Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 121

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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On the 30th of June, 1919, Dr. Mckenzie was united in marriage to Miss Irene Marquardt of St. Louis, Missouri, and they have become parents of a daughter, Eileen Dorothy. They are devoted and consistent members of the Presbyterian church while fraternally the Doctor is identified with Jackson Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Newport,

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Arkansas, and Hot Springs Lodge, No. 380, B. P. O. E. A young man of marked pro- fessional ability and laudable ambition, his career has been one of signal usefulness and will undoubtedly be one of continued success.

G. B. CADY.

Among the prominent and highly respected citizens of Rogers is G. B. Cady, post- master since June, 1921. He was horn in Springfield, Missouri, on the 15th of September, 1885, a son of W. R. and Nancy Jane (Clark) Cady, resident of Rogers since 1881, with the exception of a short time spent in Missouri at the time of their son's birth. The father was born in Ohio, while Mrs. Cady was horn in Alabama, and their marriage was celebrated in Salem, Illinois. They are now the oldest living residents of Rogers. For some years Mr. Cady was a postal clerk but upon returning from a short stay in Missouri in 1887, he became identified with the mercantile business and was active along that line until 1901. In that year he sold out and hought a newspaper, the Rogers Republican, which he published for a time with great success. In 1902 he was made postmaster and served to the best of his ability in that connection until 1906. When Mr. Cady first came to Arkansas he had hut two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and he is now one of the most successful and prosperous men in the community. He owns a large farm near Rogers, on which stands a lovely home and spacious outbuildings, and in addition to assisting with its cultivation he travels for the Ozark Fruit Growers' Corporation, and operates a cooperage plant in Rogers. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cady: G. B., whose name initiates this review; and H. B., residing on his father's farm. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cady are consistent members of the Presbyterian church and he is fraternally identified with the Woodmen. He is likewise a stanch supporter of the republican party, in the interests of which he has always taken an active part.

G. B. Cady received his education in the Rogers Academy and his first occupation upon putting his textbooks aside was in the newspaper business. For four years he assisted in publishing the Rogers Republican and then for a number of years was connected with various city papers in Missouri and Texas. In 1912, however, he returned to Rogers and was active in the management of the cooperage plant. Both he and his brother have an interest in the father's farm, on which fruit is mostly raised, although considerable grain of all kinds is grown, and he also has an interest in the cooperage plant, which is one of the representative business interests of Rogers. In June, 1921, Mr. Cady was appointed postmaster of Rogers and is now serving in that capacity.

On the 4th of September, 1917, occurred the marriage of Mr. Cady and Miss Vivian Kruse, a native of Rogers and a daughter of Ed. J. Kruse, who is now living in Rogers. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cady, Jim W. H., three years of age. Mrs. Cady is a woman of much personal charm and she has many friends in the community where she has lived the greater part of her life. She is a prominent and active member of the various clubs of the community.

Since age conferred upon Mr. Cady the right of franchise he has heen a stanch supporter of the republican party, having firm belief in the principles of that party as factors in good government. He helongs to the F. & A. M., is a Knights Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine and likewise holds membership in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In his various undertakings Mr. Cady has always heen suc- cessful and his career has been marked by continuous advancement. He believes a public office is a public trust and is ever faithful to duty. A young man of hut thirty-seven years of age, he has already achieved substantial success and for him the future holds un- limited opportunities.

EZEKIEL WILSON WARREN.

One of the foremost citizens of Emerson and Columbia county is Ezekiel Wilson Warren, who was born in this county, three miles east of Emerson, on the 27th of December, 1867. His father, William Benjamin Warren, came from Georgia to this state in 1857, and located three miles northwest of Brister, being one of the pioneer settlers in that community. He became one of the progressive agriculturists of the county and achieved more than substantial success in that connection. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Warren put all personal interests aside and enlisted as a private in the Confederate army. He saw active service with the cavalry for four years and was twice wounded. His demise occurred in 1886 in Emerson and came as a severe

