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 80

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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ment at Little Rock. He afterward joined a Texas squadron, and some time later was transferred to an Arkansas regiment, and while in Ashley County, was captured and taken to Little Rock, where he was confined until May 5, 1865. His father was John Slack, of Virginia, and of Irish descent, who died in Logan County, Ark., where he was also a carpenter and builder by occupation. Mrs. Slack's father was Benjamin Love, of Virginia, who fought in the War of 1812, and died in Cleburne County, Ark., at an advanced age. W. N. Slack was the oldest child of five sons and one daughter born to his parents, and was reared and educated in Little Rock, attending private schools altogether. At the age of seventeen years he joined Company A, Tenth Arkansas Infantry, and took part in the battles at Mark's Mill, Mount Elba, Jenkins' Ferry and many others, as well as accompanying Gen. Price in his raids through Missouri. He was captured in Kansas and held a prisoner for seven months in the Gratiot Street prison at St. Louis, at Alton and the prison at Rock Island, Ill. At Lewisburg, Ark., he was severely wounded in the hip, but recovered and lived to return to Little Rock to enjoy the peace he had well earned after passing through nearly all of the most stirring scenes of the Rebellion. While at Little Rock he was employed in a clerical capacity for two years, and afterward went into the cigar and tobacco business for himself, at which he continued for three years. He then moved to Alexander, where he commenced farming, but since 1876 has been more actively engaged as real-estate agent for the Iron Mountain Road, a business that he is well fit- ted for. He still looks after his farm, however, and owns about 340 acres, of which he has placed 100 acres under cultivation, and owes all of it to his own enterprise and good management. In 1867 he was married to Angie, daughter of John and Sarah B. Ross, of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. Mrs. Slack was born in Newton County, Ark., and lost her father in 1856, the mother surviving him for thirty years. Eleven children were born to this union, of whom two sons and four daughters are still living, and Mr. Slack is determined that they shall obtain the best

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education obtainable. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and has served two years as deputy sheriff. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Alexander Lodge No. 353, and was Master for several terms, and also belongs to Royal Arch Chapter of Little Rock. Mr. Slack is one of the earliest settlers of Pulaski County, and has watched the city of Little Rock grow up from a small town into its present proportions, and it would only be justice to add that it is to men of his enterprise and character that the county owes its prosperity.

James H. Southall, M. D. The name of this gentleman is one of the most influential in Little Rock, and he is highly esteemed and liked in pri- vate life, as well as in his professional capacity. His birth occurred in Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va., in 1841, but his youth and early manhood was spent in Norfolk, Va., where he ac- quired a good education in academies of that city, and others in the States of Virginia and North Carolina. He received his medical instruction under the able auspices of Dr. Robert Tunstall, of Norfolk, Va. In 1859 and 1860 he attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylva- nia, and in 1860 and 1861 he attended medical lectures at the University of Louisiana, graduat- ing in the latter school March 1, 1861. He al- most immediately, thereafter, entered the Confed- erate service as assistant-surgeon of the Fifty-fifth Virginia Infantry, and was promoted to surgeon of the above command in 1862, in which capacity he served until the final surrender. He returned to Norfolk, and practiced there until December, 1865, when he came west to Memphis, Tenn., and shortly after located in Crittenden County, Ark., coming from there to Little Rock in 1872. He assisted in organizing the Medical Department of the Arkan- sas Industrial University in 1879, and until the season of 1886, he occupied the chair of physi- ology, since which time he has filled the chair of theory and practice. Dr. Southall is foremost in his profession, and a man whose personal appear- ance will at once indicate his intelligence in what- ever society he may appear. He is very pop- ular outside of his profession, and in his studies he does not lightly skim the surface, but dives to

