Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 161

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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Dr. Garrison pursued his early education in the public schools of Abilene, Texas, to which city his parents removed in 1881. He also spent two years as a student in Simmons College of that city and for two years attended the Southwestern Univer- sity, a Methodist Episcopal College at Georgetown, Texas. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a lite work he then spent two years as a student in the medical department of the University of Texas at Galveston, after which he went to Memphis, Tennessee, and there entered the Hospital Medical College, in which he devoted two years to study and two years to active practice in the hospital. He was graduated from the College of Memphis in 1905 and has since devoted his attention to professional activity. He made steady progress in his practice, at all times keeping in touch with the trend of modern professional thought, research and investigation. He is constantly reading and studying, thus keeping abreast with the hest thinking men of the age. He has made his home in Little Rock since 1911 and has occupied the position of state health officer of Arkansas since 1914, being secre- tary of the state board of health. He is identified with many societies having for their object the dissemination of knowledge that will check the ravages of disease

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and promote the laws of health. He belongs to the Pulaski County Medical Society, the Arkansas State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Sonthern Medical Association, the State and Territorial Health Organization, the American Child Hygiene Association, of which he is a director, the Arkansas Tuberculosis Association, of which he is also a director, and the National Malarial Committee.

On the 6th of June, 1906, in Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. Garrison was joined in wedlock to Miss Vinnie A. Middleton, who was horn in Mississippi, in 1875. They are highly esteemed in Little Rock, where they have an extensive circle of warm friends. Dr. Garrison is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and Mrs. Garrison is a member of the Christian church. In politics they are democrats. He was appointed to the United States Public Health Service, in which connection he received a commission. He hecame acting assistant surgeon of the service and so continued until the armistice was signed. On the 25th of February, 1915, he was appointed by President Wilson surgeon in the United States Public Health Service Reserve for a period of five years. His activities are immeasurable in their influ- ence and effect, but none questions the value of his work and he is doing much to keep Arkansas on a par with any state in the Union in the matter of attention to sanitation and public health.

WILLIAM NATHAN GLADSON.

William Nathan Gladson, vice president and dean of the College of Engineer- ing of the University of Arkansas, was horn in Corning, Iowa, February 22, 1866. He is a son of James Marion and Elmira (Newcomh) Gladson, the former a native of North Carolina, the latter a native of Maine. The father was a surveyor and farmer and is still living at the age of eighty-seven, while the mother, who was a school teacher, died in 1911. To them eight children were born, seven of whom are living: Frank M., a farmer near Denton, Montana; Viola, the wife of S. P. Norcott of Denton, Montana; Etta, the wife of J. C. Gillet of Corning, Iowa; Walter L., of California; William Nathan of Fayetteville, Arkansas; Charles N., a farmer at Denton, Montana; and Arthur J., an electrical engineer at Yakima, Washington.

In the acquirement of his education Professor Gladson attended the high school at Corning, Iowa, from which he gradnated in 1883. He then entered the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa, graduating with the degree of B. M. E. in 1888, and in 1911 the degree of Electrical Engineer was conferred upon him. He also has the degree of Ph. D. from Mclemoreville Collegiate Institute at Mclemoreville, Tennessee. This is an honorary degree, conferred upon him in recognition of suc- cessful research work on the X-ray.

He was first employed by the Thompson-Housten Electric Company of Chicago in 1888 as erecting engineer. He continned with that company until 1891, when he went to the Westinghouse Company as engineer and draftsman. He spent two years laying out the electric lighting system for the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition. In 1892 he went to the Ohio State University as assistant professor of electrical engineering. The following year he was elected as adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas, and was made professor of electrical engineering in 1896. In 1913 he was elected dean of the Engineering College and vice president of the university, which positions he holds at the present time. He has made for himself a most enviable place in educational circles along the line of his chosen profession, and is regarded as an authority npon engineering problems.

In 1890 Professor Gladson married Miss Elizabeth Wade of Mount Vernon, Iowa, who was a daughter of John Irvin and Fannie ( Safeley) Wade. Her father, a retired farmer, is still living at the age of eighty-nine, while her mother died in 1920. Elizabeth (Wade) Gladson, who was a graduate of Iowa State College, a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity, and a woman well known in educational circles, died in 1915.

Professor and Mrs. Gladson were the parents of two children: Hazel Wade and Marion Lenore. Hazel married, in 1917, Charles E. Baker, an attorney at law in Denton, Montana. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, while Mr. Baker is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Marion married, in 1917, Emmet Marshall Ratliff. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ratliff are graduates of the University of Arkansas. Mr. Ratliff served in the World war. He entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, was commissioned a first lieutenant and assigned to duty with the Fourth Division, Fifty-ninth Infantry, at Camp Greene, from which place he entrained for France in April, 1918. He participated in the Chateau

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Thierry, Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. He was advanced to the grade of captain of Company L, Fifty-ninth Infantry. He was wounded in the Meuse- Argonne offensive and was in a base hospital in Tours, France, for three weeks before rejoining his organization at the front. He was advanced to the grade of major, which commission he now holds in the Reserves. Major Ratliff was decorated by the French government for services during the Chateau-Thierry offensive, receiv- ing a Croix de Guerre with Corps citation.

