Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas : comprising a condensed history of the state biographies of distinguished citizens a brief descriptive history of the counties, and numerous biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. V. 2, Part 34

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Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis : The Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1044

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John G. Dodd is one of the successful small farmers of the county, and although his property only comprises eighty-seven acres of land, it is ex- ceedingly fertile and well tilled, and consequently yields a larger annual income than many larger farms. He, like his father, John Dodd, was born and reared in Greene County, Tenn., the latter's birth occurring on the 15th of April, 1801, and his on the 16th of June, 1841. John Dodd was reared and educated in his native State, and was there married to Miss Catharine Girdner, who was also a Tennesseean, and to them a family of four sons and four daughters was given. The living mem- bers are: Martha M., William W., John G., Mary L., Catharine L. and Samuel R. Mr. Dodd was a

successful farmer, and continued to follow that occupation until he was called to his long home, on the 12th of March, 1860, followed by his wife on the 18th of January, 1878. The elementary school- ing of John G. Dodd, our subject, was received in Greene County, Tenn., and he was there also ini- tiated into the mysteries of farming on his father's plantation. Concluding that he could do better at that occupation in some other locality, he moved to Independence County, Ark., in 1870, and here he has continued to make his home, his land, which is not under cultivation, being devoted to propagat- ing the usual farm stock. He was married in Bax- ter County, Ark., August 16, 1875, to Miss Juli- ette S. Horton, also a native of Greene County, Tenn., and the two children which have been given them are William E. and Orpha C., both of whom reside with and assist their parents. Mr. Dodd has manifested his social spirit by joining the Masons, and has served as secretary of his lodge for about six years. He was president of the Agri- cultural Wheel one year, and has held the office of justice of the peace six years. He and wife are connected with the Baptist Church, and he has been a liberal contributor to all worthy enterprises, and is especially interested in the cause of educa- tion. In 1862 he joined the Confederate army, and served under Gens. Wheeler, Pegram, Vaughn, Morgan, Breckinridge and Early until he was hon- orably discharged, on the 27th of April, 1865.

James P. Dorr, M. D., one of the progressive citizens of Black River Township, and an eminent physician and surgeon of the same, is the son of Dr. Francis A. and Mary J. (Powell) Dorr, natives | of Selsea, Germany, and Ohio, respectively. Dr. : Dorr, Sr., came to Ohio at the age of twelve years, and spent his boyhood days in musical and literary studies. In his early manhood he entered a med- ical school in Cincinnati, and later graduated at Keokuk Medical College, Iowa. He was then married, and after living several years in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, in 1870 moved to Jacksonport, Jackson County, Ark., and there practiced his i profession. He remained there until the spring . of 1889, when he went to Hot Springs, opened an office, where he is at present practicing. Dr.

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James P. Dorr was born in Iowa on the 6th of December, 1856, and spent his school days in that State and in Arkansas. He began the study of medicine in 1877, his father and Dr. Strauss (a doctor of natural sciences) being his instructors. During the years of 1879, 1880 and 1881, he attended the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1881, but had practiced, however, several months prior to his graduation. In the spring of the last mentioned year, he located where he now lives, and has since been practicing in this section. He has built up one of the largest practices in the county, and has been very successful, as his many patients, yet living, can testify. He is the owner of eighty acres of land on Dota Creek, but gives his entire time to his practice. He is the fourth of a family of eleven children, nine of whom are living: J. F. Dorr (merchant, whose present loca- tion is not known), Hattie (deceased, wife of Marion F. Israel, a merchant of Richland and Keokuk, Iowa), T. B. R. (a farmer of Black River Town -. ship), Samuel Ashton (a saddler, lives at Hot Springs), James P., R. C. (an M. D., of Black River Township, and enjoys a lucrative practice), A. P. (is a successful practicing physician, at Sul- phur Rock), B. J. (is also an M. D., and is prac- ticing his profession at Tupelo, Jackson County, Ark.), Grace G. (lives with her mother at Sulphur Rock). Mary and J. P. (the eldest of the family) died in childhood. James P. came from a long- lived people, his parents both surviving, his father nearly seventy, and the mother sixty five years of age. The latter's parents both lived to the extreme age of one hundred years. Dr. Dorr, Sr., was an active Democrat, and his son, Dr. James P. Dorr, is also a Democrat, and is quite an influential citizen in his county, politically. On the 15th of Novem- ber, 1888, the latter married Miss Mary E. Had- dock, daughter of Jordan Haddock, of Independ- ence County, Ark. The Doctor takes a great interest in the building of schools, and, in fact, in all public enterprises.

