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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.
1836 to 1838
William Wood
William Kavanaugh E. M. Hale
1838 to 1840
Joseph Rea.
William Ruttes.
Joe Brown
V. Robertson
T. S. Hale ..
J. Campbell
1840 to 1842
J. Campbell
T. H. Boyce
Joe Brown
V. Robertson
1842 to 1844
J. D. Robertson.
J. M. Hensley, 4 ... ..
Josiah Lane
J. D. Shaw
Theo. Parks ..
1844 to 1846
C. P. Thomas.
Alex Hill
J. C. Jameson
Robert Cagle
R. Matthews
W. Williams
1846 to 1848
C. P. Thomas ..
Alex Hill
Hiram Evans, 2
William Baker
J. Campbell
1848 to 1850
P. B. Ruff ..
C. A. McCain
William Thornhill ...
William Baker
R. M. Melton
1850 to 1852
J. K. Lenna
C. A. MeCain
R. N. Melton.
Joseph Rea.
1852 to 1854
A. J. Melton
Alex Hill
Alex Gray
Joseph Rea.
P. L. Downy.
G. W. Cagle.
1854 to 1856
A. J. Melton
Alex Hill
P. A. Tyler ..
L. Burnes ...
L. C. Barnes.
G. W. Cagle.
1856 to 1858
J. S. Wilson.
Alex Hill
P. A. Tyler
1 .. Burnes ..
R. A. Metlon ..
G. W. Cagle
1×58 to 1860
J. S. Wilson
Alex Hill
W. S. Lindsey
J. Hallabaugh
W. H. McMahon ..
1×60 to 1862
J. S. Wilson
Alex Hill
T. M. Alexander
A. King.
w. G. Gray
1862 to 1864
W. H. Jones ...
Alex Hill
S. L. Redwine
E. Long
A. King
1864 to 1866
J. J. Barnes
J. S. Stevenson. W. M. Hays ..
L. D. Jameson
F. Thompson
W. A. Bradley
W. H. McMahon .. F. A. Duck
B. W. Hensley.
1872 to 1874
F. A. Robertson ...
S. E. Hatchett
C. A. Williams.
J. W. Morris ..
J. W. Hallabaugh ..
A. R. Allen ..
J. W. Cypert.
1876 to 1878.
Jesse Cypert.
J. W. Morris ..
J. N. Hamilton ..
T. Thompson Thompson
Henry Modgelin ...
V. H. Williams.
Max Dampf.
1880 to 1882
Jesse Cypert.
J. W. Hensley ..
N. J. McBride
[. Thompson
J. C. Wood
H. L. Watts ..
W. B. Keeling.
1882 to 1884
Jesse Cypert ..
J. W. Hensley ..
N. J. MeBride
r. Thompson
J. C. Wood ..
B. F. Snow
A. H. Luna.
1884 to 1886
.. ..
J. A. McIntire
M. Dampf.
B. F. Snow
T. Thompson
G. B. Greenhaw ...
V. H. Williams
James Scott.
1886 to 1888
W. N. Cummings
V. C. Bratton
C. P. Lawrence.
T. Thompson
J. C. Wood
V. H. Williams
M. A. Sanders.
1888 to 1890
W. N. Cummings ..
V. C. Bratton.
C. P. Lawrence.
John W. Morris.
T. J. Jones
A. R. Allen.
(Tie vote.)
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W. S. Boyd
U. J. Sutterfield ..
1866 to 1868
Josiah Lane
Josiah Lane ..
C. A. P. Horn
L. D. Jameson
G. Ross ..
J. W. Morris
C. A. P. Horn
B. F. Hensley ..
J. W. Hensley
E. B. Jameson
J. A. Ham.
1874 to 1876
J. M. Russell
A. R. Allen ..
H. L. Watts.
1878 to 1880
F. A. Robertson ...
J. N. Hamilton ..
A. R. Allen
C.
J. D. Shaw.
E. Long.
J. W. S. Leslie
1868 to 1872.
1-William Baker from June, 1845. 2-C. A. McCain from February, 1847. 3-Record for this year incomplete. 4-C. J. Bolton appointed in June, 1844.