the bottom of all subjects, no matter how profound. He was married in Memphis, Tenn., to Miss Ger- trude Murphy, a native of that city, and daughter of Maj. J. J. Murphy, and his wife, Mrs. Mary (Mitchell) Murphy, old and respected citizens of that city, their union taking place in 1869. They have two children: Alice and Edith. The Doctor is a son of Turner and Alice A. (Wright) South- all, the former a native of Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va. He was a physician and sur- geon, graduating from the University of Pennsyl- vania. He practiced in his native county all his life, and died there when about forty-five years of age. The grandfather, by name James Barrett Southall, was a Virginian by birth, and the first of the name to settle in the Isle of Wight County, Va. There he married a Miss Whitfield, the grand- mother, on the paternal side, of the subject of this biographical sketch. The parents of James Bar- rett Southall were Daisey Southall and Edith (Van- dervall) Southall; the former of whom was born in the North of England, and was the first of the name settling in Virginia in the early Colonial times. They were residents at that time of what is known as the Peninsula of Virginia (which it is needless to say, was then, as now, of historic fame; in or about that collegiate center of subsequent years, the borough or town of Williamsburg). On his mother's side, Mrs. Alice Ann (Wright) Southall, (who was born in the City of Norfolk, some eighty- two years ago, the place of residence of her par- ents), we find that he is a descendant of Col. Ste- phen A. Wright, of Revolutionary fame, and his wife, Mrs. Abbey (O'Connor) Wright. Mrs. Alice Ann (Wright) Southall was the mother of seven chil- dren by her husband, Dr. Turner H. Southall, all of whom, with the exception of two, died in in- fancy.

Oscar M. Spellman, United States marshal for the Eastern district of Arkansas, residing at Swan Lake, Jefferson County, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, September 17, 1844, and is a son of Henry P. and Mary (King) Spellman, natives of New York and Ohio, respectively. The father was a successful farmer by occupation, who moved from his native State to Hancock County, Ill., in

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1845, and there resided until the outbreak of the Rebellion. when he settled in Alexandria, Clark County, Mo., and while there organized a Home Guard of six companies, being commissioned by Gen. Lyons for that purpose. After the battle of Athens, in Angust, 1861, he entered the volunteer service, joining the Seventh Missouri Cavalry, and served until the war was ended, when he was mus- tered out as a major of that regiment. Maj. Spell- man then came to Arkansas and resumed his former pursuit of farming, which he has continued to follow with success. Both parents are at pres- ent residing at Sugar Loaf Springs, in Cleburne County. Six children were born to their marriage, of whom four are yet living, and all residing in Arkansas except one daughter, who lives in War- saw, Ill. Oscar M. was an infant when his par- ents removed to Illinois, and was there reared and educated, attending the public schools of that State. He was only fifteen years of age when the Civil War commenced, but, nevertheless, enlisted in the Home Guards, and subsequently as a pri- vate in the Seventh Missouri Cavalry, in which regiment he served until the war was over. At the battle of Lone Jack, Mo., he was wounded, and when the First and Seventh Missouri Regiments were consolidated he received a first lieutenant's commission in Company I. On April 25, 1864, he was captured at the battle of Mark's Mill, and taken to Texas, where he was held as a prisoner of war for seven or eight months, but on December 4 of that year he made his escape and returned to the Union lines. After the war he came to Arkan- sas and turned his attention to farming, also deal- ing in general merchandise. In politics Mr. Spell- man is a stanch Republican, and was appointed to his present office by President Harrison for his effi- cient services and loyalty. In secret societies he is a member of the Knights of Honor at Pine Bluff. He was married August 3, 1869, to Mary, daughter of James L. Johnson, of Swan Lake, Ark., by whom he has had six children, three of them yet living: G. L., Carl and Emma.

L. R. Stark, M. D., is one of the leaders of his profession in Little Rock, Ark., and a physician, whose practice is among the largest in the city.

He was born in the "Palmetto State," in 1841, and was a student in the military school of his native State at the time she seceded from the Union, and with a detachment of cadets was or- dered to Morris Island, they being the only available troops South Carolina had at the time of secession. Dr. Stark was appointed one of the cannoneers, and was one of the men who fired on the "Star of the West," which act was the immediate cause of the opening of hostilities between the States. As soon as the regular troops of the State had time to organize, the cadets were sent back to school and Dr. Stark graduated from the same in 1862. Im. mediately after this event he joined Ferguson's . battery as lieutenant of light artillery, but re- signed this position shortly after the battle of Mission Ridge, and re-entered the service as ad- jutant of the Tenth South Carolina Infantry, re- maining such until the close of the war. He was wounded once at the battle of Franklin, Tenn. After his return from the war, he took up the study of medicine, and for some time studied under a preceptor, R. F. Michel, M. D., in Montgomery, Ala. ; then he entered the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, and after graduating from the New Or- leans School of Medicine, located in Morehouse Parish, La., and practiced his profession there until his removal to Little Rock, in 1878. He is filling the chair of gynæcology in the medical de- partment of the Arkansas Industrial University, and is a member of the State Medical Society, and also of the Little Rock Medical Society. He is also a Master Mason. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Cannon, a native of Arkansas, has borne him four children, one of whom, named Mary, survives. The Doctor is a son of Thomas T. and Caroline (Raoul) Stark, the former being a physician and a graduate of South Carolina Col- lege. The grandfather was born in that State, and was an attorney at law. The maternal grand- father, Jean Louis Raoul de Champmanoir, was born and educated in France. After graduating in medicine in Paris, he was forced to leave his country, on account of his devotion to the Bour- bon cause. The maternal grandmother was also of French extraction, being a Huguenot.

