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 73

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
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after a married life of devotion and love. In pol- itics Mr. Henderson is a Democrat, and a stout up- holder of that party's men, and his truth and in- tegrity in every phase of life have won the respect and admiration of all.


Capt. John L. Hicks, a successful planter of Ashland Township, was born in Phillips County, Ark., in September, 1846, being one of six chil- dren in the family of Allen W. and Mary J. (Lamb) Hicks. The former was a native of North Caro- lina, where he met and married Miss Lamb, of the same State. In 1826, moving to Tennessee (Mad- ison County), he resided there for fourteen years, but in 1840 immigrated to Arkansas, and first lo- cated in Phillips County. He afterward moved to Little Rock, taking up his residence where his son now lives in Ash Bottom (in 1852), at one time in Pulaski County. Here Mr. Hicks operates quite an extensive plantation. When Lonoke County was made, a large portion of his place was taken into that territory. He now has upward of 500 acres of land in an excellent state of cultivation, in connection with which is a heavily timbered tract of about 100 acres. J. L. Hicks grew up on the ; place which he now owns. He received a good education at the higher schools and colleges of his native State. becoming thoroughly qualified to fill any position in after life, and when quite young (running away from school to do so) he enlisted in Maj. W. E. Woodruff's battery, and served till the close of the war, surrendering at Washington, Hempstead County. He was commissioned cap- tain by Govs. Garland and Baxter. and participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Mansville, Jenkins' Ferry and Helena, also at the surrender of Little Rock, where a large portion of his company was wounded. Capt. Hicks has resided in Little Rock a portion of the time since the war; he was elected and served as treasurer of that city for one year, at the expiration of that time resigning. In 1876 he was married in Phillips County to Miss Emma B. Hicks, a daughter of Edwin A. Hicks. Mrs. Hicks was educated in Phillips County, and is an estimable lady, enjoying the friendship of a wide circle of acquaintances. One son has been born to this union, Allen W., now past his twenty-first


year. Capt. Hicks was chairman of the first Dem- ocratic central committee of Pulaski County, after the reconstruction. He is a liberal contributor to all enterprises that betoken the good and advance- ment of the county, enthusiastic in behalf of its growth, and by his influence and enterprise has come to be well and favorably known.


Isaac J. Hicks, deputy county clerk, Little Rock, Ark. The public services of Mr. Hicks have been characterized by a noticeable devotion to the welfare of this county, and his ability and fidelity in all his positions of public trust have been fully recognized by the people. He was born in Prairie County (a portion of which was cut off and is now Lonoke County), Ark., and was the third in a family of four children born to Isaac C. and Eliza M. (Smith) Hicks, the latter being the first wife of Mr. Hicks. The father was born in Anderson County, Tenn., January 1, 1828, and his parents were natives of Alabama. From that State they moved to Tennessee, thence to Indiana, and there resided until Isaac C. Hicks was eight years of age, when they came to Arkansas and set- tled in Saline County. Here he passed his time in working on a farm and carrying the mail from Little Rock to Hot Springs, and in attending school a short time, paying tuition out of his own meager earnings. He was a poor boy and was obliged to fight his way in life. At the age of nineteen, Mr. Hicks selected Miss Eliza Martin Smith as his wife, in Pulaski County, with whom he lived hap- pily until her death, in 1856. He was afterward married to Miss Nancy J. Gray, and his third mar- riage was to Mrs. Lizzie Gray (nee Burns), a direct descendant of the Scotch poet, Robert Burns. She still resides in Lonoke County, Ark. After his first marriage, which occurred in 1847. Mr. Hicks moved to Prairie County, Ark , followed farming and hunting, residing the while on Prairie Long, at a point where his son, Isaac J. Hicks, was born, May 9, 1853, still known as Hicks Point. From there he moved to Brownsville, then the county seat of Prairie County, and followed blacksmith- ing, but soon traded the shop for a fine horse, which he exchanged for a stock of goods, and from that time he began his career as a merchant. He


