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Claibourne Watkins, M. D., is a descendant of one of the oldest families of Little Rock, his grandfather, Maj. Isaac Watkins, who emigrated to the State from Kentucky, in 1821, having be- come one of the first settlers of this city. His son, Hon. George Claibourne Watkins, was born in Shelbyville, Ky., and became the third chief jus- tice of Arkansas. The foundation of his legal education was laid at Yale College, Connecticut. In 1837 he returned from Yale College ripe in scholarly attainments for one so young, and was immediately taken into partnership with Chester Ashley, who, in his knowledge of law, was without
a peer in the State. Mr. Watkins was an arduous student, and rose in his profession with astonish- ing rapidity, being elected at the early age of thirty years to the office of attorney general of the State, resigning at the end of two years to make room for a professional friend. In 1852 he was elected chief justice of the supreme court, resign-
ing this position also at the end of two years, owing to the death of his legal partner, James M. Curran. Before leaving the bench he settled many arrears in business, which he had found on taking the office, and unhesitatingly expressed his views on many important questions, many of which (ac- cording to high authority) have never been over- ruled. He was a zealous Confederate during the war, and three of his sons fought for the Sonthern cause. His oldest son was promoted from the ranks to the position of lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth Arkansas Volunteers, and fought, without receiv- ing a wound, in eighteen hard battles, but, in his twenty-second year, fell at the head of his com- mand, in the battle of Atlanta. Judge Watkins was married. in 1841, to Miss Mary Crease, her death occurring in 1855. His second wife was Mrs. Sophia Curran, a daughter of William S. Fulton. In 1872 Judge Watkins' overtaxed ener- gies gave way, and his friends thought it advisa- ble to give him a change of scene. He was taken to the springs of Virginia and afterward to Colo- rado, being attended by his son, Dr. Claibourne Watkins, but his vital forces could not be recruited, and he died in the city of St. Louis, while on his way home, December 7, 1872. Dr. Claibourne Watkins was a son by his first wife, and was born in Little Rock, in 1844. After receiving a com- mon-school education he supplemented this by at- tending a college in Maryland, and would have taken a degree in letters and science but for the opening of the Rebellion. He dropped his studies to aid the Southern cause, and became a member of the Eleventh Arkansas Regiment, being capt- ured soon after at Island No. 10. He remained a prisoner six months, was then exchanged and be- came a member of Price's army, but was captured a second time at Port Hudson. He made his es- cape from prison at New Orleans, and joined Tay-
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lor's army at Mobile, surrendering at the close of the war, at Jackson, Miss., at that time holding the rank of captain, to which position he had been promoted from a private. He returned to Little Roek, and entered the Government hospital, and in 1868 graduated from the Jefferson Medical College. Since that time he has won his way to the front, and the reputation which he bears throughout the State is well deserved. His wife, who was a Miss Mildred Farley, was born in Mississippi, their union taking place in St. Louis, Mo. They have four children : Annie, Mary, Mildred and Gertrude.
J. M. Watkins, physician, Little Roek, Ark. Dr. Watkins is a young man of decided intellectual ability, is ever ready to obey the call of all elasses, and is in truth a physician of thorough learning, and one who has been very successful. Originally from Izard County, Ark., where his birth occurred in 1859, he received his literary education in La Cross, Izard County, and studied medicine under his father at that city for some time. He then graduated from the well-known and far-ľamed Van- derbilt University, in 1882, thoroughly prepared to enter actively upon the discharge of his profes- sional duties, and located at LaCross, where he practiced six years. Going to Lee County he re- mained only a short time when his health failed and he was obliged to come to Little Rock. Here he has resided since February, ISS9. He is a member of the Arkansas State Medical Society, Pulaski County Medieal Society and other medical as- sociations. He owns considerable real estate in Lit- tle Rock. His father, O. F. Watkins, is a native of Tennessee, receiving his education in Franklin, that State. He graduated from Louisville Univer- sity, and later married the mother of the subject of this sketch, Miss Elizabeth Martin, who bore him twelve children, ten now living. The father then located in Alabama, but later came west and made his home in Izard County, where he has re- sided since 1844. He has been retired since the elose of the war, and has given his time to farm- ing and stoek raising, being one of the largest land owners in his county. The mother is still liv- ing. Grandfather Watkins was born in North Caro- lina, was of Irish descent, was a farmer, and died
near Nashville at the age of eighty years. He was the owner of a good property. Grandfather Mar- tin was from Missouri, came to Arkansas and lo- cated in Izard County, where he died in 1848.