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C. E. Stephens, one of the best-known business men of Little Rock, and junior member of the large machinery manufactory of D. R. Wing & Co., is a native of New York State. Mr. Stephens has been acquainted with the duties and work- ings of machinery since his youth, having learned the wood-working and machinist's trade when quite young, in the city of St. Louis. He was afterward employed by various railroad companies. in different parts of the South, his last headquar- ters in that line being at Selma, Ala. In 1873 he came to Little Rock. being twenty seven years of age at the time, and for the following two years was connected with the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad. He then became associated with Mr. D. R. Wing, in the machinery and repair work line, which business has steadily grown under their able supervision, until it has reached its present pro- portions, Mr. Stephens having full charge of the office and trade. He is a thorough business man. shrewd, an able manager, and very popular in commercial circles.

Mancil Stone. an enterprising farmer, merchant and proprietor of grist-mill and cotton-gin, in Pu- laski County, whose various industries and business interests have given him an enviable reputation, is a native of South Carolina, and was born November 3, 1824. He is a son of Abner and Jane (Langston) Stone, of the same State, who were the parents of three sons. After the mother's death, the father again married, and had eight children by his sec- ond union. Mancil was the eldest child of the family, and was reared and educated in the State of his birth. His schooling was somewhat limited in his youth, owing to the difficulty in being able to attend at that period. In 1853 he moved to the State of Arkansas, and was married the following year to Miss Mary V. Ferguson, who was born in South Carolina in 1831, and, later on, moved to . Arkansas with her parents, who have since died. This union gave them five children, two sons and three daughters, four of whom are living: E. C. (a partner in the merchandise business with his father), M. A. (president of a well-known commer- cial college, at Little Rock, and one of that city's most intellectual men), Martha R. and Anna L.

The oldest daughter departed this life in 1864. Mr. Stone first established a general merchandise store in July, 1SS1, with a stock of goods valued at $3,000, and placed his son in partnership with him. Previous to that he built a flour and corn mill, which is now one of the best-paying indus- tries in that section. In addition to this, he owns 160 acres of land, with 115 acres under cultivation, which is situated about fourteen miles northeast of Little Rock, and on some of the finest land in Pulaski County. The farm has three excellent wells, and is well stocked with everything that is necessary on a first-class place, and is valued at $3,000. Before the war Mr. Stone was elected justice of the peace, and served one term. In pol itics he is a strong Democrat, and a valuable man to that party: while in religious belief he inclines to the Baptist Church.

Prof. M. A. Stone, president of Little Rock Commercial College, is a native of Prairie County, Ark., and was born on September 18, 1861. He supplemented his common-school education by an academic course, graduating at about the age of nineteen years, after which he became a student in Little Rock Commercial College, serving as teacber of telegraphy in the institution from which he had previously graduated. He remained in this capac- ity until December 28, 1885, when he purchased the institution and became its president. His first effort was to do away with the old routine method of book-keeping, and to introduce regular office work into the school. In order to succeed in this he was obliged to become author of a new series in book-keeping, and this contains many admirable changes which students from other commercial col- leges are obliged to learn from actual experience, after having completed a regular course. In order to accommodate his students, Prof. Stone has greatly enlarged the capacity of his school. and has added to the regular commercial course a classical course. The enrollment of students for the scholastic year of 1880-S9 was 465. The Pro- fessor was married in Little Rock, in IS87, to Miss S. E. McAlmont, and the result of this union was one child, Leona. Prof. Stone is the son of Man- cil and Mary V. Stone, of Pulaski County [See

