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 79

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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Logan H. Roots, youngest son of Prof. B. G. Roots, the famous educator of Illinois, was born on a farm in Perry County, Ill., March 26, 1841. He was early taught that thoroughness and in- dustry were the keys to success. During his school days he managed to earn a very consider- able portion of the amount necessary to his main- tenance, and graduated at the Illinois State Nor- mal University with the first honors of the class of 1862. Immediately after his graduation he joined the Federal army, and serving therein to the close of the war, made a most creditable mili- tary record. He was with Gen. Sherman on the march to the sea, and after participating as an

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officer on Gen. Sherman's staff in the grand re- view at Washington, in May, 1865, he came west with that General and was ordered on duty in Arkansas. He formed an attachment for the State and bought a cotton plantation before the acceptance of his resignation as an officer of the army. Though never an office-seeker, he has both held and declined many important official positions. He was the youngest member of the XLth Congress of the United States, was re- elected and also served through the XLIst Con- gress, which closed on the 3d of March, 1871. He introduced the first Congressional bill that named the great Southern Trans Continental Route, the Texas & Pacific, and with skillful ability he in- troduced, promoted and materially aided in secur- ing the passage of many measures of special practical importance in the development of pros- perity in the South. The thrift of his youth has attended his manhood, and since his peremptory refusal to accept any political position his success in accumulating wealth has been both rapid and continuous. He is always engaged in enterprises of development. After falling under his energetic management, the telephone was introduced more rapidly in the Southwest than in any other part of the nation, and from this enterprise the Colonel is reputed to have reaped a golden harvest. He has been active in promoting the building of railroads in the South. and has devoted both time and money liberally thereto. He has extensive interests in cotton seed oil, lumber and other active manufac- tories, and is president of the Lumberman's Asso- ciation of the State of Arkansas. He is president of the Arkansas Loan & Trust Company, which has been an efficient agency in the introduction of capital for developing enterprises. He is presi- dent of the First National Bank of Little Rock, which has always been notably liberal in the en- couragement of manufactories and corresponding enterprises, which bank stands to-day, not only the oldest National bank in the State, but unex- celled and unquestioned, the leading bank of this section of the country. These statements, while indicative of the character of his investments, do not embrace anything like an enumeration of the

enterprises in which his controlling voice and capi- tal produce success. He is so much a Republican that last year the party State convention unani- mously elected him a delegate to the National convention by acclamation, and a person of such universally recognized energy and ability that a convention of as intelligent and enterprising men as ever assembled in the State, four fifths of whom were Democrats, unanimously made him the presi- dent of the Arkansas State Bureau of Immigra- tion, in connection with which movement he has given liberally of his time and means toward mak- ing known the wonderful resources of Arkansas. He is an active promoter of numerous humane and benevolent movements, being the largest contribu- tor in the State to each of many systems of phil- anthropic efforts. And although so busily occupied with divers matters that he never seeks office, he is constantly pressed into official positions connected therewith. He is now president of the Arkansas State Sunday-school Association and also of the executive committee of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association of the State of Arkansas. Is treasurer of the diocese of the Episcopal Church of Arkansas, and one of the deputies chosen by the diocese of Arkansas to the general convention of the Episcopal Church. He has been Grand Master of Freemasons of Arkansas; Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter, Illustrious Grand Master of the Grand Council, and is now Grand Commander of Arkansas Knights Templar. He is a cultured gentleman who has traveled exten- sively over the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. With a lovable family he enjoys a charm- ing home in Little Rock, noted for its hospitality.

Judge U. M. Rose, one of the leading attor- neys of Arkansas, and a man whose brilliant at- tainments have made him one of the central fig- ures in the Arkansas bar, is a native of Kentucky, and was born March 5, 1834. He is a son of Dr. Joseph Rose, of Virginia, but afterward a noted physician of Kentucky, in which State he had set tled at an early period, locating in Marion County. where he died in the spring of 1848. The mother, before her marriage, was a Miss Nancy Simpson, of that State, where she also resided until her

