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 73

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


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George C. Harrison, planter and miller, is a native of Mississippi, and was born March 23, 1834. His parents were natives of Tennessee, and, both dying before our subject was one year old, he was raised by an uncle-G. C. Harrison. He lived on a farm, never attending school, and the considerable knowledge he has was gathered since his majority. At the age of nineteen he began life for himself, engaging in farming as an overseer, in Prairie County, Ark., where he remained till 1857. He has been three times married-in 1853 to Miss Mary Henderson, of St. Francis County, Ark. They had one child, Arthur, the wife dying in 1857. In 1863 he married Miss Sarah Bray, of St. Fran- cis County, daughter of Henry and Fanny Bray, the father a farmer and Baptist minister. By this union there were four children: Della (died at fif- teen), Henry, William, and George (married and living in Jackson). Mrs. Harrison died in 1882, and in 1884 Mr. Harrison married Mrs. Sumette Mallory, widow of James Mallory, who had two children, Anna and Hannah O., aged fifteen and twelve years. In 1872 Mr. Harrison came to Centerville, Jackson County, Ark., where he lived


five years, and in 1877 bought ninety-one acres of new land, which he cleared, later adding forty acres to it, and has 100 acres of cleared land. He has since added forty acres to that, making 171 acres in that farm in Union Township. In 1885 he gave his wife a farm of eighty-five acres, sev- enty-five of which are cleared, lying half a mile northwest of Auvergne. Together, they now own 570 acres, 350 of which are now under cultiva- tion. In 1882 he began ginning cotton with his own machinery, on his farm, in Union Township, insured his customers against loss by fire, and in October, 1885, the gin, together with eighteen bales of his customers' cotton and three bales of his own, were totally destroyed by fire, being a total loss. In 1886 he built his present gin and the grist-mill at Auvergne. This gin is the best in Jackson County, having a capacity of fifteen bales. He does a general ginning business, and buys his ten- ants' crops. In 1861 our subject enlisted in the Thirteenth Arkansas Regiment, was made lieuten- ant of Company B, serving one year, when he was discharged. He re-enlisted in Capt. Anderson's company, Col. Dobbins' regiment, where he served until the surrender, in 1865. He was never wounded, but in the battle of Belmont, in which he was engaged, seven bullets were sent through his clothing. He was with Gen. Price on his raid through Missouri, and was at the battle of Lexing- ton. He was also at the battle of Pilot Knob, and the last skirmish was at Fayetteville, Ark., in the winter of 1864. Mr. Harrison votes the Democratic ticket, and is conservative; is a member of the Ma- sonic order, of the Knights of Honor and the A. L. of H. He and his wife are members of the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches, respectively. He also contributes to the support of the churches, schools, and all other enterprises for the good of the county.


J. Y. Harrison, a prosperous and enterprising farmer of Jefferson Township, was born in Chris- tian County, Ky., near Hopkinsville, on the 22d of April, 1847. His parents were Robert and Isabella (Means) Harrison, the father a native of Tennessee , and the mother from Kentucky. The elder Har- rison moved to Kentucky in his youth, and was


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afterward married in that State, taking his bride to Arkansas in 1850, and locating in Jackson County, near Jacksonport. He entered a tract of land in Bird Township, where he commenced cul- tivating the soil, and remained until his death in 1874. The mother yet survives him as well as five children: Margaret, wife of A. D. Anderson; James, Robert, Frank and Mary, the latter mar- ried to C. B. Coe. J. Y. Harrison, one of the sons, came to Arkansas when only three years of age, and grew to manhood in this State, receiving in the meantime the best education afforded by the schools of that period. He left his parents when eighteen years old, in 1867, with 85 cents in money. He has always made farming his voca- tion, and after his marriage located on a tract of land in Bird Township, where he resided and cul- tivated the soil until 1863, when he removed to his present residence and rented land up to 1881, and then buying 160 acres. He now owns 740 acres of some of the most valuable land in that section, and has 320 acres under cultivation, 180 acres of which were cleared and improved by him- self alone. The principal crop is corn and cotton, and of the former this year he has had 300 acres, and 200 acres of the latter. Besides his farm Mr. Harrison deals extensively in stock, having splendid facilities for that business, and raises , some of the finest horses, cattle and mules in that section. He also owns a cotton-gin, grist and saw-mill, and raises some grass for the market. In 1869 he was married to Miss Mary Hunter, by whom he has had eight children: Emma, Ida, Minnie, Norah and Pinkey (both deceased), Ber- tha, Spriggs and Cleveland. In politics Mr. Har- rison is a Democrat, and a valuable man to his party, as well as a popular citizen of his county.