Richard Madison Duck, farmer and stock raiser, Oil Trough, Ark. Prominent among the many enterprising and industrious farmers of In-

dependence County appears the name of Mr. Duck. whose birth occurred in Rutherford County. N. C .. on the 2d of November, 1816. He is the son of Robert and Margaret (MIcClure) Duck, both na- tives, also, of North Carolina. The paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the maternal grandfather was a captain in the Continental army, and participated in the battle of King's Mountain. Richard Madison Duck received his education in his native State. and, after remaining upon a farm until about sev- enteen years of age, sought employment at the carpenter's trade. At the end of a year he found work with a carpenter and cabinet-maker by the name of Smith, a New Englander, with whom he worked about one year, receiving all his instruc- tion from this man. The thorough drilling he ob- tained enabled him to become very proficient in his trade as a carpenter, and this business he followed until he came to Arkansas, which was in the year 1850. Mr. Duck selected as his wife Miss Martha Jane Redwine, of Chattooga County, Ga., and was united in marriage to her on the 22d of De- cember, 1842. They became the parents of nine children, five daughters and four sons: Olivia D .. born on the 15th of January, 1844, and the wife of John Bratton, of Searcy County, Ark. ; George A., born August 19, 1845, and died May 13, 1SS6: Melvin Lafayette, born August 17, 1847, married. and now resides in the Lone Star State; James B., born August 23, 1849; Robert D., born on the 29th of December, 1851, and now resides with his parents; Nancy A. married Jesse McCroskey. who died in February, 1885; Mary S. married Elijah Nichols, and now resides at Oil Trough; Martha Jane resides at home, and Margaret O. married Alfred P. Aydelott, of Independence County, Ark .. and now resides on a farm in Christian Township. After coming to Arkansas Mr. Duck purchased a tract of land in Searcy County, in partnership with . Samuel P. Williamson. This tract consists of about 300 acres, some fifty-five acres under culti- vation, and Mr. Duck soon became the owner of 260 acres. Later he sold this tract, and in 1860 moved to Independence County, bought land in Liberty Township, and there lived until after the

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war. He was in the Confederate service, enlisting in the latter part of 1861, in Col. Crabtree's regi- ment of Arkansas Volunteers, and served princi- pally on detached service, as tanner and shoemaker for the army of the Confederacy. In 1865 he was mustered out, and in 1869 he bought the farm upon which he is now living. There were at that time 113 acres in the lot, but at present he has 233 acres, with about 100 acres under cultivation. He has a fine orchard, with fruit of all kinds in abund- ance. Mr. and Mrs. Duck have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1845, and he has contributed liberally to the support of the church. Mr. Duck is also a member of McGuire Lodge No. 208, Oil Trough, Independence County, Ark., of which he was one of the charter members, and the only one now living. He is Democratic in his political views, and is a friend to progress.

