Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 110

Author: Herndon, Dallas T. (Dallas Tabor), b. 1878
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Chicago, Little Rock, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1172

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Mr. Juhre gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has served as alderman, making a most creditable record in that connection. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, in which he holds membership. Though born across the water, he is thoroughly American in thought and feeling and is patriotic and sincere in his love for the stars and stripes. His career is closely identified with the history of Rogers, where he has acquired a competence and where he is an honored and respected citizen.

SAMUEL DAVID KIRKLAND, M. D.

In a thorough preparatory course Dr. Samuel David Kirkland laid the foundation for the success and progress he has attained as a member of the medical profession. He has been practicing in Van Buren since 1914 and he is now serving his second term as coroner of Crawford county. Dr. Kirkland was born in Griffithville, White county, Arkansas, on the 8th of January, 1880, a son of Joseph M. and Amanda (Griffin) Kirkland. For many years the father followed farming near Griffithville and his demise occurred in 1903. Mrs. Kirkland died in 1902. They were representa- tive citizens of the community in which they resided.

Samuel David Kirkland was one of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kirkland and he received his early education in Griffithville. Determining upon a professional career, he enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Little Rock and was graduated from that institution in 1911. This college is now a part of the University of Arkansas. In 1914 he came to Van Buren and he has been practic- ing here ever since. He took postgraduate work in Chicago in 1919 and in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1920. Dr. Kirkland has built up an extensive and Incrative practice and has gained recognition as one of the able and successful physicians of the state and by his labors, his high professional attainments and his sterling characteristics has justi- fied the respect and confidence in which he is held by the medical fraternity and the local public.

In 1902 occurred the marriage of Dr. Kirkland to Miss Lela Rodin, a daughter of Albert Rodin of Fort Smith. Two children have been born to their union, Lois and Sam Sylvester. Dr. Kirkland's fraternal affiliations are with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Masons. In the line of his profession he maintains mem- bership in the Crawford County Medical Society, of which he served for one year as president and for two years as secretary; the Tenth Council District Medical Society, which he also represented as president for one year and as secretary for two years; the Arkansas State Medical Society; the Medical Society of the Southwest; the South- ern Medical Association; and the American Medical Association. In June, 1917, Dr. Kirkland offered his services for active duty in the World war but was rejected on account of a slight physical defect. As a member of the Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, however, he did all in his power to assist the government in the successful prosecution of the war. He holds to high ideals in his professional service, enjoying the confidence and esteem of his colleagues and contemporaries to an unusual degree.

EDWIN C. MCMULLEN, M. D.

Dr. Edwin C. McMullen, who for more than a decade has engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Pine Bluff and is a Rush man-a fact indicative of his thor- ough training for the profession-is recognized as one who holds to the highest standards and ethics of the profession and, therefore, well merits the success which he is now enjoying. A native of Indiana, he was born in Aurora, April 9, 1879, his parents being Hugh and Ellen (Jacquith) McMullen, the former a native of Manchester, Indiana, while the latter was born at Wright Corners, that state which indicates that the grandparents were pioneers of Indiana. The grandfather in the paternal line was Sam- uel McMullen, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, and on coming to the new world settled in Dearborn county, Indiana. His son, Hugh McMullen, became a man of prominence and influence in that state. He and his brother, John, served in the Union army during the Civil war, giving valiant aid to the cause of the country as he followed the stars

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and stripes to southern battle fields. Hugh McMullen also took part in promoting the interests of his commonwealth as a representative in the state legislature, in which he served for several terms and during that period was elected speaker of the house. He was a lawyer of recognized ability, who for fifty years was attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, being the oldest representative of that road in point of continued years of service in any department. He also acted as attorney for the old Ohio & Mis- sissippi Railroad, which was later merged into the Baltimore & Ohio. He married Phoebe Ellen Jacquith, a daughter of Sullivan and Lucy (Grant) Jacquith. Her people removed from Vermont to Indiana, as did also the Grant family, both the Jacquiths and the Grants settling in Dearborn county. To Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMullen four chil- dren were born: Harry Reuben, Cassius Warwick, Stanley Hastings and Edwin C. The eldest is now an attorney of Aurora, Indiana. The second son, Cassius W., was gradu- ated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and is also at the present writing actively engaged in law practice at Aurora. At one time he held the chair of mathematics in the Indiana University and he has been numbered among the lawmakers of the state and like his father served as speaker of the Indiana legislature. The third son, Stanley Hastings, deceased, was a cadet at the Annapolis Naval Academy. He died from injuries received while in the academy and received a pension on account of his injuries.