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sketch of Mancil Stone]. Little Rock Commer- cial College is the only college of the kind in the State, and is patronized from several different States. The history of the institution is about as follows: It was founded in 1874 by Prof. Aaron Bales, who began on a comparatively small scale, but success attended him in all his efforts. Aided by a strong corps of teachers, which included the present president, he built up a large and flour- ishing school. Foreseeing what might be its future needs, he made wise and liberal provisions for the growth of the college by securing for its use the pleasant, convenient quarters it now occupies, in one of the finest buildings in the State. On Jann- ary 1, 1886, Mr. M. A. Stone purchased the prop- erty of the college, and was elected president by its board of directors. The school had already acquired a good standing all over the Southwest, and annually prepares a large number of young persons for the duties of the counting-room. To his advantage, the new president was familiar with the course of study pursued and the methods of instruction when he assumed the management, and was consequently able to take up and continue the work without interruption. The faculty is: M. A. Stone, president and superintendent of the course of instruction: E. M. Chartier, teacher of penman- ship, book-keeping and mathematics; E. G. John- son (assistant secretary of State), commercial law; W. J. Terry (Little Rock bar), civil government and political economy; George M. Hodges, telegra- phy and electrical sciences.

Dr. George W. Sutton, a self-made man, and one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Pn- laski County, was born in Sampson County, N. C., in 1831, and is a son of Edmond and Polly (Crad- dock) Sutton, natives of the same county, where they resided until George was about eight years old, and then moved to the State of Louisiana, where the mother died. After a three years' resi- dence in that State, Mr. Sutton returned to North Carolina with his son, and remained there until his death in 1863. The father of Edmond Sutton was also a native of North Carolina, and was named Thomas Sutton. He served with six other brothers in the War of the Revolution, and afterward died

in the State of Louisiana. His father emigrated from Scotland to America when very young, and Dr. Sutton's grandfather, Thomas Craddock, was born in North Carolina, where he was a very prom- inent farmer. Dr. Sutton first commenced the study of medicine in Arkansas, when there was no physician in his section of the country, and see- ing the necessity of there being one, he applied himself to that profession with so much diligence and zeal, that, after graduating, he became the leading physician, as well as one of the earliest in Pulaski County; he has lived in the neighborhood of his present residence thirty-three years, and has been practicing medicine for over twenty years. He served about three years in the Confederate army, belonging to Company B, Thirtieth Arkan- sas Infantry. After the fall of Corinth, he was granted a furlough and returned home; but inac- tivity was the bane of his existence, and he was soon in the ranks again, this time becoming a mem- ber of Col. Newton's regiment of cavalry, in which he served until the surrender at Rockport. The Doctor has always been one of the most enterpris- ing citizens of which Pulaski could boast. He takes a deep interest in educational matters as well as all affairs that in his judgment will improve and advance that county. He was formerly a Whig, but since the war has always voted the Democratic ticket, and is a strong supporter of that party. Dr. Sutton has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. for over twelve years, belonging to Mary Williams Lodge No. 307, and with his wife has been attending the Missionary Baptist Church for about twenty-five years.

Ben S. Thalhimer, proprietor of Southwestern Mule and Horse Market, Little Rock, Ark. This enterprising and wide-awake business man is a native of Wittenberg, Germany, born in 1850, and at the age of seventeen years, he left the old coun- try and came to the United States, landing in New York City without friends, money, and without a knowledge of the English language, though with a firm determination to make a success of life. His first work was to peddle goods, but he soon secured a situation in a tobacco house in Philadelphia, where he remained for one year. After this he