Robert H. Harvey, planter and stock raiser, was born in North Carolina, in 1830, the third in a family of nine children of William and Josephine ( Harrington ) Harvey, of North Carolina. Will- iam came to Jackson County, in 1850, settling in Bird Township, where he made his permanent home, dying in 1885 at the age of eighty-two. His wife died some years ago. Of the family there are living Emma (now Mrs. Poe), Robert, Simeon


(of Oregon), Benjamin (of Oregon), and W. R., who has a large farm in the upper part of Jack- son County. Our subject was raised on the farm, received his education in the subscription schools of Tennessee, and came to Jackson County at the age of twenty and engaged in overseering on plantations for nine years. In 1859 he married Mary B. Palmer, daughter of Samuel and Louisa ( Means ) Palmer, of Kentucky (both deceased ), who came to Jackson County in 1850. After his marriage he entered forty acres of land where he now resides, on which he planted an orchard, and otherwise improved and added to it, until now he has 400 acres, with about 200 under cultiva- tion, raising cotton and corn, and grade stock. Mr. Harvey is a Democrat, has been road overseer, and always takes an active interest in school work, and aids liberally in public enterprises. In 1869 Mrs. Harvey died, leaving three children: Herbert (killed at Tuckerman, in 1879), Samuel and Mag- gie B. (now Mrs. Shoat, residing in Texas). In February, 1878, Mr. Harvey married Josephine Thomas, of Tennessee, daughter of Columbus and Elizabeth ( Long) Thomas, of South Carolina, early settlers of Tennessee. Mrs. Harvey has had two children, both deceased. On his farm Mr. Harvey has a cotton-gin and grist-mill, and does a general business for people in the vicinity.


William R. Harvey, a planter and stock raiser, of Glass Township, Jackson County, is one of the pioneer settlers of that county. He was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., in 1843, and was the tenth in a family of thirteen children born to Will- iam M. and Josephine (Blunt) Harvey, natives of North Carolina. William M. Harvey settled in Hardeman County, Tenn., in an early day; he owned and operated there a large plantation until 1849, when he emigrated to Jackson County, Ark., entering land in Bird Township. He cut a road to his claim, upon which he erected a small log cabin and commenced clearing and improving his land; this was his home until 1872, in which year he went to Oregon, remaining in that State until 1876, when he returned to Jackson County, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death oc- curring in August, 1886. The mother of our sub-


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ject died in 1860. William R. was reared on the farm, and received the limited advantages of the subscription schools, assisting his father in the meantime in clearing the farm. In 1862 he en- listed in the Confederate army, Capt. Hooker's com- pany, for two years, and was assigned to Gen. Van- Dorn's bodyguard, being afterward transferred to John McRay's brigade, Col. Young's regiment; he was in the battles of Prairie Grove, Rockfence, Pilot Knob, Jefferson City, and was with Gen. Price on his raid through Missouri and Arkansas, to Fay- etteville. At the close of the war Mr. Harvey re- turned to Jackson County and engaged in farm- ing, purchasing a tract of 280 acres in Bird Town- ship, which was partly improved; in 1880 he sold out and removed to Glass Township, where he first bought 440 acres, upon which was considera- ble improvement, and to which he has since added until he now owns in all 700 acres, with over 220 acres under cultivation, one of the finest stock farms in the township, as it is well watered. Mr. Harvey devotes a good deal of attention to stock raising, owning about sixty head of cattle, forty horses, and a large drove of hogs. He annually raises about 100 acres of cotton. Mr. Harvey was married, in Bird Township, in 1865, to Miss Eliza Bettisworth, who was born in Tennessee, and is a daughter of George and Sarah (Anderson) Bettisworth, natives of Kentucky, who removed to Independence County, Ark .. in 1850. Mr. Bettis- worth, who was a saddler by trade, died in 1855; his widow, who removed to Pocahontas, Randolph County, in 1861, died in 1880. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, viz: Joseph, William, Sydney, Arthur, and Ross (who died in 1877, at the age of four years). Mr. Harvey is an active politician, working and voting with the Demo- cratic party. He is an enterprising farmer, and fully alive and interested in the advancement and de- velopment of the county.


