Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.], Part 19

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 826

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William H. Sutton possessed in a high degree those qualities that make up the gentleman. Brave, candid, truthful, with a gentle heart, his moral, political and religious convictions were strong and decided. He was a ripe scholar, a fluent and log- ical speaker, and was acknowledged to be one of the brightest ornaments of the bar of the State. He was called to succeed the Hon. Isaac N. Baker in the judgeship of the Second judicial district, holding that office two terms. His useful career was ended at his home in Pittsburgh, Penn., in De- cember, 1878, regretted by all who knew him.

Philander Littell was the first prosecuting attorney for the Second district after the State organization, and lived at Columbia, and, although not particularly distinguished, was considered a good lawyer.

Hedgeman Triplett was a native of Virginia," and moved in Territorial times to Arkansas. Set- tling in Columbia in 1835, he was prominent at the bar of the Second district. He possessed great force of character, and was a large, powerful man with strongly marked features. He had one leg shorter than the other, and when presenting his

case stood back on his short leg. As he warmed up to his argument he would lift himself to his full height on his long leg, which seemed to throw his body toward the jury, often producing a telling effect. He was a brave, honorable gentleman and died many years ago.

Judge Edward A. Meany was of Irish descent. He was well versed in all branches of jurisdiction and a learned lawyer. He came to the bar of the Second district in 1837, settling at Columbia, and at once occupied a prominent position. He at- tracted large audiences whenever he spoke in a criminal case. His speech delivered in prosecut- ing Franklin A. Stuart for the murder of Gilliam Murrill, years after the deed was committed, when the witnesses were all dead or beyond reach of a writ, was a masterpiece of oratory, rivalling the happiest efforts of John Philpot Curran. Deem- ing the field in Arkansas too limited for his work, he moved to St. Louis, there becoming one of the great lights of the St. Louis bar. He died shortly after the close of the war.

Scarborough's Landing, now Champagnolle, is located on the Ouachita River, sixteen miles above the month of the Moro. Fifty years ago this point, a small trading settlement in the wilderness, with a few log cabins, was the county seat of Union County. In time it assumed greater prominence as a trading center for a large extent of territory. Before the advent of railroads more than 10,000 bales of cotton found a market at New Orleans by water from that landing, and the returned mer- chandise was distributed from its warehouses over a large extent of territory. As the county seat of Union County, court was held there semi- annually as at three other points named herein, provided the judge and lawyers arrived in time to open the session as provided by the statute. With- out question, in the older time it was the most in- accessible point in Arkansas. He was a good horse and rider who could reach Scarborough's Landing from the settlements in one day's ride. There were no resident lawyers, but lawyers from the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers met the law- yers from Camden and Washington, and here was a greeting that only men who met in the wilderness

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or desert could give each other. "They were jolly companions every one," soul answered soul and the hearty laugh from willing throats noticeably increased as the jest and anecdote was sprung during the midnight hour. There was no accom- modation for all and there was little sleeping. A few of the most sedate retired to such accommo- dations as were afforded, to fight mosquitoes and sleep if possible. The judicial docket of the day being always light, it was soon disposed of, and each one wended his way homeward.

Of the lawyers resident at Little Rock, attend- ing the courts of the Second judicial district, only the most prominent need be mentioned as men who would have been considered distinguished lawyers at any bar in the United States.

The Hon. Chester Ashley was born at West- field, Conn., June 1, 1789. When an infant his parents moved to Hudson City, N. Y. He was graduated from Williams College, Hudson, in 1813, and read law in the office of Elisha Williams, Esq., a prominent lawyer of that city. His course in the law school at Litchfield, Conn., developed a mind well stored with legal learning, and ability to exercise successfully his acquirements. In 1818 he moved to Illinois, moving again to Missouri in 1819, and again in 1820 to Little Rock, Ark. In 1821 he married Miss Mary W. W. Elliott, and, returning to Little Rock, settled down for life. Chester Ashley was an extraordinary man. His personal appearance attracted all beholders at first sight, leaving an impression rarely if ever forgot- ten. To a dignified, commanding personage, na- ture added a remarkable face, every feature of which was perfect of itself, blended as a whole. Few men exhibited a face of more marked charac- teristics, to which was added a brain stored full of classic and legal study. With a rich, mellow voice and the highest order of intellect, he made his conversation fascinating. Although command- ingly dignified he always had a spice of humor. His elegant manners stamped him in every sense a gentleman: always cheerful, ever kind and affec- tionate to those who claimed his love, with full control of self, he could well be styled a noble man. In 1833 he was the leading lawyer in Little

