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ing in the extreme, and they hurriedly passed by them and landed near a little place called Wilson. Dr. Jennings then footed it to Troy, carrying his surgical instruments in an old gunny-sack. Here he lodged over night, and in the morning tramped on his way along the track of the railroad to the Obion River. Here the bridge had been burned, and he succeeded in crossing it on a raft, nearly losing his life in the effort. He went on through Trenton to Humboldt. He found an engine with a few box-cars nearly ready to leave. He jumped aboard and went on to Jackson, thence to Grand Junction and into Memphis, where he found quite a remnant of his regiment. After a couple of days' rest he went to Corinth, Miss., and reported to D. W. Yandall, M. D., medical director of Gen. Beauregard's army. In a few hours thereafter, Yandall was superseded by Surgeon Ford, who ordered Dr. Jennings to report to Brig. Gen. John R. Jackson. This order was dated April 28, 1862. Gen. Jackson's brigade of Gen. J. M. With- er's division, consisted of the Seventeenth, Eight- eenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth Regiments of Alabama. and Fifth Regiment of Georgia. After the Farmington engagement, which follow- ed in the earlier portion of May. Dr. Jennings was attacked with camp fever, entered the hospital at Corinth, and upon receipt of an indefinite sick- leave, went to Lafayette Depot, thirty-three miles east of Memphis, to Col. C. D. McLean's planta- tion, in accordance with a previous promise made Mrs. McLean, who, on account of personal atten- tion to her sick son William, desired to reciprocate favors in case of his sickness. Dr. Jennings re- mained at her house for several months, very dan- gerously sick; and though recovery was deemed so extremely doubtful that every preparation was made for his burial, he survived with a partial paralysis of the left half of his body, from which he did not fully recover for a long period. In Angust following he was able to travel, although on crutches, and was conveyed in a buggy to Holly Springs, Miss., thence by rail to Jackson, Vicks- burg and Monroe, La., and thus on to Camden and Washington, Ark .. which he reached some time in November, 1882. At this place he grad-
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ually improved, and in the spring thought him- self sufficiently able to return to his command. He traveled from Washington, Ark., to Jackson, Miss .. alone on horseback with this object in view, but on completing the journey from Vicksburg to Jackson in the rain, he was again, at that latter place, attacked with acute rheumatism, which, as soon as he was able to travel (resigning his com mission and passing an examining board), he slowly rode back over the same road to Washing- ton, Ark., where he remained weak and feeble, until he :(through permission) came into Little Rock, Ark., where he arrived on March 17, 1884. When he entered Little Rock, he was nearly naked, his clothes were ragged, and he did not have means enough at his command to purchase him- self a very common meal of victuals. He found friends here that offered him immediate assistance, and he at once entered as a contract (or assistant army surgeon) in the United States army, being first given the Twelfth Michigan battery, then the Fifth Ohio, and then the garrison at Fort Steele (which fort had just been completed), and in a short time the officers' hospital at the Woodruff building, and thence service at the St. John's general hos- pital. In 1865 four assistant army surgeons, who had been assigned consecutively to the small-pox hospital, each contracted the disease, and as none of them had recovered sufficiently to return to duty, Dr. Jennings was ordered to take charge of it, which he did. After the St. John's hospital was discontinued, Dr. Jennings was given the Freedmen's hospital. When this latter was closed, Dr. Jennings. who had, notwithstanding his varied official positions, done a limited private practice, now devoted himself exclusively to it, and soon acquired reputation and standing in all his relations with the profession and citizens. When the Brooks-Baxter embroglio occurred in April, 1874, he sided with the cause of Gov. Bax- ter, and was appointed surgeon general of his forces. He served faithfully through this trouble, but through some neglect or carelessness of the general officials, is the only officer of this renowned State that was never mustered out of service. In reality, therefore, he is the only surgeon-general of
Arkansas to-day, as none other has since been ap- pointed. Dr. Jennings has, therefore, been in the practice of his profession in the city of Little Rock almost twenty-six years. He has been intimately associated with the city, county and State medical organizations, in which he was one of the original movers, and has served as secretary and president of each society. He was also one of the founders of the Medical Department of the Arkansas Indus- trial University, and still acts as the secretary of the faculty, which he has done since its organiza- tion, in 1879. He is therefore well known through- out the profession of the State, and through his long membership in the American Medical Associ- ation, which dates from 1869, among the leading members of the profession throughout the United States. In April, 1869, Dr. Jennings married Miss Gertrude E. (daughter of William A. Elliott) of Camden, Ark., by whom he has had three chil- dren : Octavia, Orville and Elliott Crews. He still practices his profession in the city of Little Rock.
