Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 128

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. Campbell is a native of Wakeeney, Kansas, where his birth occurred August 16, 1880. His father, Donald Kennedy Campbell, was born in Nova Scotia in 1846, and in the attainment of his education he attended the Princeton Theological School, from which he was graduated in 1873. He at once entered the Presbyterian ministry in the United States and has since devoted his time and energy to his holy calling, being active in the work of the ministry. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party. In Nova Scotia in 1875 he wedded Margaret Jessie McGillivray, who was born in that

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country in 1850 and who departed this life in Pontiac, Illinois, in 1897. They were the parents of three sons and a daughter, all of whom are living.

Gordon H. Campbell, the third in order of birth, largely acquired his education in the public schools of Pontiac, Illinois, where his parents lived during a portion of his boyhood days. He also attended the Lake Forest College at Lake Forest, Illinois, for two years and spent a year as a student in the Chicago University. In 1899 he was captain of the football team at Lake Forest and he has never ceased to feel an interest in the game, being now official referee for football games in Arkansas. In fact he has always been a lover of clean sports and was state tennis champion of Arkansas in 1916 and also of southern Missouri and was tennis runner for Kansas in 1916. Liberal educational training qualified him for the important and responsible duties of life and step by step he has advanced to the enviahle position which he now occupies. . He dates his residence in Little Rock from 1907 and is today a prominent figure in insurance circles, representing the Aetna Insurance Company as general agent. Extending his activities into various other fields he has become a dominant factor in the control and direction of many important financial and commercial activities. He is now the president of the Charles F. Penzel Grocery Company, a wholesale house of Little Rock, which is one of the oldest in the state, having been in existence since 1860. He is likewise the secretary of the City Delivery Company and a director of the Bankers Trust Company, of the Arkansas Building & Loan Association, of the Carraway Farms Company and of the Retail Grocers Ice Company. Throughout his active career he has never hesitated to take a forward step when the way was open and though content with what he has attained as he has gone along, he has always been ready to make an advance. Fortunate in possessing ability and character that inspire confidence in others, the simple ways of his character and ability have carried him into most important relations.

On the 14th of October, 1908, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Alice Montague Robinson, who was born in Little Rock in 1886, a daughter of Oliver Pierce and Laura (Pemberton) Robinson, who for many years were residents of the capital city, where both died, the father's death occurring in February, 1918, while the mother died in January, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have become parents of five children: Oliver Pierce Robin- son, Margaret McGillivray, Laura Pemberton, Alice Louise and Elizabeth Kennedy. The daughter Alice died in 1917 at the age of eighteen months. Both parents are consistent members of the First Presbyterian church of Little Rock, in which Mr. Campbell is serving as a deacon and he is also on the finance committee and building committee of the church. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and deeply interested in the principles for which it stands he has done effective work for the party in Arkansas and has heen treasurer of the republican state central committee since 1914. He is a leading and popular figure in club circles, belongs to the Little Rock Insurance Club, the Rotary Club and the Little Rock Country Club, heing president of the last named. He is likewise well known in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the Consistory and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. The broader spirit of the new century finds expression in his attitude toward all essential things. He has passed many fellow travelers on his journey to the goal of success because of his intense industry, which in a great majority of cases, and not special ability, has made most of our successful men what they are. Moreover, he has realized that play is second in importance only to work and that a man's recreations make for great vim as surely as do his business habits. Therefore, he has wisely indulged in outdoor sports and from the outset of his career he has recognized the fact that success does not end with the making of money. It includes physical success, intellectual success and spiritual success and advancing along all these lines Mr. Campbell has come to be what he is today, one of the most prominent and honored men of the capital city.

HARLEY C. STUMP.

As secretary of the Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Association of Stuttgart, Harley C. Stump is taking active part in promoting what is today recognized as one of the important productive interests of the state. With the development of rice culture there has come a need for mutual protection in the matter of tilling and marketing the crop and Mr. Stump is now active among those who are solving the problem that brings success to the producer. Among the men who have come to this state from Ohio he is numbered, his hirth having occurred at Ridgeway, Hardin county. His parents were Henry O. and Louisa (Eldridge) Stump, the former a farmer hy occupation. In the acquirement of his education Harley C. Stump attended Adrian College at Adrian, Michigan, and there won the Bachelor of Science degree.

He dates his residence in Arkansas from 1913, at which time he turned his attention

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to rice growing near Stuttgart but with America's entrance into the World war he put aside all other duties and considerations and in 1917 enlisted for service in the army. He was first stationed at Camp Pike and later became sergeant major at Camp Taylor, being in the Officers' Training Camp when the armistice was signed.

