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Lonoke County, the seventy-first county created, was formed April 16th, 1873, out of territory taken from the counties of Prairie and Pulaski. The name is a joinder of the two words, lone oak, phonetically spelled, and was first em- ployed by Major George P. C. Rumbough in surveying to mark an oak tree standing on the old road from Brownsville to Little Rock, at or near the place where the present city stands, for it was the town which gave the name to the county.
Both the temporary and permanent seat of justice was located at the town of Lonoke.
Lonoke is a central county next east from Pulaski, and be- tween it and Prairie, north of Arkansas county and south of White. Its area is about 862 square miles. In surface the county is entirely level, about one-tenth being prairie land, affording excellent pasturage for stock, of which large num- bers are raised and annually sent to cattle markets. Dairy business is also largely followed. The soil is fertile, and pro- duces well the usual crops of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, pota- toes, garden vegetables and fruits. Small fruits succeed es- pecially well.
The county is traversed in the center by the Little Rock & Memphis Railroad, running east and west for a distance of eighteen miles, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad crosses the northwest corner, with a station at Austin.
There are about sixty common schools in the county, with a high school at Lonoke, and about 100 church-houses of the different denominations throughout the county.
The principal towns are Lonoke, Cabot, Carlisle and Austin.
The town of Lonoke, the county seat, is the largest and principal town of the county, situated near the geographical
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS:
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1873 to 1874
G. M. Chapline
J. M. Mcclintock.
A. M. Russell.
J. A. Woolen.
J. E. Baker, 1
D. J. Mytinger.
1874 to 1876
E. L. Beard.
William Goodrum ...
J. M. King. .
W. A. Verser.
H. C. Jackson.
J. K. Alexander.
L. A. Mclendon.
1876 to 1878
E. L. Beard
William Goodrum ...
J. M. King ..
W. A. Verser
R. E. Boyd
J. A. Alexander
L. A. Mclendon.
1878 to 1880.
E. L. Beard.
William Goodrum ... W. P. Fletcher.
W. A. Verser
S. B. Cannon
B. F. Stokes.
F. G. Swain.
1880 to 1882
E. L. Beard
William Goodrum ...
W. P. Fletcher
W. A. Verser
S. B. Cannon
B. F. Stokes.
F. G. Swain.
1882 to 1884.
J. M. King
William Goodrum.
W. P. Fletcher.
W. A. Verser
S. B. Cannon
B. F. Stokes
Q. T. Webster.
1884 to 1886
J. M. King.
William Goodrum
W. P. Fletcher.
S. V. Austin
S. T. Norcutt
B. F. Stokes
F. G. Swamn.
1886 to 1888
J. N. Smith
Geo. M. Chapline
J. H. Hicks
S. V. Austin.
D. A. Newman.
B. F. Stokes
W. H. Robinson.
1888 to 1890.
J. N. Smith
G. M. Chapline.
J. H. Hicks
Henry Brown.
J. F. Bell
B. F. Stokes
W. H. Robinson.
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1- W. J. High from November, 1873.
center of the county, on the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad, and on the north side of Prairie Longue, with a population of 2,000, and covering an area of 600 acres. It has a fine two-story, brick court-house, with a fire-proof record vault, eight commodious office-rooms and three halls, be- sides the large court-room. There is also a two-story frame, eight-room college building, with modern appliances, neatly fenced, used for the high school. This school employs one superintendent and principal, and five assistant teachers. In addition there is a free public school for the colored children of the district. The white people have a Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian church each, and each denomination has a neat church edifice. The colored Methodists and Baptists have each a place of worship. The town has a post-office, money-order office, two express offices and one telegraph office, a bank, and a number of handsome stores.
Hon. W. P. Fletcher was born in Mississippi in 1848, came to Arkansas about 1867, and settled where Lonoke county was afterwards established. He was Sheriff of the county from
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1878 to 1886, and at that date resigned the office to become Senator of the Twelfth District, composed of Lonoke and Prairie counties, which position he now fills.
John C. England was born near Lonoke in 1850, and lived there till 1887, when he moved to Little Rock, but still retained his connection with the firm of John C. England & Co. He studied law, and in 1870 was admitted to the Bar, and has continued the practice ever since, coupled with real estate business. On the inauguration of Governor James P. Eagle, in 1889, he became Private Secretary to the Governor.