C. Jennings, M. D., is a faithful laborer in the cause and advancement of the science of medicine, and is recognized as such by his fellow-men. He is a native of Hempsted County, Ark., born in 1857, and in his early days received an excellent literary education, being a graduate of St. John's College of Little Rock. He began his medical studies in the University of Louisiana at New Orleans, graduating in 1883, and afterward en- tered Charity Hospital of that city as a resident student, having the advantages of that institution for two years during his medical course. From this he also graduated in 1883. Returning to his home in Little Rock, by sterling worth and skill, he became quickly recognized by the people of Little Rock as a leading member of the medical fraternity, and in the few years of his residence here has built up a practice which he only expected to secure after years of arduous labor. He be- longs to the Pulaski County Medical Society, also the State Medical Society, and in his religious views is a member of the Episcopal Church. His wife, whose maiden name was Jean M. Venor, was born in Tennessee, and by Dr. Jennings is the
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mother of one child: Edwin R. The Doctor is a son of Orville and Julia P. (Black) Jennings.
J. B. Johnson, a prominent merchant and one of the principal farmers in Pulaski County, was born in Crockett County, Tenn., on January 15, 1865, and is a son of W. E. and Pearilee (Wells) Johnson, the former a native of Missouri who moved to Tennessee in 1864, and the mother a native of the latter State. The parents had seven children born to their union, of whom J. B. was the third. The father fought through the Civil War in the Confederate army, and left the struggle with a brilliant record gained on the battlefield. His death occurred in 1887, but his widow still survives him, as does also the paternal grandfather, at the age of seventy-six years. J. B. Johnson was reared in Crawford County, Tenn., until his sixteenth year, when he moved to Pulaski County, Ark., and commenced farming. On his arrival he had almost nothing in the way of wealth, but he has set an example since then that might well be followed by many young men of the present day --- a career which would win for them also the respect and high position that he enjoys. He is now one of the leading men and representative citizens of his county. In 1887 he entered into partnership with Mr. Burton Mainard and estab- lished a business at Roland, in which they carry a stock of goods worth from $1,500 to $3,000, and have control of a patronage that is as large as it is lucrative. Aside from his business interests he owns 300 acres of valuable land, and has placed thirty-five acres under cultivation, all of it being the result of his own enterprise and good manage- ment. In September, 1887, he was married to Miss Millie Oglesby, by whom he had one child; and the hardest blow that has come to him was the loss of both mother and child. In politics he is a Democrat and a strong supporter of that party. He was elected constable of Roland Township in 1886, and in 1SS8 re-elected to the same position. Mr. Johnson is a straightforward, outspoken man, of a kindly, but fearless disposition, and is very popular with the citizens of Roland Township.
Gen. Daniel W. Jones, formerly attorney-gen- eral of Arkansas, but now one of the leading prac-
ticing lawyers in Little Rock, was born December 15, 1839, in the then Republic of Texas. He is a son of Dr. Isaac N. Jones, of Granville County, N. C., a physician of note while residing in that State, but who at the time of Daniel's birth was a member of the Texas Congress. In politics the elder Jones was a Whig, and a leader of his party. Shortly after the birth of his son he removed to Arkansas and purchased a large plantation in Lafayette County. The greater portion of his time was spent in Washington, Ark., but while at his plantation inspecting the machinery of his gins and presses, a boiler in one of the gins exploded and killed him instantly. This occurred February 11, 1858. His wife before marriage was a Miss Eliza- beth W. Littlejohn, of Oxford, N. C. The issue of their union was eight children, of whom seven lived to maturity and five yet remain. The mother died January 27, 1867, at the age of sixty-two years. Daniel W. was reared in Hempstead County, and received a good education at the high school of that place. When twenty years of age he com- menced the study of law with the late Judge John R. Eakin, of the State supreme court, but the Civil War commencing in 1861 interrupted his studies. He enlisted in Gratiot's regiment of State troops, and remained with them until after the battle of Oak Hills when the regiment was then disbanded. Mr. Jones then raised a company of his own, of which he was made captain, and that body was mustered in as Company A, of the Twentieth Arkansas Confederate troops. At the battle of Corinth he was severely wounded by being shot through the body. At that time he had been promoted to the rank of major, but upon his re- covery, in December, 1862, he was made colonel of the regiment and served in that rank until almost near the close of the war, when he was given command of a brigade. Gen. Jones was married on February 9, 1864, to Miss Margaret P. Hadly, of Ashley County, Ark., and shortly after the war had ended resumed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in September, 1865. He commenced practicing in the same year at Washington, Ark., and in January, 1866, was appointed prosecuting attorney without any solici-