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
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ing no church, make use of the academy building for purposes of worship.
A newspaper is published there, called The Dollar Times, by T. E. and Cicero Brown.
There are three hotels, kept respectively by A. R. Steven- son, E. B. Harvy and Captain Redwine.
A contract was let during 1888 to Wm. McCabe and G. B. Greenhaw, to build a court-house, to cost $29,000, two stories, and of sufficient dimensions.
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YELL COUNTY.
Yell County, the forty-second county created, was formed December 5th, 1840, out of territory taken from the counties of Scott and Pope, and was named after the Governor, Arch- ibald Yell. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of William H. Pevy, until otherwise provided.
Danville is the county seat proper, but separate Circuit, Chancery and Probate courts are held at Dardanelle, really making two county seats for the county.
Nebo Springs, situated at Mount Nebo, about six miles from Dardanelle, on an elevation of 1,500 feet above the level of the sea, is a favorite place and summer resort, and its waters are of excellent properties.
The towns of the county are Dardanelle, Danville, Bluffton, Briggsville, Jennings Falls, Centerville, Ola and Chickalah.
Danville, the county seat, was founded and laid off by John Howell, October 12th, 1841, and an addition was made in August, 1847. It is not incorporated. The present popula- tion is about 300. It contains one church, the Methodist Episcopal, South, Rev. Basom Monk, of Belleville, Arkansas, Pastor. There is also a colored Methodist and Baptist church. There are three hotels in the place, kept respectively by J. B. Howell, W. J. Stafford and H. S. Carter.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1840 to 1842
J. J. Morse.
J. Gault.
T. P. Sadler ..
C. F. Long
W. D. Sadler
D. W. James
1842 to 1844
M. Brown.
J. C. Gault
T. P. Sadler
E. S. Haines
W. D. Sadler.
D. W. James.
1844 to 1846
G. E. Hays.
J. C. Gault ..
T. P. Sadler
William Porter.
W. D. Sadler.
D. W. James
1846 to 1848
B. Johnson.
T. W. Pound
S. Kirkpatrick
E. Haines
L. McDaniel.
J. Brearly
1848 to 1850.
C. H. Fitch ..
T. W. Pound
S. Kirkpatrick
E. Haines.
T. J. Haney.
J. F. Persy
1810 to 1852
Geo. Magness.
T. W. Pound.
S. Kirkpatrick.
J. G. Harrell ..
T. J. Haney
J. F. Persy
1852 to 1854
Geo. Magness
T. W. Pound
J. C. Herrin
T. J. Haney, 1
J. B. Fudge
T. R. Jett ..
1854 to 1856
B. Johnson ..
T. W. Pound
J. Gault.
T. S. Daniel ..
Joseph Hall
W. D. Briggs
1858 to 1860.
B. Johnson
T. W. Pound
J. Gault ...
J. G. Harrell
A. S. Garrison
W. D. Briggs
1860 to 1862
B. Johnson
J. C. Gault.
J. Gault.
E. B. Hatchett, 2 ..
A. S. Garrison
W. D. Briggs ..
Thomas Mandy.
1862 to 1864
J. M. Baird.
J. C. Gault
Lorenzo Free, 3.
J. C. Ward.
George Bennett ...
W. D. Briggs
A. Campbell.
1864 to 1866
B. G. Cook
J. F. Choate
H. Ferguson
William Bales
A. Neal
Alfred Ross.
1866 to 1868
Geo. Magness
J. C. Gault.
W. H. Ferguson
M. S. Cox ..
A. Neal
J. G. Carter ...
B. Johnson, Jr., 6 .. J. B. Eddington, 7.
1868 to 1872
H. Walker
J. F. Choate.
W. H. Ferguson
E. P. Johnson
William Dacus.
J.R.G. W.N.Adams A. N. Rose.
1872 to 1874
J. W. Pound
R. E. Cole
G. W. Phillips.
J.R.G.W.N.Adams M. S. Cox.
1874 to 1876
Geo. Magness
J. W. Pound
R. E. Cole
J. J. Robertson.
J. M. McCarroll
J.R.G. W.N. Adams M. S. Cox.