C. W. England, a younger brother of John C. England, is a native of the county. He was born near Lonoke in 1855, and is also engaged in the practice of law and conducting real estate business at Lonoke.
Hon. Wm. F. Hicks, editor of the weekly Democrat, was born in Anderson county, east Tennessee, in 1825. In 1835 his father moved to Arkansas, and in 1836 he began working in the office of the Times and Advocate in Little Rock, and afterwards worked in the Gazette office to 1843. In 1846 he went to the Mexican War in Captain Pike's Company, of Yell's Regiment, and was in the Battle of Buena Vista. In 1854 he went to California, and edited the Daily California Express to 1865, at which date he returned to Arkansas and settled in Prairie county, from which Lonoke county was formed. He represented that county in the Constitutional Convention of 1868. In 1874 he was elected to the State Senate, and again in 1882 for the term of 1886, and in 1886 was elected to the Lower House of the Legislature. He has been Post-master several times, and also Mayor of Lonoke.
Hon. James Edward Gatewood became a citizen of Des Arc in 1854, where he lived until recently, when he moved to Lonoke. He was born in Henderson county, Tennessee, May 19th, 1833, son of Thomas G. and Elizabeth R. Gate- wood. He graduated at the University of Mississippi, at Ox- ford, in 1853; read law at Holly Springs, Mississippi, in the
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office of Clapp & Strickland ; was admitted to the Bar in Holly Springs in 1854, by Judge P. T. Scruggs, who afterwards moved to Des Arc. He came to Arkansas in October, 1854. He was Mayor of Des Arc in 1860 and 1861 ; State Senator from the Twelfth Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Lonoke and Prairie, elected in 1878 and served two terms ; was Special Judge of the Supreme Court in the case of Lusk vs. Perkins, et al. He entered the Confederate Army in Glenn's Company of Cleburne's First Arkansas Infantry, after- wards numbered the Fifteenth, and, on being discharged, entered Crocker's independent company, and afterwards a member of Bateman's Company of Morgan's Regiment in Cabell's Brigade; was Commissary, then Adjutant to the regiment, and then to the brigade, serving to the close of the war. He was twice married. On the 6th of January, 1858, in Prairie county, Arkansas, he was married to Virginia T. Brock. She died April 21st, 1862. On the 5th of July, 1866, in Marshall county, Mississippi, he was married to Annie C. Richmond. His children are six in number.
Carlisle is nine miles east of Lonoke, on the Memphis & Lit- tle Rock Railroad, with a population of about 400 ; the country around is well settled ; hay, cotton and stock being the princi- pal exports. It is on the south and west side of Grand Prairie.
The town has a newspaper, Carlisle New Departure; one grist mill and cotton gin, one wholesale hay manufactory, one public school building, one each Methodist and Baptist churches, and several stores.
One of the leading enterprises of Carlisle is the Emonson Mercantile and Manufacturing Company. Besides a large mercantile interest, they have a grist mill, gin and wholesale hay manufacturing establishment. It has a fifty horse-power engine, and runs two hay presses, one cotton press, two gin stands and one grist mill. Their hay shed has a capacity of 2,000 tons of baled hay.
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A. Emonson, President of the company, was born in Norway in 1843, and came to Arkansas about the year 1877. By his energy and activity he has built up large business in- terests in which he is engaged.
In the summer of 1888 settlement of a town, called England, was begun. James K. Brodie built a store there, and com- menced business, the first house built in the town. A public sale of lots was had January 30th, 1889, the town having been laid out before that date. The town is on the Altheimer branch of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway.
In Lonoke county there are the most extensive works of the mound-builders to be found in the southwestern portion of the United States. They are located on section II, township I south, range 10 west.
These works consist of several mounds, the two largest being respectively sixty and seventy feet high, and each cov- ering an area of about one acre of ground. There are several smaller mounds of a variety of shapes, varying in height from eight to fifteen feet.
On one side of the land on which these mounds are situa- ted is a beautiful body of water, called Mound Lake.