Professor Gladson is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, an honorary engineering fraternity, and the Knights of Pythias lodge. He is a charter member of the Amer- ican Electro-Chemical Society, a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- tion. He served as an associate member of the Naval Consulting Board, making the survey of the resources of the state prior to the World war, and in 1909 and 1910 had charge of the water power survey of the state, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey.

While he is widely known in the educational field, he is also equally well known through his practical services in the line of his profession. He practices consulting engineering in summer vacations, his labors covering the fields of electrical, hydraulic and mechanical engineering. He did the first work on the X-ray in Arkansas, and exhibited at the university the first X-ray to be operated in the state. He also built and operated at Fayetteville the first wireless station in the state. He devotes ten months of the year to his university duties and in this connection he has done con- siderable lecturing throughout the country, being at times heard on the Chantauqua and other platforms. He finds his recreation in hunting, fishing and golf, but knows the keen pleasure which comes from the stimulus found in study, research and investigation, being recognized as one of the eminent representatives of the engineering profession in the southwest.

ELMER OLONZO MANEES.

One of the most remarkably successful careers, as portrayed in the business life of Arkansas, is found in the story of Elmer Olonzo Manees of North Little Rock. The record contains much that is stimulating and should serve to inspire and encour- age others. Mr. Manees was born in Monticello, Arkansas, December 22, 1871, and was educated in the graded and high schools of that city. His father, James W. Manees, was a native of Nashville, Tennessee, was in politics a whig and was a gal- lant soldier of the Mexican and the Civil wars. His people were Tennessee pioneers. James W. Manees died on his plantation near Monticello, Arkansas, in 1898, having for fifteen years survived his wife, who departed this life in 1883. She bore the maiden name of Julia Shore and was also a native of Tennessee.

Elmer O. Manees supplemented his early educational training by pursuing a busi- ness course in the Smith Commercial College of the University of Kentucky. He then turned his attention to mercantile lines in his home town and in 1895 removed to Little Rock, where he has since resided. He had first established himself in business at Hamburg in 1894, with a capital of but one hundred and seventy-five dollars, and he so conducted his business affairs that he was able to dispose of his store a year later at a handsome profit. Upon removing to North Little Rock he opened a small store, which he later sold, and then purchased a lot on Main street on which he erected a building. Within five years' time he had developed a lucra- tive business there and again he sold both stock and property and built on his present location, erecting a handsome business structure on Main street. The lower floor is entirely occupied by the E. O. Manees department store, while the upper stories are used as residence apartments and are thoroughly modern in every particular. The trade of the house is now large and substantial and returns to the owner a gratifying annual income. Mr. Manees has also become interested in many other important activities. He is the president of the Bowser Furniture Company of Little Rock, which has the largest and finest furniture establishment in the state. He is also the president of the Argenta Building & Loan Association, a director of the American Bank of Commerce and Trust Company and is financially or officially interested in a number of smaller industries. His sound judgment enables him to readily recognize the value of any business situation or opportunity and his laudable ambition prompts him to use every legitimate advantage that opens up in the natural ramifications of trade.

On the 11th of March, 1896, Mr. Manees was united in marriage to Miss Alma Edwards, a daughter of Frank and Rhoda Edwards of Monticello, Arkansas. Their

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children are: Elva, now the wife of A. V. Tolbert of Little Rock; Louise. the wife of A. S. Williams of North Little Rock; Mildred, a freshman in Galloway College; Edward, a. student in the Marion Military Institute at Marion, Alabama; Martha: Julia: Jamie; and Margaret.

Fraternally Mr. Manees is a Mason who has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and become a Mystic Shriner. He is also identified with the Knights of Pythias and has filled all of the chairs in the order. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and has served in all of the offices of the local lodge save that of exalted ruler. His interest in the public welfare is widely recog- nized. He was formerly alderman of the eighth ward of Little Rock, for twelve years was a member of the school board and also a member of the board of control of North Little Rock. At one time he served on the state welfare board. and every plan or project for the public good and every organized effort to advance the general welfare received his endorsement and support.

LOUIS LYNN MARSHALL, M. D.