The youngest of the four brothers is Edwin C. McMullen, who was reared and educated in Indiana and there attended the State University until graduated with the class of 1904. He was also at one time a student in Moores Hill College of Indiaua. His determination to become a member of the medical profession led him to enter the Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated with the class of 1907. After a competitive examination he was made interne in St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago and thus gained broad and valuable experience in his hospital work. He entered upon the private practice of medicine at New London, Iowa, and after two years there spent came to Pine Bluff, where he has remained for more than a decade, building up a large and satisfactory practice as the public has come to a recognition of his skill and ability in finding correct solution for the intricate problems of health. He is keenly inter- ested in anything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life and his studies have been broadly and wisely pursued.

Dr. McMullen was united in marriage to Miss Clarice Webster Brodhead of Cold- water, Michigan, a daughter of Howard and Aristaine (Webster) Brodhead. Dr. and Mrs. McMullen are widely known, occupying an euviable social position in those circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as passports into good society. During the World war Dr. MeMullen served on the exemption board. Fraternally he is a Mason, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church and in these connections are indicated the nature of his interests and the rules that govern his conduct.

SAMUEL MADISON POWELL.

Samuel Madison Powell is one of the best known and most successful insurance men of Arkansas, now representing life insurance interests as state agent at Little Rock for the Missouri State Life Insurance Company in Arkansas. He has other important business connections which indicate his resourcefulness and mark him as a man who has contributed in substantial measure to the development and upbuilding of the city and state in which he makes his home. He was born on a farm near Brownsville, Haywood county, Tennessee, December 12, 1871, and is a son of James A. and Margaret A. (Etheridge) Powell. The father was born near Asheville, North Carolina, in 1828, while the mother's birth occurred in the same locality on the 11th of July, 1834. She was a daughter of Henderson Etheridge, one of the old time settlers of that section of the country. It was in 1851 that the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Powell was celebrated and to them were born seven sons and four daughters, of whom six sons and two daughters are living, Samuel Madison Powell being the eighth in order of hirth in this family. The father was a self-made man, who became an eminent educa- tor. He taught in Powell Academy near Brownsville, Tennessee, for fifty-one years and in that time sent ten thousand boys and girls out into the world better qualified for life's practical and responsible duties by reason of his instruction, for at all times we need education not merely as a matter of acquiring knowledge but of preparation for life. When more than a half century was passed in active work in the schoolroom Mr. Powell ceased teaching and was made superintendent of public instruction of Haywood county, Tennessee, continuing to act in that capacity for a number of years. He lived for many years near Brownsville in Haywood county and was honored and respected wherever known and most of all where best known. At the time of the Civil

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war he became connected with the commissary department of the Confederate army and served throughout the period of hostilities. His political endorsement was ever given to the democratic party. He died in February, 1913, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. A modern philosopher has said: "Not the good that comes to us but the good that comes to the world through us is the measure of our success," and judged by this standard the life of Professor Powell was a most successful one.

The early education of Samuel M. Powell of this review, was obtained in the public schools of Brownsville, Tenuessee, and he later became a student in the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson, Tennessee, now the Union University, but on account of trouble with his eyes he could not complete the course. His identification with the insurance business dates from 1895 and in this field of labor he has steadily worked his way upward, gaining promotion after promotion until he is now state manager for Arkansas for the Missouri State Life Insurance Company, with office in Little Rock, and in this connection he has developed an extensive business for the corporation which he represents. In 1906 he assisted in the organization of the Southern Trust Company of Little Rock and was vice president through the first year of its existence. He is a director of the Valley Milling Company of Memphis, Tennessee, and has important farm- ing interests in Lonoke county, Arkansas. In fact he has made extensive and judicious investment outside of the field of insurance and the soundness of his judgment is in- dicated in the excellent results which have followed his labors.