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blow to his family and many friends. He was sixty-one years of age at the time of his death. In December, 1866, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Warren to Mrs. Sarah (Caldwell) Crain, the ceremony being performed at what was then known as Eden Post Office. She was born in Alabama and removed from that state to Arkansas with her father when a child. They were among the early settlers of Atlanta. Mrs. War- ren was twice married, her first marriage having been celebrated at Atlanta, this state, when she became the wife of Jesse R. Crain, whose death occurred during the Civil war. Two children were born to the first union, one of whom is living. To the second union seven children were born, three boys and four girls, of whom Ezekiel Wilson, whose name initiates this review, was the eldest child. He has one brother living. Mrs. Warren died in 1909, in her seventy-first year.

In the acquirement of an education Ezekiel Wilson Warren attended the country schools of his native county, receiving the equivalent of a grammar school education. At an early age he started farming on his own account and has since been active in that connection, becoming one of the representative agriculturists of Columbia county. In addition to the farm on which he resides, he owns fifteen hundred acres of farm land in and around Emerson. Mr. Warren has other extensive interests, being one of the largest stockholders in the Columbia Cotton Oil Company of Magnolia and in financial circles he is influential as a stockholder in the Peoples Bank of Magnolia and the Farmers Bank at Emerson. At various times he has been called to public office and in 1891 he was elected constable of Moss township, being reelected to that office in 1893. In 1896 he was elected justice of the peace in the same township and in the fall of that year was appointed chief deputy sheriff of Columbia county, under J. S. Dawson. He served two years in that capacity, at the termination of which time he resigned and returned to the home farm. On the 1st of November, 1900, he was again called to public office, however, when he was sheriff of Columbia county and was active in that official position until 1904, having been reelected in 1902. While in that office he had three legal hangings and narrowly escaped death in a pistol duel with a negro criminal. Mr. Warren was manager of the Columbia Cotton Oil Company at Magnolia during the year 1905 and in 1906 he came to Emerson, where he immediately became a public figure. From 1907 to 1910 he was a member of the town council and was a member of the Emerson school board from 1906 to 1921, in which latter year he resigned. For some time he was president of that body. Mr. Warren has been mayor of Emerson four different terms and each time he has given to the community a busi- nesslike administration, marked by continued prosperity and a general improvement in the public welfare.

Mr. Warren has been twice married. He was first married on the 25th of Decem- ber, 1887, to Miss Martha Arkansas Hollan. Her demise occurred in July, 1911. To their union the following children were born: Edgar C., who married Jessie Wood of Emerson, and is a well known business man here; Jordan B., who married Louise Led- better of Dallas, Texas, and is now living in Chicago, Illinois; Effie, eighteen years of age, who is manager of the Sanders Company at Little Rock; Ethel, who is the wife of J. M. Shaffer of Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Nettie, who is living at home with her father. On the 12th of May, 1915, Mr. Warren was married to Miss Lilly Davis, the ceremony taking place at Emerson. She is a native of Plainfield. To their union two children have been born: Bonnie Davis, five years of age; and Mabel, four years of age.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Baptist church and they are gen- erous contributors to its support. Fraternally. Mr. Warren is identified with the Wood- men of the World and the Columbia Woodmen and he is conceded an exemplary mem- ber of those organizations. He is one of the live-wire residents of Emerson and his aid may always be counted upon in the furtherance of any movement for the develop- ment and improvement of the general welfare. He has won an enviable place among the agriculturists and business men of this county, which is proud to number him among her native sons.

TRIMBLE & TRIMBLE.