There is a levee, constructed much in the style of our modern river levees, which encloses these mounds on all sides, except that bordering on the lake. This levee is one mile in length and semi-circular in form.
These remains of the mound-builders contain great quanti- ties of pottery, arrow-heads, human bones, stone hatchets, and a variety of articles of rude manufacture.
Adjacent to these works is a station on the St. Louis, Ar- kansas & Texas Railway, called Toltec, in honor of the mound- builders, supposed to be of the Toltec race, as the works are similar to those built by the Toltecs, the first inhabitants of the city of Mexico. At this station a town-site has been plat- ted by Messrs. Gilbert Knapp and E. F. Officer, where al- ready considerable business is being transacted.
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CLEVELAND COUNTY.
CLEVELAND COUNTY.
The seventy-second county created was given the name of Dorsey county, after Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, but by Act of the Legislature of 1885 the name of the county was changed to Cleveland county, in honor of President Grover Cleveland. It was formed April 17th, 1873, out of territory taken from the counties of Jefferson, Dallas, Bradley and Lincoln. The county seat was located at Toledo. In the summer of 1889 a vote was held on the subject of moving the county seat, which was determined in favor of Kingsland.
Cleveland is an interior county south, bounded east by Lin- coln and Drew counties, south by Bradley, west by Dallas and the upper part of Calhoun, and north by Grant and Jef- ferson. Its area is about 550 square miles.
In surface the land is somewhat hilly, and the soil of average fertility. Cotton and corn are the staple products. Fruits produce well.
The St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway runs through the county from north to southwest.
There are about twenty free common schools, open from three to six months in the year, forty-three school districts, fifteen school-houses, and church-houses in all the principal points.
The principal towns of the county are Kingsland, Toledo, Rison and New Edinburgh.
Toledo is a place of about 200 people. It contains a church, school, mill, and several stores, and receives mail semi- weekly.
In March, 1889, the court-house of the county was burned, destroying all the court records and papers; but the county record books of deeds, mortgages, and similar records, were saved.
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS :
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1873 to 1874
H. Hementred
S. W. McLeod.
M. T. McGehee ..
E. Hobson
J. N. Marks
C. B. Atwood.
1874 to 1876
John Fawcett.
E. P. Marks.
E. Kendall
S. Johnson
Wm. Cash
J. N. Marks.
C. B. Atwood.
1876 to 1878
John Fawcett, 2 ..
N. D. Holmes
A. D. Rogers.
S. Johnson
Wm. Cash ..
W. R. Wyatt.
C. B. Atwood.
1878 to 1880
L. F. Oaks
J. T. Renfrow.
W. W. Carmichael .. S. Johnson
Wm. Garlington ..
W. R. Wyatt ..
C. B. Atwood.
1880 to 1882.
L. F. Oaks
J. T. Renfrow.
H. W. Rogers .. ..
S. Johnson
W. C. Tomme ..
W. R. Wyatt ..
R. A. Tucker.
1882 to 1884
J. H. Bridges.
J. T. Renfrow.
H. W. Rogers.
S. Johnson.
J. F. Crump.
J. N. Marks.
R. A. Tucker.
1884 to 1886
J. M. McCaskill. -.
N. D. Holmes.
H. W. Rogers ...
W. L. Conner.
W. D. Atwood .....
James Jewell ...
R. A. Tucker.
1886 to 1888
J. M. McCaskill.
N. D. Holmes ..
L. A. Waldrop.
A. Franklin
J. R. McWilliams ..
J. G. Culpepper
R. A. Tucker.
1888 to 1890
J. F. Johnson ..
Woodson Mosely ....
L. A. Waldrop
J. J. Lee.
W. H. Barnett .. ....
J. N. Marks ...
R. A. Tucker
1-Died, and E. M. Orton in office from December, 1873. 2-Deceased, and W. P. Stephens elected November 7th, 1876.
New Edinburgh was founded in 1861, being platted and laid off into town lots in that year, but made little progress, on account of the war. The first business house erected in the town was by Mattock & Havis, in 1865. The battlefield of Marks' Mills is two miles north of the town. It takes its name from the mill erected by Hastings Marks, one of the pioneers of the county, who settled there in 1836, coming from Albemarle county, Virginia. The Federal troops were en- camped on his farm when the battle took place.