On the 25th of October, 1900, in Little Rock, Mr. Powell was married to Miss Kath- erine Russell Brown, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1881. She is a lady of liberal education and innate culture, who is numbered among the graduates of Belmont College at Nashville, Tennessee. By her marriage she has become the mother of two children: Mary Nell and Samuel M., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Powell are consistent and faithful members of the Trinity Cathedral church of Little Rock, taking an active and helpful part in its work. In politics he is a democrat, but has never been an aspirant for office, confining his political activity to the exercise of his right of franchise. Fra- ternally he is a Mason and he belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Knights of Pythias, while of the Lakeside Club of Little Rock he is a charter member. Those things which constitute life in its broadest and best sense are of interest to him and his activities have been so directed as to con- tribute not only to the upbuilding of his individual fortune, but to the welfare, progress and prosperity of the community in which he lives, his influence being at all times on the side of reform, improvement and advancement.

W. J. REYNOLDS.

W. J. Reynolds, timber buyer of Fayetteville, well known to the trade in the south- west, his long experience and capability bringing him expert ability in this field of labor, was born in Chicago, November 10, 1869, and is a son of George W. and Frances (Truax) Reynolds, both of whom were natives of northern Illinois, where they were reared and married. The father was a well educated mau for his day and made a success in business. For a number of years he was an insurance adjuster. His political endorsement was given to the republican party and fraternally he was connected with the Masons, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He belonged to the Christian Science church, of which his widow is also a member. His military record was an interesting one, for he served through four years of the Civil war as a member of the Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry in defense of the Union and was wounded at the battle of Antietam. In days of peace, as in times of war, he was a faithful and loyal citizen, interested in all that pertained to public progress. His first wife died in the year 1876. They were the parents of three children: Edith M., who has filled the posi- tion of supervisor of music in the public schools of Chicago; W. J., of this review; and Mrs. P. H. Gardner, living in Quincy, Illinois, where her husband is manufacturing the Gardner governor. Having lost his first wife, George W. Reynolds was married again, his second union being with Ada Hogan and they became parents of two children: Mrs. P. M. Wentworth, living at Reno, Nevada, where her husband is general manager for the firm of Stone & Webster; and G. H. Reynolds, who is a bond salesman for Chap- man & Company. The mother of these children is living but the father died in the year 1905.

The excellent public school system of Chicago afforded W. J. Reynolds his educa- tional opportunities and when his textbooks were put aside he initiated his business career in that city by selling papers on the streets of the metropolis where so many successful men of the present day have bad their start. It is almost impossible to find any capable Chicago business man who in early youth has not sold papers there and

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Mr. Reynolds started out as did most of the others. He afterward went to Quincy, Illinois, with his parents and there was employed in a steam laundry but afterward returned to Chicago and worked in the office of the Ansonia Supply Company. It was in the year 1893 that he came to Fayetteville with the Ayer & Lord Tie Company, occu- pying the position of bookkeeper and manager with that firm for eight years. In December, 1900, he and two other business men organized the J. H. Phipps Lumber Company, with which Mr. Reynolds was associated until the present year, when he became interested in the Arkansas Tie & Timber Company, of which he is vice presi- dent. This business is incorporated for seventy-five thousand dollars paid up stock. They buy ties and mining timber, making their purchases largely in Arkansas and Mis- souri and they sell timber to mining and railway companies. The business is now one of large and gratifying proportions and the enterprise and energy of Mr. Reynolds at the same time he is steadily pushing forward toward the goal of success.

