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 4

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

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Orlena, five years; Walter P., died at the age of three months, and four died unnamed. The fam- ily are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Hale is a member of the Masonic Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. He is also a member of the K. of H. of Osceola.

Hon. J. P. K. Hale, a prominent merchant of Osceola, owes his nativity to Maury County, Tenn., where he was born in 1842, being the sixth of eleven children of Bird S. and Martha Ann (Dyer) Hale. The parents were also natives of Tennessee, but were of Virginia stock. The father was a farmer and trader, and was well known in that section. He died April 17, 1852, leaving a family of eleven children, eight girls and three boys. Three years after his death, on November 5, 1855, the widow of Mr. Hale started for Missis- sippi County, Ark., and arrived at Osceola Novem- ber 21, of that year. Since that time Mrs. Hale has died, and, also, one of the children. The fam- ily have made this county their home ever since, and the sons have worked very hard to keep the family together. Hon. J. K. P. Hale was reared to comprehensive knowledge of the agricultural in- terests of the day, and in 1863 began farming on his own responsibility. In 1874 he was elected clerk of the circuit court, and ex officio clerk of the county, probate and common pleas courts, and re- corder of Mississippi County. On January 31, 1889, he was elected to the State legislature to fill the unexpired term of J. O. Blackwood (deceased), and has served one session. He also served as jus- tice of the peace for many years. In 1870 Mr. Hale, in partnership with his brother, W. P. Hale, opened a general store in Osceola, but the former sold out to his partner after a short time, and re- turned to the duties of the farm. In 1882 he opened a grocery store, and in 1889 a drygoods store, and is conducting both establishments at this time. He chose for his life's companion Miss Ma- lissa A. Tucker, who became his wife in 1862. She died August 14, 1880. On March 21, 1881, he married his present wife, who was originally Miss Mary E. Pollard, of Posey County, Ind. Three children were born to this union: Lillian Bird, born May 12, 1882; Mary Pollard, born May

27, 1884, and Helen, who was born February 29, 1888, and died March 21 of the same year. Mr. Hale is a member of Osceola Lodge No. 27, A. F. & A. M., and Osceola Chapter No. 57, now being treasurer of the Lodge, and H. P. of the Chapter. He has occupied every station in lodge, chapter and commandery, and has served as district deputy grand master for the Second district of Arkansas. and for the Western district of Tennessee. He has the name of being one of the brightest Masons in the State. He is also the moderator of the Os- ceola Baptist Association, and clerk of the church at Osceola. Mr. Hale and most of the family are members of the Baptist Church. He was instru- mental in securing and assisting in the incorpora- tion of the town of Osceola.

Franklin Bird Hale, another prominent farmer of Osceola, whose time thus far has been spent in furthering the agricultural interests of the county. is a native of Maury County, Tenn., born January 1, 1851, and is the tenth in a family of eleven children born to Bird S. and Martha Ann (Dyer) Hale [see sketch of J. K. P. Hale]. Franklin Bird Hale's experiences have been in the direction of agricultural pursuits, and in this calling he has met with the results due a lifetime of active energy. He began for himself at the age of nine teen, by renting land, and after one crop moved to Pope County, where he remained nearly a year. There he met and married Miss Mary M. Wells, a native of this State. Her father came to Arkansas about 1855, where he accumulated considerable property, but lost most of it during the war. He died about June, 1874. Mr. Hale then returned to Osceola, where he clerked for his brother, W. P. Hale, in a general store, for three years, after which he engaged in a general store for himself, continuing this about one year. In connection with his brother, W. P., he bought a tract of land known as the Witherspoon farm, consisting of 1,200 acres, 190 acres of which were cleared. They have since opened 400 acres of this. In the year 1884 Mr. Hale sold his interest to his brother for $10,000, and then bought a tract of eighty acres adjoining the town, and some town lots. This tract is under cultivation. Mr. Hale has purebased