1876 to 1878
J. F. Choate
W. W. Brooks
R. E. Cole
M. S. Cox ..
T. R. Maxwell
W. D. Briggs
K. D. Tilghman.
1880 to 1882
H. A. Howell
J. W. Pound
L. L. Briggs.
M. W. McClure ..
J. A. Cannon.
J. H. Cotton ..
M. S. Cox.
1882 to 1884.
J. Gault ..
W. H. Gee
J. L. Davis.
M. W. McClure.
Joe Goodman ..
Charles Hunt ...
M. S. Cox.
1884 to 1886
J. E. McCall
W. H. Gee.
J. L. Davis
H. V. McCarroll
C. N. Myers ...
Charles Hunt ...
J. N. Whitelow.
1886 to 1888.
J. E. McCall
W. H. Gee
H. B. McCarrell
J. J. Robertson ...
E. C. Williams
Charles Hunt ........
J. N. Whilelow.
1888 to 1890.
G. L. Wirt.
J. H. McCargo
H. B. McCarrell.
J. J. Robertson ...
Robert Toomer ..
C. C. Dean ...
J. N. Whitelow.
1-T. H. Daniels from December, 1854. 2-Joined army, and J. C. Wars elected to fill vacancy. 3-O. Wood from March, 1863. 4-Record for this year in- complete. 5-Jesse George from January 3, 1873. 6-Alfred Boles from February, 1871. 7-A. N. Rose from April, 1871.
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
Benjamin Thomas
T. W. Pound
Joseph Garrett.
T. J. Haney ..
N. B. Rose ..
1856 to 1858.
H. A. Howell
J. F. Choate
J. A. Wilson
G. W. Phillips.
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W. G. Strayhorn
1878 to 1880.
J. F. Choate
..
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YELL COUNTY.
Yell county is a central county, northwest of the capital. It lies south of the Arkansas river, which forms its northeastern boundary. Its present area contains about 186,700 acres, and its population is about 16,000, of whom some 1,200 are colored. In surface about one-half of the county is hilly and mountainous, the remainder contains level and prairie land, with some alluvial soil, and in the bottoms is of great rich- ness. The staple products-cotton, corn, grain, tobacco and fruits-are grown. . The county contains coal and minerals. It is watered by the Arkansas river, the Petit Jean, Fourche la Fave, Delaware, Chickalah, Riley and Dutchess creeks .. There is as yet no railroad traversing the county, but a branch road extends from the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad at Russellville, in the adjoining county of Pope, three miles, ter- minating on the bank of the river opposite Dardanelle, af- fording facilities for travel with that city and the points in the county.
There are ninety-one school districts in the county, with an average of one school to the district, kept open from four to ten months in the year.
Dardanelle, the chief town of the county, is situated on the south bank of the Arkansas river. It was first settled in 1842, and was incorporated July 17th, 1875. It contains Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian (Cumberland and Old school), and Episcopal churches; excellent public schools, a large wagon and plow factory, water works, an efficient fire department, banks, and two weekly newspapers, the Post and the Herald; has telephone, telegraph and express offices, a num- ber of good hotels and daily mails.
Judge William D. Jacoway became a citizen of Dardanelle in 1851. He was born in Coffee county, Tennessee, May 13th, 1835, son of Benjamin J. and Margaret Jacoway. He came with his parents from Neshoba county, Mississippi, and landed at Dardanelle, February 4th, 1851, where he has since continuously lived. He graduated in the law school of Cum-
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berland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, in June, 1857, and was admitted to the Bar in Arkansas the same year. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in 1861, and Judge of the same 1878 to 1882. Being unable to do military duty, he took no part in the war, but was in sympathy with the South. On the 28th of December, 1858, he was married, in Washington county, Arkansas, to Eliza- beth Davis Parks. By this marriage there are seven chil- dren.