Rock, and practiced in all the courts of the Terri- tory. From 1837 to 1842 he attended the courts of the Second judicial circnit. In April, 1844, his talent was called into service to advocate the Demo- cratic electoral ticket of Arkansas. With activity rarely seen he traversed the State, urging the peo- ple to espouse his political faith, which was pre- sented so forcibly and truly that, when Senator Fulton died in the month of August, the General Assembly convening in November almost unani- mously elected Chester Ashley to fill the vacancy, and in 1846 he was re-elected to that exalted posi- tion. He was chosen Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, a high tribute to his legal learning. On the 23d day of April he was in his place in the Senate chamber, and on the 29th he breathed his last at Washington City, lamented by all who knew him.

One of Arkansas greatest favorites at the bar, and particularly at the bar of the Second district, was Frederic W. Trapnell, who was born near Harrodsburg, Ky., in 1808. Mr. Trapnell read law after a thorough course of study at the best schools his State afforded, and practiced his pro- fession at. Springfield, Ky. He came to Arkansas in 1836, settling in Little Rock, where, by close attention, energy and great industry, he became one of the most prominent members of the bar of the State. In all departments of jurisprudence he stood at the top, and contributed fully as much by his learning and indefatigable effort as any other lawyer of 1836 and 1842. Arkansas lost one of its best citizens, and the bar one of its brightest ornaments when he crossed to the silent shore. His death occurred in 1856 after a three days' illness- a great surprise to his friends.

The name of Samuel Hutchinson Hempstead, during the days of 1836 and 1842, was interwoven with every interest connected with the bar of Ark- ansas, and stands out prominent on the records of the courts of the Second judicial district. Refer- ence is made to him in other pages of this volume. It is plain that Mr. Hempstead was considered no ordinary man. He was a ripe scholar. learned in his profession, an eloquent speaker, with an origin- ality which attracted attention, accompanying

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which he had quick perception and fine judgment. With praiseworthy effort he succeeded in rising to the top with those other great legal lights, and when the Arkansas bar was pronounced second to none in the Union. After a faithful and honest discharge of all his duties he died at Little Rock on June 25, 1862.

The Hon. Absalom Fowler was truly a brilliant luminary of the State bar. Coming from Ten- nessee as early as 1830, he settled in Little Rock, having previously prepared himself to take a high position as a lawyer. Like a meteor he illumi- nated the territory with his learning and eloquence from Washington to Hempstead Counties, from Crawford to Chicot, leaving in his wake a record of legal learning, sound judgment and honest opinion, which formed a splendid heritage to those who followed after him. In 1833 Mr. Fowler was the law partner of Col. Robert Crittenden, who died in 1834. leaving him the inheritor of a large legal business, which he conducted successfully. His death occurred in 1860.

Mr. Sam Cook, when advanced in years, came to Arkansas and settled in Saline County as early as 1836. He attended all the courts of the Second judicial district and was highly respected by the bar. He was a well read lawyer and a brilliant speaker. There was no more pleasant companion on or off the road than Mr. Cook. Nature gave him a quizzical face, although a pleasing one. Even during his gravest moods one was inclined to smile at him. He joked in the morning, at noon and at night. If the party bivouacked for the night, which was sometimes necessary, and the conversation lagged, Cook at once drove dnll care away by one of his inimitable jokes. He was the acknowledged defender at the bar of all lareeny and other minor cases. Whenever his cases were called the court room was at once filled by willing listeners, as everyone knew that some thing funny would be said in behalf of his client or about the other man. The best lawyers rarely got the better of him in a hog stealing case. He had the ear of the jury. Mr. Cook moved to Benton and died at an advanced age.

Robert Ward Johnson, than whom no man has

contributed more to elevate the State of Arkansas morally, judicially and politically, was born in Scott County, Ky., on July 22. 1814, being the oldest son of Judge Benjamin Johnson, who received the appointment of Judge of the Ter- ritory of Arkansas by President Monroe, after- ward from John Quincy Adams, and twice from Andrew Jackson.