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tation on his part, his appointment being made by Gov. Murphy on recommendation of members of the bar of that county. After his time had ex- pired, the General continned his practice until 1874. when he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Ninth judicial circuit, serving one term. In 1876 he was presidential elector for the then Sec- ond Congressional district, for Tilden and Hen- dricks, and in 1880 was a presidential elector at large in Arkansas for Hancock and English. In 1884 he was a candidate for attorney general be- fore the Democratic convention. He was nomi -. nated and elected in September of that year, and in 1886 was a candidate for re-election and had no opposition. Since his retirement from office (Jan- uary 18, 1889), he has continued in the practice of law, but has made his home in Little Rock since 1885. Gen. Jones is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities and also of the State Bar Association. He is also a stockholder in the Little Rock board of trade. In religious belief he belongs to Grace Episcopal Church. Seven chil- dren have been born to him and his wife, of whom five are yet living, two daughters and three sons: Claudius (who was married to Miss Gabie Beau- champ, by whom he has a daughter named Vir- ginia), Elizabeth W., Bobbie N., Daniel W., Jr., ! and Howard H. Mrs. Jones and the remainder of the family are also members of the same church.
Hon. John T. Jones, State senator from Little Rock district, and a prominent planter of Pulaski County, was born in Albemarle County, Va., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah E. (Bunch) Jones, of the same State. The parents remained in Virginia until John T. had reached the age of about five years, and then moved to Hinds County, Miss., where the father died in 1866, and the mother in 1871. The elder Jones was a successful and wealthy planter. None of his riches were inherited, but all made through his own industry and good management. He was a Whig in politics, and a strong Union man, but when the Civil War commenced he remained true to the soil that gave him birth, and cast his for- tunes with the Southern States. He also fought in one of the early Indian wars, and, although his
services in the last great struggle were with the Lost Cause, his name deserves a place in history for his bravery. He was a member of the A. F. & A. M., and a prominent man in both the Masonic order and in public life. Reuben Jones, his father, was also a soldier in some of the earlier wars of this country, as was also Benjamin Bunch, the maternal grandfather of John T. Jones. John T. was the second child in a family of four sons and two daughters, and was educated in the subscription schools of Mississippi. When the Civil War commenced he joined the Twelfth Mis- sissippi Infantry, and served through the entire period in the army of Virginia, taking part in the battles of Bull Run, Seven Days' Battles around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Antietam, Chancellors- ville and Gettysburg, being captured at the latter place. He was taken prisoner to Washington, D. C., and confined in the old Capitol Prison for awhile, and then transferred to Point Lookout, Md .. and kept until November, 1864, when he was ex- changed and returned home. Soon after this he joined Wirt Adams' Company, in Gen. Forrest's army, and went to Selma, Ala., where he was en- gaged in several hot skirmishes until the war was ended. After the surrender he returned home and took charge of his father's farm, as his oldest brother had been killed in the Confederate army, and the father was then in feeble health. In 1869 he was married to Miss Martha E., a daughter of Lewis and Martha E. Bell, by whom he has had six children, two sons and two daughters yet liv- ing: Ida (wife of George Prothro), Thomas P., Minnie and Fleming. In 1872 Mr. Jones moved with his family to Pulaski County, and settled in Maumelle Township, where he purchased two farms of 400 and 160 acres, comprising some of the best land in Central Arkansas. Since 1885 he has resided in Little Rock, where he has bought a comfortable home, in order to properly educate his children. In 1868 Mr. Jones was elected sheriff of Smith County, Miss., and served two years. Upon his arrival in Pulaski County he was elected justice of the peace, and served until 1882, when he was elected to the lower house of representatives, and in 1884 re-elected. In
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1886 he was elected to represent the Tenth district (Pulaski and Perry Counties) in the State senate for four years, and during the Cleve- land administration was also deputy United States marshal for the Eastern district of Arkansas. During his first term in the legislature he was chairman of the committee on public roads and highways, and a member of the committee on elections. He has been chairman several terms of important committees, and a member of agricult- ural, public charities and various other committees. In politics he is a Democrat and a leader in his party, his intellect, shrewdness and influence mak- ing him a valuable friend and a formidable enemy. He is a member of the Agricultural Wheel and the A. F. & A. M., belonging to Mount Moriah Lodge, Mississippi, since 1866. Mrs. Jones was a devout attendant of the Baptist Church from her fourteenth year until her death, and was a very charitable Christian lady. She died in May, 1886.