George L. Kimball became a citizen of Dardanelle in 1856, and still resides there, one of the leading men in the place. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire, November 2d, 1828, son of Hon. Samuel A. Kimball, a lawyer by pro- fession, in which place he grew up. When in his twentieth year he began for himself at printing in Meredith, New Hampshire, and then at Bath, Maine, where, in 1855, with Charles Cobb, he started the first morning paper in that place, the Daily Tribune. In December, 1855, he sold out his interest in the paper and came west, reaching Dardanelle, January 6th, 1856. He first clerked in the store of his brother, Samuel S. Kimball, of Murdock & Kimball, up to 1862. In 1864 he clerked on a steamboat, and in 1865 began merchandising. In 1866 he took in James K. Perry as a partner, and the firm continued till 1881, when he sold out to Mr. Perry. On the Ioth of March, 1861, he married Miss Mary E. Magness, at Dardanelle. She was the daughter of George Magness, for several years County Judge of Yell county. By this marriage there were three children, two sons and a daughter.
Judge Thomas Boles, was for several years a resident of Dardanelle. He was born in Clarksville, Arkansas, July 16th, 1837, son of John Boles, a native of Tennessee, who moved to Johnson county about 1834 or 1835, and from there to Yell county in 1842, where he died February 18th, 1863. Thomas Boles received but one year's schooling, but
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studied of nights when working on his father's farm. When 2 1 years old he served as Deputy Sheriff, and afterwards as Deputy Clerk. In 1861, being a Union man, he opposed the Secession movement, both before the secession of the State, and afterwards, and when the Federal forces occupied Little Rock, Dardanelle and Fort Smith, in 1863, he raised a com- pany of which he was elected Captain, and joined the Third Arkansas Federal Cavalry, and was made prisoner at Arka- delphia, but being afterwards released, he returned to his com- mand at Lewisburg, and served till 1864, when, his health failing, he was mustered out of service. In 1865 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Fourth District under the Mur- phy Government, and in 1868 was elected to Congress, and again in 1870 to 1874. After this date he settled at Dar- danelle, where he was appointed Receiver of the United States Land Office by President Hayes. In 1884, he was the Republican nominee for Governor, but was defeated by Gov- ernor Simon P. Hughes. Within a few years last past he took up his residence at Fort Smith. He was twice married. On the 15th of August, 1866, at Danville, Arkansas, he married Miss Julia E. Pound, daughter of Judge Thomas W. Pound. She died March 2Ist, 1872. By this marriage there were three children. On the 5th of February, 1874, he married, at Dardenelle, Miss Catharine F. Keith, daugher of Robert Keith, of Scotch descent. By this marriage there are two children living, a daughter and son.
William Henry Gee became a resident of Dardanelle in 1877. He was born at Huntingdon, Carroll county, Tennes- see, December 11th, 1836, son of James H. and Anna W. Gee, of Huntingdon, but who moved to Greenville, Hunt county, Texas, where they died in 1883. He came to Arkansas in 1868, settling at Augusta ; resided there until 1877, when he moved to Dardanelle, where he now resides; is Cashier of the Citizens' Bank at that place. He was Mayor of Augusta in 1875 and 1876; and was Clerk of the Circuit Court of
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Yell county from 1882 to 1886. He entered the Confederate Army in the summer of 1861, and served in it till the end of the war. In April, 1864, he was married at Vernon, Madison county, Mississippi, to Sallie L. Denson. By this marriage there are six children, all sons.
BRADLEY COUNTY.
Bradley County, the forty-third county created, was formed December 18th, 1840, out of territory taken from Union county, and was named after Captain Hugh Bradley, at whose house the temporary seat of justice was located. On the 17th of April, 1843, an order was made by the County Court locating it at Warren, where it has since remained. The first County Court was held at Warren, July 3d, 1843. The first Circuit Court was held at Warren, in October, 1843.
Bradley is a southern, interior county, separated from Louisiana by the counties of Ashley and Union. It lies along the Saline river on its eastern boundary, Bayou Moro on the west, and the Ouachita river on its southwest boundary. Its area is 645 square miles. The general surface of the county is level, there being no mountains and but few hills. The soil is, in general, fertile, and produces well. The usual crops of cotton, corn, wheat, oats and fruits are grown. Grapes make a particularly good yield. Excellent timber of the best market kinds abound, such as pine, walnut, white oak, ash and cypress.
There are thirty-eight public schools kept open from three to eight months in the year, with a high school at Warren.
There are nine Methodist churches, seven Baptist and two Presbyterian churches in the county.