Mr. Stump then returned to Stuttgart, where he engaged in the grocery business in partnership with W. E. Loveless. When the rice growers of this part of the state had difficulty in disposing of their product, Mr. Stump called a meeting of the producers, this meeting being held in the Garden Theatre on the 26th of January, 1921. It was attended by twelve hundred rice growers from all parts of the state and a committee was appointed to formulate plans to put a stop to "toll milling." They consulted as to the advisability of forming an organization to meet the market condition and the American Farm Bureau of Federation was consulted, whereupon Aaron Sapiro, field agent of the federation, was assigned to help organize a rice growers association and to draw up a contract that would be binding on its members. There had previously heen in existence what was known as the Old Southern Rice Growers Association but it had failed in its purposes because the contracts were too flexible. By the 1st of August, 1921, the Rice Growers Cooperative Association had been formed with fifty per cent of Arkansas' rice acreage represented. Permanent representatives were elected for each district and on the 19th of September, 1921, permanent officers of the association were elected and the society was incorporated. On the 5th of October, 1921, the war finance board of the government was petitioned for a loan of one million dollars and on the 6th of November this was granted. This enabled the association to advance to each farmer sixty per cent of the value of his rice crops on the receipt of the crop at the warehouses. On the 8th of November a contract was signed with the Stuttgart Milling Company, leasing three rice mills and on the 14th of November the association began to take in rice at the mills and warehouses. A week later the mills began operation and each farmer received a pro rata share of the sales as they were made, the associa- tion having full right to dispose of rice to the best advantage when and how it sees fit. The organization came to. be of untold benefit to the state and already its value is being proven in results that have thus far been achieved. As the secretary of the association Mr. Stump is doing excellent work and with his fellow officers is thoroughly systematiz- ing the business of filling and handling the rice crops and marketing it to the hest possible advantage, that the growers may receive adequate return upon their investment and their labor.

Mr. Stump was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Buerkle and Stuttgart numbers them among their valued residents, their position in the social circles of the city being enviable. Mr. Stump is a Mason of high rank, as is indicated in the fact that he belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is interested in various projects and plans for the city's upbuilding and development but the major part of his time and attention is concentrated upon the duties of his present position and under his guidance the Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Association is accomplishing many worth-while results.

NATHAN A. McDANIEL.

Nathan A. McDaniel, one of the foremost youug attorneys of Saline county, practic- ing at Benton, is a representative of au old and honored pioneer family of Arkansas. He was born at Brazil, in Saline county, on the 20th of August, 1887, a son of Robert T. and Rutha B. (Taylor) McDaniel, who are also natives of Brazil, Arkansas, where they still make their home, being well known and highly esteemed throughout the com- munity in which they have spent their lives. The father is successfully engaged in general agricultural pursuits.

In the acquirement of an education Nathan A. McDaniel attended the public schools of his native town and also the select school conducted in Benton by Colonel W. C. Parham, one of the noted educators of the south. In 1909 he took up the study of law and in that year was admitted to the Arkansas state bar. He at once entered upon the practice of his chosen profession at Benton, where he has occupied the same suite of offices to the present time and has been accorded a constantly growing clientage. In no profession is there a career more open to talent than in that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom and a determination fully to utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as the stern conservator of justice; and it is one into which none should enter without a recognition of the obstacles to be overcome and the battles to be won, for success

NATHAN A. MCDANIEL

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does not perch on the falchion of every person who enters the competitive fray, but comes only as the diametrical result of capacity and unmistakable ability. Possessing all the requisite qualities of the able lawyer, Mr. McDaniel has won recognition among the leading and successful representatives of the profession in Saline county. He served as city attorney of Benton for eight years and made a most creditable and commendable record in that connection.

On the 2d of November, 1907, Mr. McDaniel was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary McCray, a daughter of Captain J. F. McCray, now deceased, who won his military title as an officer of the Confederate army during the Civil war. Mr. McDaniel belongs to the Baptist church, while his wife is of the Methodist faith. Fraternally he is iden- tified with the Masons, belonging to Benton Lodge, No. 34, A. F. & A. M .; Benton Chapter, No. 116, R. A. M. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias and of Saline Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Through fraternal, pro- fessional and social relations he has become most widely and favorably known and Saline county is proud to number him among her native sons and representative attorneys.

J. M. BISHOP.

J. M. Bishop, filling the office of county clerk of Washington county, resides in Fayetteville, where he was born on the 23d of August, 1887, his parents being James W. and Georgia Ann (Parrott) Bishop, both of whom were natives of the state of Georgia. where they were reared and married. They removed first to Alabama and afterward to Mississippi, while subsequently they became residents of Arkansas and for a number of years the father followed the milling business. In the family were three children, of whom two are living, the daughter being Annie E., now the wife of T. S. Anderson of Dilworth, Oklahoma, where he is engaged in the drug business. The mother, who was a member of the Presbyterian church, died December 24, 1917.