Dr. J. P. Webb, a well-known eitizen and prominent chair manufacturer of Little Rock, was born in Caldwell County, Ky., in 1831, and is a son of Charles H. and Cassandra (Ford) Webb, both natives of the same State. The father was one of the leading physicians in Princeton, Ky., and in fact considered one of the most skillful in that part of the State. His death occurred in 1844 at the age of fifty years. while the mother survived him until the year 1865, shortly after the Civil War had ended. They were the parents of nine children, of whom three daughters and one son are yet living. J. P. Webb was reared in his native county and graduated from the old Cum- berland College at Princeton. Choosing medicine as his profession, he commenced that study in the office of the noted Dr. James A. Carr, and also attended medical lectures at the University of Louisville, Ky., from which institute he graduated in 1851, although he never practiced any but simply used his knowledge of medicine for his own benefit, and a natural desire to know the secrets of that profession. In early life the Doctor was en- gaged in the commission business for eight years, and afterward spent ten years in the dry-goods business with great success. His next venture was in steamboating on the Cumberland, Tennessee and Ohio Rivers until 1869, when he came to Little Rock, where he embarked in the wholesale boot and shoe business, but was forced to sell out some time later, on account of his wife's failing health, and return to Kentucky, where she died. On his return to Little Roek he formed a partner- ship with Mr. T. W. Wilson, in the book and sta- tionery business, under the firm name of Wilson & Webb, and continued at that with success for eighteen years, selling out the business in May, 1888. The Doctor then became interested in the manufacture of chairs, and has been secretary and treasurer of the Little Rock Chair Company since its incorporation. Dr. Webb was married to Miss Nannie Machen, whose father, Frank Machen, was
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one of the largest planters in Caldwell County, Ky., before the war. One child was born to this union, Augusta. Mrs. Webb died in 1870. The Doctor is of a modest and retiring nature, and it is only his intimate friends who are cognizant of the kindly, affectionate spirit he possesses. He is a citizen of unexcelled standing and true worth.
E. C. Wehrfritz, one of the best-known citizens of Little Rock and proprietor of the Union Machine Works of that place, is a native of Germany, and was born in Bingen-on-the- Rhine. When a boy fourteen years old he was apprenticed to the ma- chinist's trade, and remained at it for three years. He then went to England, and found employment at his trade for one year, and in 1864 came to America, locating first in St. Louis, where he re- sided for about eight years. Finding the oppor- tunities in St. Louis for a poor man were few and far between, he moved to Little Rock, and after noting the enterprise and rapid growth of that city, he concluded to remain. He first obtained a position with Messrs. D. R. Wing & Co., and was soon after made foreman of the machinist and foundry department, remaining with them seven years. For the next eighteen months he was en- gineer of the Home Water Company. and at the end of that period went with R. L. Cobb & Co., assisting in the organization of the Southwestern Foundry and Machine Works. Mr. Wehrfritz soon retired from this firm, and in July, 1885, with but little capital, but any amount of pluck and enter- prise, established the present industry, which is now one of the best paying in Little Rock. He also owns some city property in good localities, and several lots in the famous summer resort, Mount Nebo. His residence and shops are combined, making them convenient to each other, as he is a man who gives the strictest attention to his business. Mr. Wehrfritz served one term as alderman of the First ward, being elected by 300 majority. In secret societies he is a member of Barbara Lodge No. 12. K. of P., and is Past Chancellor Com- mander of that lodge. He also belongs to Ger- mania Lodge No. 910, K. of H., in which he is Past Dictator, and the A. O. U. W., being Past Master Workman, and is president of Little Rock
Turn-Verein and director of the Mechanics' Loan and Building Association.
