Newton
A. Smith
Joseph Stewart.
W. D. Dropper.
1848 to 1850
M. Rose.
A. M. Ward.
J. M. Hamilton
W. S. Swigart.
J. Arbaugh.
V. Wallace.
1850 to 1852
J. B. Brown.
A. M. Ward.
C. B. Mann
M. A. Hill.
J. Arbaugh
B. M. Davis
1852 to 1854
C. B. Perry
A. M. Ward.
C. B. Mann
William Fritz.
Lewis Mathews
B. M. Davis
1854 to 1856
H. A. Powers ..
J. G. Connelley ..
C. B. Mann
William Fritz
James Carlisle
B. M. Davis
1856 to 1858
C. B. Perry
A. M. Ward
W. D. Griffith, 1.
J. Conway ....
L. Mathews .....
B. M. Davis
1858 to 1860
A. D. King
A. M. Ward
J. F. Hill
William Fritz.
James Ballard
W. P. Clark
1860 to 1862.
W. T. Hyten
J. G. Connelley.
J. F. Hill
T. Baskins
P. Sanders ..
JW. P. Clark
1862 to 1864
W. T. Hyten
J. G. Connelley.
J. F. Hill
T. Baskins
A. Southerland.
.{V. Wallace
J. F. Hill.
1866 to 1868
A. M. Ward.
J. B. McConnell, 6 ..
E. N. Griffith.
William Hamlin
J. C. Jones
B. M. Davis ..
1868 to 1872
Elisha Mears
R. F. Naylor
P. Hixon
J. R. Laffrey.
J. Cheek
A. R. Young, 7
E. M. Griffith, 8.
1872 to 1874
1874 to 1876
J. G. Connelley ..
J. M. Thompson ..
J. M. Armstrong.
H. J. Clark
Sam Flemmings.
S. H. Thompson ..
1876 to 1878
J. G. Connelley ..
J. M. Thompson ..
J. M. Armstrong ..
J. B. Lee
S. H. Thompson ...
1878 to 1880
W. G. Taylor.
J. M. Thompson ..
E. T. McConnell.
R. Houston ..
J. B. Lee
G. R. Daniels.
J. M. King.
1880 to 1882
J. B. Porter ...
J. M. Thompson
E. T. McConnell
J. B. Wilson
J. B. Lee
Ezra Adkins
J. M. King.
1882 to 1884
J. G. Connelley ...
J. M. Thompson
E. P. McConnell.
J. B. Wilson, 10 ..
F. R. McKennon
Ezra Adkins
J. W. Huddleston.
1884 to 1886
J. B. Porter.
Q. B. Poyner.
W. S. Jett.
Failed to qualify
Failed to qualify ..
J. C. Bunch.
I. T. Patterson.
1886 to 1888
J. B. Porter ..
Q. B. Poyner
W. S. Jett.
W. G. Taylor.
J. T. Sykes
J. M. Kelly
Reuben Matthews.
1888 to 1890
J. G. Connelley
D. N. Clark ..
W. S. Jett.
W. G. Taylor.
J. T. Sykes.
Ezra Adkins.
J. M. King.
1-Sam Farmer from November, 1857. 2- S. H. Lasiter, fron June, 1865. 3-C. C. Reid, from November, 1865. 4-J. M. Lasiter from June, 1865. 5-T. Powers from September, 1865. 6-R. F. Navlor, Clerk Curcuit Court. 7-Edwin Greene from March, 1870. 8-L. Sykes from January, 1870. 9-L. N. Swagerty from December, 1873. 10-O. M. Clark, County Treasurer, March 6, 1883, vice J. B. Wilson, deceased.
JOHNSON COUNTY.
1846 to 1848
Samuel Adams ..
A. M. Ward.
J. M. Hamilton.
L. Armstrong
D. Hardgroves
D. G. Harris
1864 to 1866
W. T. Hyten, 2
J. G. Connelley, 3 ..
W. L. Cravens, 4
T. Baskins, 5 ..
W. Reed
L. Robinson.
Ed. Greene ...
R. S. Crampton.
H. Jacobs.
J. K. Price.
J. R. Price.
R. Houston
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
Mulberry mountains traverse its northern portion, but along streams there is considerable alluvial land of great fertility. The usual crops are produced and fruit is extensively raised. Apples are a fine and important product.
There are vast coal beds in the county, which are being successfully worked and which supply a large amount of coal to points on the railroad. Nothing but native coal is used anywhere within reach of these mines. The supply is of sev- eral varieties, hard and soft coal, semi-anthracite and semi- bituminous.
Low Gap spring, a chalybeate spring of local reputation, in the northern part of the county, is a favorite resort for both health and pleasure to residents of the neighborhood.
The county is traversed from east to west on its southern border by the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, which fol- lows the general line of the river, a short distance from it.
There are seventy-seven public schools in the county and a high school at Clarksville, and churches at all the principal points in the county. Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist denominations predominate, though there are other denomi- nations represented.
The principal towns of the county are Clarksville, Knox- ville, Cabin Creek, Spadra, Hartman and Coal Hill.
Clarksville is a thriving little city of about 1,500 people, IOI miles from the capital, and on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad.
The town contains a Baptist, Methodist and two Presbyte- rian churches ; a commodious court-house of brick, as are also a number of business buildings ; and four weekly newspapers, the Arkansian, the Clarksville Herald, the oldest paper in the county, the Western Journal, and the Arkansaw Econo- mist, Wheel organ.
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