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 7

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

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honesty of purpose and liberality, has tended to place Mr. Lanier among the highly honored and successful men of Mississippi County. He was born in the city of Nashville, Tenn., in 1829, and is a son of Isaac H. and grandson of Isaac Lanier, the latter being one of a large family that were born in the State of North Carolina. The mater- nal grandfather, Bernard Vanleer, was an iron manufacturer of Pennsylvania, but afterward re- moved to Tennessee, where he followed the same occupation, and made a large fortune, his son-in- law, Isaac H. Lanier, being associated with him in this business. When the latter had acquired sufficient means he came to Mississippi County, Ark., in 1832, and purchased a tract of land, con- sisting of 1,500 acres, on which he moved his fam- ily four years later, his children being Samuel B. and F. R. His landed possessions increased until they finally reached an extent of 3,000 acres, all of which was acquired by strict perseverance, and at- tention to business. His death, which was lament- ed by all who knew him, occurred in 1847, but, unlike many men, he left his wife and two sons well provided for. His eldest son, S. B., died in 1872, and his widow survived him until 1884, when she, too, died, having made her home with her son, F. R., up to the time of her death. The latter was favored with exceptionally fine educa- tional advantages, which he improved to the ut- most extent, and after attending the common schools of Nashville he went to school at Ran- dolph, and also to the Mountain Academy at Cov- ington, Tenn., becoming thereby well equipped to fight his own way in the world. At the age of twenty years he went to Brownsport, Tenn., and built what was known as Brownsport Furnace, it being the first hot-blast furnace built in the State, and was for many years one of the largest furnaces in the State. After managing this successfully for about four years he sold out, and moved back to the plantation, on which he remained until the breaking out of the war between the States. In 1861 he was elected to represent the people of Mis- sissippi County in the convention that passed the ordinance of secession, which convened the 4th of March, 1861, and in which the State was withdrawn

from the Union, and Mr. Lanier signed his name to this ordinance. Only two copies are in exist- ence, one of which he has in his possession, and keeps in a safe in Memphis. In company with the late Dr. Luke P. Blackburn, who was afterward governor of Kentucky, he volunteered as aid on the staff of Gen. Sterling Price, and it was but a short time until he was appointed inspector of mines and furnaces for the Confederate States, which position he held until he was captured at Selma, Ala., in April, 1865, by Gen. Wilson, from whom he succeeded in making his escape. He then, after the surrender of the Southern army, made his way home, which he reached without any means whatsoever with which to improve his farm and clear it of debt, it having become badly in- volved for security debts. He settled in Memphis, and engaged in the real estate business, in partner- ship with Mr. Monsarratt and Maj. R. C. Winter- smith, the firm taking the name of Monsarratt, Lanier & Co. They did exceptionally well in this business for a few years, then Mr. Lanier em- barked in the oil industry, establishing the Bluff City Oil Company, the oil being manufactured from the cotton seed. He remained in this business until he acquired sufficient means with which to clear his farm from debt-it being involved to the extent of $75,000 -- and in 1885 settled on the old homestead, which he commenced to put in tillable shape once more, it having grown up to brush and wood during his absence. Since returning he has cleared about 300 acres in the home place and 130 acres in a farm adjacent. He employs about 100 people on his plantations. In 1882 he made a trip to Europe, in the interest of the cotton-seed oil busi- ness, and visited all the principal cities of Great Britain-Glasgow, Liverpool. London, Manches- ter, Leeds, Hull, on the North Sea, and took a pleasure trip to Paris. He investigated many of the cotton seed oil-mills of the old world, and says that they make much more oil in Europe than they do in the United States, although they get the most of their seed from this country, Egypt and India. In 1855 he was married to Miss Martha Norvell, a daughter of Moses Norvell, a merchant of Nashville, Tenn., who died there the year be-

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fore his daughter's marriage, followed by his wife a few years later. Mrs. Lanier died in Memphis, Tenn., in 1885, never having borne any children. Mrs. Lanier, the mother of our subject, died in 1884, at her son's home in Memphis. . Mr. Lanier has always been active in politics, and is a Democrat in his views. He also belongs to the I. O. O. F., and for many years has been a member of the Epis- copal Church.