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a fine residence in town, and has now one of the most pleasant places in Osceola. He has also bought a tract of forty acres, one-half of which is under cultivation, and in 1880 he bought another forty. acres tract, all under cultivation. He has also one- fourth interest in eighty acres of wild land. He is a member of the Osceola BIne Lodge No. 27; is a member of Osceola Chapter No. 57, and also of the Hugh De Payen Commandery No. 1, K. T., at Little Rock. He is Past Master of the Blue Lodge, and is Principal Sojourner in the Chapter. He has served as school director for a number of years. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hale were born eight children (four now living): James L. (attending school at Altus, Ark. ), Charles Franklin (deceased), Elizabeth Pearl (deceased), Emma Wells (died in May, 1888), Grace (died in March, 1882), Willie P., Pearl and Charles. The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Hale is active in all matters that promise to con- tribute to the good of this section. He is improv- ing the grade of his stock; has some fine breed- ing animals, horses and cattle, and has quite a number of thoroughbred Chester hogs. The beautiful residence and lawn of Mr. Hale are ornaments to the town, and the fine farm, under a high state of cultivation, is only another exam- ple of the enterprise of this prominent family.

A. L. Harden. There is in the development of every successful life a principle which is a lesson to each man following in its footsteps; for let one be industriously ambitious, and honorable in his am- bitions, and he will rise, whether having the prestige of family and wealth or the obscurity of poverty. We are led to these reflections in looking over the life of Mr. Harden, who has attained his present enviable position as a leading agriculturist of Mis- sissippi County, Ark., by indomitable energy and pluck. He was born in Florida in 1838, being the second of three children born to William and Mar- tha Harden, and is of German descent, as both his father and grandfather, John Harden, were born in Germany, the latter of whom became an exten- sive farmer of Georgia. A. L. Harden was reared on a farm in Tennessee, and received no educa- tional advantages in his youth, but in 1866 began

farming for himself, and at once identified himself with the more advanced agricultural and stock raising interests of this community, a position he has continued to occupy since that time. Although his first efforts for himself were on rented land, . since coming to Mississippi County, in 1859, he has prospered. In 1874 he purchased a small farm of forty acres on the river at Daniel's Point, but at the end of one year came to Chickasawba Township, and bought a timber tract of 160 acres, and while clearing his land farmed on rented ground. At the present time he has 200 acres in all - seventy acres under cultivation, with forty more soon to be put under the plow, and his land will readily yield a bale of cotton to the acre. He also runs a dry-goods store on his farm. He has built three dwelling houses on his place, and has set out a large orchard of choice varieties of fruit: also owning a house and lot in Blythesville. His mar- riage to Miss Rebecca Wilson, a native of Alabama, was consummated November 5. 1866. and they are the parents of the following children: Martha, who died at the age of nineteen years: Millidge F., Arthur A., Malinda A. and Robert.

R. G. Hardin. For a period now closely ap- proaching a quarter of a century, this highly hon- ored resident of Chickasawba Township has been identified with the interests of Mississippi County, his settlement here dating from about 1865. He came to Osceola, Ark., by boat, in 1861, and in July of the same year he espoused the cause of the Confederacy, and proved a gallant soldier during the Rebellion. He became first lieutenant in Capt. Charles Bowen's company. and with him partici- pated in the battles of Port Hudson, Champion's Hill and others. After the battle of Shiloh. Capt. Bowen resigned his position, and Mr. Hardin was chosen captain, and in this capacity served in and around Vicksburg and was also at Jackson. About this time he was promoted to the command of Company E, Ninth Arkansas Infantry. and was in all the battles of the Georgia campaign, but at Gadsden, Ala .. on account of ill health, he was compelled to resign his position and return to Mississippi County, Ark. His youthful days. up to the age of about sixteen years, were spent at