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was an active member of the A. F. & A. M., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South. At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, Mr. Hicks prac- tically gave away his stock of goods and enlisted in the Confederate army, commanded by Capt. J. M. King, of the Arkansas Cavalry, and was in the first battle fought west of the Mississippi River (Oak Hill or Wilson's Creek). In this engagement, he was wounded in the left hand so badly that he returned home and did not rejoin the army. At this time he settled at a point two and a half miles south of Brownsville, on the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad (which he had named Hicks Station, a name which clung to it until 1869, when the town was moved to what is now known as Lonoke), and resumed the mercantile business. Here he was the leading spirit in the organization and im- provement of the new town, and was its first mayor. He was an extensive land owner, doing a good deal of farming in connection with his com- mercial business. During his service in the army, he was second lieutenant of his company, and his brother, J. C. M. Hicks, was first lieutenant. At the battle of Wilson's Creek, both the captain and first lientenant were wounded, and before receiving his wound the command of the com- pany devolved upon the second lieutenant, Mr. Hicks. J. C. M. Hicks died in imprisonment at Springfield, Mo. He was a lawyer, and was prac- ticing at Fayetteville, Ark., before the war. Isaac C. Hicks died October 10, 1872, from illness contracted while on a visit to Memphis with his son, the subject of this sketch. Isaac J. Hicks has the following brothers and sisters: Margaret E., W. H. and James H. (the last named being at present sheriff of Lonoke County.) His half- brothers and sister are: Thomas J. (editor and proprietor of the Dardanelle Post), Joseph J. (a railroad engineer), Lulu, John W. and Minnie D. (who died at the age of seven years.) His uncle, W. F. Hicks, is at present editor and proprietor of the Lonoke Democrat, and representative in the legislature from Lonoke County, and is ex-senator of that'district. The subject of this sketch at- tended the subscription schools until about four- teen years of age, and was then taken in his


father's store, where he kept books; he was also in the postoffice, and attended to the correspond- ence until his father's death, when he was eight- een years of age. He, with his brother, W. H., and the uncle, W. F., then continued the business carried on by the father, under the firm title of Hicks Bros. & Co. This business was conducted for about two years, when Isaac was married to Miss Hattie L. Fewell, a native of Arkansas, on November 2, 1875. She is the daughter of Will- iam M. Fewell. an old settler from Tennessee and a native of North Carolina, where the family is quite numerous and well known. After marriage Mr. Hicks engaged as book-keeper and clerk, and followed this occupation at Lonoke until October, 1878, when he came to Little Rock. He was here engaged as clerk with Fletcher & Barron three months, and in January, 1879, was employed as clerk in the office of the secretary of State, under Col. Jacob Frolich, continuing here for three years, when he was compelled to resign on account of ill-health. After this he purchased a farm and moved to the country, where he resided for three years, after which, having regained his health, he moved to Lonoke to take charge of the sheriff's office for his brother, as chief deputy, continuing thus about fifteen months. He then came to Lit- tle Rock to act as deputy county clerk for Mr. Williams (the county clerk), and this position he is still filling. In 1884 Mr. Hicks was a candidate in the convention for circuit clerk, but was de- feated by a small majority. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a man universally respected. To his marriage were born five children: Marvin R. (born December 15, 1877), Jefferson F. (born De. cember 9, 1879), Trusten C. (born June 18, 1883), Floyd H. (born February 25, 1886) and Sterling B. (born December 12, 1887), all of whom are living. In his political views Mr. Hicks is a Demo- crat. His great-grandfather was a native of Ire. land.


Wilbur Fisk Hill. county judge of Pulaski County, was born March 15, 1844, on a farm near Clarksville, Red River County, Tex. He spent his early life on the farm, and at stock raising in