N. E. Duffey, deputy circuit court clerk, and one of the representative men of the county, was born in Bristol, Conn., on the 12th day of Au- gust, 1849, and is the son of Nicholas and Mary (Hogan) Duffey, natives of County Westmeath, Ire- land. The parents emigrated to America at an early day, and located in Connecticut. From there they removed to Illinois, in 1859, and settled in Madison County, near Edwardsville, where the father followed agricultural pursuits, and where he remained for several years. The mother died in 1851. Of their family there are three children now living: James, Owen, and Nicholas E., who is the youngest of the family. He was principally reared in Illinois, and there received his education. At once, with the energy and industry of his fore- fathers, he devoted himself to tilling the soil, and this continued until in April, 1872, when he came to Arkansas, and located at Batesville. He first en- gaged in the livery business, which he continued for a number of years, and then embarked in mer- chandising. This he carried on in Oil Trough Bottom for about five years, and three years in Batesville. The last few years he has been practi- cally retired, with the exception of settling up his business. Since January, 1889, he has been acting as deputy circuit clerk. He is the owner of about 600 acres of land, with 240 under cultiva-

tion. By his marriage, which occurred in 1878, to Miss Eglantine Gainer, a native of Arkansas, he became the father of three children: Mollie, Gainer and Nora. Mrs. Duffy is a member of the Episcopal Church. He is a very public-spirited citizen, and is always ready to assist any public enterprise. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and is also a member of the K. of P.

Thaddeus W. Dumas, business manager of the Co-operative Wheel Store, Pleasant Plains, Ark. The mercantile interests of this portion of Independ- ence County, have been ably represented for sev- eral years by Mr. Dumas, who is a pleasant, genial gentleman, and a good business man. His birth occurred in Lowndes County, Miss., on the 20th of November, 1837, and he was one of six interesting children born to Winchester and Louisa (Jenkins) Dumas, both of whom were natives of South Caro- lina. They removed to Tipton County, Tenn., in 1864, and there the closing scenes of their lives were passed. Thaddeus W. Dumas came to Arkansas in 1873, and settled in Independence County, where he has since remained. He received his education in the Manual Labor School of Franklin College, Tenn., under the management of Tolbert Fanning. During the late conflict he served in the Third Kentucky Regiment, and participated in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Port Hudson, Jackson, and several less important engagements. He chose for his companion in life, Miss Phœbe James, whom he married in 1878. They have no children. Mr. Dumas possesses 160 acres of mountain land, and on the same are several fine mineral springs. He is a Jacksonian Democrat in politics, is a member of the Wheel, and in religion a Baptist.

Robert W. Earnheart is one of the leading farm- ers and business men of Washington Township. Independence County. He owns over 1,000 acres of land, of which only about 225 acres are culti- vated, but comprise one of the finest farms in the vicinity. Mr. Earnheart is also the proprietor of a distillery, which has a capacity of ten gallons of whisky per day, and is situated on his farm, seven miles west of Batesville. Mr. Earnheart is a na- tive of North Carolina, and was born January 25. 1849. His parents were Edward and Sarah ( Mull)

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Earnheart, the former of whom was born in North Carolina, May 10, 1811, and died in 1850; the latter was born March 2, 1819, and died in Arkan- sas, June 28, 1859. In 1853, after the father's death, the family removed to Arkansas. There were six children, only three of whom are now living. Robert W., who was the youngest child, was reared in Independence County, Ark., and his education consisted of but four months' attendance at the common schools. At the age of twelve years he began providing for himself, and has principally devoted his attention to farming, at which he has been very successful. December 29, 1869, Mr. Earnheart married Miss Martha E. Harmon, also a native of Independence County, who was born Oc- tober 23, 1850. Mrs. Earnheart died January 15, 1886, the mother of six children, viz. : Lee Edward, Joseph W., Robert S., Emma I., Jefferson B. (deceased) and Martha P. February 9, 1887, Mr. Earnheart married Miss Mattie Winston, and their union has been blessed with one child. Mrs. Earn- heart was born in Independence County, May 12, 1867. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the for- mer is also a member of the Masonic order. He is politically a Democrat, and is one of the most extensive farmers in Washington Township.