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Rome, in which place he acquired a fair knowledge of the common branches, and he then engaged in flatboating, continuing this occupation for a num- ber of years, after which he acted as pilot for some time. After his return to Arkansas in Sep- tember, 1864, he opened a boot and shoe store in Osceola, which he conducted with fair success nearly ten years, then purchasing a farm on Pemis- cot Bayou, but three years later removed to his present farm, which is situated one mile northwest of Blythesville and embraces a tract of eighty acres, thirty-five being then under cultivation. He has made all the improvements, such as building fences, setting out orchards, etc., and his land is capable of yielding one bale of cotton to the acre. He also raises some stock. On the 28th of Febru- ary, 1864, he was married to Miss P. A. Trout, a native of Indiana, and by her has had the following children: Nora, who died September 5, 1888; Ida, who died in infancy; Ara, Nina, Lou, who died at the age of four years; Samuel T., Emma (deceased), Robert G., John, who died at the age of two years; Herman, and Olga. Mr. Hardin is a member of Chickasawba Lodge No. 134, F. & A. M., and was a charter member of Osceola Lodge, and in company with Dr. Fearing and Capt. Bennett went to Jonesboro for examination to secure the dispensation. He was afterward Master of the latter lodge for a number of years, which position he has also filled in the Chickasawba Lodge for a long period. He has always been interested in edu- cational matters, and is now serving as school di- rector. He was the fourth of five children born to Mark and Lavina (Lamb) Hardin, who were na- tives of Kentucky and Indiana, respectively; the former was a trader by occupation, and ran a pro- duce boat on the river. He died in 1837, and his wife in 1851.

G. W. Harrington. Ever since locating in Mississippi County, Ark., Mr. Harrington has en- joyed the reputation of being a substantial and progressive farmer, and has also been considered an intelligent and thoroughly posted man on all the current topics of the day. His father, L. R. Harrington, is a Tennesseean, and is now living in that State in retirement, although he had pre-

viously followed the occupation of farming. He was married there to Miss Brunetta Binkley. also a native of the State, who gave birth to our subject in 1836, he being the eldest of their four children. She died in 1873. G. W. Harrington was reared to a farm life in his native State, and it was here that he received his early scholastic training, it being only such as the common schools of his day afforded. At the age of twenty-two years he be- gan farming for himself, and as it was an occupa- tion with which he had always been familiar, his success was an assured fact. In 1857 he emigrated to Arkansas, and for ten years farmed on rented land near where he now lives, but purchased, in 1865, a farm in North Chickasawba Township, amounting to eighty acres, partially improved, and on this fertile farm he has made many more improvements, and has it nearly all under cultiva- tion. At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in the Confederate army, Company H, Fifteenth Tennessee Regiment, and was in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville and Murfreesboro; and after the last named battle, he returned to Arkansas, and was married at the close of the war to Miss Mary Crawford, of Mississippi County, by whom he became the father of the following chil- dren: Lydia, Ida, Lizzie, Nannie, Larkin, Charles, Samuel, George and Jefferson. Mr. Harrington is quite an active politician, and a public-spirited citizen. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Alexander Harris, a native-born son of Mis- sissippi County, Ark., has become one of its most enterprising and reliable citizens, and, although young in years, he is yet old in experience, and has done much in a quiet, unassuming way to promote the advancement of its interests. His birth oc- curred on Crooked Lake in 1855, he being the second in a family of four children, and the son of John C. and Martha (Ford) Harris, who were Pennsylvanians by birth, and were there reared and married. After moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Harris engaged in pattern making, and shortly after began running a trading boat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; and while on one of his trips down the latter river, he learned of the ex-