J. M. Bishop obtained his education in the public schools and began earning his own living at an early age by driving a delivery wagon. He clerked in a dry goods store at a later period and subsequently went to the courthouse in the office of deputy circuit clerk, remaining in that position for four years, or from 1905 until 1909. He was after- ward connected with the Pollard-Pettigrew Abstract Company and still later filled the position of city clerk part of the time while connected with the Pollard-Pettigrew Com- pany. Again he was called to public office by appointment to the position of deputy county clerk in October, 1912, and in November, 1920, he was elected to the office of county clerk, which position he is now filling in a most capable manner, his course reflecting credit upon himself and proving highly satisfactory to his constituents.

In 1908 Mr. Bishop was united in marriage to Miss Willie D. Sullivan, who was born in Arkansas, a daughter of John L. Sullivan. The father was a farmer and pioneer of Washington county. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have become parents of three children: Lillian, a pupil in the seventh grade; Maurine, who is now in the fourth grade at school; and John Loy, who is four years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. Bishop attend the Presbyterian church, to which Mrs. Bishop belongs, and he has membership with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. In politics he is a democrat and he devotes his entire time and attention to the duties of his office. From early boyhood his has been a life of diligence and earnest labor and the course that he has always followed has made him highly respected. He well merits the confidence reposed in him in election to office, for over the record of his public career there falls no shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil.

F. W. PEARSON.

F. W. Pearson, secretary and treasurer of the Bradford Farm Loan Association, is proving an important factor in the development of White county and this section of the state through the conduct of the business with which he is now so closely and actively identified. A spirit of progress and enterprise has actuated him at all points in his career and, moreover, his keen sagacity has enabled him to recognize what might be accomplished for the benefit of his own fortunes and for the upbuilding of this section of the state through the promotion of the farm loan business.

Mr. Pearson was born in Pontotoc county, Mississippi, September 30, 1855, and is one of a family of nine children who were born to Emry S. and Ellen ( Morris) Pearson. The former was a son of Edmond Pearson, a native of Alabama and a minister of the Methodist church, who became a member of the old Humboldt Methodist conference.

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Edmond Pearson reared a family of six sons, five of whom became ministers and one was a physician, while all held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. The grandfather held various pastorates and also served as presiding elder and in the course of his activities for the church found it possible in the early days to return home only twice a year. He thns labored in Alabama and Tennessee and died in the former state, honored and revered as one of the pioneer Methodist ministers in the south. His wife, who hore the maiden name of Sinda Hardester, died in 1866. The maternal grand- father of F. W. Pearson was John Morris, who was born in Alabama and removed to Mississippi, where he purchased land, and though in limited financial circumstances at the time of the removal he hecame a well-to-do planter and owned a number of slaves at the time of the war. The ravages of war, however, destroyed his fortunes, leaving him with nothing but his land. He married Sintha Kent, a native of Alabama, and died at the age of eighty years.

Emry S. Pearson, father of F. W. Pearson, was born in Tennessee and became a farmer as well as a Methodist Episcopal minister. He removed to Mississippi, where he married and became owner of land in that state, also acting as local minister at Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1862 he enlisted for service in the Confederate army under General Forrest and was in the commissary department most of the time, serving until hostilities were over. He then returned to Mississippi and it was atter this that he entered the ministry, devoting his time to the work of the church and to the improve- ment of his farm. In 1869 he removed to Fulton county, now Izard connty, Arkansas, journeying across the country with a team of horses and wagon. Many of the settlers of that period, however, drove ox teams. He crossed the Mississippi at Memphis on a steam ferry and he had to wait from morning until late in the evening to take his turn in making the passage. He was nineteen days upon the road after leaving his old home and traveled seventeen days of that time. Eventually he purchased land in Fulton county and cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers. He hewed out a farm in the midst of the forest and at that early period had but three neighbors, the closest being two miles from his home. It was necessary to go eight miles to church service but his religion was manifest in his daily living as well as in attendance at a house of worship. He raised the first cotton produced in his section of the state and hauled the crop twenty miles to a gin. His market place was at Jacksonport, sixty miles from his home, and it required from five to eight days to make the trip. He would take with him a load of furs, deer hides, buffalo hides and wood. The nearest mill was fifteen miles distant from his home and he drove his cattle to market at Springfield, Missouri, and at Memphis, Tennessee. To secure his mail he had to go to Salem, fourteen miles away, and if it was necessary to make a journey to Little Rock he proceeded to Batesville and thence by stage to the capital city. With every phase of pioneer life and its varied experiences he hecame familiar, and his efforts and activities were an element in reclaiming the wild regions for the purposes of civilization. His wife, who was a native of Alabama, died in 1900. In their family were nine children, of whom six are yet living: Adolphus S., born September 1, 1851, died at Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, at the age of thirty-three years; William, born September 6, 1853, died at Batesville at the age of twenty-two; F. W. is the next of the family; Betty, born in March, 1858, is the wife of John C. Smith, of Kansas; Alice, horn in 1861, was the wife of Joseph Harkleroads, representative of a prominent family of Fulton county; Mollie is the wife of Jasper Rader, a farmer of Fulton county; Emma is the wife of William Martin, a merchant of Oxford, Arkansas; Joda is the wife of Joseph Spence, a railroad man of Washington; Thomas W., born in 1871, is a lumberman of Springfield, Missouri. After the death of his first wife Emry S. Pearson was married again, his second union being with Sarah J. McCollough, who was born in Ohio and is now a widow. Throughout his life Mr. Pearson was a con- sistent Christian. In his later years he joined the Presbyterian ministry and died in that faith in what was then Fulton county. He had engaged in merchandising at Oxford, where he also served as postmaster, and it was he who gave the name of Oxford to that place. His political support was given the democratic party and for several years he acceptably filled the office of justice of the peace. He was also an exemplary Mason, and he died in 1905 at the age of seventy-five years, respected and honored by all who knew him.