William Barrett was another pioneer of the same date with Hastings Marks. The descendants of the two are numerous, and influential persons of the county.
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Howard County, the seventy-third county created, was formed by the Legislature, April 17th, 1873, and was named after James Howard, Senator for the Seventeenth District, composed of the counties of Clark, Pike and Sevier, in the session of 1873. It was formed out of territory taken from the counties of Polk, Pike, Hempstead and Sevier. W. A. Marshall, of Hempstead county, J. H. Anderson, of Polk county, and William J. Hicks, of Sevier county, were appointed Commis- sioners to select the county seat ; the selection made by them to be submitted to a vote of the people, at a special election, for approval. They selected Center Point as the county seat, which was ap- proved by the people, and has, consequently, since remained the permanent seat of justice.
HOWARD COUNTY.
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE COUNTY OFFICERS FROM THE FORMATION OF THE COUNTY:
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1873 to 1874
O. S. Hawkins.
R. G. Shaver ..
Adam Boyd.
Samuel Boyd.
G. L. Martindale ..
W. J. Hicks
1874 to 1876 J. A. Corbell
J. P. Richardson
A. S. Hutchinson.
D. D. Reeder ..
D. Thomas ..
T. D. Draper
D. Turpentine*
1876 to 1878 |J. A. Corbell
R. D. Owens
A. S. Hutchinson.
D. D. Reeder ..
G. M. Clark.
J. A. Falls.
D. Turpentine
1878 to 1880| W. R. Hughes.
W. W. Hill
A. S. Hutchinson.
D. D. Reeder ..
W. J. Talbott ..
G. L. Martindale
C. H. Burton
1980 to 1882 | W. R. Hughes.
W. W. Hill
A. S. Hutchinson.
C. C. Latimer ..
W. J. Talbott ..
G. L. Martindale.
E. Hunter
1882 to 1884 |G. G. Graves
W. W. Hillt
W. H. Briggs.
C. C. Latimert.
R. S. Sypert ..
G. L. Martindale.
J. T. King
1884 to 1886 J. H. Bell.
J. M. Somervell
W. H. Briggs.
D. D. Reeder
W. J. Talbott.
G. L. Martindale.
Thomas Parish
1886 to 1888 Rufus D. Neal.
J. M. Somervell.
W. H. Briggs.
J. W. Bishop
Jos. Graves ..
I. M. Puckett
Thomas Parish
1888 to 1890 |R. D. Neal ..
J. M. Somervell
W. H. Briggs.
J. W. Bishop.
Jos. Graves.
Jesse A. Falls ..
Thomas Parish
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(*) Died in August, 1875, and R. D. Owens elected.
(t) D. D. Reeder, Treasurer, May 28th, 1883, vice C. C. Latimer, died. (+) John W. Bishop, Circuit Clerk, October 10th, 1883, vice W. W. Hill, died.
Judge R. D. Hearn is the present Circuit Judge, and W. M. Greene, Prosecuting Attorney.
Howard is an interior county, separated from the Indian country by the county of Sevier, and part of Polk. Its area is 630 square miles, and its population, in the census of 1880, was 9,917, of whom 7,408 were white, and 2,509 were colored persons.
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In surface, the county is level in the southern portion, but hilly and broken in other sections. Mineral indications exist, showing the presence of coal, kaolin, iron, antimony, gyp- sum, silver and lead.
The only railroad in the county is from Nashville to Wash- ington, in the adjoining county of Hempstead.
There are forty-two free common schools in the county, and churches at all the principal points. There are fifty-nine school districts and twenty-seven school-houses.
PUBLIC SCHOOL, NASHVILLE, ARKANSAS.
The chief towns are Center Point, Nashville, Saratoga, Mineral Springs and Corinth.
Center Point, the county seat, was laid out as a town about 1851. It was incorporated first in 1859, and re-incorporated in 1881. The present population is about 700. There are four churches there, to-wit: Methodist, Rev. J. R. Sanders,
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pastor ; Baptist, Rev. J. A. Felts, pastor ; Cumberland Pres- byterian, Rev. W. A. Dooley, pastor; and Christian, Rev. J. R. Jones, pastor. There is a newspaper published there, called the Dallas Signal, E. J. Ellis, editor. There are three hotels in the place : the "Meadon House," Mrs. L. J. Meadon ; the "Tinney House," kept by J. R. Tinney, and the "Riven House," kept by J. L. Riven.