Dr. Louis Lynn Marshall of Little Rock, who ranks as one of the foremost surgeons of Arkansas, was born near Fayette, Missouri, January 12, 1883. He is the son of William N. and Jessie ( Eades) Marshall. His father was one of the best known stockmen and farmers of Missouri and was a representative of one of the old pioneer families of Tennessee whose ancestral line runs back to Virginia colonial days. His mother was a daughter of Colonel Preston Eades, a distinguished officer of the Confederacy, who was killed at Vicksburg when in command of his regiment that formed a part of General Price's division. The Eades family were all southern planters and belonged to a long line of pioneers in several states. William N. Marshall departed this life in 1900, while his widow is living at the old homestead in Fayette, Missouri.

Their son, Dr. Marshall, acquired his early education in the public schools of Fayette and after completing his high school course attended Pritchett College at Glasgow, Missouri, while later he obtained his professional training in the Eclectic Medical University at Kansas City, where he was graduated with the class of 1905. Since entering upon the practice of his profession in Little Rock, he has risen rapidly, especially in surgery, in which branch he specializes. Notwithstanding the fact that he has the entire second floor of the Remmel building on Main street, the growth of his practice has necessitated the establishment of a private hospital for the treatment of his many patients, who come to him for major surgical operations from all sections of this and adjoining states. His institution is known as the Research Hospital and is located at Fourteenth and Izard streets. It was one of the old southern mansions and is fitted up with modern hospital equipment, having everything necessary along this line. In fact it is up-to-date in every particular, and attached to the hospital is a staff of twenty-two graduate nurses, while the medical staff is equally adequate. Dr. Marshall does all of the surgical work himself. The hospital has thirty beds and several private rooms. In his down-town offices Dr. Marshall is also assisted by a staff of several physicians, Dr. Wayman being in charge of the general practice, assisted by Dr. Cherry, while Dr. Willis has charge of the X-ray department and is an accomplished technician, being a Bachelor of Science. Dr. Marshall is a very earnest student of his profession and has made many important discoveries along this line. He has only recently made startling advances in surgical bone grafting.

In 1913 Dr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss Martha B. Stix, a daughter of John Stix of Little Rock, a member of one of the pioneer families of the state. Dr .. Marshall is a Knights Templar Mason and a member of Ararat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His standards of professional service are very high and his contribu- tion to the world's work along this line has been most notable and valuable.

H. MOULTON, M. D.

Dr. H. Moulton, a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, located in Fort Smith, although his practice comes to him from a very wide territory, was born in Morgan county, Illinois, in 1860, a son of S. F. and Jennie ( Wadhams) Moulton. The father was a prosperous farmer of Illinois and there reared his family of five children.

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Dr. Moulton attended the public schools of Illinois and afterward became a student in the Illinois College at Jacksonville, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1879. His choice of a profession fell upon the practice of medicine and he matriculated in the Chicago Medical College, in which he completed his course in 1884, winning the M. D. degree. He then located at Stuart, lowa, where he opened an office, remaining in general practice there for a period of four years. He later spent one year in preparing for his specialty by study in New York, receiving instruction from some of the eminent specialists on the eye, ear, nose and throat in the eastern metropolis. For a short while he was engaged in practice with Dr. Tiffany of Kansas City, Missouri, and in 1890 came to Fort Smith, where he has since been located. During the year 1903 he spent some time in clinic work and study in Europe. He has been very successful in his chosen field and is regarded as one of the leading oculists, aurists and laryngologists of the southwest. He is a member of the Sebastian County Medical Association and that he enjoys the high regard and unqualified confidence of his contemporaries in the medical profession in this county is indicated in the fact that he has twice been elected to the presidency of the society. He also belongs to the Arkansas State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Medical Association of the Southwest, the Southern Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthal- mology, and oto-Larynology, the American College of Surgeons and the Kansas City Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College. He has likewise been a member of the board of health of Fort Smith for thirteen years and is serving on the staff of the Sparks Memorial Hospital in addition to caring for an extensive private practice.

Dr. Moulton married Miss Lynn Crockett, a native of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, but a resident of lowa at the time of her marriage. She is a daughter of Jacob G. Crockett and by her marriage she has become the mother of a son and a daughter: Dr. E. C. Moulton, who is associated with his father in practice and is mentioned elsewhere in this work; and Elizabeth M.

During the World war, Dr. Moulton did voluntary service on the local advisory board, his duties claiming his attention several nights each week in the examination of boys for the army. He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also of the Business Men's Club and the Country Club. He is appreciative of the social amenities of life and is a gentleman of genial and cordial disposition, but he never allows anything to interfere with the faithful and efficient performance of his professional duties, recognizing fully the obligations that devolve upon him in this connection.

JUDGE JAMES THOMAS JOHNSTON.