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death, September 10, 1847. Judge Rose was the fourth child of this union, and as evidences of a legal inclination were perceptible even in his early youth, he was given to Mr. R. H. Rowntree, of Lebanon, Ky., one of the leading lawyers of that section, to be trained in the intricacies of law. He began the study of that profession in Mr. Rown- tree's office, and subsequently attended the Tran- sylvania Law School at Lexington, graduating from that institute in 1853. In the fall of that year he was licensed to practice by the court of appeals of Kentucky, and on December 1, 1853, moved to Batesville, Ark., where he practiced until the year 1860, when he was appointed chancellor of the Pu- laski County chancery court by Gov. Conway, and held that office until the close of the war. Since then he has been residing in Little Rock, engaged in the practice of his profession. When Judge Rose first located in Little Rock he entered into partnership with ex-Chief Justice of Arkansas, George C. Watkins, under the firm name of Wat- kins & Rose, but for the last five years he has been practicing with his son, George B., the firm being known as U. M. & G. B. Rose. Judge Rose has contributed considerably to current law literature. In 1865 he compiled and published " Rose's Digest of Arkansas Reports," which has been widely quoted among the legal fraternity. He is a mem- ber of three different bar associations, the Arkan- sas, American and National, and is vice-president of the last-named association for the Fifth United States judicial circuit, embracing the States of Ar- kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Ne- braska and Missouri. His marriage occurred Oc- tober 25, 1853, to Miss Margaret T. Gibbs, of Kentucky.

C. E Rosenbaum, one of the best-known men in business circles at Little Rock, was born in St. Louis, Mo., and is a son of Jacob and Caroline (Obert) Rosenbaum, natives of Germany. The father came to America at an early period and set- tled in St. Louis, which he made his permanent home, and resided there until his death in 1865. The mother is still living and resides in that city. Charles E., their son, was reared in St. Louis and attended the city schools until his thirteenth year,

when he was compelled to leave his studies on ac- count of his father's death. He then assisted his older brother in maintaining the support of their mother and sister, and for three years was in the employ of the city government, part of this time being in the city collector's office, but for the greater period being in the weighing department. He then entered a St. Louis business house as office boy at $20 per month, and remained with the same firm for three years, being one of their chief book-keepers when he left. He next entered into the employ of the Union Pressed Brick Works as cashier and book-keeper, remaining with that firm for eighteen months. About that time the Atlas Engine Works of Indianapolis, Ind., opened up a branch house in St. Louis, and Mr. Rosen- banm was engaged by them as cashier and book- keeper. He held this position for several years, and was finally induced by the firm to go on the road as traveling salesman. He filled the position until the branch house was closed up, and the machinery taken by the N. O. Nelson Manufactur- ing Company, Mr. Rosenbaum remaining to take charge of the Atlas Engine Works' interests in that house. In 1883 he came to Little Rock, and now represents both the Atlas Engine Works of Indianapolis and the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, for the State of Arkansas. Mr. Rosenbaum has the exclusive interests and trade of both firms in this section, and enjoys their fullest confidence, making his business a profitable and pleasant one. In secret societies he is a mem- ber of a St. Louis Lodge, Knights of Honor, and Damon Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias as also Magnolia Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Union Chapter, Royal Arch Masons and Hugh de Payne Command- ery No. 1. Mr. Rosenbaum was married on June 28, 1877, to Miss Ida M. Havlin, of St. Louis, by whom he has had one daughter, May (now eleven years old). Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbaum both attend services at the Congregational Church, and are liberal in their aid to all worthy enterprises. He has recently erected a cosy residence on the corner of Twenty-fourth and Louisiana Streets, which is . a model of neatness and home comfort.