Dr. W. H. Heard. One of the earliest physi- cians to settle in Jackson County was Dr. Heard, who was born in Chicot County, on June 13, 1840. He is a son of John and Harriet N. (Hardy) Heard, of Georgia and Kentucky, respectively. The ma- ternal grandfather was a colonel in the War of 1812,


who was one of the earliest settlers, and died in Jackson County. Dr. Heard's father, John Heard, was an extensive planter in Drew County, where he died during the war, the mother dying some time previous. They were the parents of six chil- dren, two of whom are still living: Dr. William H. and Emma (wife of Samuel Holloway). The Doctor was reared on the plantation in Arkansas, and was comparatively young when his parents died. He was attending school at the Georgetown College, in Kentucky, when the War of the Rebel- lion began, but when the news came into the school-room his youthful ardor was fired with the ambition to become a soldier, and he exchanged the books and orders of his spectacled professor to shoulder the musket and listen to the drum-beat and cannon. He enlisted in Company D, of the First Arkansas regiment, and served through the entire war, taking part in the battles of Farming- ton, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Perryville, cam- paigning through Georgia and in the retreat at Franklin, where he was captured and taken pris- oner to Camp Douglas. He was here confined for six months, and then taken to the city of New Or- leans and exchanged, and at Natchez received his parole. During his many battles he received a number of wounds, but happily recovered from all of them, and lives to-day to recount to his children the scenes of his struggle for the lost cause. After the war was over he returned to Jackson County, and began the study of medicine, and in 1869 graduated from the University of Louisville, and immediately commenced practicing. After an ar- duous practice of seven years he went to New York City in the fall of 1876, attended lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and received an ad eundem diploma from that institution in the spring of 1877. Up to the present time no man in the profession has exceeded his reputation as a skillful physician and surgeon, and, as a conse- quence, his practice is one of the largest in Jack- . son County. Dr. Heard was chosen as acting as- sistant surgeon of the United States Marine Hospi- tal, and has held that position since 1882. He is a member of the State Medical Society, and has served on the board of examiners for some time,


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and in 1878 he was elected county treasurer, and served one term. In 1879 the Doctor was married to Miss Mattie Foushee, by whom he has had two children: Kate P. and Walter L. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias, also the Royal Arcanum and Knights of Honor. Politically, the Doctor is a Democrat, and one of the strongest supporters of that party. He attends the Methodist Church, and is also one of the directors of the Newport Bank.


Capt. James T. Henderson, a prominent and influential man of Jackson County, and the father of Auvergne, the town where he resides, is a na- tive of Giles County, Tenn., and was born Sep- tember 14, 1835. His parents were Benjamin Franklin and Nancy C. (Blackwood) Henderson, natives of North Carolina, and of Irish and En- glish ancestry. The parents were married in North - ern Alabama, and in 1834 moved to Giles County, Tenn., locating upon a large plantation, where they reared their family of four children. B. Franklin Henderson was an active and influential Democrat, and the family were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. James T. was the eldest of the children; the others are Eliza J., who became the wife of Robert L. Davis, in April, 1857; Emma, wife of R. M. Laird, a merchant and farmer of Auvergne; and John C., a farmer and stock raiser, also of Auvergne. Benjamin Franklin Henderson died in the early part of 1849, which sad event made it necessary for James T., who was then attending college in Tennessee, to return home and assist his mother in the manage- ment of his father's estate; the mother died in 1856, leaving him sole manager at the age of twenty-one. He was made joint administrator, and Henry Henderson, a colored slave, was ap- pointed foreman under our subject's direction. In 1857 Mr. Henderson was employed by John T. Shapard, of Elkton, as a cotton buyer, in which he"; located the town of Auvergne, and built the first was successful, and was subsequently engaged in house there in 1886; he also built and furnished the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which he presented to the town. With six others besides Capt. Henderson a board of directors was formed. who built and established Auvergne Academy, and in many other ways has our subject taken a lead- the store of John T. Shapard under permanent contract at $100 per month; at the end of six months he bought a one-half interest in the busi- ness, and the firm became Shapard & Henderson, of Elkton, Tenn., carrying on an extensive busi-