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Western Texas, and when eighteen years of age, entered the Confederate army, under that eminent soldier and statesman, Gen. Albert Pike, partici- pating in the battles of Prairie Grove, Mansfield, La., and a number of others. In the latter bat- tle he was severely wounded. After his four years' service in the war, Mr. Hill matriculated at Mc- Kenzie College, Texas, where he made preparation to enter the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1870, and from which he graduated in 1872, in the literary department, with the highest honors. In June, 1873, he opened his law office in Little Rock, and immediately rose to success. He found time, however, to edit and compile the Arkansas Justice, a work that has been so useful and of such great worth, that a second edi- tion has been issued. Perhaps his services with the Arkansas Justice and his future success, while dreaming of the flights of oratory of Demosthenes and Cicero, was due to the charms of Cupid. for it was in these years that he was captured in matri- monial bliss, marrying a charming, sensible wife, to whom seven children have been born, only two surviving. In 1884 he was nominated by the Democratic party as a candidate for county judge, was elected by a large majority, and during his first term of office, built the Pulaski County jail. He was re-elected in 1886, and during his second term commenced the erection of the fine county court house, now just completed, having purchased the ground for the same during his first term at $5,500, which is now valued at $15,000. Judge Hill gave such satisfaction, that in 18SS his name was placed on the Union Labor ticket, as well as on the Democratic, and his election was unan- imous. The finances of the county have under- gone a radical change since Judge Hill's introduc- tion to his office. When he was first elected, county scrip was worth 85 cents on $1. The June fol- lowing his taking office, he published a notice, calling in all of the county scrip, and paid it at par, and has been rated at par value ever since. Again, when he entered office, the county had a total debt of $450,000. Jndge Hill paid it off and reduced it to $360,000 out of the taxes of 1886. He issued 360 $1,000 bonds, and went north to


sell them, so that he might fund the debt. At Chi- cago he was laughed at, and at New York he met with success hardly better. He was plucky, how- ever, and bound to succeed, and finally sold them to the Boatmen's Savings Bank of St. Louis at par. He then paid off the judgments against the county, and has since paid two installments of interest on the bonds. The bonds were quoted, after the first installment of interest was paid, at 10 per cent above par, and are now worth 15 per cent above par. Judge Hill certainly de- serves a great deal of credit for this master stroke in the direction of county finances. In the five years of his administration, he has built about fifteen miles of turnpike, and about 100 bridges, the county being almost destitute of them when he went into office. His expenditures for public improvements have aggregated almost $250,- 000, which amount has been saved out of the ordi- nary county revenues. with no increase of taxes. In the city, property has doubled in value, and is greatly increased in the surrounding country in the county. In February, 1888, the county court estab- lished a convict camp for the making of county roads, by criminals convicted of other than penitentiary offences, and this has become a permanent institu- tion. In the spring of 1889, Judge Hill was an independent candidate for supreme judge of Ar- kansas, and received a vote of 40,962.


P. O. Hooper, M. D. The Hooper family, or rather that branch to which the subject of this sketch belongs, were early settlers of Arkansas, Alanson Hooper being the first one of the family to locate here. He was born in the " Bay State," in 1787, and after reaching manhood removed to Louisiana, where he espoused Miss Magdaline Perry, a native of that State; and a few years fol- lowing the celebration of their nuptials, they re- moved to Arkansas, where the mother died in 1877, at the age of seventy seven years. The father died in 1850, aged sixty-three. Dr.


Hooper, their son, was born in the State in which he now resides, in 1833, and received his literary education in Little Rock and in Nashville, Tenn. After attaining a suitable age, and being imbued with a desire to study medicine, he entered the Jef-


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ferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in 1856. Upon return. ing home, he practiced his profession until the opening of the Civil War, then joined the Con- 1 federate army, and was appointed president of a board of examining surgeons, and in this capacity served faithfully all through the war, being at the time of the cessation of hostilities in the State of Louisiana. After peace was declared, he returned to his home in Little Rock, where he found ample scope for the development of his talents, and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders of his profession, not only in his own, but also in adjoin- ing States. Great credit is due to him for the estab- lishment of the State Insane Asylum, and to him, with a few others, almost wholly belongs the credit of its establishment. He was president of the board of trustees of the asylum until 1883, when he accepted the superintendency in order to see that all his plans were carried out relative to the building, grounds and methods of treating the inmates. After several years of arduous labor, he can now look upon the result of his many weary days of toil with pardonable pride and pleasure, for the institution is a model of its kind and is con- ducted in an admirable manner. Dr. Hooper is one of the physicians who helped to organize the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industrial University, and was dean of the faculty for some time, and still often gives lectures in the college on mental and nervous diseases. He was presi- dent of the American Medical Association that met at St. Paul, Minn., in 1883, and now belongs to the State Medical Society and the New York Medico-Legal Society. He has shown his ap- proval of secret societies by joining the Masons and the I. O. O. F. He was married in the State of Arkansas, in 1859, to Miss Georgie Carroll, a native of Alabama, and by her has three sons and · two daughters: Katie (wife of Samuel J. Church- hill), Bernie, Perry, Philo and George.