Fred Rossner, the leading confectioner and ca-

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terer of Little Rock, whose place of business is the center of all that pleases the taste of Little Rock's elite, is a native of Germany, and was born May 12, 1849. He is a son of Johann Gottfriedt Ross- ner of Saxe-Altenberg, Germany, a prominent con- tractor and builder in his native country, where he died, in 1874. His wife before marriage was a Miss Christina Mueller by whom he had twelve children, three of whom came to America: Frank (is a prominent marble dealer at Fond du Lac, Wis.), Minna (is the wife of Mr. Henry Mennerick, a harness dealer at Sioux City, Iowa) and Fred (the principal of this sketch). The mother died in her native land about the year 1870. Fred Ross- ner was eighteen years old when he came to Amer- ica, and landed in New York on May 31, 1867. He had previously learned the stone and brick ma- son's trade, and immediately went to Sheboygan, Wis., where he found employment on the court house that was then being erected. The following year he went to Fond du Lac, but in the fall of the same year returned to Sheboygan. His brother Frank followed him to America the year after and joined him at Sheboygan. On account of the long and severe winters in the North, Fred left that city and went to New Orleans, where he worked at his trade for some length of time, and then went to St. Louis. In September. 1870, he was en- gaged by the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad to assist in completing a bridge across Piney Creek, but was taken sick and brought to Little Rock, where he was confined in bed for six months. When able to work he was employed by Mr. G. Thom in the cigar and confectionery trade, and remained with him until March, 1873, when he went to work for Mr. A. Kasselberg. He re- mained with this gentleman until September I, 1878, and then purchased the stock and trade of the Boston confectionery at 107 East Markham Street. He continued in that way until the year 1884, when he bought out the business of Currell & Grisbel, and in 1884-85 operated two stores. During the latter year he discontinued business on Markham Street, and removed his interests to Main Street. In 1886 he erected the Rossner building, 53x140 feet, composed of brick and

three stories high, on the corner of Third and Main Streets, and in March, 1887, moved in his new building. Mr. Rossner manufactures candies and confections for his own retail trade, and also charges nearly all the soda fountains in the city. Besides this he is caterer to weddings, balls and parties, and his trade in that line is the most ex- tensive in Little Rock. In season his ice cream and oyster parlors are the resort of Little Rock's fashionable society, and in addition to this he turns out delicious bread, rolls, buns, pies, etc. Mr. Rossner employs altogether about fourteen men, and the principal reason of his great success lies in the fact that he gives his personal atten- tion to every detail of his business. In secret so- cieties he is a member of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Arkansas Turn Bezirk, embrac- ing the States of Arkansas, Tennessee and Ala- bama. He is also secretary of the Defiance Hook & Ladder Company, and is also a member of the Lit- tle Rock Athletic Club. Mr. Rossner was married August 14, 1878, to Miss Minnie Wendt, of Little Rock, but lost his wife, who died after having borne him two children. He was again married, August 7, 1883, to Miss Lou Heitman of Columbus, Ohio, by whom he had four children. The chil- dren by his first marriage are Edna and Fred, and by the last marriage, L. (is the only one now liv- ing). Mr. and Mrs. Rossner are members of the First Presbyterian Church.

William H. Rowan, a prosperous and well- known farmer and stock raiser, of Pulaski County, was born in Saline County, in the year 1845, and is a son of Thomas and Ruth (Rowland) Rowan, of Alabama, in which State they were reared and married, and in 1836 moved to Arkansas, when it was yet a Territory. The parents settled in Saline County, where the father died about the year IS48, when William was only two years old. The mother was afterward married to Obediah Snow, who died in Saline County, and passed away herself in 1887, in Pulaski County. She was a daughter of Amos Rowland, of Alabama, who fought in the Revolu- tion, and was under General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. He afterward moved to Saline County, where he resided a great many years, and

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finally died there at an advanced age. William H. Rowan was the eighth of nine children, and was reared principally in the wilds of Saline County, and, owing to the impossibility of finding schools in that section during his youth, his education was somewhat limited. When only fifteen years old he joined Company E, First Arkansas Infantry, and served twelve months, when he was discharged on account of his youth. In that time, however, he operated through Virginia, Tennessee and Mis- sissippi, and took part in a great many battles, Shiloh being his most notable engagement. After his discharge he returned home, but soon after- ward joined Col. Logan's regiment of cavalry, and did dispatch and scouting duty, until the close of the war, when he surrendered at Benton, Ark., in 1865. He was captured at that place, in 1862, and kept a prisoner for two weeks. In 1866 he was married, in Saline County, to Miss Cynthia Scott, of Mobile, Ala., a daughter of Patrick Scott, who died in that State. Mrs. Rowan died about one year after her marriage, leaving one son, Wal- ter, who resides with his father. Mr. Rowan is about the oldest settler in his vicinity, and owns 200 acres of land near Alexander, with 100 acres under cultivation, besides eighty acres near Little Rock, all of which he has accumulated by his own industry and enterprise. He is a stanch Democrat.