One of the strongest law firms of central Arkansas is that of Trimhle & Trimble of Lonoke, the partners thereof being father and son, each bearing the name of Thomas C. Trimble. The father was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1847, his parents being Thomas and Fannie (Williams) Trimble, while the ancestral line is traced back to Virginia, where the family was founded in an early pioneer epoch. James Trimble, the grandfather of Thomas C. Trimble, Sr., was a native of Virginia, born near Lynchburg, and he, too, was a lawyer, who followed civil engineering in addition to the practice of law. On leaving Virginia he removed to Nashville, Tennessee, and

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became a distinguished jurist of that state, serving on both the circuit and supreme court henches. Thomas Trimble, his son, removed from Tennessee to Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he engaged in the practice of law. The family has had many dis- tinguished representatives of the bar. Thomas Trimble wedded Fannie Williams, a daughter of Judge Nathaniel Williams, who served as circuit judge of Carthage, Ten- nessee. The Williams family was of Welsh origin and the maternal great-grand- father of Thomas C. Trimble, Sr., and the grandfather of United States Senator James Williams of Tennessee, were brothers.

Although born at Holly Springs, Mississippi, Thomas C. Trimble, Sr., was largely educated in Gallatin, Tennessee, and when he had completed his general course he began reading law, after which he practiced in his native state. In 1874 he came to Arkansas, settling at Lonoke and soon afterward was elected prosecuting attorney for the sixth judicial district, which embraces Little Rock. Later he was elected circuit judge of the seventeenth judicial district and served upon the bench for four years. During the period of his law practice in Lonoke he has been associated in partnership relation with George Chapline, former circuit judge, Robert J. Lee, who was circuit judge at Little Rock for thirty years, Thomas B. Martin, chancellor, and Joe T. Robin- son, now United States senator, so that among his four former partners were three who served on the bench, while one became a member of the highest legislative assembly of the country. Mr. Robinson became congressman, governor and senator in one year. Following the admission of his son and namesake to the bar the present firm of Trimble & Trimble was organized, their immediate predecessors being the firm of Trimble, Robinson & Trimble.

It was in 1877 that Thomas C. Trimble, Sr., was united in marriage to Miss Sallie H. Chapline, a daughter of Jacob C. and Wilhelmina Chapline of South Carolina. They became parents of eight children: Wilhelmina, who is now Mrs. W. W. Mccrary; Thomas C., Jr .; George M., deceased; Mattie E., the wife of Lieutenant Wallace Smith; Fannie; Eleanor, the wife of W. T. Field; Bessie, the wife of Dr. Clem Goode; and Robert Lee, who has departed this life.

Thomas C. Trimble, Jr., born in 1880, in Lonoke, Arkansas, was educated in the University of Arkansas as a law student. For three years he served as court reporter and afterward joined the law firm of Trimble & Robinson. While his father was upon the bench he was associated in a law partnership with Ross Williams and later the present firm of Trimble & Trimble was formed. Their position is one of leadership at the Lonoke bar and the court records bear testimony to the many favorable verdicts which they have won. Thoroughness in the preparation of cases, care and precision in the presentation of a cause, characterize both father and son in their practice, which they have always been careful to conform to the highest ethical standards of the profession. Their clientage has long been extensive and of a representative character and their devotion thereto is proverbial.

Thomas C. Trimble, Jr., was married to Miss Elsie Walls, a daughter of Judge A. J. Walls, present United States marshal in this district. Both father and son are members of the Masonic fraternity, the former having taken the degrees of the lodge and council, while the latter is a Scottish Rite Mason and is also connected with the Kappa Sigma, a college fraternity. The father holds membership in the Episcopal church, the son in the Baptist church and both give their aid and influence to every cause and project which promises public benefit and improvement.

CHARLES COLBURN KAVANAUGH.

Charles Colburn Kavanaugh is the president of the Central Bank of Little Rock and identified with various other corporations and business interests of the city, all of which go to indicate the scope of his business ability and executive force. He was born September 28, 1874, in Germantown, Mason county, Kentucky, and is one of a family of three sons and three daughters whose parents were Herbert H. and Anna Maria (Kin- brough) Kavanaugh. The father was born in Clark county, Kentucky, in 1838 and was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. At the time of the Civil war he joined the Confederate forces as a captain under General John Morgan and General Braxton Bragg, serving until the close of hostilities. While on active duty in Alabama he was wounded. He was a democrat in his political views and exerted much influence over public thought and feeling. He died in Frankfort, Kentucky, in the year 1892, being long survived by his widow, who departed this life in November, 1919, at the age of seventy-eight years, her birth having occurred in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1841. Of their children all are yet living with the exception of one son.