Felix R. Lanier, Jr., is a member of the well- known and substantial mercantile firm of L. A. Morris & Co., of Osceola, and although quite a young man he has attained a place among the mercantile interests of the county, which is by no means an inferior one, and one which many older in years and experience might well feel proud to occupy. His birth occurred in Mississippi County, Ark., in 1857, and he is the youngest child born to Samuel B. and Fannie (Falls) Lanier. [See sketch of Felix R. Lanier, Sr. ] His paternal grandfather, Isaac H. Lanier, was greatly inter- ested in iron manufacturing in Tennessee, and came to this county at an early day, being one of the pioneers of the county. Soon after coming here, he was joined by his sons, Felix and Samuel, and they purchased a large tract of land on the river eight miles below where Osceola now stands. There they made many extensive improvements, but the old farm has since been entirely swept away. Upon the death of the grandfather, the estate be- came the property of the boys, and after the death of Samuel, his brother Felix became the owner of the property. Felix R. Lanier, Jr., assisted on the farm and attended the school at Memphis until the age of eighteen years. He then returned to the arduous duties of the farm, and this occupation continued until a short time since. On February 20, 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Lloyd Taylor, a native of Osceola, and the result of this union has been one child, a son named Felix. In February of 1888, the year of his marriage, Mr. Lanier entered the business of L. A. Morris as partner, under the firm name of L. A. Morris & Co. They do a general commission business, buy- ing country produce, cotton, etc. Having been a resident of Mississippi County all his life, Mr.

Lanier has seen many changes in the country. and always takes an active interest in all things per- taining to the welfare of the county. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

J. A. Leatherwood is a man whom nature seems to have especially designed to be a planter. for. owing to his desire to keep out of the beaten path, and to his adoption of new and improved methods, together with industry and good judg- ment, he has met with more than the average degree of success in pursuing his calling. He was born in Tishomingo County, Miss., in 1858, and there received his education in the dis- trict schools, which, in his day. were not of the best. At the age of nineteen years he began clerk- ing in a store belonging to S. N. DeWoody. who was afterward succeeded by J. J. Comon & Co., of whom Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, was the "Co." and the leading member of the firm. He remained with them for about three years, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business in all its de- tails. In 1885 he came to Mississippi County, Ark., where he settled on a plantation with his brother, J. D. Leatherwood, they renting a tract of land, consisting of 200 acres, which they devoted to the raising of cotton, and employed from twenty to thirty hands. Two years later they rented the Idaho Landing plantation, which place they have leased for seven years. They have a steam cotton- gin, and aside from this and farming they are quite extensively engaged in conducting a mercantile establishment, and are in possession of the landing at the river, where they conduct a large woodyard. J. A. Leatherwood is a member of Lodge No. 1S0, of the K. of H. J. D. Leatherwood is a native of Tishomingo County, Miss .. where he was born in 1861, his educational advantages being about the same as his brother's. On reaching manhood he engaged in the livery business in Inka. Miss .. but at the end of three years came with his brother to Mississippi County, Ark .. where he has since been following the occupation of a planter and mer- chant. In 1887 he was married to Miss Dixie Dean of Iuka, Miss., by whom he had one child. Lloyd. who died in infancy.

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eign birth represented within the pages of this volume, but none are more deserving of mention than Mr. Liston, who was born in Ireland in 1838, and was the youngest in a family of four children, the result of the union of Patrick and Julia (Ahern) Liston. The parents emigrated to the United States in 1847, settled in Kentucky and there the father followed agricultural pursuits. They passed the balance of their days in that State, the mother dying in 1853 and the father in 1867. James'Lis- ton attended St. Peter's school in Louisville, un- til fifteen years of age, when he went to Iowa and was engaged in working on a farm for two years. He then came back to Louisville and clerked in a wholesale grain house until 1862, when he went to Nashville, Tenn., and was employed as wagon master until 1866. After this he returned to Louisville, where he commenced the grocery and general hauling business until 1870, when he discon- tinued this and commenced railroad contract work on the Louisville & Paducah Railroad, also the Brownville & Durham Railroad. He then resumed his former business in Louisville, which he carried on for one year, and then, in 1873, came to Osceola, where he worked for W. P. Hale as general work- man for about six years. During this time he started a small store, which was conducted by his family. In 1879 he started his present extensive business, which has been growing larger every year. Mr. Liston purchased quite extensive town property, which is yearly advancing in value. He also owns a half interest in a tract of 100 acres in the south- ern part of the county. He is quite active, polit- ically, and has held the offices of justice of the peace and treasurer of the county, also the position of al- derman, with the exception of four years, ever since the incorporation of the town in 1874. Mr. Lis- ton buys all country produce, cotton, etc., and has a well selected stock of goods. He met Miss Honora O'Donell, also a native of Ireland, and was united in marriage to her in 1857. This happy union has been blessed by the birth of three chil- dren, only one now living, Anna. The two de- ceased are Patrick and Michael. Mr. Liston is an active worker in school matters, and all things prom- ising to contribute to the good of this section.