J. H. Sannoner, a prominent cotton factor of Little Rock, Ark., was born in Alabama as the son of Ferdinand and Frances (Holt) Sannoner. The father was a native of Florence, Italy, and by occupation a civil engineer. He served under Napoleon I (as such) from the time he was twenty years of age until the age of twenty-three, when he came to America. He arrived in the United States highly recommended by authorities in Eu- rope, and received an immediate appointment as deputy surveyor general of Alabama, which posi- tion he held nearly all his life. He supervised the surveying of the whole State of Alabama. His appointment as surveyor was received under Gen. Coffee. After an eventful life, he died at the age of sixty-five years. J. H. Sannoner was reared in Tennessee, and when the Civil War broke out he joined the Confederate army and served as lieuten-

ant until after the battle of Shiloh, when he was commissioned captain, serving in that capacity the rest of the war. He was in all the principal bat- tles fought east of the Mississippi River, was at Columbus, Ga., at the time of the surrender, and in a battle after Lee had surrendered, but before the news had reached them. After the war Mr. Sannoner engaged in business at Saulsbury, Tenn., continuing there twelve years, and then moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he remained but a short time in the commission business, until the time of the severe yellow fever epidemic. In May, 1879, he came to Little Rock, Ark., and has since been prom - inently identified with the cotton business of the city. He also does a retail and wholesale grocery and feed business, in fact all that would fall natur- ally under the head of a general commission busi- ness. He is located at Nos. 607, 609, 611 and 613 Main Street, and the superficial dimension of the building is 100x150, probably the largest commis- sion house in the State, having handled over 6,000 bales of cotton the past year. Mr. Sannoner has been before the public for ten years and enjoys a constantly increasing trade. He was married in North Mississippi, near Holly Springs, to Miss Nannie Bailey, a native of the State of Mississippi, and the fruits of this union are six children: Sue, Elois, James, Mamie, Rory and Birdie. Mr. San- noner is a member of the Board of Trade, Little Rock; is a stockholder in the Bank of Little Rock, a Knight of Honor, and a member of the Episcopal Church.

J. G. Scarborough, M. D., has been practicing in the city of Little Rock, Ark., since 1870, and from that time has carried the majority of his cases to a successful issue. He was born in Sulli- van County, Tenn., in 1835, and in 1842 was taken by his father to South Carolina, where he grew to manhood and was educated, graduating with de- gree of A. B. from the South Carolina College, at Columbia, in 1855. The three following years of his career were spent in instructing the young and reviewing collegiate course, obtaining, therefore, the degree of A. M. from South Carolina College; during this time he began the study of medicine. After attending college he graduated as an M. D.

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in the class of 1859-60, and located almost imme- diately in the town of Fayetteville, Ark., but only practiced a short time, when he offered his services to the Confederacy, and was surgeon of a company of cavalry. The year 1863 he spent in Green- wood, Sebastian County. Ark., but the latter part of the war he acted as assistant surgeon of Jami- son's regiment. Upon the proclamation of peace, he located at Washington, Ark., and during his four years' residence at that place, in addition to practicing his profession, he was engaged in the drug business, his establishment being the second one of the kind in the place. Upon his arrival in Little Rock, he established a drug store, but gave this up to the management of his son, and now devotes his time exclusively to alleviating the suf- ferings of the sick and afflicted. Dr. Scarborough has been one of the State Board of Examining Phy- sicians and Surgeons for years, and has also been long connected with the American Health Associa- tion. He is a man of high literary attainments, is scrupulously conscientious, and wields a wide- spread interest among his fellow-men. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Gaines, was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., but shortly after the birth of our subject, she passed to her long home, and her son was reared by his grandmother. Up- on her death-bed she told her nearest female friend that she desired her son to be reared a Christian, and years afterward, when he had grown into a man, he found the request written by this friend in an old autograph album, and signed "His mother's best friend." So great an impression did this make upon his youthful mind that he im- mediately united with the church, and has ever since remained a consistent Christian. He was married in Tennessee, in 1857, to Miss E. J. Inge, and of a family of nine children born to them, five are yet living: W. Inge, John Strother, May, Earl and Guy. W. H. Scarborough, the father of the Doctor, was a Tennesseean, born in 1810. He was a natural artist, and received his instruction under the celebrated painter of New York City, In- man, and had he lived, would have became famous, but death closed his career while in the prime of life. The paternal grandfather was a native of