Robert W. Johnson began life under the most favorable auspices. Springing from an illustrious family. prominent in the social circle, in the coun- cils of the nation and on the field of battle, he had every incentive to be honorable, brave and a gen- tleman. From childhood to the day of his death he maintained a character for the highest sense of honor, unflinching bravery and gentlemanly bear- ing, rarely equaled, never surpassed. When quite a youth he was sent to the Indian Academy near Frankfort, Ky., where he pursued his studies until his fifteenth year, when he entered St. Joseph's College, at Bardstown, Ky., from which institution he graduated with honor after four years' study. From there he went to New Haven, Conn., where he attended the law school, graduating at the age of twenty-one and receiving the degree of bachelor of law. Returning to Little Rock he entered into the practice of law, forming a partnership with the dis- tingnished Samuel H. Hempstead. On March 10, 1839, he married Miss Sarah F. Smith, of Louis- ville, Ky. His partnership with Mr. Hempstead closed in 1847. In December, 1840, he received from Gov. Archibald Yell, the appointment of State's attorney for the circuit embracing Little Rock, holding the office one term, doing his whole duty with a characteristic ability and zeal. During his legal course he was a regular attendant at the bar of the Second district, sharing with his illustrions companions all the pleasures, trials and vicissitudes then encountered. Mr. Johnson began to lay the foundation of his political life as early as 1840. The year 1844 saw him a candidate in the field to represent Pulaski County in the lower house, In 1846 he was elected to a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Arkansas; was re- elected in 1848 and again in 1850. In 1855 he was appointed by Gov. Conway to fill the un-

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expired term in the United States Senate of Dr. Solon Borland, who resigned in 1854. He was returned by the legislature to the United States Senate for the full term of six years. Declining a re-election in 1860, he returned to his plantation crowned with well-earned laurels. Seeing through the dark clouds which lowered over the entire country, on the election of Mr. Lincoln to the presidency, that a desperate struggle was imminent, he decided at once his path of duty. While de- votedly attached to the Union he felt there was no hope; secession and its consequences were plainly in his view; honor and patriotism prompted his course. He canvassed his State advocating seces- sion. which ordinance was passed by the conven- tion with only one dissenting voice. Col. Johnson was elected a member of the Confederate States Senate, which position he held during its existence, working for the cause he espoused with an earnest- ness and honesty of purpose characteristic of the man. On the downfall of the Confederacy he de- cided to find an asylum in a foreign land. En route for the gulf coast of Texas. he stopped two days near Palestine, in Anderson County, Texas. Reaching Galveston, finding the noble-hearted Gen. Gordon Granger in command of the Federal troops, and remembering his kindness extended to Gen. Granger and many others of the United States Army when in the United States Senate, he at once met him and was not mistaken. Gen. Granger proved a friend. He soon went to Wash- ington city and had an interview with President Johnson, who gave him assurances of protection. His political disabilities were not removed until 1877. He returned to his plantation in Arkansas and worked hard to renew his lost fortune. Fail- ing in this, he again entered into the legal arena at Pine Bluff. Soon seeing with the able compe- tition there he must build from the ground, he moved to Washington City, entering into partner- ship with Gen. Albert Pike, where he again served his State in the memorable conflict between the Brooks and Baxter factions. In 1878 Col. Johnson again located in Little Rock, opening a law office. In 1879 he was before the legislature for the United States Senate. Defeated by Judge J. D. Walker,

he resolved never to enter politics. Early in June, 1879, he was taken with an illness which termi- nated the long and useful life of a man whose de- votion to the best interests of his State has never been surpassed-if ever equaled. He died on July 26, 1879.