The towns are Warren, the county seat, Johnsville, and Moro Bay.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1840 to 1842
Daniel Fraser.
Simon Chisholm
James Bradley ..
H. Marks.
Jas. Ozmend
J. T. Cabeen.
1842 to 1844.
Daniel Fraser ..
Simon Chisholm
J. H. D. Scobey ..
H. Marks
D. Mclaughlin
E. Howard
1844 to 1846
James McDaniel.
A. A. Turner, 1 ..
James Bradley ..
W. H. Wise
E. S. Franklin
I. D. Price ...
1846 to 1848
J. M. Merriweather .. Elijah Mosley ....
Frederick Wells
W. H. Wise
A. J. Stephens
E. G. Howard.
1848 to 1850
J. H. D. Scobey ..
Elijah Mosley ...
James Bradley ..
W. H. Wise
J. L. Hickman
R. L. Parker, 2.
1850 to 1852
J. H. D. Scobey ..
R. F. Urquhart.
John Havis ..
A. Godfrey.
F. M. Hickman
.. D. D. Hicks, 3 ..
1852 to 1854
J. H. D. Scobey.
A. Bartlett
A. B. Coward.
B. Gardner
A. L. Temple ..
M. Kemp
1854 to 1856.
W. H. Wise
A. Bartlett
A. B. Coward
B. Gardner, 4 ..
A. L. Temple ..
M. Kemp
1856 to 1858.
W. H. Wise
A. Bartlett
John Havis ..
John Ramsey
S. M. Black.
T. M. Mccullough.
1858 to 1860.
W. H. Wise.
A. Bartlett.
A. L. Temple
John Ramsey ..
Wm. Stringfellow.
T. M. Mccullough.
1860 to 1862.
W. H. Wise
W. Z. McCammon ...
A. L. Temple
John Ramsey .
P. R. Koonce. Jesse Rawls
A. Langston
Alex. Axton.
1862 to 1864.
Jas. H. Crawford
C. H. Seay.
A. B. Coward
John Ramsey ..
John B. Price.
A. Langston
A. S. Franklin.
1864 to 1866
W. H. Wise
W. G. Weiss
A. B. Coward
John Bamsey ..
Joseph Wise
A. Langston
A. Axton.
1868 to 1872
T. B. White, 3
W. W. Hughey ..
John Havis
Wm. Dobson ..
J. Scarbough
M. H. Kemp
J. M. Bradley, 7.
1874 to 1876
W. F. Mack
A. N. Bond.
C. C. Gannaway .....
B. C. Webb
J. M. Drummond ..
H. C. Hale
I. D. McFadden.
1876 to 1878
W. F. Mack
A. N. Bond.
C. C. Gannaway ..
B. C. Webb.
S. H. Turner
M. H. Kemp.
I. D. McFadden.
1878 to 1880
W. F. Mack
A. N. Bond.
C. C. Gannaway ....
B. C. Webb.
S. H. Turner
John Brady
B. F. Langston.
1880 to 1882
A. A. Turner
A. N. Bond
C. C. Gannaway ...
B. C. Webb
S. H. Turner ...
James Langston ..
B. F. Langston.
1882 to 1884
A. A. Turner.
H.B. Van Valkenburg
C. C. Robertson ....
B. C. Webb
C. C. Gannaway.
J. L. Langston
B. F. Langston.
1884 to 1886
A. A. Turner
H.B.Van Valkenburg Joseph Richey
B. C. Webb.
C. C. Gannaway .....
1886 to 1888
Alfred A. Turner.
H. B. Van Valkenburg J. F. Neely
B. F. Langston ..
T. J. Sharp
H. P. O'Shield ;.
1888 to 1890.
W. J. Hickman ...
H.B. Van Valkenburg W. R. Watson.