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LEE COUNTY.
Lee County, the seventy-fourth county created, was estab- lished April 17th, 1873, out of territory taken from the coun- ties of Crittenden, Phillips, Monroe and St. Francis, and was named after General Robert E. Lee. The temporary seat of justice was directed to be at Marianna, and the place was continued as, and is now, the permanent county seat.
Lee is a border county east, bounded north by St. Francis, south by Phillips, east by the Mississippi river, and west by Monroe county. Its area is about 600 square miles, the num- ber of acres being 385,099.
In surface the county is undulating, but with no mountains. The soil is rich, being chiefly alluvial, and very fertile. The principal crops are cotton and corn, but all others usual to the latitude are grown. Fruits make a fine yield. The land is well timbered, and with growth of desirable kinds.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Helena Railroad runs through the county north and south, near the center.
There are about forty-three free common schools, with a high school at Marianna, and about seventy-five churches of the different denominations, in the county.
The towns are Marianna, LaGrange, Haynes, Spring Creek, and Moro.
The town of Marianna, the county seat, was incorporated as a town in 1871. Its present estimated population is about
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THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN THE COUNTY OFFICERS:
DATE.
JUDGE.
CLERK.
SHERIFF.
TREASURER.
CORONER.
SURVEYOR.
ASSESSOR.
1873 to 1874
M. H. Wing
W. H. Furbush.
B. B. Nunnally.
J. Roberts.
S. M. Wiley ..
Geo. H. W. Stuart.
1874 to 1876
E. L. Black
F. H. Govan.
W. H. Furbush
B. B. Nunnally ..
P. Price ..
S. M. Wiley ..
J. U. Jackson.
1876 to 1878.
E. L. Black
F. H. Govan
W. H. Furbush
B. B. Nunnally
Jake Shawl ..
S. M. Wiley ..
C. W. Jones.
1878 to 1880.
E. L. Black
T. C. Merwin
C. H. Banks.
B. B. Nunnally ..
W. L. Howard.
H. N. Pharr
H. W. Cotter.
1880 to 1882
E. L. Black
T. C. Merwin
C. H. Banks.
D. S. Drake
Sam Davis.
W. N. Pharr
P. R. Jones.
1882 to 1884.
H. N. Word.
T. C. Merwin
C. H. Banks ..
B. M. Govan.
D. M. Lackie.
W. A. Johnson
V. M. Harrington.
1884 to 1886.
H. N. Word.
W. T. Derrick
E. H. B. Dupuy ..
B. M. Govan.
Thomas Foster.
W. A. Johnson
J. J. Sampson.
1886 to 1888
H. N. Word.
W. T. Derrick.
V. M. Harrington
Julius Lesser.
J. G. Baldwin.
W. A. Johnson
J. A. Wilkes.
1888 to 1890.
H. N. Word ..
W. T. Derrick
V. M. Harrington ..... Julius Lesser.
J. G. Baldwin
W. A. Johnson.
Sam D. Bonner.
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LEE COUNTY.
1, 500. It has seven churches, all frame buildings. They are the Protestant Episcopal church, Rev. C. A. Bruce, rector ; Presbyterian church, Rev. T. J. Horne, pastor ; Methodist Episcopal church, South, Rev. R. S. Deener; Baptist, Rev. W. H. Pasley; and also Methodist, Baptist and Southern Methodist churches for the colored race.
The present court-house is frame, but the sum of $15,000 has been appropriated, and is in the treasury, for a new brick court-house, to be built at an early date. There are two hotels in the place, to-wit : the Cotton Exchange and the Atlantic. The Marianna Index is published by B. M. Barrington.