William J. Erwin, an enterprising and prosper- ous farmer of Independence County, was born in Maury County, Tenn., on October 22, 1833. He is a son of Alexander K. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Er- win, of the same State. The paternal grandfather was an early settler of Tennessee, and a soldier in the War of 1812. His son, Alexander K., was reared in that State, and followed the occupation of a farmer until the spring of 1840, when he emi- grated to Independence County, Ark., making the entire journey with his family in wagons. He lo- cated in Washington Township, where he entered a tract of land in the woods, upon which he lived until 1870, when he moved to Batesville, where he lived up to the time of his death, in 1872, his wife following him six years later. They were the par- ents of seven children. of whom three are still liv- ing: William J., Laura, wife of Dr. D. C. Ewing, and Martha, wife of Clinton McGuire. William

J. Erwin was only seven years of age when his parents arrived in Independence County, and he remained on the farm until he had reached his maturity, receiving in that time a fair education. In 1862 he enlisted in McCauley's cavalry com- pany, Seventh Regiment, and served in that body until the surrender. Mr. Erwin took part in all the principal engagements west of the Mississippi River, and, although displaying a recklessness in battle sometimes that was marvelous, he was never wounded or captured. After the surrender he came home and resumed his work on the farm, starting in with a determination to make that his business and to be successful at it. He has never aspired to be a politician, and rather shuns the notoriety that public office would bring-the only position he would ever consent to filling being that of judge of election. In 1871 he moved to where he now resides, within one mile of Batesville, and in 1873 built a fine residence. He owns altogether about 1,000 acres, and has some 650 acres under cultivation, of which 550 acres are situated in Oil Trough Bottom, being some of the most valuable land in that section, and adapted to any growth. Mr. Erwin raises corn, cotton and hay, also cattle, sheep and hogs. In 1866 he was married to Miss Cornelia Glenn, by whom he had six children, three of them yet living: William A., M. E. and Nellie. His wife died after a happy married life of fourteen years, and he was united to Miss Ida Lipscomb, of Maury County, Tenn., on June 26, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin are members of the Presbyterian Church, and the former belongs to the Royal Arch Masons, and in politics is a Dem- ocrat.

D. C. Ewing, M. D., a well-known physician of Batesville, was born in Madison County, Tenn., on November 7, 1846, and is a son of David C. and Sophia (Dixson) Ewing, of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The elder Ewing immi- grated to Tennessee about the year 1819, and settled in Madison County, where he died in 1858. his wife following him in 1888. They were the parents of ten children, of whom six are yet liv- | ing: Elizabeth C., wife of W. S. Carson, a grand- nephew of the celebrated scout and Indian fighter.

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Kit Carson; Jane W., who was married to James Steed, and died in 1871; Adeline E., wife of James F. Bray; Newton A .; the Doctor; Joseph D., who died in Los Angeles, Cal. ; Fannie, wife of Gran- ville Ingram, and Margaret, wife of Robert Davis, deceased. The Doctor was reared on his father's farm, in Madison County, Tenn., and received his education at the Madison Academy. On September 13, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-first Tennessee Infantry, and served sixteen months, afterward joining Company B, Twenty-first Ten- nessee (Forrest's) Cavalry, in which he continued until his surrender at Gainesville Junction, Ala., to E. R. S. B. Canby, who was killed by Capt. Jack, a celebrated Indian chief. The Doctor served in a number of the most important battles, and, though one of the foremost in the ranks and in the thickest of battle, he was never once wounded nor captured. After the war was over he remained in Madison County, Tenn., where he read medicine under Dr. D. M. Spencer, at the same time obtaining a knowledge of the drug busi- ness in a store at that place. In 1869 he entered the medical department of the University of Louis- ville, and upon graduating, in 1871, came to Arkan- sas and located at Batesville, where he has been a resident and practiced medicine ever since. He has built up a large and lucrative practice, and is well known throughout this section, not only for the skill displayed in his profession, but also for his personal qualities. The Doctor is a member of the Arkansas State Medical Society and the Amer- ican Medical Association. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Honor, and was an alderman of Batesville for four years. On July 2, 1874, he was married to Mrs. Laura A. Cox, of Mississippi, but reared in Arkansas. He has made his home one of the most attractive in Batesville. The Doctor owns considerable town property, and his residence is unsurpassed.