William G. Whipple, mayor of Little Rock, I was born at Warehouse Point, on the Connecticut River, Conn., on August 4, 1834, and is a son of William J. and Parmelia Cook (Woodward) Whip- ple, of Connecticut and Massachusetts, respect- ively. The father was a prominent citizen, who died in 1873, at the age of sixty-four years, while the mother died in 1861, at the age of fifty years. The family of the latter were noted for their lon- gevity, a number of them yet living, and all over eighty years of age. William G. Whipple is one of the most intellectual men in Little Rock. He received a superior education in his youth and early manhood, first graduating from the Wilbra- ham Academy, in Massachusetts, in 1852, and then attending and graduating from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. Choosing law for his profession, he entered the Albany Law School at Albany, N. Y., and after his graduation went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he commenced practicing. and remained until 1868. During that time he was a candidate for the United States prosecuting attorneyship for Milwaukee County, but his party being in the minority he was thus defeated by his opponent. In 1868 he went to Little Rock, and shortly afterward was appointed United States district attorney, serving in this office with dis- tinction for three years. He resumed his practice at the end of that time, and for five years was a partner of Judge Yonley. In 1887 Mr. Whipple - was elected mayor of Little Rock on a non-parti- san ticket, and without opposition, and in 1889 was re-elected on the same ticket with a majority of over 16,000. His administration has been one that gave satisfaction to the people in almost every detail, and has brought about numberless reforms. On September 1, 1887, electric lighting was intro; duced into the city, by which twice the area for- merly lighted by gas is now lighted by electricity, at one half the former expense. The plant cost the city $27,000, and is run at an annual expense of $6,000. There are 112 lamps of 2,000 candle power each, and five towers consisting of five lamps each in different parts of the city. Since 1887 the
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streets have been paved with granite blocks, mac- adam and gravel, four miles in the heart of the city, and eight miles additional at different points have just been completed, besides several miles in course of construction. Besides this about sixty miles of brick, stone and concrete sidewalk have been built, and nine new sewer districts opened, making a total of nineteen sewer districts now in the city. The city has purchased, recently, an Aveling & Porter steam roller to pave their streets with, weighing twelve tons and costing $5,800. For over forty years a town branch " cut off " had been talked about, but nothing definite had ever come of it until the new administration took hold of things, and in June, 1888, this project was car- ried out. It is six feet in diameter, and carries away a large amount of water from the town branch, thereby saving an overflow in the business portion and considerable valuable property that would otherwise be carried away or damaged by water. Since Mayor Whipple has taken the reins of government, the city has imbibed a new spirit of enterprise and improvement, and among other things a dummy railway has been constructed about three miles in length within the past eight- een months. The mayor takes a deep interest in immigration, and also the financial condition of the city. Under his administration the city bonded debt has been refunded, amounting to $167,000, and bearing interest at 6 per cent, and would have fallen due within the next ten years, but it has now been refunded at 10 per cent, on twenty years' bonds-a creditable showing. Little Rock can only assess a 5 mill tax, while Forth Worth assesses 15 mills, San Antonto 12 and Dallas receives $190,000, where Little Rock only gets $37,000 in taxes. With this small assessment, however, the city has always enough to pay cur- rent expenses, although Little Rock was between $3,000 and $4,000 in debt for current expenses when Mayor Whipple took charge of his office. His administration has been a success in every sense, and he has filled the office of mayor with commanding dignity and wisdom. He is junior warden of Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal), and has been chancellor for three terms of three years each
of the Episcopal Diocese. In secret societies he is a Master Mason, and also a member of Knights of Honor. Mayor Whipple was married in 1870 to Miss Mary S. Dodge, a daughter of Dr. R. L. Dodge, an old and respected citizen of Little Rock. They have one son, Durand, eighteen years old, who graduated from the Little Rock University in the class of 1889, and is now reading law in his father's office. To Mayor Whipple's enterprise and business sagacity is largely due the present state of progress and prosperity that has fallen to Little Rock. He is a gentleman of high honor and sound judgment, and enjoys the confidence of the people to a marked degree.