Charles C. Kavanaugh spent his youthful days in his native state. The public

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schools of Frankfort, Kentucky, accorded him his early educational opportunities and later he attended the Kentucky Military Institute near Frankfort. When his school days were over he came direct to Little Rock in 1892 and went to work for the Arkansas Gazette. Through the intervening years he has become more and more closely associated with the important business interests of the city which are controlling its commercial, industrial and financial development. Something of the scope of his activities and interests is shown in the fact that he is the president of the Central Bank of Little Rock, also of the Little Rock Compress Company and the Inter-City Terminal Railway Company. He is further connected with railway operation as a director of the Little Rock Railway & Electric Company. He owns a large amount of stock in and is presi- dent of the Little Rock Daily News, is vice president and one of the directors of the Central Heat Manufacturing Company and a director in the Young Men's Building & Loan Association. Keen insight into situations, sagacity and sound judgment enable him to readily determine the value of a business situation and its opportunities, and industry and laudable ambition have made him a dynamic force in the business circles of the city.

Mr. Kavanaugh has always felt the deepest concern in matters that affect the body politic and has been an active factor in promoting many projects which have had to do with the public welfare. He has always voted with the democratic party and he served as sheriff and tax collector of Pulaski county from 1904 until 1907. In 1917 he was appointed district superintendent of the department of labor for the district comprising Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas, thus serving for a year while America was involved in the great World war. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church and fraternally he is identified with the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Eagles. A man of intense energy, it would be impossible for him to lead a quiet life. The opportunities of business are to him ever a call to action and, alert and euergetic, his response is immediate, while his sound judgment renders the results certain and gratifying.

JUDGE H. W. WELLS.

For many years Judge H. W. Wells was prominently identified with the bench and bar of Arkansas, being numbered among the foremost jurists of the state, but he is now living retired in Monticello, at the age of seventy-two years, devoting his attention to the supervision of his extensive farming interests. He is a member of one of the most prominent and highly respected pioneer families of southeastern Arkan- sas and was born in Drew county, six miles north of Monticello, December 27, 1849, of the union of David S. and Louise E. (Wallace) Wells, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Central Tennessee. The father arrived in Arkansas about 1845, when a young man, and the mother came to this state with her paternal uncle, with whom she had made her home, her father being a seafaring man. They were married in Union county, Arkansas, and located on a farm six miles north of Monticello, in Drew county, where they continued to live until 1867, when they took up their residence in the town, where they spent their remaining years. The father had acquired extensive farm holdings and he also bought and sold land, likewise having other interests. In 1856 he was elected sheriff of Drew county and filled that office until 1860. At various times he served as a member of the state legislature and was made chairman of its judiciary committee in 1875, the first session of the legis- lature after the reconstruction period. He was one of the foremost men of Drew county and also of the state. His demise occurred in 1876. His wife died in 1874.

After completing his public school course, which was acquired at Monticello, Judge Wells attended Andrew College of West Tennessee and later entered the Uni- versity of Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1873, with the LL. B. degree. In the same year he began the practice of law at Monticello in association with W. F. Slemons, a brigadier general of the Confederate army during the Civil war and United States congressman from this district from 1874 until 1880. W. T. Wells was also a member of the firm, which was known as Slemons, Wells & Wells and was continued until 1884, when H. W. Wells was elected county judge, in which capacity he served for one term. In 1892 he was chosen prosecuting attorney for this district and was returned to the office in 1894 and 1896. Three years later he was appointed a member of the board of state railroad commissioners, his associates being General Robert Neill of Batesville, and Judge J. G. Wallace of Russellville. Judge Wells served one term as a member of that commission and in 1902 was again elected prosecuting attorney, acting as such for four years, or until 1906, when he was once more chosen for judicial honors, becoming circuit judge of the tenth judicial district, in which office he was retained until 1914. In 1918 he was again elected county judge, serving

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for one term, and he has since lived practically retired in Monticello, handling a case occasionally for an old client. While upon the bench his decisions indicated strong mentality, careful analysis, a thorough knowledge of the law and an unbiased judg- ment. He was strictly fair and impartial in his rulings and his decisions were sus- tained by the higher courts upon appeal.