ness until 1860; in the latter year our subject sold out and removed to Jackson County, Ark., first locating on Bowen's Ridge, where he lived two years. At the outbreak of the war he raised Com- pany H, Thirty-second Arkansas Regiment, of which he was elected captain, and after serving in that capacity a short time, he was selected to fill a position in the secret service under Gens. Hind- man, Shelby and Price, and Kirby Smith. He was quite successful in the work of securing sup- plies for the army, and escaped capture, receiving honorable discharge at the close of the war. He then returned to Arkansas, and bought a large farm near Newport, but was employed as mercan- tile salesman in the store of J. W. Stayton & Co., of Jacksonport, for three years, afterward, for about the same length of time, in the same capac- ity with A. Hirsch & Son. In 1873 he bought 755 acres of land, on which he settled, and the first year cleared 400 acres; of this tract he has sold a considerable portion, now owning 480 acres. of which 410 acres are under cultivation. He bas erected good houses, barns, etc., and made other improvements. When Mr. Henderson first located his present home, there was no open land be- tween his place and Newport, but his enterprise and perseverance have opened a large area; he has a beautiful home among the trees, one-half mile west of Auvergne, and upon his place is growing a young peach orchard of 1,000 trees, of more than a dozen varieties; he also has other orchards con- taining nearly all kinds of pears, apples, plums and cherries. All of the twenty-five slaves whom Mr. Henderson owned and brought with him to Arkansas before the war are still living, and have farms of their own, leading independent lives. Capt. Henderson owns ten places, comprising in all 1,220 acres, besides four residences in Newport. and the towns of Tuckerman and Swifton. He


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ing part in the upbuilding of his town. In 1888 he was appointed by the State Immigration Society to organize a Jackson County society, to which he was successful, holding the position of vice-presi- dent of his township and director of the county board. Capt. Henderson has devoted considerable attention to the breeding of thoroughbred cattle, and has some of the finest stock in the State. In 1858 the Captain married Miss Amanda M. Laird, daughter of Martin and Margaret (Malone) Laird, natives of Virginia. Capt. Henderson is a mem- ber of Newport Lodge No. 191, A. F. & A. M .; he is an Odd Fellow, a member of the K. of H., and A. L. of H., and of the Wheel. He takes an active part in the politics of his county and State as a Democrat, having been elected in 1874 to rep- resent the Twenty-ninth District in the senate, where he served until 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Hen- derson are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.


Henry Henderson is a prominent colored resi- dent of Northeast Arkansas, and one whose name - is rightly entitled to appear on the pages of Ar- kansas history. He was born in Madison County, Ala., in 1821, and is a son of Joseph and Amy Walker, who were the property of Samuel Walker, a noted Alabama legislator and slave owner. When Henry was at the age of nineteen years, Samuel Walker died, and he became the property of his heir, Milton Walker, with whom he re- mained until his twenty-eighth year, when he was then traded to a man named Franklin Henderson, in exchange for a man of the same weight, the trade being made in order to allow the family to remain together. In 1844 he was united in mar- riage to Malindia Halloway, a comely young slave, who was the property of Louis Halloway, and to this couple were born the following children: Mary, Chatman, Matildia, Ann, Ellen, Sam, Bryson, and a child who died in infancy. Mary is now the : mother of a family, and resides in Tennessee, as does also Ann, who has a family of her own. Chatman is the father of a family, and owns a farm adjoining his father, as does also Sam, who owns his own land. Matildia is married, and has a large family, and lives in Washington County,