Col. Beverly D. Williams, widely known by reason of his prominence as a planter of Pulaski County, now residing in Little Rock, was born in Perryville, Boyle County, Ky., and is a son of Will- iam S. Williams, a native of the same county, and a printer who learned his trade under Amos Ken- dall, afterward postmaster general of the United States. The older Williams moved from Kentucky to Tennessee in 1840, locating at Memphis, where he resided and carried on a successful land busi- ness until his death, in 1860. He was married to Miss Harriet Dickerson, of Stafford County, Va., by whom he had three children, one dying in in- fancy: Marion W. (who was the wife of Hial S. King, and died at Memphis in 1865) and Beverly D. (the principal of this sketch). The mother died in Kentucky in the year 1830. Beverly D. Will- iams was born on July 4, 1822, and received a somewhat limited education in his youth on account of the few schools in his native place at that period. In 1841 he was married to Miss Narcissa B. Mitch- ell, a daughter of Judge James P. Mitchell, but lost this wife at Crab Orchard, Ky., who died in 1868. In the fall of 1872 Col. Williams was mar- ried to his second wife, Mrs. Annie M. Waters, widow of Dr. John Waters, of Memphis, and a grandfather of Mr. Felix Goundy. Four children were born to his first marriage, all of whom are living: Parthenia (wife of S. P. Fort, of Brinkley, Ark.). Harriet (wife of George W. Batterton, of Danville, Ky.), Hammond O. (clerk of the court of Pulaski County) and Emma (wife of Paul Tuck,
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residing in Memphis, Tenn.). Mrs. Williams has one son by her first marriage, Dr. John Waters, of Little Rock. In 1842 Mr. Williams was ap- pointed deputy sheriff of Boyle County, Ky., and in 1844 became high sheriff of the same county. In 1846 he was again appointed deputy sheriff and re-elected in 1848. At the expiration of his term he commenced planting, but in the meantime had studied law under Judge Mitchell, and was admit- ted to the bar, in 1849. He practiced law and con- tinue 1 in his planting enterprises for a short time, but in 1853 he went to Louisville, Ky., where he became engaged in pork packing with the firm of Ousley, Kenwood & Co. He remained in this business for three years, and then went to Leaven- worth, Kas., to take charge of what was known as "The Pike's Peak Expedition," becoming agent and general manager for Messrs. Jones & Cartwright and Majs. Russell & Waddell. He left Leaven- worth on April 1, 1859, with instructions to go to Fort Riley and Junction City, and then strike out for Denver, Colo., the nearest and best route ac- cording to his own judgment. After leaving Junc- tion City, he was instructed to leave seven men, one woman and twelve mules at each station of twenty-five miles apart until he reached Denver; those left behind to be supplied with tents and provisions, and to make these places stations for a a stage route to be subsequently established. The expedition reached Denver May 12, having started with 160 men, women and children, and 400 mules, besides forty wagons and stages that had started on his track and overtook him before he arrived at Denver. Upon reaching that city, he sent the stages back, thus establishing the only stage-line between Leavenworth and Denver, the trip being made in from seven to nine days. Col. Williams also had orders from the company to establish headquarters at some convenient place, and, ac- cordingly, he purchased about 1,700 lots in the heart of Denver. These same lots are now valued at $5,000,000. While in Colorado, Col. Williams examined the gold mines at Gregory, Russell's Gulch and other points, purchasing all the gold- dust he could buy, which he had melted into the form of a brick, and sent to Leavenworth, where
it was placed on exhibition, and first proved to the world the actual wealth to be found in Colorado. Col. Williams remained with the stage company for about eight months, and in the meantime a Provincial Government had been formed for the people of the (then) Territory of Jefferson, now Colorado. A legislative body was called together and put the Territorial Government machinery in motion. Col. Williams was elected by the people as a delegate to Congress, for the purpose of ob- taining from that body recognition for the people as a regular Territory of the United States. He remained in Washington during the whole of the XXXVIth Congress, and in February, 1861, their object was attained, the Territory acquiring the name of Colorado. The Colonel then returned to that place, and was nominated by the Democratic party for re-election, but was defeated by his op- ponent, Hiram P. Bennett, on the Republican ticket. In 1862 Col. Williams returned to Ken- tucky and enlisted in the Fourth Regiment of Ken- tucky Volunteer Infantry, Federal army. as first lieutenant, and was immediately detailed as quar- termaster to go on the staff of Gen. James S. Jackson. He remained in this capacity until the battle of Perryville, where Gen. Jackson was killed. and Lieut. Williams was then appointed captain by President Lincoln, and assigned to the staff of Gen. Alex McDowell, serving with distinction until the close of the war. On that occasion he was ordered to St. Louis as a mustering-out officer, and in the spring of 1865, was stationed at Benton Bar- racks, mustering out all the troops under Gen. Bonneville, and in September of the same year, he was himself mustered out. In November, 1865, he located at Memphis, Tenn., and was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Memphis & Little Rock Railway, and remained with that road for eight years in different capacities, and when the road was completed, in 1872, he brought the first through train from Memphis to Little Rock. Col. Williams retired from railroading in 1873, and en- gaged in planting cotton on his wife's plantation in Jefferson County, Ark., in which pursuit he has continued to the present time. In 1875 he pur- chased a fine residence on the corner of Fourth