Col. John W. Hopkins, a prominent real-estate dealer and farmer, of Mabelvale, was born in Rowan County, N. C., in 1820, and is a son of James F. and Lucy (Henly) Hopkins, both natives of the same State, who moved to Tennessee when


John was but five years old, and from there to Tippah County, Miss., where the father died about the year 1841, at the age of fifty-five years, his wife following him in 1877. James F. was the


son of Richard Hopkins of Scotch and Irish de- scent. The maternal grandfather of Col. John W. was Darby Henley, of Scotch, Irish and English descent, who died in Rowan County. Col. John W. Hopkins was the third son of four sons and three daughters, and received a somewhat limited education in his youth, almost all of his schooling being had by his own efforts, owing to the poor school facilities to be found at that time. He was married in 1840, in Tippah County, Miss., to Elizabeth Craig, a daughter of John and Susan Craig. Mrs. Craig died in Tennessee when her daughter was very young, and the father married again and removed to Tippah County, Miss., where he resided until his death. He was a soldier in the Creek War, and fought with Gen. Jackson at New Orleans. His father was James Craig, of Scotch and Irish descent, who was also in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Hopkins was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., and has been the mother of five children, of whom two are still living: James Franklin and John T. (the latter is one of the leading lawyers of Little Rock.) Col. Hopkins resided in Tippah County, Miss., and carried on a successful real-estate business until 1855, when he moved to Memphis, Tenn., and continued in the same business, as well as merchandising. In 1862 he gave up his business at that point and moved to Little Rock. where he opened up a large produce and grocery store, but his main business was dealing in real estate. In 1874 he settled on his present farm at Mabelvale, where he owns 500 acres of valuable land, with about 200 acres under cultivation. Altogether he owns between 20,000 and 30,000 acres of land in Mississippi and Arkan - sas, and before the war his prosperity was even greater, owning at that time about 125,000 acres, and being worth probably half a million dollars, all of it being made by his own tact, shrewdness and enterprise. The Colonel was sheriff of Tippah County, Miss., for two years, and held the office of mayor of Little Rock for fourteen months, when the


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office was taken charge of by military authority in 1867. In politics he was formerly a Whig, but since the war has always voted the Democratic ticket. He was a Union man and strongly opposed to seces- sion. Col. Hopkins has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. for a great many years, belonging to the Royal Arch Chapter, and with his wife attends the Christian Church. His son, James F. Hop- kins, by profession a civil engineer, was born in Tippah County, Miss., in 1845, and was educated at the public schools of Memphis, Tenn., until the outbreak of the war, when he was then instructed by his father. In 1864 he joined Capt. Nowland's company of Anderson's battalion, and served until the end of the war, being paroled at Little Rock in June, 1865. He took part in the fight at Pilot Knob, and operated through a good portion of Missouri (the Trans-Mississippi Department), also accompanying Price in his raid through Mis- souri. In October, 1866, he entered the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Va., and grad- uated captain of Company B, in 1870, and after leaving the college he went into the real-estate business with his father, continuing with him ever since. He has also done considerable surveying in Pulaski and adjoining counties, and in 1872 was elected county surveyor of Pulaski County, but failed to get the office. He is a Democrat, politi- cally, and in secret orders is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and a college fraternity called E. N., which he organized while attending college, in 1869, and which has extended to various colleges in the North and South, and now has a membership of over 2,000. He is also a member of the Agri- cultural Wheel, and in religious faith is a Presby- terian, as is also his wife. He was married, in 1870, to Miss Jennie A., daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Barclay, of Virginia and Kentucky, re- spectively, but who have resided in Lexington, Va., for the past forty five years, where Mr. Bar- clay is a prominent merchant.