Elisha M. Flinn is a native of Guilford County, N. C., and was born in 1828. He is a son of Dr. Jesse W. and Margaret (Bowen) Flinn, both of North Carolina. Dr. Jesse W. Flinn was born September 4, 1801, and lived in North Carolina until our subject was three or four years of age,

when he removed to Madison County, Ky., and thence, in 1839, to McMinn County, Tenn., where Mrs. Flinn died in 1844. Mr. Flinn married again. and in 1857 located in Independence County, Ark., where he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer and stock raiser, also practicing medicine to some extent; when young he was for several years en- gaged as a circus performer ; his death occurred in Greenbriar Township in 1873. John Flinn. pa- ternal grandfather of Elisha M., was of Irish de- scent, and served as a soldier in the Revolution; he died in North Carolina at the advanced age of one hundred and four years, still retaining his eye- sight. The maternal grandparents of our subject died when Mrs. Flinn was quite small. To Jesse W. and Margaret Flinn were born three children. Elisha M. received his early education in the com- mon schools, and afterward attended for eighteen months Eastmalla Academy, Eastern Tennessee, which qualified him to teach, which profession he followed only one term as assistant. In 1852 Mr. Flinn married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Tempie Moore, natives of North Carolina, who spent the latter part of their lives in Independence County, Ark. Mrs. Flinn was born in MeMinn County, Tenn., and died in 1864, leaving one daughter, Mary, now the wife of Jefferson Porter. In 1866 Mr. Flinn married Anna Todd, a native of Randolph County, who died in 1872. Three chil- dren were born to the latter union, viz. : James R., Emma Vernettie, and Jesse Lee (deceased). Mr. Flinn located on his present farm in Independence County in 1856, and for the past thirty-three years has made his home there. He has 200 acres of fine farm land, of which 140 acres are under cultiva- tion. He traded extensively at one time, driving stock to Georgia and Florida. In the latter part of 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Col. Newton's regiment of Arkansas cavalry, and served as or- derly sergeant, and quartermaster three and a half years; he was in the battles of Little Rock, Cape Girardeau, Jefferson City, and others, and was with Gen. Price on his raid through Missouri and Kansas. During service he was twice slightly wounded. After the war he returned to his farm. : to which he has since devoted his entire attention.

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He is politically a Democrat, and for fifteen years has been a member of the A. F. & A. M., Neill Lodge, of Jamestown.

Robert Gardner. Independence County, Ark., has won an enviable reputation as a prosperous farming country, and this reputation has been acquired through the enterprise and energy of such agriculturists as Mr. Gardner. He is now residing one mile southeast of Elmo. He was born in Gib- son County, Ind., on the 3d of October, 1843. He received an excellent common school education in his native county, but in 1873 emigrated to Ar- kansas and located in Independence County, where he continued farming, having learned the details of this work in his youth of his father, who was a successful agriculturist. Off and on, for the first ten years of his residence here, he rented land of W. D. Hodges. Mrs. Mary L. Bennard became his wife in February, 1874. She was born in Ar- kansas, and died on the 18th of January, 1882, being buried in the Kirk family cemetery. She left four children: John and Sallie (twins), who were born on the 4th of July, 1873; Mary, born August 22, 1879, and Edna, born October 29, 1881. Mr. Gardner's second union was to Mrs. Minerva Scanlan, a native of Arkansas, their union being consummated January 6, 1882. He has always been a warm friend of education, and has kept his two eldest children in school for the past eight years, their attendance being ten months out of the year. He is one of the trustees of the school, and prides himself upon the fact that their school is one of the best in the county, and that none but the best teachers are employed, the salaries they offer being sufficiently large to command only the best educators. While in Indiana he was a mem- ber of the Masonic order, and belonged to Gibson Lodge No. 420, of Hazleton. His parents, John and Mary (Nixon) Gardner, were born in Indiana.

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Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas : comprising a condensed history of the state biographies of distinguished citizens a brief descriptive history of the counties, and numerous biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. V. 2, Part 34

Author: Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis : The Goodspeed Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1044

Author:
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis : The Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1044