Elsewhere in this volume reference is made to the literary genius of Gen. Albert Pike, but of all the array of intellect which won for the bar of Arkansas, from 1836 to 1842, its justly deserved fame, no one contributed more to its exaltation than did he. His was work of genuine unselfish- ness. He did not seek to clothe himself with the judicial ermine, yet no man in all the land was more deserving of the high trust; nor did he go before his fellow citizens of Arkansas asking for political preferment, yet no one would have more faithfully represented his constituency or worked harder in the councils of state for the aggrandize- ment of Arkansas. In this great country of wonderful achievements in art, science and learn- ing, he is a colossus who is considered the most learned man. Albert Pike stands in the rank of those who have reached that high position, if he is not the most learned man in the country. Nor is his great learning his only commendable feature; he is brave and chivalrous, as was Godfrey to Bouillon. True to his friend as the needle to the pole, no spirit of revenge has lodgment in his large heart. He is forgiving to all enemies. Gen. Pike wandered from Boston to New Mexico, thence he came to Arkansas, reaching Fort Smith on December 10, 1832, coming to Little Rock early in October, 1833, where he settled, be- ginning that remarkable career at the bar which stamps him one of the most profound lawyers of the age. When at the Pine Bluff court of the Sec- ond judicial district in 1838, although only twenty- nine years of age, he was recognized as one of Arkansas' leading lawyers. The old court records, from 1836 to 1842, and later in all parts of the State, are evidence of the great volume of his work, and of its faithful and correct execution. On the declaration of war with Mexico, he mus- tered into the volunteer service of the United States a company of cavalry, marched into Mexico

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and served during the war. Returning at its close to his old home, he resumed the practice of law. He was again called to the field on the inaugura- tion of the Civil War, accepting a brigadier gen- eral's commission, and serving in the Indian country to the end. Gen. Pike married early in life Miss Mary Hamilton, of Arkansas County. At the close of the Civil War he moved to Washing- ton, D. C., resuming there the practice of his pro- fession. In the second effort of Arkansas to secure her rights during the Brooks-Baxter em- broglio, Gen. Pike's great legal ability was called into requisition on the side of the Baxter faction, and mainly through his exertion Arkansas was again freed from tyrannical rule. Gen. Pike now has his home in the city of Washington, and is still a hard worker. He remembers his old Arkansas friends with tender affection, and his life in Arkansas with almost unalloyed pleasure.

William Cummins was born in Jefferson County, Ky., in 1800, and came to Little Rock, Ark., as early as 1833. He began the practice of his pro- fession soon after. He was a member of the con- vention of 1836, when Arkansas was admitted into the Union, and was twice a representative of his county in the General Assembly, and at one time was a law partner of General Pike. He died on April 7, 1843. Mr. Cummins was a regular at- tendant at the bar of the old Second district; was a well read lawyer; an agreeable and forcible speaker; a representative gentleman, and one of the most agreeable of companions. Others who made occa- sional visits at the Pine Bluff court in 1836 to 1842, and who were distinguished lawyers at the bar of Arkansas were John W. Corke, brother-in-law of F. W. Trapnell, a native of Kentucky; Thomas B. Hanly and William K. Sebastian, of Phillips Coun- ty; Samuel Davis Blackburn, George C. Watkins, George A. Gallagher and David J. Baldwin, of Pulaski.

In a short memorial of the bench and bar of the old Second judicial district, it cannot but be re- gretted that for want of accurate data it is impos- sible to compile all that is desired to be expressed, many having paid the debt of nature without leav- ing kith or kin behind, to tell of their ever having

lived. Briefly has mention been made of those who have figured at the bar of the old Second dis- trict, without bitterness of party conflicts and per- sonal encounter, in vindication of what each in his lofty spirit of individual opinion of right and wrong may have deemed necessary to sustain his honor. They were a noble, proud race of men, each possessing strong peculiarities. In their day they were loved and honored; each had his friends and followers ready to assume all consequences on their side if need be. As members of the bar the fraternal feeling was strong, and whatever of bitterness or rancor they manifested in the advo- cacy of their client's cause, it was lost sight of outside of the court room.

Those here named were men of mark, eminent in civil service, distinguished in legal learning, cultivated gentlemen of loftiest chivalry. No mean act, ungenerous advantage or vulgar association stained their escutcheon. Their life's blood was always ready to be staked for their honor. None will say but the gentlemen who were the ancestry of the bar of the old Second judicial district were not worthy of imitation. The young men of the bar of the Eleventh district would rejoice, could they commit themselves to such a school made up as it was of Puritans and Cavaliers. They con- centrated the best elements of this proud and hon- orable ancestry. Their life's work was well done. Roll back the tide of years a half century, and open to view the unbroken wilderness, the distant courts, the sparse population, the solitary path, the overflowing streams, the miasma of undrained swamps; with memory only for a law library, with intricate points of law to settle, and legal and equitable opinions to render; no strife, no discord, all harmony; the modest joke, the quick but well received repartee, the friendly advice, all given and taken by men who knew each other to be rivals, proud of their honor. who held death pre- ferable to disgrace. Go a half century back and turn over the musty pages of the court house re- cords, and see that the old work was well done by those who were masters.