Hon. Joseph W. House, an attorney, of Little Rock, and prominent at the legal bar of this local- ity, was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., June 12, 1847, and is one of four children born to Arch- ibald House and his wife, who came to White


County in 1858. His ancestors were of Scotch and Irish extraction, and immigrated to America in a very early day, being one among the original settlers of Tennessee. Joseph W. received his education in the subscription schools of the local- ity in which his boyhood was passed. When sixteen years of age, he entered the Confederate army as a private, and served in that capacity until the close of the hostilities, being with Price on his raid, and as far as active engagements were con- cerned that ended his war career. After the war he returned to his home in White County, and attended school, afterward teaching. In the mean- time, he took up the study of law, and was admit- ted to the bar in May, 1870, shortly after commenc- ing the practice of his profession in Searcy, where he remained until November, 1885. The enviable reputation which he rapidly achieved, only less than his recognized ability, led to his appointment as district attorney at that time, and he filled the office until April, 1889, when the change of admin- istration induced him to resign. He was a dele- gate on the new constitution in 1874, and in the fall of the same year was sent to the senate from Faulkner and White Counties. Mr. House was among those who had the honor of casting an electoral vote for Cleveland, in 1884. He was mar- ried in February, 1882, to Miss Ina Dowdy, and they are the parents of four children. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. In enterprises tending to the advancement of educa- tional and other worthy movements, Mr. House is liberal, exerting considerable power in his county, and aiding by his means and influence toward the general progress of his adopted home. Since his retirement from office, he has devoted himself to his profession, and in this, as all of his other un- dertakings, he has attained substantial success.


W. S. Hutt, one of the leading grocery mer- chants of Little Rock, Ark., is a native-born resi- dent of this city, and a man whose honesty and integrity is unquestioned. He attended Commer- cial College in Lexington, Ky., and soon after the war he and his father engaged in business in Little Rock. Although the father died but recently, the business has been in W. S. Hutt's name, and great-


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ly under his control, since that time. He does an extensive business, and is a young man in whom all the people of Little Rock place implicit trust. This is the oldest retail establishment in the city, and one of the most prosperous. The building, of two stories, is 150x25 feet. W. S. Hutt is the son of A. J. and Francissa E. (Gaines) Hutt, both hon- ored and respected citizens. The father was born in Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va., and when a young man went to Pittsburgh, Penn., where he remained until about 1837, and then came to Little Rock. He saw true pioneer life in Little Rock, and many a time has he hunted game over the present location of the city. He had amassed considerable money up to the time of the breaking out of the Civil War, but lost consider- able during that eventful period. He was a man respected and esteemed for his sterling integrity, sober, sound judgment, broad intelligence and lib- eral progressive ideas. He was married in Little Rock, and reared a family of several children. His wife, and the mother of the subject of this sketch, is still living. and resides in Little Rock. Mr. Hutt became well known all over the State, and was Grand Master of the I. O. O. F. of the State. He took an active interest in political affairs, and held many positions of trust and honor in the city of Little Rock, of which he served as mayor.


William P. Hutton, the popular district man- ager of R. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile agency, at Little Rock, was born in Tennessee, and is a son of William M. Hutton, who was one of the proprie- tors of the Memphis Appeal early in the 50's, also one of the founders of the Memphis Avalanche. The subject of our sketch was reared in Tennessee, and spent the greater portion of his life in Mem- phis, up to within eleven years ago, when he be- came connected with the R. G. Dun & Co.'s mer- cantile agency. About five years ago, he was selected to take the management of the territory contingent to Little Rock, having an experienced and trained mind, a thorough knowledge of the wants of trade and a genial nature, besides possess- ing a character of sterling worth, which was at once recognized by his patrons. The business in Arkansas, under his management, has prospered


and developed to a large degree. Mr. Hutton is a man of untiring energy and devoted to his work, and the popularity he enjoys among business men is mainly due to their recognition of his ability in handling the delicate question of credits. He has established a branch office at Fort Smith, and pre- sides over one of the most prosperous branches of the great system of R. G. Dun & Co. in the South- west. His territory is rapidly growing, and the agency he represents is the oldest and largest, whose information is valued by all merchants, finan- ciers and business men in general, who recognize it as the leading authority on credits. Mr. Hutton as- sists in making the patrons of this great institution appreciate its importance in Arkansas as it is ap- preciated elsewhere.




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