F. W. Pearson had no opportunity to attend school, owing to conditions hronght ahout by the war. For a very few days he attended summer school in Izard county, Arkansas, and when a youth of eighteen was for about six weeks a student in the schools at Newburg, this state. However, by private reading and study he constantly promoted his knowledge, and in the school of experience he also learned many valuable lessons. When twenty-one years of age he began teaching and for three terms he was principal of the schools at Oxford. He taught altogether for fifteen years, proving a thorough and capable educator, and he also engaged in farming at the same time. Removing to Missouri he there devoted a year to clerking in the employ of Smith & Mc-

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Clelland at Thayer and later he engaged in the grocery business on his own account at Thayer, Missouri, for two years. At the end of that time he traded his store for a farm at Alton, Missouri, and later disposed of his property in that state and returned to Arkansas, settling in Jackson county, where he taught school and engaged in farming for seven years. He next removed to Pleasant Plains, Independence county, and to him is due the credit of establishing the high school there. While he continued his work as a teacher, he also gave attention to his farming interests and both were capably and wisely directed. He also traveled for three years for an insurance company and in 1909 took up his ahode in Bradford, where he conducted a hotel for three years. He then turned his attention to the real estate, loan and insurance business, handling Arkansas land, and through the intervening period he has negotiated many important realty transfers. There is perhaps no one better informed concerning the value of Arkansas land than Mr. Pearson, who is the capable, efficient and popular secretary and treasurer of the Bradford Farm Loan Association. He has heen largely responsible for the suc- cess of the company, which does an extensive and profitable business. They also repre- sent several fire insurance companies, and this department of their business is like- wise a source of gratifying revenue. In addition Mr. Pearson owns two hundred acres of bottom land and now specializes in the cultivation ot strawberries. Official duties have also claimed a part of his time and attention and for ten years he served as justice of the peace, in which connection he rendered decisions which were fair and impartial.

In 1877 Mr. Pearson was married to Miss Martha E. Stroud, daughter of O. H. P. Stroud, a prominent farmer of Izard county. She died February 26, 1914, and of the ten children of that marriage six are yet living: Shelby M., who is with the Allen Hardware Company, of Little Rock; William H., who was graduated in 1908 from the Memphis Hospital Medical College and practiced in Lee county, Arkansas, until his death; Bertha O., the wife of J. W. Churchwill, a farmer of Independence county; Mattie E., who died in Bradford in 1910; Robert W., who is engaged in the timber business in Bradford; Thad O., a salesman with the Kellogg Company; Minerva, a resident of Little Rock; Cleveland, a farmer of Bradford; Malissa, who died at the age of six years; and Emry P., who died at the age of three years. Having lost his first wife Mr. Pearson was married to Mrs. Fannie Sims, the widow of J. H. Sims, of Jackson county, Arkansas.

Mr. Pearson and his first wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and his second wife is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Pearson has been steward in his church for forty years, has been delegate to the district conferences for sixteen consecutive years and to the annual conference on four different occasions. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has filled all of the chairs in the local lodge. He also has membership in the Knights of Pythias lodge and has been vice chancellor and chancellor. Politically he has been a democrat and for several years served on the county board of equalization. In every relation of life he has measured up to high standards. He has loyally endorsed those principals which he believes to be factors in good government and in public progress. In business he has been diligent, determined and thoroughly reliable, and all who know him bear testimony to his high character and sterling worth.

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Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 128

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