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went to Illinois, and there established a hide, fur attention to inventing labor-saving cotton- hand- and whisky business for himself. Subsequently ling machinery, the principal machine being the first successful self packing cotton press ever made. The outgrowth of this invention, coupled with the energy and money of D. H. Thomas, is the present extensive brick factory, 50x250 feet, with boiler room extra, also extensive paint shop. The plant covers three acres of ground, and constitutes a regular manufacturing enterprise in Arkansas. D. H. Thomas, also a native New Yorker, came to Arkansas in the spring of 1865, on a visit to his brother and liking the county so well he has since remained here. He located at the same place, Lewisburg, where he also married, and has been engaged in nearly all kinds of honorable business. In 1879, Lewisburg being absorbed by Morrillton which was only one mile distant, he moved there and erected storehouses, and went into the hand- ling of machinery of all kinds quite extensively. In 1885 he sold out and in 1886 came to Little Rock to engage with his brother in the manufacture of the cotton press. He has been very success- ful in all of his undertakings, and one of the fore- most in any enterprise to which he gives his atten- tion. They are among the leading manufacturers of Arkansas, and are genial, whole-souled gentlemen, whose business tact and sociability have secured for them a host of friends in their new home. he engaged as a salesman with a wholesale house in Burlington, and after continuing there for some time he came to Arkansas, where he embarked in the hide and fur business in Little Rock. He then purchased a boat, traded up and down the Arkansas River and its branches, and finished by doing a freight business with his boat. After this he sold the boat business and entered into the grocery business at Little Rock, but later went to Prairie County, Ark., where he ran two general mercantile stores. In this enterprise he lost nearly all the money he had previously made, by doing a too extensive credit business. He made his last move to Little Rock, from Prairie County, about 1884, and established the Southwestern Horse and Mule Market. He formerly had a partner, but bought him out, and is now sole proprietor. In this capacity he has thrived beyond his most san- guine hopes, and now handles more than 2,000 head of mules and horses annually. He is an en- terprising man and a good citizen. He was mar- ried in 1873 to Miss Fannie Mayer, a native of Germany, and four children have blessed this union: Sidney, Sally, Jesse and Abe. He is a member of the K. of H., I. O. O. B. and the K. of S. He is a Hebrew, and is a son of Jesse and Menah (Rothschild) Thalhimer, the mother a mem- ber of the famous family of Rothschild, of Frank- fort and England. Mr. Thalhimer has a life policy on the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Dr. A. D. Thomas, of the Thomas Cotton Press Works, was born and spent the earlier years of his life in New York State, emigrating to Chicago in 1856, where he taught in the public schools and studied medicine. At the breaking out of the war he was one of the first to enlist, and rose to the rank of major-surgeon and was mustered out of service at Post Lewisburg, Ark., in June, 1865. Here he married and engaged in planting, milling and the drug business. He was elected to the State senate from the district of which his (Con- way) county formed a part, and served with credit to his district and himself. In 1883 he turned his

Prof. W. S. Thomas is in charge of the geolog- ical and scientific investigations of the land de- partment of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway. He is of Welsh descent, and was born in Waterford, Saratoga County, N. Y. His early years, however, were spent in Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y., where he received an excellent common-school education, supplemented by a thorough scientific course at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute, at Troy, N. Y. After complet- ing this he made a tour of investigation for eastern parties, in 1848, through the mineral region of Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, and his was one of the first reports of importance ever made on the Northwestern mineral region. Upon finishing his work in that section, he went to Washington, D. C. Here he gained a high reputation for his in- vestigations in electric forces, and was tendered by

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Prof. Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, charge of the chemical apparatus that had just been presented to the institute by Dr. Hare, of Philadelphia. This offer, however, he thought best to decline, as he was too well pleased with the mineral wealth of the district he had examined in the West, and was only awaiting the proper oppor- tunity to return there. Several electric appli- ances, the result of Prof. Thomas' labors, were patented. He was elected a member of the Amer- ican Scientific Association, and was for many years the youngest member of the society. For two or three years before he came west again (in 1854), Prof. Thomas was connected with the newspaper press of New York City. He returned with ample capital behind him to develop the coal resources of the section around Rock Island. The mines were opened at Carbon Cliff, from which came the first coal that ever reached the Upper Mississippi River by rail, and the first ever shipped west of the Mis- sissippi River. These mines were also the first established coal deposits in Rock Island, Daven- port, Iowa City, and other towns in the interior. He was interested in the organization and build- ing of the several railroads in that section, notably the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis, of which he was director for many years. He remained actively connected with the coal and railroad in- terests of Illinois and Iowa up to 1876. In 1876, eastern capitalists, who had great faith in the judgment of Prof. Thomas, and contemplated in- vesting in Arkansas mineral lands, induced him to go to that State and carefully examine the anti- mony region of Southwest Arkansas. After the completion of this examination he felt so thorough- ly impressed with the natural resources and capa- bilities of the State, that he returned to Illinois and disposed of his interests there, and returned to Arkansas to make it his future home. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, which had just acquired from the General Government its land grant of over one and one-half million acres, decided that it was best to look into the mineral re- sources of their lands before disposing of them for agricultural purposes. They engaged the services of Prof. Thomas, and his reports have governed

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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 80

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