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ceeding fertility of the soil of Arkansas, and here determined to "pitch his tent," which he accord- ingly did in the year 1850, settling on a tract of wild land on the shores of Crooked Lake in Mississippi County. After living on this property long enough to clear 100 acres of land and make a pleasant home, he sold out and made a new settle- ment in the vicinity, on which he made valuable and extensive improvements, and resided until his death in 1870; he is still survived by his widow, who resides in the Blue Grass State. Like most of the youth of that vicinity, Alexander, as he grew up, devoted his time and attention to farming, but received very meager advantages for acquiring an education. After the death of his father, he went to Kentucky with his mother, but at the end of one year returned to Mississippi County, and in 1877 made his first crop on rented land, after which he began clerking in a store for Mr. Robin- son. In 1885 he purchased a tract of land, forty acres in extent, partially improved, and now has seventeen acres under cultivation; and, besides this, only a short time ago he purchased eighty acres more. Since 1885 he has been clerking in Blythesville, in the mercantile establishment of L. W. Grassell & Co., but still looks after his farm to some extent, devoting the most of it to stock rais- ing, which enterprise has received the best part of his attention for some time. In 1886, he erected a pleasant and substantial dwelling-house in the village of Blythesville, in which he and his wife, whose maiden name was Iona Lynch, and whom he married in 1885, are now living. Mrs. Harris is a daughter of Josiah Lynch, an old settler of this section, and is a consistent member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Harris is a member of Chick- asawba Lodge No. 134, of the F. & A. M., and is a representative young man of his township. He is energetic and enterprising, frugal in his tastes, and is expecting to reduce many acres of his farm to cultivation in the near future, and we can safely predict for him a bright and prosperous future.

Dr. William K. Harrison. It is an historical fact that the first English immigrants to Virginia were a superior race, with enlarged views of gov.

ernment, liberty and law, who sought out homes in obedience to impulse prompted by lofty ambi- tion, and sincere desire to benefit their race. From these ancestors sprang men in great numbers, who subsequently became prominent in different locali- ties. The Harrisons are from one of the oldest families of Virginia. Dr. William K. Harrison is a native of Crockett County, Tenn., born in 1849, and is the son of William Harrison and the grand- son of William Harrison, who was a native of Vir- ginia, and who was left fatherless when a small boy. William, the father of the subject of this sketch, married Miss Ann Cattles, daughter of Robert Cattles, who, when a boy and while cross- ing the ocean, was shipwrecked. His father and mother were lost, but his sister and himself were saved, and bound out when very young. The peo- ple with whom he lived spelled his name Cattle, but he thought the name was originally Catlet. Dr. Harrison was reared to agricultural pursuits in West Tennessee, and received such educational advantages as the subscription schools of that State afforded. Later he studied medicine and gradu- ated at the University of Medicine at Louisville, Ky., in the class of 1874. The same year he came to Mississippi County, Ark., and settled on French- man's Bayon, where he built up a good practice, and his reputation is surpassed by none in the county. The Doctor adds his evidence that Ar- kansas is as healthy as any State in the Union, and that if the people lived as they do anywhere else, instead of subsisting, for the most part, on bacon and cornbread, with black coffee and whisky, and paying no attention to cleanliness, they would en- joy as good health as in any other State. The Doctor is a man of ample business experience, full of enterprise and of safe judgment. He is now the owner of about 1,800 acres of land in this coun- ty, of which he has about 1,000 acres under culti- vation, 700 of which he has placed under the plow himself. In addition to this he owns about 2,000 acres in Greene County near Paragould. On his Mississippi County farm he keeps about 130 peo- ple. Dr. Harrison was married, in 1876, to Miss Ella Davies, a lady possessed of many estimable qualities of mind and heart, and the daughter of

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Dr. J. F. Davies. When a boy the latter came with his father, J. F. Davies, who was also a doc- tor, and a native of Virginia, to Mississippi Coun- ty, Ark. Prior to this and while living in Greene County, Ark., Dr. Davies, Jr., was elected to rep- resent his district in the State senate. After com- ing to Mississippi County, which was just after the war, he took part in all public enterprises, practiced medicine and established a store which he conducted for years. He died in 1881. Dr. and Mrs. Harrison are the parents of three bright children, viz. : William F., who is the fourth Will- iam Harrison in direct line; Cora and Ed. Davies. Dr. Harrison is a gentleman of very agreeable man- ners, of fine personal appearance; and being a man of wealth and good family he partakes of that easy refinement and culture which are to the manor born. Mrs. Harrison is also a stem of the same Virginia stock, and has a very commendable pride in her family. As may be expected they are people of superior tastes and habits, using their surplus wealth in the material improvement of the com- munity in which they live. The Doctor is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F., having joined a lodge in Tennessee, from which he took his card. Mrs. Harrison is a worthy member of the Presbyterian Church.