Judge Eben W. Kimball is a native of New Hampshire, and was born in IS39. His ancestors on his father's side, came from England in 1626, and settled in Watertown, Mass., but his father's mother was born in Ireland. On his mother's side they are traced from Scotland and Wales, and he thus unites in one stream the blood of the four quarters of the Isle of Great Britain. Eben was educated in Massachusetts at the Salem Latin school, the first public school in the coun- try, and afterward entered Harvard College, and read law in Salem, where he practiced his pro- fession for several years with signal success. He was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts before he was twenty-one years old, and served with much honor and credit. Becoming settled in Indianapolis, he took a leading rank among the bar of that State, where he won his full share of credit against such opponents as Harrison, Hen- dricks and McDonald. In 1874 he moved to Lit- tle Rock, where he now resides. His practice is largely in the United States courts, and he has been remarkably successful in litigation concerning county and municipal bonds, and in suits against corporations generally. He is the attorney of all the leading insurance companies, and of foreign
investment companies, as well as of the First Na- tional Bank, the Arkansas Industrial Company, Gas Light, and many other large corporations. He is said to be the best cross-examining lawyer in the State. Judge Kimball has always been a strong Republican, and when in Indiana he stumped the State with Gov. Morton in his famous race against McDonald, Gov. Morton pronouncing him to be amongthe foremost of political orators. He stumped Western Missouri with Col. Van Horn, for Grant in his last presidential campaign. His political affiliations, however, do not deter him from enter- ing heartily into every movement for the improve- ment of Arkansas, and the fact that he is not in accord politically with the majority in his State, is never thought of when brains and energy are needed. He, however, manages to keep out of office, and is among the foremost dozen men now bringing Arkansas to the front. He has been spe- cial judge many times in various courts, and is a member of the bar of the supreme court of the United States. Everybody calls him "Judge" Kim- ball, and when asked how he came by that title he replied: "Some men are called 'Judge' because they happen to be elected such. others because they are judges of the law. I don't belong to the former class." He has been twice married. The present Mrs. Kimball is a beautiful and charming lady, and has displayed more than ordinary skill and talent in painting on china and in oil. They have two attractive young children; his eldest daughter is the accomplished wife of George B. Rose, Esq., of Little Rock. The eldest son, Hor- ace Kimball, is a rising young lawyer, who inherits much of his father's brilliancy and good judg- ment. Judge Kimball is a great organizer, and any movement in which he is interested runs smoothly and systematically. the work being all carefully planned beforehand, and men to carry out each portion of it selected with rare good judg- ment; as a consequence, great results are accom- plished without friction or undue disturbance. The late State exposition of the resources of Arkan- sas and State Immigration Convention, are illustra- tions in point. Judge Kimball was the president of the exposition, and the master mind behind the
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immigration convention, the most unanimous and generally approved movement that has ever taken place in the State, the constitution of which was written by him. Judge Kimball is an ideal com- panion to men who value that sort of refined and strong speech which made Dr. Johnson so attract- ive. He possesses a quickness of conception and an aptness of illustration that at once silence the conversational bore and win admiration from men of keen intelligence. His marked gentleness of manner, and the sympathetic play of his wit, in- vite friendship and confidence. He never wounds a friend, and there are no dregs of bitterness in the rich draught of his mirth. Judge Kimball is now engaged in the practice of law, in which it is need- less to say, he is more than successful. He is a director in the Arkansas Insurance Company, which he organized, is president of the Little Rock & Choctaw Railroad, of the Layman Safety Car Coupler Company, of the Arkansas Abstract Com- pany, and is largely interested in the development of the minerals in Northern Arkansas. He is one of the most eloquent of "after dinner " speakers, and his response to the toast "The Commercial Traveler as a Factor of Civilization," at the great banquet of the Travelers' Protective Association at Little Rock, in 1889, is pronounced one of the most brilliant speeches of his life. No higher en- comiums can be passed on him than by simply call- ing attention to the positions he has held with such honor and credit, and the respect and unqualified esteem that is given him throughout the country. His is a record that the rising generation should at least try to follow.