Judge Hance Newton Hutton was born in Winchester, Franklin county, Tennessee, April 15th, 1835, son of John and Margaret Hutton. He attended Union University, of Murfreesboro, Ten- nessee, graduating June 13th, 1853; attended the law school at Lebanon, Tennessee, and gradu-
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ated February, 1855, with first honors of the class. He was an Elector on the Fillmore ticket of 1856, being a Whig in politics ; since the war he has been an uncompromising Dem- ocrat. He came to Arkansas November 14th, 1860, and since that date has been a resident of Marianna and vicinity, engaged in the practice of law. He was Judge of the County Court of Lee county in 1873, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in 1874, and in 1888 was elected Member of the Legislature from 1889 to 1891. He served in the Confederate Army, in the Second Arkansas In- fantry, Hindman's Old Regiment, in Govan's Brigade, and Cleburne's Division. He was Adjutant-General on the Staff of General Govan. On the 6th of January, 1857, at Leba- non, Tennessee, he was married to Miss Cillie Motley. By this marriage there are four sons.
Hon. John M. Hewitt was a distinguished citizen of Mari- anna. He was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, July 22d, 1841, and there grew up, receiving his education in the schools of that city. On the breaking out of the war, which occurred before he had completed his education, he enlisted in the Fed- eral Army as Adjutant of the Second Kentucky Cavalry, and served to the close of the war, taking part in many battles. Af- ter the war he was admitted to the Bar in Kentucky in 1865, and in 1866 came to Arkansas, and settled in St. Francis county, engaging in cotton planting. On the creation of Lee county, in 1873, he moved to Marianna, and began the prac- tice of law there in connection with planting. Taking an active part in politics, he at once became a leader. He was sent as a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1876. In 1880, 1882, 1884 and 1886 he was elected to the Legislature from Lee county, and on the assembling of that body in January, 1887, he was elected Speaker of the House, which position he held at the time of his death, which occurred at Marianna, February 28th, 1888, at the age of 47 years. Having expressed a wish that he might be buried in
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Memphis, where his wife formerly lived, his remains were transported thither, and were interred in Elmwood Cemetery, at that city, on Sunday afternoon, March 4th, 1888.
In 1869 he married Miss Sallie Howard, of Memphis, who survives him. Of the children of this marriage one is living, a son, John M. Hewitt, Jr., born 1884. Mrs. Hewitt is a daughter of Wardlaw Howard, and grand-daughter of Thomas Polk, of Tennessee.
John Mayhew Daggett became a resident of Marianna in 1873. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, November 16th, 1845, son of Hon. John and Nancy Mcclellan Dag- gett. He graduated at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in the class of 1868. Came to Arkansas April 23d, 1873, located in Marianna May 10th, 1873, and has since re- sided there. He was admitted to the Bar in Marianna in 1874; was Deputy Clerk of Lee county from 1873 to 1885 most of the time, and was Postmaster at Marianna from Jan- uary, 1874, to March, 1885. He has been twice married. On the 18th of November, 1868, at Stonington, Connecticut, he was married to Miss E. Rose Brown. By this marriage there is one child, a son, John M., Jr. On the 14th of Oc- tober, 1879, at Denton, Texas, he was married to Olive An- derson. By this marriage there are three children, all sons.
Philip Doddridge McCulloch, Jr., became a resident of Marianna in 1874. He was born at Murfreesboro, Ruther- ford county, Tennessee, son of Dr. Philip Doddridge and Lucy V. McCulloch, who was Lucy V. Burrus. He gradu- ated at Andrew College, Gibson county, Tennessee ; was ad- mitted to the Bar in Tennessee, August, 1872 ; came to Ar- kansas, February 25th, 1874, locating at Marianna, where he has resided continuously since, being engaged in the practice of law. He was admitted to the Bar in Arkansas in March, 1874; was Prosecuting Attorney of. the First Judicial District
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of Arkansas for three terms, from 1878 until, 1884, when he declined a further election. He was Democratic Presidential Elector of the First Congressional District of Arkansas in 1888. He was married December 20th, 1876, at Marianna, Arkan- sas, to Miss Belle Mills. By this marriage there are three children, two sons and a daughter.
STONE COUNTY.
Stone County, the seventy-fifth county created, was formed April 21st, 1873, out of territory taken from the counties of Izard, Independence, Van Buren and Searcy. The tempo- rary seat of justice was located at Mountain View, and was continued there, where it now is, as the permanent county seat.
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