On the 10th of October, 1900, Mr. Reynolds was married to Miss Grace Buchanan, a daughter of John L. Buchanan, who was formerly president of the State University of Arkansas and is still living at the notable age of ninety years. Mr. and Mrs. Rey- nolds have become parents of two children: Virginia, born July 13, 1905; and Frances, born September 26, 1908. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Reynolds has been a stalwart advocate of republican principles and has served as a member of the city council at Fayetteville and has also been a member of the school board for ten years, filling the position of secretary of the board at the present time. He is also road commissioner of Washington county at this writing, in 1921. Mr. Reynolds belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his wife holds mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal church. He is also a member of the Rotary Club, of which he is serving as vice president and in many public measures and activities he takes deep and helpful interest. He is the county chairman of the Red Cross, is county chairman of the Arkansas Advancement Association and has manifested a most progressive attitude in relation to all those plans and measures which are looking to the upbuilding and benefit of city, county and state. Alert and energetic, he is proving a dynamic force in business circles, having already reached the plane of affluence, while at the same time he is steadily pushing forward toward the goal of success.

JUDGE WOODSON MOSLEY.

One of the leading attorneys in Arkansas is Judge Woodson Mosley, who is engaged in active practice at Rison. He was born in this state, near Edenburg, Cleveland county, on the 6th of June, 1856, a son of Wiley and Jane Elizabeth (Brawner) Mosley. The paternal ancestors came from England to this country in the early colonial days and located in South Carolina. The maternal ancestors likewise came from England in the colonial days, locating in Virginia, subsequently removing to North Carolina and . later to Georgia. Wiley Mosley was born in South Carolina and came to Arkansas, locating in Bradley county in 1849. He was among the early settlers in that community and he engaged in farming for some time. He removed to what was then Bradley county, but is now Cleveland county, and was active in agricultural pursuits at the time of liis demise. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war Wiley Mosley put all personal interests aside and enlisted as a private in the second Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Confederate army. He served throughout that conflict and participated in many of the strategic battles of the war. In Chambersville, Arkansas, in 1852, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Mosley to Miss Jane Elizabeth Brawner, a native of Georgia. She came to this state from Alabama in 1851 and located with her parents in Calhoun county, they being among the pioneer settlers there. Her brother, T. M. Brawner served in the Civil war as a private in the infantry, in Confederate service, and was severely wounded in action. Wiley Mosley's death occurred on the home place near New Edinburg in 1900, at the age of eighty-one years. Mrs. Mosley died in Cleveland county in 1903, when she was in her eighty-first year. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Mosley two boys and four girls were born, all of whom are living. Judge Woodson Mosley, whose name initiates this review, was the second in order of birth.

In the acquirement of his education Woodson Mosley attended the common schools of Cleveland county and first studied law in the office of Z. P. H. Farr of Little Rock, in 1881, and the spring of 1882. Later he was in the office of S. P. Hughes of Little Rock. In 1882 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced for a short time in Cleveland county and in 1885 went into the mercantile business at Kingsland, Arkansas, in part- nership with T. M. Boyd. In the fall of the year 1888 that business was discontinued and soon afterward Judge Mosley was elected circuit clerk of Cleveland county, an office he held until 1892. For the following two years he held no public office but in

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1894 was reelected circuit clerk, serving in that office an additional two years. Subse- quently for four years he was county and probate judge, his term of office expiring in 1900. Since that time he has engaged in the general practice of law in Rison and has built up an extensive and lucrative clientage throughout the county. In addition to his private practice he is local attorney of the Bank of Rison and of the J. I. Porter Lumber Company of Stuttgart.

At Kingsland, Arkansas, in 1888, was celebrated the marriage of Judge Mosley to Miss Etter Louvenia Smith, a daughter of William and Zilphy Jane Smith of Brook Haven, Mississippi. To their union seven children have been born: Brawner G. is engaged in the abstract business in Rison; Edua is the wife of Dr. A. A. Hughes of New Gascony; James G. is likewise engaged in the conduct of an abstract business here. He married Miss Anna Hunter of Monticello; Lucy died in infancy; Ruth is the wife of T. J. Thornton of Stephens, who is now running a plantation near Corner- stone; Esther is living at home with her parents; and Wiley W. is sixteen years of age and a student in the schools of Rison.