B. F. Langston ...
T. J. Sharp
J. W. Creed
J. S. Lee.
1-C. H. Seay held by appointment on decease of Chisholm. 2-On failure to give bond, R. F. Urquhart elected. 3-Refused to give bond, and succeeded by M. Kemp. 4-Succeeded by R. D. Wheeler, November 19, 1854. 5-Removed, April, 1867, and James Bradley appointed. 6-Office divided, and W. W. Hughey Clerk of Circuit Court. 7-Removed, and J. M. Merritt filled office
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1866 to 1868
W. H. Wise.
W. J. Lephieu, 6
A. B. Howard.
John Ramsey
J. B. Price.
1872 to 1874
A. N. Bond.
C. C. Gannaway ..
B. F. Langston.
R. L. Neeley ..
J. N. Marks
H. P. O'Shields.
B. F. Langston. James S. Lee.
T. M. Mccullough.
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HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
Warren, the county seat, is an interior town in the upper part of the county, on the Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas Railway, coming west from Arkansas City. It dates its existence from the year 1841. In that year ' John H. Marks, John Splawn and E. B. Owens were appointed a committee to locate the county seat, and they surveyed and platted the lots of the town of Warren, which was named after a favorite negro man servant belonging to Captain Hugh Bradley. John H. Marks and John Splawn being owners of the land, resigned as such Commissioners, and Nathaniel Barnett and A. S. Franklin were appointed Com- missioners in their stead.
At the April term of court, 1843, said Commissioners, E. B. Owens, Nathaniel Barnett and A. S. Franklin, made their report, with deeds from Marks and Splawn to the land, which was approved by the court, and the town of Warren was confirmed as the permanent county seat.
The town was incorporated February 5th, 1859, and re- incorporated April 8th, 1880.
It contains a large brick court-house, recently improved. In the matter of churches, it has three, all comfortable and fine buildings, a Methodist church, Presbyterian and Baptist.
There are two hotels, the Kemp House and the Hale House.
Two newspapers are published there : The Warren News, John E. Bradley, editor, and Swift's Flying Needle, W. T. Swift, editor.
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PERRY COUNTY.
Perry County, the forty-fourth county created, was formed December 18th, 1840, out of territory taken from Conway county, and was named in honor of Commodore Oliver H. Perry. The temporary seat of justice was located at the house of John L. Houston, who was the first County Treas- urer, but was established at Perryville early in 1841, and has since remained there. The Bill for the creation of the county, introduced December 4th, 1840, by D. Q. Stell, Represent- ative from Conway county, proposed that the name of the county should be Lafave county, but upon the Bill being con- sidered by a committee to whom it was referred, the name was changed to Perry county.
Perry county is an interior county, near the center of the State, south of the Arkansas river, northwest of Pulaski county and contiguous to it. Its area is about 600 square miles, and the population about 6,000. In surface about one-half of the county is broken, being hilly and moun- tainous, but contains fertile lands along the rivers and streams. The Arkansas river runs along its eastern boundary, and the Fourche le Fave, which is navigable as high as Perryville, runs through the center of the county. There is, as yet, no railroad in the county. The nearest railroad point is Morrillton, and the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, which is three miles from the eastern limit of the county, and across the river.
The principal crops grown are cotton and corn. Fine tim- ber is abundant, and where water transportation can be had, is easy of access to market.
Perryville is on the Fourche le Fave river, near the center of the county. It was founded in 1840, and located upon land donated by John L. Houston and John Greathouse. The first
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS.
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1840 to 1842
Wm. Houston
Russell
Robert McCall
J. L. Houston
N. King.
T. McBeth
1842 to 1844
I. W. Flanniken
I. Russell
J. Greathouse.
William Wilson
Robert Brown
1844 to 1846
N. King
Russell
Wm. Holford
Wm. Grisham.
L. G. Houston
1846 to 1848
I. W. Flanniken
J. W. Rison
M. Wise
Thomas Pinson
1848 to 1850
I. Russell ..
J. W. Rison.
William Wilson
W. R. Holford.
E. McL. Murray ...
1850 to 1852.
Henry Brown.
J. W. Rison.
Wm. Smith
I. Russell
Robert Brown.
R. McBeth
1852 to 1854
John Vann
J. W. Rison
T. A. Reeder
William Smith ..