William Long is deserving the success which has attended his efforts throughout life, for it has been his aim to be upright and honest, and he has wronged no one but has aided many. He has always been frugal and industrious, these sterling qualities being inherited from his sturdy Scotch and German ancestors, and he is an acknowledged representative agriculturist of the county. He was born in White County, Ill., in 1830, and was the fourth of a family of seven children born to the marriage of Harbart Long and Mrs. Elizabeth (Rutledge) Peak, the former being born in North Carolina and the latter in South Carolina. The father was a sturdy tiller of the soil, and met his death by drowning in 1835, followed by his wife's death five years later. Like so many of the sub- stantial citizens of this county at the present time, our subject was initiated into farm life from the very first, and this has continued to be the call- ing to which his attention has been directed. He settled in the northeast part of Mississippi County in 1853, and first worked as a farm hand, and later rented ground for a few years. In 1860 he bought eighty acres in Chickasawba Township, near the present town of Blythesville, on which he began im- mediately to make improvements, and soon had a house built and a number of acres under cultiva- tion, but the war interfered with his labors, for he was taken prisoner in 1864. After obtaining his release he entered the Confederate service, being a member of Capt. Sawyer's company, Twenty- third Arkansas Cavalry, and was on scout and skirmish duty. Since the cessation of hostilities he has given his time to developing and improving his property, and has fifty of his 160 acres of land under tillage. His farm is very advantageously situated, about one mile from Blythesville, and can nearly all be cultivated. On it, at the present time, is a splendid orchard with many varieties of choice fruits. In 1877 he and T. P. Davis built a horse-gin which they operated one year, then an engine was put in, and the next year Mr. Long became proprietor of the property, which he has since improved and enlarged considerably. In the fall of 1888 he ginned 464 bales of cotton. He was united in marriage in May, 1857, to Miss M.

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A. Turpin, and their union was blessed in the birth of the following family: Mary E., wife of A. J. Nippin, of this county; Alice, who died at the age of three years; Hettie, who died in infancy; Martha Ann, Emma D., John H., and one that died in infancy unnamed. Mrs. Long is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Long has inherited many of the sterling qualities of his father, and is in every way a conservative, public- spirited citizen.

John A. Lovewell, a prominent farmer, and at present deputy sheriff of Mississippi County, Ark., is a native of Warrick County, Ind., born in 1848, and the younger of two sons born to William A. and Charlotte (Bohall) Lovewell, natives of New York and Indiana, respectively. The father was a building contractor, and while following this business in Natchez, Miss., in 1850, he was taken sick and died. The mother followed him to the grave nine years later. She was married again after the death of her first husband, and in 1856 the family emigrated to Arkansas. John A. Love- well was taught the rudiments of farming in the State of Arkansas, and commenced for himself at an early age. He came to Osceola in 1863, and in 1870 rented land and made his first crop. Two years later he met and married Mrs. Margaret Murray, nee Edington, a native of Mississippi County, and the daughter of William B. Edington, who came to Arkansas at an early period, and bought from the Indians the land where Osceola now stands. He was extensively engaged in till- ing the soil there until his death. Since his mar- riage Mr. Lovewell has been engaged in farming on a small scale, and the energetic and wide-a- wake manner in which he has taken advantage of all methods and ideas tending to enhance the value of his property has had a great deal to do with his obtaining the competence which he now enjoys. In 1881-82, he was the county assessor, and prior to this he was constable for two years. At present he is serving as deputy under Sheriff Hayes. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Love- well have been born seven children, four now liv- ing: James H., John Freeman. Poindexter Dunn father's farm. In 1887 he was employed on the and Hugh Mcveigh. Those deceased are Lena Government works at Memphis, and on February

who died August 28, 1874, at the age of three years; Margaret Lula, who died in infancy, and Harry G., who died July 16, 1886, at the age of three years.

Dudley Lynch, another prominent tiller of the soil in Mississippi County, Ark., is a native of the Blue Grass State, where he was born on the 28th of March, 1815, and is one of sixteen children born to Jerry and Mary Ann Lynch, natives of South Carolina and Kentucky, respectively. The father was a prominent farmer in his native State, and died in Hickman. Dudley Lynch assisted his father in the necessary duties upon the farm until fifteen years of age, and then began working on a Government snag boat, which occupation he fol- lowed during the winter season for a number of years. On April 13, 1837, he came to Arkansas, settled in Mississippi County, where he was engaged in getting out cypress stave shingles, and was also engaged in the general lumber business. At the same time he entered a tract of land, 160 acres, on which he still resides. Mr. Lynch was married to Miss Wallace in 1846, and two children were the result of this union, both now deceased: Robert Dennis and Mary. His second marriage was with Elizabeth Hearn, a native of Kentucky, and the daughter of Joseph Hearn, an early settler of this county. Three living children are the result of this marriage: Beckey, wife of Mr. Mckinney; Martha, wife of Mr. Martin, residing on our sub- ject's farm, and Dudley, who married Miss Jennie Lock, and resides at Lynch Landing. Mrs. Lynch died January 2, 1861. For his third wife Mr. Lynch chose, in 1865, Mrs. Martha Ann Bertt (widow of Joseph Bertt, a native of Wisconsin). Mrs. Bertt was a native of Missouri, and was the mother of one child by her first marriage, V. V. Bertt, who is at present mail agent on the Anchor Line steamboats. Mr. Bertt enlisted in the Con- federate army soon after his marriage, and served with Gen. Price. He was wounded at Springfield. and died there soon after. His son, V. V. Bertt. attended the public schools of Osceola for a num- ber of years, and spent his youth on his step.