Since age conferred upon Mr. Mosley the right of franchise he has given his political allegiance to the democratic party, having firm belief in the principles of that party as factors in good government. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, holding membership in A. F. & A. M. Lodge of Kingsland, and he is likewise affiliated with the Woodmen. During the World war Judge Mosley was tireless in his devotion to the government's interests and was chairman of the legal advisory board of Cleveland county, the duties of that office requiring practically all of his time. Cleveland county is proud to number him among her native sons, for he has been a dominant factor in its continued upbuilding and improvement. His friends are legion and he has won the confidence and respect of all with whom he has come into contact.

SAMUEL SORRELS LANGLEY.

Samuel Sorrels Langley, United States district attorney at Fort Smith and recog- nized as one of the eminent representatives of the Arkansas bar, was born in Clark county, this state, in 1865 and is a son of Samuel Sorrels and Mary (Browning) Langley. The father was born in Clark county, Arkansas, to which section his father had removed from North Carolina. Mary Browning was a native of Alabama and is a daughter of Frank Browning. Reared in Clark county, Samuel S. Langley, Sr., responded to the call of the Confederate army in the Civil war and was with the southern troops for four years, being captured at the battle of Vicksburg on the 4th of July, 1863, after which he was confined in the military prison on Johnson's Island, Ohio, until 1865. J. O. Browning and J. A. Browning, uncles of S. S. Langley of this review, in the ma- ternal line, were distinguished citizens of Arkansas in its pioneer period. J. O. Brown- ing was a member of the constitutional convention of 1874, which framed the organic law of the state. He was also a member of the legislature from Clark county in 1875 and in many ways he left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the history of the commonwealth. J. A. Browning and J. O. Browning were both closely associated with the moral progress and development of the community as ministers of the Baptist church. To Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Langley, Sr., there were born fourteen children, twelve of whom reached adult age, while nine are yet living. Of these Isom P. Langley became a Baptist minister of Clark county, but now resides in Lebanon, Missouri, and is chap- lain of the Missouri penitentiary. He was also a member of the bar of Clark county, practicing law at that place and at Hot Springs. Another son, Robert T. Langley, is a merchant of Delight, Arkansas. He had one son, Quincy Langley, who served in the World war, being on duty with an ammunition train in France. P. B. Langley is now a minister of the Baptist church, located at Fort Smith, Arkansas, as pastor of Lex- ington Avenue Baptist church. Frank, another brother, is also devoting his life to the ministry, occupying the pulpit of the Baptist church at Quitman, Texas. The daughters are: Callie M., who is the widow of C. P. Smith and lives in Arkadelphia; Cornelia, the wife of Moses Konatser, a resident of Stevensville, Texas, and the mother of thirteen children; Anna, the wife of A. H. Low of Stevensville, Texas, and the mother of eleven children, two of her sons having served with the United States army in the World war; Sally, the wife of E. L. McGraw of Wesson, Union county, Arkansas, and the mother of eleven children, one of whom was a soldier of the World war, while another son is a Baptist minister.

The other member of the family is S. S. Langley, whose name introduces this review. He was educated in the public schools of Arkansas and attended one of the first public schools held in Clark county. In fact there were only three public schools in the county at the time. He continued his studies through the winter months, work-

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ing on the farm through the summer season and thus, somewhat handicapped, he laid the foundation for a liberal education, for throughout his life he has been a student, whether within the walls of the schoolroom or actively connected with public affairs. After leaving the public schools he became a student in Oran Academy at Bingen, Hemp- stead county, Arkansas, remaining there part of one season and returning at another time for further study. He afterward attended school at Murfreesboro, Arkansas, taught by E. B. Kinsworthy, a well known educator who is now living at Little Rock. He con- tinued his educational labors in connection with the public schools in Pike and Hemp- stead counties and also taught in Nevada and Ouachita counties. In April, 1889, he be- came a student in the Southern Normal School at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and likewise pursued a course in a business college there. Again he gave his at- tention to professional work, teaching in Nevada county, Arkansas. He was an able educator, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge he had acquired and the various schools under his control made steady and substantial progress.

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Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 110

Author: Herndon, Dallas T. (Dallas Tabor), b. 1878 Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Chicago, Little Rock, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 1172

Author: Herndon, Dallas T. (Dallas Tabor), b. 1878
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Chicago, Little Rock, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1172