England, and was an early pioneer to the State of Tennessee, being a resident of that State when the first steamboat ascended the Cumberland River. The maternal grandfather was John S. Gaines, a cousin of Edmund P. Gaines, and his wife was Letitia (Dalton) Moore, a relative of Lord Dalton. of England. She was a native of Virginia, and lived to be nearly ninety years of age, as did also her husband. The latter was a planter, and owned Holston Springs, on the north fork of the Holston River. Great grandfather Gaines was a Tennes- seean, and was very highly educated, and wrote a valuable treatise on astronomy.

Prof. W. U. Simons. United States Signal Serv- ice sergeant, and observer for the territory of Ar- kansas, Northeast Texas and the Indian Territory, residing in the suburbs of Little Rock, is a native of St. Louis, Mo., and a son of John and Virginia (Deck) Simons, of Kentucky and Virginia, respect- ively. The parents resided in St. Louis for a great number of years, where he was engaged in mercantile life and steamboating very extensively until his death, in 1853, from yellow fever, while on a steamboat from New Orleans to Memphis. The mother is still living, and resides at St. Louis. Prof. Simons was reared in that city and educated at the public schools, and also at the McKendrick College, at Lebanon, Ill. In 1872 he entered the Signal Service department, and went direct to Washington for instruction. He was first stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., where he remained from August, 1872, until January. 1876, and was then transferred to Smithville, N. C., remaining there fifteen months. During the summer of 1877 he was stationed at Philadelphia, and next at New Orleans, from 1877 to February, 1879. San Diego. Cal., was his next station, where he remained for one year, and at the last two places mentioned Prof. Simons had entire charge of the Signal Serv- ice. In the spring of 1880 he came to Little Rock, and took charge of the station established in 1879. At that time reports were received from three other points only by telegraph, Little Rock being the only station in the State. Now there are forty- nine stations, of which thirteen in the district re- port by telegraph, and each county in Arkansas

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reports daily by mail. Indications and warnings are sent out by telegraph to about twenty different points in the district. In 1882 Prof. Simons re- commended the establishment of the Fort Smith station which is now in full operation. When he took charge of the work he was the only salaried man in that district, but now there are seventeen, and a monthly paper has been operated for the last two years in the Signal Service, called the Arkan- sas Weather Review. Prof. Simons has been authorized by the department at Washington to make predictions daily twenty-four hours ahead as to the state of the weather, and during the first month of this new arrangement (July) his predic- tions were verified by a percentage about equal to the one at Washington, 85 per cent. Prof. Simons was married in St. Louis to Miss Caroline Schick, who died from yellow fever at New Orleans in 1878. He himself suffered from this scourge at the same time, and was stricken down for a month. Three children were born to their marriage, of whom two are yet living: Justain E. and George A. His second marriage occurred in New Orleans, in 1880, to Miss Mittie E. Crawford. In secret societies, Prof. Simons is a member of Capitol Lodge No. 49, K. of P., at Little Rock, and is Chancellor Commander of his lodge, having been the first regularly elected officer to that position after the organization of the lodge, and when he had only been a member of the order two months.

W. N. Slack, the well-known and popular land agent for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, whose headquarters are at Alexander. was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1846, and is a son of Robert E. and Lucy J. (Love) Slack, the father a native of Kentucky, and born in 1826, while the mother was born in Tennessee. The parents were married in Nashville, and in 1847 moved to Little Rock, Ark., where the mother died in 1863. The elder Slack was again married in 1870, and moved to the State of Texas, where he commenced farming; his occupation previous to that was contracting and building, in which he made an excellent reputation at Little Rock. During the war he served in the Confederate army, and was assigned to the quartermaster's depart-

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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 79

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