Judge Wells is also one of the leading agriculturists of Drew county, owning a plantation of a thousand acres, in addition to some smaller farms, all of which he rents. He has a farm a mile south of Monticello, which constitutes one of the histori- cal landmarks of this section of the state, the first courts in the county having been there held. Several men were killed at that point during the early days and the place became known as "Rough & Ready." The farm commands a fine view of the surrounding country, the hills upon which it is situated being the highest between Monticello and the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1877 Judge Wells married Miss Lula Gabbert of Monticello, and of their chil- dren but one is living, a son, Adolphus T., a member of the firm of Wells & Cruce, well known insurance agents of Monticello. The wife and mother died in 1889. In 1894 Judge Wells was again married, his second union being with Miss Minnie L. Ward of Bastrop, Louisiana. They are the parents of a son, Horatio W., who is a cotton buyer and resides at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Judge and Mrs. Wells are members of the Episcopal church and he is connected with the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Eureka Lodge, No. 40, F. & A. M., while both are identified with the Order of the Eastern Star. He has always been deeply interested in educational work and in 1873, after his return from the university, he was elected a member of the Monticello school board, on which he served continuously until 1917, or for a period of over forty years, during which time he did all in his power to raise the standards of instruction in his section of the state. His interests and activities have touched the various phases of life which are factors in public progress and advancement and his life has ever been an upright and honorable one-the expression of worthy purposes and high ideals.

CHARLES E. ZUG.

Charles E. Zug, who is engaged in carpentering and farming and makes his home at Ola, was born in Portage county, Ohio, May 3, 1869, and is a son of John and Catherine (Bair) Zug, who were natives of Pennsylvania but became residents of Ohio in an early day and in that state were married. The former was a son of Jacob Zug, who was born in Pennsylvania and about 1850 removed to the Buckeye state, where he settled on a farm, although by trade he was a shoemaker. He died at the notable old age of ninety-four years. His people were from Switzerland, although the family was founded in America at an early day. The mother of Charles E. Zug was a daughter of John Bair, who was born in Pennsylvania and was of Holland lineage. He, too, became a farmer of Ohio. Following their marriage John and Cath- erine Zug remained residents of Ohio until 1880, when they removed to Kansas, set- tling at Sabetha. There the father did carpenter work and also owned and culti- vated a farm. He was an expert workman with tools and the demands made upon him for the exercise of his skill in that connection were extensive. He is still living in Kansas and has become one of the men of affluence in that state, although he started out in life a poor boy. He has membership in the Church of the Brethren. To him and his wife were born four children; Charles E .; Mary, the wife of A. B. Van Dyke, a retired farmer and carpenter of Sabetha, Kansas; Jake, also a farmer of Sabetha. Kansas; and Cora, the wife of Isaac Davis, a farmer living on the old Zug homestead at Sabetha.

Charles E. Zug pursued his education in McPherson, Kansas, and started out to provide for his own support by working as a farm hand. He afterward took up car- pentering and has worked at the trade for thirty-three years. In 1912 he came to Ola, Arkansas, where he has erected a store building and garage and also has a mill in Ola. He is an expert carpenter and by reason of his most efficient work- manship has all that he can do. He is also the owner of a farm of two hundred and seventy acres about three-quarters of a mile from Ola and upon this place he makes his home.

On the 1st of January, 1893, Mr. Zug was married to Miss Amanda Reisen, who was born in Nebraska and went to Kansas with her parents when but five years of age. The children of this marriage are eleven in number: Lorena, the wife of A. A. Thomas. a farmer of Sabetha, Kansas; Samuel R., who follows farming and carpentering at that place; Paul and Elmer, at home; Elizabeth, attending school at Emporia.

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Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 121

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