Judge James Thomas Johnston, judge of Columbia .county and a prominent citizen of Magnolia, was born on the 8th of June, 1868, in Pike county, Alabama, a son of Cornelius and Sarah ( Sessions) Johnston, both deceased. Cornelius John- ston was born in Alabama and came from that state to sonthern Arkansas in 1872. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in the army, serving as a private in the infantry. After the war he returned to his farm in Arkansas and remained active along agricultural lines until a few years prior to his demise. His death occurred at Magnolia in 1899, when sixty-five years of age. His wife, Sarah Ses- sions, to whom he was married near Troy, Alabama, was born in that state. Her death occurred in Magnolia, at the age of seventy-two years, in 1917. Her brothers, Monroe and Francis Sessions, fought in the Civil war. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston two boys and four girls were born, James Thomas, whose name initiates this review, being the second in order of birth. All are living, with the exception of a sister.

James Thomas Johnston received his education in the common schools of Magnolia and after putting his textbooks aside, continued his education by reading the best literature obtainable and keeping well informed on all the important questions and issues of the day. He began to farm on his own account at an early age and he has always been actively interested along that line. He now owns a valuable piece of farm land near Magnolia. In 1896 Judge Johnston was called to his first public office, being elected justice of the peace, and he was reelected to that office in 1902. At the expiration of the second term, in 1906, he was elected county judge and he was active in that capacity for four years. In 1918 he again became county judge and is now serving in that office. Although official duties occupy the greater part of Judge Johnston's time, he has varions business interests, being a stockholder in the Magnolia Cotton Seed Oil Company and in the city light plant.

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On the 28th of December, 1889, at Magnolia was celebrated the marriage of Judge Johnston to Miss Julia Burdine, a native of Louisiana, and a daughter of Rev. G. Burdine of Magnolia. To their union five children have been born: Flonnie, who was the wife of Jack Heath of Magnolia, and died at the age of twenty years; Archie, who is now engaged in farming near Magnolia and who was a member of the American Expeditionary Forces for two years as an engineer; Hugh, who was in service in the World war one year, heing stationed at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he was a private in the quartermaster department. He mar- ried Ruth Moreland of Waldo, this state, and they are residing in Magnolia, where he is engaged in road construction work. The other members of the family are Gredy, who is eighteen years of age and is living with her parents; and Doris, eight years of age.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist Protestant church and for many years Judge Johnston has been a steward. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Odd Fellows, taking an active and prom- inent part in the affairs of those organizations. In holding the office of county judge of Columbia county Judge Johnston has met the responsibilities of that office in a very satisfactory manner and has won the esteem of the community by reason of his faithful discharge of all matters of trust and his high standards of citizenship.

HON. JAMES ROBERT ALEXANDER.

The name Alexander is derived from two Greek words-alexo-to help; and aner- man ;- meaning, therefore, helper of men. Hon. James Robert Alexander of Scott Station, Pulaski county, wears this name worthily, for throughout his life he has spent the greater part of his time in serving others and his life has indeed been one of great worth and benefit to his fellowmen. A native of North Carolina, he was born in Asheville, Buncombe county, in September, 1860. The history of North Caro- lina from the earliest days is filled with stories of the deeds of men and women of the Alexander family. The great-grandfather of J. R. Alexander was James Alexander, a captain in the War of the Revolution, who at the battle of Kings Mountain captured the personal camp chest of Lord Cornwallis, which is now in possession of a member of the family. He was not the only representative of the family, for many other of the blood relations were active in connection with the cause that eventually made this a free country. On the 20th of May, 1775, a convention composed of patriots and pioneers assembled at Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, and there penned the historic Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Of this assembly, con- sisting of twenty-six men, six were direct forbears of J. R. Alexander and one of the six, Abraham Alexander, was chairman of the meeting, while John McKnitt Alexander was secretary. The first regiments raised in the state for service in behalf of independence were officered by the ancestors of Hon. J. R. Alexander, Colonel James Moore being the commander of the First Regiment, while Major John Patton was third in command of the Second Regiment and a host of Brevards, Wilsons, Alexanders, Polks and Davidsons were in the ranks. A large volume could be filled with the deeds of these founders of America in war and peace, who traced their ancestry back through fifteen hundred years to Cedric, the Saxon prince, and even hack to Woden. Brave soldiers, sturdy pioneers, and efficient, as well as high civil officers in times of peace, the Scotch Alexanders have always been patriotic to a degree and have ever given to the country in which they have lived a dauntless fidelity. In America from colonial times the members of the family have been leaders in affairs of public importance. One of the name, Nathaniel Alexander, served as governor of North Carolina, while another descendant of the family, James K. Polk, was president of the United States. Many others have heen prominent in the state senate and house of representatives in various commonwealths. It would be difficult to unearth the history of any family that has displayed more loyal service or done more effective work on the side of progress in America than that from which James Robert Alexander of Little Rock is descended. Proud, however, as he may be and has every right to be of the deeds of his forbears, he nevertheless holds to the truth as expressed by Tennyson:

"How'er it be, it seems to me "Tis only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets And simple faith than Norman blood."

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Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 161

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