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two. One is Gen. Albert Pike, who yet lingers, having since reached the rest of the hill, looking over into the great beyond; the other is Judge Bocage. Some passed long ago into the dream- less sleep, some laid down their burden of life when seemingly but half way begun. Others la-

bored along life's highway beyond the noon, and then laid them down by the wayside, closing their eyelids forever on this world's work. A very few climbed the heights to the crest, and feebly looked upon the lonely shadow cast by the dawning of a brighter day to where life ends and eternity begins.

CHAPTER XVI.

JEFFERSON COUNTY-PRE-HISTORIC INHABITANTS-REMOVAL OF THE INDIANS-SARRASIN-FIRST WIRTT SETTLEMENT-LAAND ENTRIES-COUNTY FORMATION-SEAT OF JUSTICE-CHANGE OF BOUNDARIES- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION-DRAINAGE-VARIETY OF SOIL-FORESTS-DESIRABILITY AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE-STATISTICAL ESTIMATES-PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SEAT OF JUS- TICE-TRANSPORTATION-COUNTY SOCIETIES-POPULATION AND FINANCES- POLITICAL OUTLOOK-JUDICIAL AFFAIRS-CITIES, TOWNS, ETC .- WAR EXPERIENCES-SCHOLASTIC AND CHURCH MATTERS-OFFICIAL DIRECTORY-SELECTED FAMILY SKETCHES.

When the summer harvest was gather'd in, And the sheaf of the gleaner grew white and thin, And the ploughshare was in its furrow left, Where the stubble land had been lately cleft. - Longfellow.

ENTION has already been made in previous pages of this volume of that pre historic race of people known as Mound Builders who held sway long before the Indians and the French ar- rived in the Mississippi Valley. There have been found remains of these first inhabitants in the shape of mounds or pottery in Jefferson County, but so few in number as to be hardly worthy of notice.

The Indian population of the territory now embraced in Jeffer- son County varied at different times, but the earliest known and somewhat fixed occupants of these wilds were the Quapaws, who claimed the land from the Mississippi to the Ouach- ita hills. Here they were even when the French

Government began in 1689 in the west valley, or, perhaps, even when Hernando De Soto's body was sunk into "the great waters " to the east, nearly a century and a half before, and still they remained until near the first years of this century, when the last of their chiefs of pure Quapaw blood was asked by the United States Government to remove to the Indian Territory and make room for the whites. The aged chief, Heckatoo, submitted peacefully to this decree, and afterward died in that territory. They had no villages in this county, at least at a later date (1825), and the most noted trails led to Hot Springs. It is said that these aborigines first learned the use of fire-arms within the limits of this county. Sarrasin was the half-breed suc- cessor of Heckatoo, and, before their removal to the west, he perfomed a deed of open-hearted and heroic daring on the river, just below the capital of this county, that should always keep his memory fresh in the hearts of its inhabitants. A wander- ing band of Chickasaw Indians had stolen two

Yours Truly , W. Bocage

PINE BLUFF. JEFFERSON COUNTY, ARKANSAS.

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white babes from a family near the river. Sarra- sin, whose generous impulses were moved by the frantic grief of the mother, promised her that at a given hour he would bring them back to her or never return. He set out in his canoe across the river where he located the Chickasaw camp, and lightly springing in the midst of the sleeping war- riors, he secured the babes, and then uttered the Quapaw warhoop. The startled Chickasaws, believ- ing the Quapaws were down upon them in a body, fled pell-mell into the woods, while Sarrasin, alone and with the two babes, entered his canoe and made good his promises to the now overjoyed mother. When grown to be an old man of ninety years and ready to die, he came back to the capi- tal, and begged Gov. Jolm Pope (1829-35) to let him return to his old hunting grounds to die. He was buried at Pine Bluff, the first interment in its cemetery. A few of the tribe still live in the ter- ritory, as peaceful and generous hearted now as they were in their old home in the wilds, where at this day blooms into activity a bright city of "the New Sonth."

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.], Part 19

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company) Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 826