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and Ringo Streets, from Col. Logan H. Roots, and moved into it with his family. His plantation now consists of 1,100 acres in cotton and 300 acres in corn, oats and other grain. In 1881 Col. Williams was elected a member of the legislature from Pu- laski County, and served one term. He is at pres- ent a prominent member of the "Old Hickory Club," one of the leading Democratic organizations in Arkansas. In religious faith, Col. Williams and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Hammond Orne Williams, county clerk, Little Rock, Ark. The subject of this sketch has been so prominently identified with the interests of Pulaski County, as to render him well and favor- ably known, while his official career has demon- strated him to be one of the most capable and efficient of public servants, whose integrity and honesty of purpose is unquestioned. He owes his nativity to Boyles County, Ky., where his birth occurred on October 12, 1845, he being the third in a family of four children born to Beverly D. and Narcissa B. (Mitchell) Williams. [See sketch of father. ] Hammond Orne Williams attended the common schools of Kentucky until the beginning of the war, and in 1865 was a student at the com- mercial college at Dayton, Ohio, where he com- pleted his educational advantages. In May, 1866, he came to Arkansas, landing at Devall's Bluff, where his father was then residing. The next day, and when twenty years of age, he was appointed express messenger and the United States mail agent on the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad from Devall's Bluff to Little Rock, where he continued until December 1, of the same year. He then changed to a position of the same character on the John B. Davis Steamboat Line, running from Memphis to Jacksonport on the White River, making one trip per week. He remained thus employed for two years, and was then appointed railroad agent at Devall's Bluff, and also agent for all steamboats running up White River. On Sep- tember 1, 1872, he engaged in merchandising, but still continues as steamboat agent. On October 13, 1874, he closed out his business to his partner, and was elected sheriff of Prairie County, serving in this capacity for two terms. On November 1,
1889, he moved to Little Rock, and became check clerk for the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad at Argenta acting as such for three years. He has since been employed by several railroad and trans- fer companies in a like capacity. On March 12, 1886, he was appointed deputy sheriff by Robert W. Worth, the sheriff of Pulaski County, to take charge of a posse of men to guard railroad property during the railroad strike of that year. On April 9, Mr. Williams was attacked by a large number of men and received numerous wounds. After recovering he received the nomi- nation for county clerk from the Democratic party, on July 13, 1886, being elected by a major- ity of over 900 votes, on September 6. In 1888 he was re-elected to the same office by the oppos- ing party. Mr. Williams was married December 8. 1869, to Miss Jennie L. Sylvester, of Arkansas County, Ark., a daughter of Capt. John Sylvester, an old steamboat captain, and niece of Capt. James A. Sylvester, who captured Gen. Santa Anna in the Mexican War, in 1846. Her mother was a native of Massachusetts, and at an early day the family moved to Tennessee. After the father's death the mother married Col. W. H. Halliburton, who is at present a member of the legislature from Arkansas County, and in that county she is still residing To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Will- iams were born four children, a daughter and three sons, all living: Mary, Beverly D., Jr., Hammond O., Jr., and Jake B. Mr. Williams is a member of the K. of P. and of the Masonic fraternity.
Elias C. Wilson, a substantial farmer and stock man of Pulaski County, has been a resident of that county since 1856, and was born in South Carolina on March 19, 1825. His parents were Jesse and Margaret (West) Wilson, the father born in Virginia and moved to South Carolina with his parents when only three years old. Shortly after their arrival in that State the parents, Isaac and Melanie Wilson, died, and their children were bound out. Jesse was reared on a farm and married in South Carolina. In 1853 he moved with his family to Arkansas, where he commenced farming and became a prosperous and well-known resident until his death in 1882. The Wilson
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