David Vann
J. T. Cox.
1854 to 1856
John Vann
J. W. Rison ..
A. J. Jenkins
D. H. Frobaugh
James Lee
A. J. Lucus.
1856 to 1858
T. E. Holmes.
J. W. Rison
A. J. Jenkins ..
W. H. Blackwell
J. Miller ..
G. Davie
1858 to 1860
J. O. Higgins.
W. H. Blackwell
A. J. Jenkins.
H. Fowler ...
D. Shears ..
M. H. Mann
1862 to 1864
A. McAlpin ..
T. E. Holmes ....
T. C. Pankey .. J. W. Hardin J. E. Smith.
J. Deinsley
W. H. Ivey ..
1866 to 1868
Aaron Price
W. H. Blackwell
M. G. Smyers.
John Wells ..
A. Wells
W. H. Ivey ..
1868 to 1872.
R. S. Robertson ..
G. W. Manes ..
E. W. Baker, 3
J. W. Harper
J. R. Green
Wm. Creasey. J. C. Fitch
W. T. Gadd.
1874 to 1876.
H. Fowler.
J. A. McBath .. --
A. Wade
W. N. McGee, 6. William Bland.
Wm. Bell
W. D. H. Creasey ..
T. J. Holmes.
1878 to 1880
L. M. Harris.
A. L. McGahey ..
J. A. Ison .. .. L. J. Vann, 7
John Bland
Wm. Bell
W. D. H. Creasey ..
M. Brazel.
1882 to 1884
Geo. M. Johnson
J. A. McBath
W. H. Rankin
W. G. Rankin.
W. T. Baskins
W. D. H. Creasey ..
J. B. Lawson.
1884 to 1886
L. M. Harris
J. A. McBath
J. E. Oliver
Wm. Holcomb
J. A. Ellis
John Christ .. ....
J. S. Massey.
1886 to 1888
H. G. Wood
J. A. McBath
J. E. Oliver
Jerry Ragedill
F. VanBuren ..
W. D. H. Creasey .. J. S. Massey.
1888 to 1890.
R. J. White.
J. A. McBath
J. E. Oliver
G. W. Ivey
W. G. Handright .. |W. D. H. Creasey .. B. D. Taylor.
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J. B. Davis.
1872 to 1874
G. R. Maddock, 4
W. B. Hambright, 5 ..
J. S. Jones
Wm. Edwards
Wm. Bell
W. D. H. Creasey ..
T. J. Holmes.
1876 10 1878
N. F. Beverly.
A. L. McGahey ..
M. G. Smyers
John Bland.
Wm. Bell.
W. D. H. Creasey ..
T. J. Holmes.
1880 to 1882
L. M. Harris
A. L. McGahey.
J. P. Willis
Robert Rankin.
M. H. Mann
1860 to 1862.
J. O. Higgins
W. H. Blackwell
W. H. Burrow
John Wells
M. H. Mann
1864 to 1866
4 James Grace, 2.
J. L. Matthews.
1-Record for this term of office incomplete ; those officials given only held from 1865. 2-Aaron Price after his decease. 3-W. P. Hambright from March, 1870. 4-J. F. Sellers from December, 1875. 5-J. May from December, 1873. 6-J. S. Jones from December, 1875. 7-W. G. Rankin from January, 1882. 8- T. S. Haynes after Smith.
HISTORY OF ARKANSAS.
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PERRY COUNTY.
court-house was built about the year 1841-a log house-which was destroyed by fire about the year 1848. After this a log house on the south side of the square, in the old town, was used for court-house purposes until 1872, when a large frame building was erected about half or three-quarters of a mile north of the site of the old one, where something of a settle- ment had sprung up, called the new town. This building was destroyed by fire in 1874. A third one, a frame structure, was erected in 1879, which was likewise destroyed by fire December 19th, 1881. The present court-house is of brick, situated on the same ground as the former, and was built, about 1882, at a cost of $6,000. The town was incorporated December 8th, 1878.
-0- OUACHITA COUNTY.
Ouachita County, the forty-fifth county created, was formed November 29th, 1842, out of territory taken from the county of Union, and took its name from the Ouachita river, which forms part of its eastern boundary. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at the house of William L. Bradley until otherwise provided. In the following year Ecore ā Fabré, a point known of in early times as Fabre's Bluff, be- came the permanent county seat. The place was afterwards given the name Camden, after Camden, South Carolina, which it now bears.
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