J. A. Hayes was a stripling of about sixteen years when the Rebellion broke out, yet he en- listed for active service in the war, and his strug- gles and the severity of his service are not to be overlooked. He was born in the " Palmetto State," in the village of Cheraw, on the Peedee River, in 1846, and in 1861 enlisted in Coits' battery of light artillery, and for some time afterward was on duty in and around New Berne. From 1863 until September 27, 1864, he was at Petersburg: but in the latter year he was taken prisoner at the iron bridge near that city, this being the first time he was ever absent from roll-call except on one occa- sion when he was relieved from duty by his su- perior officer on account of a wound received while in the seven-days' fight at that place. After being captured he was taken to City Point, then to Point Lookout, Va., and was kept in imprisonment at the latter place until the close of the war. In the

summer of 1865 he made his way back to his home in South Carolina, the most of the journey being ! made on foot, and in the fall of the same year was ; engaged in contracting for ties for the Cheraw & Darlington Railroad. In October, 1865, he emigrated westward to Memphis, Tenn., where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, being an employe of Rev. A. H. Kerr, on Big Creek. Here he continued to reside until 1875, when he came to Mississippi County, and opened up a tract of wild land on Little River; but owing to the high water of 1882 he sent his family to Virginia, and returned to Memphis, Tenn., where he engaged with Oggell Bros. in the hardware business. The following year he returned to Mississippi County, Ark., and settled on a plantation belonging to J. W. Jeffer- son, where he has opened up about 200 acres of land, and has now under the plow 1,000 acres, em- ploying about 125 hands to assist him in keeping the farm in good condition. The yield of his land is about three-fourths to one bale of cotton to the acre. Since coming to the county he has pur- chased 320 acres of land, and owns a good residence in the town of Osceola. He was married in 1872 to Miss Lula Scott, a native of Prince Edward County, Va., and a daughter of Samuel B. Scott, who was a descendant of the same family as Ger. Winfield Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are the parents of the following children: James M., who died in infancy; Nannie L. and Algie, also died in infancy; Annie Gertie, Eddie, Pearl and Ruby (twins, two years old), and Ernest, an infant. Mr. Hayes belongs to Lodge No. 27, A. F. & A. M., at Osceola, and is also a member of the A. O. U. W.

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farm near Elmot, and there he has since remained, engaged in the arduous duties of the farm. The success which seems to attend his efforts in this industry is well merited, for no one is more thor- oughly interested in this calling or gives it greater attention. There were 900 acres in the tract, with about ninety acres cleared, when he first pur- chased it. Now he has 300 acres under cultiva- tion, and this large tract is all capable of being cleared and cultivated, and is destined to become a fine plantation. Mr. Hayes has always been act- ive in politics, and in 1886 he was elected sheriff of Mississippi County, and so successful was his career in this office, and so well did he conduct the affairs of the same, that he was re-elected in 1888. He has always taken a deep interest in educational matters, and has served as director almost all the time that he has been a resident of this county. Mr. Hayes is a married man, his union with Miss Sallie Mckinney having trans- pired in March, 1876. She is a native of Arkan- sas, and the daughter of one of the early settlers of this county. They became the parents of these children: Lulu Maud, Harrie D., Bessie G. and Lemon. Mr. Hayes' parents, S. D. and Martha (Smith) Hayes, were natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The father was a successful agriculturist.

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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 4

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