J. W. Knott, proprietor of one of the leading restaurants of Little Rock (under the Capital Thea- ter), is a native of Middle Tennessee, and was born in Maury County, near Columbia, July 17, 1844. He is a son of William M. Knott, also a native of the same county and State. When sixteen years of age Mr. Knott enlisted in Capt. Rucker's company in Twentieth Tennessee Infantry, and served in that regiment until the battle of Murfreesboro, where he had a brother killed. Then joining the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, he served under Gen. Forrest, until the battle of Chickamauga, where he was
made a prisoner, and held as such, until June 5, after the war closed. He then returned to Ten- nessee, and was engaged in trading for some time, following which he entered the Railway News and Dining-room business, in 1876. He came to Ar- kansas in 1880, and successfully conducted the Railway News and Dining-room business, until 1886, at which time he sold his railway business. In 1885 he purchased the confectionery stand ad- joining his present place of business, and two years later opened up a restaurant-that business now receiving his attention. He has built up a large and profitable patronage. Mr. Knott comes of one of the best Tennessee families, and by strict integ- rity, fair dealing and close attention to business affairs, he has won the confidence and respect of all good people. Mr. Knott is a member, in good standing, in the I. O. O. F. and Knights of Honor lodges, and is an upright and useful citizen.
Fred Kramer, Jr., member of the firm of Rai- ble & Kramer, wholesale candy manufacturers at Little Rock, was born in that city, and is a son of Mr. Fred Kramer, a prominent German citizen of Arkansas. The latter served as mayor of Little Rock for eight years, and inaugurated most of the improvements that are now being put in operation in that place. His wife, who was a Miss Adeline Richards before marriage, was also a native of Germany. They were the parents of five living children; of these, Fred, Jr., was reared in the city of his birth, there receiving a good education in the public schools. Fred is assistant foreman of one of the companies of the Little Rock fire de- partment (No. 4), and also belongs to the order of American Firemen of Arkansas. He is a young man of fine business ability, and has charge of the office work and also the foreign order department of his firm. In religious belief he is a member of Christ Episcopal Church.
Martin L. Kumpe is a native of Alabama, but has been a resident of Arkansas for over thirty years. He is a son of John Kumpe and Lucinda (Maples) Kumpe, natives of Germany and Ten- nessee, respectively. John Kumpe, a well-known citizen of Little Rock for over thirty years, came originally from Hessen County, Germany (where
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he was born April 6, 1807) to America, when eighteen or nineteen years old. He was a gardener by trade, and for the first three years spent in this country he was employed in the Botanical Gar- dens at the city of Washington. He then went to Huntsville, Ala., and some time afterward to Tus- cumbia, Ala., where he was engaged in the con- fectionery business, and where he was married. In 1846, disposing of his interests, he commenced farming, continuing until 1859, when he sold out and moved to Little Rock, where he resumed the confectionery business. In 1872 his son, Martin L., purchased this outfit, and Mr. Kumpe retired from active business life. He erected two large brick buildings in that year, and a couple more in the following two years. Mr. and Mrs. Kumpe were the parents of fourteen children, nine of whom are living: Mary (wife of John Drehr), Edward E. (who is a resident of the Indian Ter- ritory), Ann (wife of Thomas Parsel), Martin B. (the subject of this article), Elizabeth (wife of J. W. Carden), Charles, Gertrude (now Mrs. Schar- er), Carrie (now Mrs. Haley) and Henry P. Mrs. Kumpe is still living, and is in her seventieth year. In the year 1862 Martin L. Kumpe (our subject) went into his father's store as clerk, in which capacity he continued until 1872, when he bought out his father and continued the busi- ness up to 1879, his brother Charley then becom- ing proprietor. In 1881 he was on the police force, and served for about eight months in this capacity, after which he went into the sewing- machine trade. Mr. Kumpe has been twice mar- ried. First in June, 1872, to Miss Parsel, who died the following year. His second union, on September 8, 1875, was to Drucilla Dale. They were the parents of one child, Fannie, now thir- teen years old. Mrs. Kumpe is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Kumpe belongs to Damon Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias.
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