Miss. Ellen has a family also, and lives near her father, while Bryson, who is a well educated and very intellectual man, teaches school at Weldon. In the year 1860 Mr. Henderson came to Bowen's Ridge, Ark., with his owners, the Henderson fam- ily, and assisted in farming and improving the land. During the war he was taken to the army as cook, and at the close of that period he was paroled at a point near St. Louis. After an ab- sence of four years he returned to his family, and later on moved to the vicinity of Auvergne, Ark., where he conducted the farm work of his old mas- ters, the Hendersons. He remained with them two years, and then took a lease on forty acres of land, where Auvergne now stands. At the end of five years he purchased forty acres, and shortly after- ward added fifteen more, and then fifty-five acres still later. Since then he has become more pros- perous from year to year, and has donated consid- erable land to his children. He is one of the leading men of the colored race in that section, and the oldest of the Hendersons' former slaves.


L. Hirsch, real estate dealer and insurance agent, at Newport, Ark. The principal necessity to the success of the real estate business, the safest and surest form of investment, is to have reliable agents, who are thoroughly posted on their city and locality, and the town of Newport has found such a man in the person of Mr. Hirsch, who is one of the largest land-holders in the county, being the owner of about 2,000 acres of real estate, and fifteen valuable lots in the town of Newport. In connection with this work he is engaged in the insurance business, and represents the following companies: The Hartford, Phoenix, Orient. Etna. of Hartford, Conn .; the Springfield, of Spring- field, Mass. ; the Phoenix, of Brooklyn, N. Y. : the Anglo-Nevada, Union, Commercial and California, of the State of California; the Lancashire and North British and Mercantile, of England; the New Or- leans Insurance Association, Crescent. Southern. Hibernia, Sun Mutual, and Mechanics and Trad- ers, of New Orleans, La. ; the Fire Association. of Philadelphia; the Arkansas Fire, of Little Rock. Ark. ; the East Texas, of Tyler. Tex. ; the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of New York, and the


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Fidelity and Casualty Company (Accident), also of that city. Mr. Hirsch was born in Batesville, Ark., on the 9th of August, 1855, and is a son of Aaron and Amelia (Blochman) Hirsch, the former a native of France, and the latter of Heidelburg, Germany. While Aaron Hirsch was still a single man, he took passage on board a vessel bound for the United States, and, after reaching this country, gradually drifted to the State of Tennessee, where he was afterward married. In 1853 he removed to Arkansas, locating near Batesville, where he opened a mercantile establishment, and conducted business here and in Jacksonport for many years. L. Hirsch, the subject of this memoir, made his home in Batesville until 1862, then removed with his parents to New Orleans, making that city his home until 1870. Four years later he returned to Newport and established a mercantile store, under the firm name of A. Hirsch & Son, but in 1878 this partnership was dissolved, and the firm name became L. Hirsch & Co., and remained such until 1880. At this date Mr. Hirsch sold out to Wolf & Goldman, and embarked in his present business, and up to 1885 was associated with H. L. Remmel, but in that year he purchased Mr. Remmel's inter- est, and continued alone until January, 1889, when he gave an interest to his younger brother, Ralph, and the firm is now Hirsch & Bro. He is also treasurer of the Newport Water & Irrigating Company, and has full control of the plumbing department. He is secretary of the White River Telephone Company; is secretary and manager of the White River Ice Manufacturing Company, and is a director of the Newport Compress & Storage Company, now being organized. He is a member in good standing of the Masonic fraternity, be- longs to the K. of P., and is treasurer of the lat- ter organization. He has also held the offices of city treasurer and recorder, and has been deputy sheriff and deputy clerk. He is one of the ablest young business men in Jackson County, and in all enterprises of a worthy character he has been the first to identify himself, and take an interest in their successful establishment. Miss Nettie Staf- ford, a native of Virginia, became his wife in September, 1884, and their union was blessed




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