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28, 1889, he secured his appointment as mail agent on the above named steamboats, which position he holds at the present time. Van., as he is familiarly called, is a young man of pleasing manners, cour- teous and agreeable, and one of the rising young men of this section. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lynch these children have been born: Minerva Emma, wife of F. L. McGee, residing near Elmot; John D., who died at the age of seven- teen years; Peter Calvin, who was accidentally shot on the 21st of November, 1884; Julia Ann, James L. and Lena Lillian. On the tract of land that Mr. Lynch originally entered he now has the en- tire tract under cultivation, all well fenced, with a good orchard. He has other farms which he has improved, and his children are residing on these. Lynch's Landing, which was opened on Mr. Lynch's place in 1881, was named in honor of him.

Margaret L. McFadden, the widow of Robert McFadden, and a daughter of John Hill, was born in Tennessee in 1840. Her father moved to Mis- sissippi County, Ark., in 1858, and settled on Frenchman's Bayou, being one of the pioneers of of that section. Here he bought a tract of land which had very few improvements on it, but he soon put it in such good condition that he sold it at a handsome profit. He next bought 160 acres of land, with about half of it cleared, on Carson's Lake, and after an active and busy life died, in 1872, at this place, two years previous to his wife's decease. His daughter, Margaret, was married, in 1866, to Mr. McFadden, of Tennessee, in which State the young couple made their home until Mrs. McFadden's father died, when they removed to Arkansas, and settled in Mississippi County. One hundred and sixty acres of partly improved land were purchased on Frenchman's Bayou, which Mr. McFadden added to during his life until he had all together 500 acres of the best land in that sec- tion, and 100 acres of it cleared. He was an ac- tive worker in educational matters, and served several terms as school director. His natural leaning toward oratory led him to adopt the pulpit, and shortly afterward he was ordained a Mission- ary Baptist preacher. It was in this capacity that he became widely known, and he was one of the

most highly esteemed citizens of that section. His death occurred in 1884, and since his demise Mrs. McFadden has continued the farming interests: up to date she has cleared sixty additional acres, besides buying 200 acres more. She is a woman of fine business ability, and understands thorough- ly how to conduct her various affairs. She also owns a herd of fine stock, and her natural shrewd- ness and good judgment in all matters of business are well known. Mrs. McFadden is a member of the Frenchman's Bayou Baptist Church, and lis- tens to sermons from the same pulpit in which her worthy husband preached in his life-time. Their union gave them five children: Paulina, who died at the age of twelve years; Katie Lee, who died in her third year; James R., who died when three years of age; Laura and John R., the latter attending school at Gardner, Tenn. In John H. Hill's family there were eleven children, of whom two died in infancy, and nine lived to ma- turity: Parthenia, married to Joseph Holmes, and died in 1877; Martha Ann, married in 1855, her husband being James Grant, and died August 25, 1862; the next child was Mrs. McFadden; then John M., who died in 1879; George Washington, who died from yellow fever in 1873; Andrew J., who died in 1877; Kate V., wife of John Sissel, a resident of Frenchman's Bayou; Bethel, who died in 1889, and Joseph N. Mrs. McFadden is a charming lady, and very popular with her neighbors, and though often urged to change her widowhood and become once more a bride, she still remains true to the memory of her departed husband.

Edward J. McGavock (deceased) was a man well known to the early settlers of Mississippi County, Ark., and was respected for his manly, straight- forward course through life, and beloved by all for his noble Christian qualities of mind and heart. He was a son of Jacob MeGavock of Nashville. Tenn .. and was born in that city December 17, 1828, be- ing favored in his youth with exceptionally fine educational opportunities, which he did not fail to improve. He entered the Nashville University. of which institution his grandfather. Felix Grundy. and his uncle, J. M. Bass, were trustees at the same time that Gen. Andrew Jackson was a member of

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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 7

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