Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 27

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. Winters was united in marriage to Miss Loma Harriss of Texarkana, Arkansas, and they are widely and favorably known in Fort Smith, where they have many friends. Mr. Winters belongs to the American Society of Engineers, also to the Amer- ican Association of Engineers and he keeps abreast with the best thinking men of the age in relation to all engineering problems, constantly studying to develop his skill and efficiency, while already he has reached a notable place in professional circles.

OSSIAN H. KING, M. D.

Dr. Ossian H. King, specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, has been numbered among the medical practitioners of Hot Springs since December, 1915, with the exception of one year spent in the service of his country during the World war. He was born in Louisiana on the 27th of October, 1886, and was seven years of age when his parents established the family home in Little Rock, Arkansas. His early education obtained in the public schools, was supplemented by a course of study in the old Arkansas Military Academy and on attaining his majority he entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons, from which institution he was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1911. He then attended Knapp's Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Sanitarium of Vincennes, Indiana, and later pursued postgraduate work on the eye and ear in hoth New York and Chicago. In December, 1915, he located for practice at Hot Springs, where he has remained through the intervening period to the present, with the exception of one year's service as a medical officer during the World war. He joined the Medical Corps in March, 1918, and was attached to the air service at Kelly Field and at Ellington Field, heing commissioned first lieutenant. He was discharged in April, 1919, and has a captain's commission in the Medical Officers" Reserve Corps. On returning to civil life he resumed his professional duties in Hot Springs, where he has built up an enviable practice of lucrative proportions that is a merited tribute to his skill and ability in his chosen line. His professional member- shio connections are with the Garland County Medical Society, the Arkansas State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology.

In 1914 Dr. King was united in marriage to Miss Margaret McDonald and they are a well known and popular young couple of Hot Springs. The Doctor is a Knights Templer Mason and also belongs to the Mystic Shrine, exemplifying in his daily life the beneficent spirit of the craft. In the field of his specialty he has demonstrated a degree of skill and efficiency that has established him among the representative and able members of the profession in his adopted state.

G. A. HUGHES, M. D.

Dr. G. A. Hughes is a native son of Arkansas and one of the old established physi- cians of Benton county, having for twenty-six years followed his profession in this locality. Since 1918 he has been a resident of Silom Springs and his thorough knowl- edge of his profession and broad experience have secured for him a large practice. He was born in Scott county, Arkansas, February 9, 1870, a son of John H. and Louise (Pullen) Hughes, the former a native of eastern Tennessee, while the latter was born

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in Georgia, in which state their marriage occurred. After the Civil war they came to Arkansas and in 1881 settled in Benton county, where the father purchased land, which he continued to cultivate throughout his remaining years. When a youth of eighteen years he enlisted in the Confederate army and remained in the service for a period of four years. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political allegiance was given to the democratic party. He died in Benton county on the 22d of February, 1910. Mrs. Hughes survives and is residing with a sister in Siloam Springs. They became the parents of eight children, of whom five are living, the subject of this review being the second in order of birth. The paternal grandfather, Rice Hughes, was a native of Tennessee and subsequently removed to Scott county, Arkansas, where he became the owner of a large plantation, on which he died in 1881. The maternal grand- father, the Rev. William Pullen, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and died in Georgia when nearly one hundred years old.

In the pursuit of an education Dr. Hughes attended the schools of Scott and Benton counties, Arkansas, after which he spent three years as a student in the State University of Arkansas, completing his course in 1889. He later entered the medical department of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, from which he was graduated with the class of 1894, Coming to Arkansas, he opened an office at Canehill, where he remained for four months and then removed to Gravette, where he successfully continued in practice for twenty-three years. In 1918 he became a resident of Siloam Springs and his labors have been attended with a gratifying measure of success, the list of his patients being already an extensive one. He engages in general practice but devotes considerable attention to surgical work and through constant reading and careful study of the cases that come under his care he is continually broadening his knowledge and ability. His professional connections are with the Benton County Medical Society, of which he has been president, the Arkansas State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also the owner of a farm in Oklahoma which has proven a profitable investment.

In November, 1895, Dr. Hughes was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Lewis, a native of Canehill, Arkansas, and a daughter of William Lewis, formerly a prominent merchant of that locality, but now living retired at Siloam Springs. To this union have been born five children: Otto, the eldest, died at the age of fourteen years; Lillian, a stenographer in the employ of the Benton County Hardware Company of Siloam Springs; Lewis, who is a student in the State University of Arkansas; and Lina and Louise, hoth of whom are attending school.

Dr. and Mrs. Hughes are members of the Christian church and fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, in which he has passed through all of the chairs, and in Masonry he has attained the Royal Arch degree. He is a stanch democrat in his political views and has been called upon to fill a number of public positions of honor and trust, serving as mayor and health officer of Gravette. He is the present health officer of Siloam Springs and is ably dis- charging his duties in this connection. He has led an active and useful life, employing every opportunity to advance, and his present success is entirely attributable to his own labors, his close application and his laudable ambition. He is most conscientious in the discharge of his professional duties and his ability is not only attested by his fellow practitioners hut by the general public as well.

BONNIE DAVIS.

One of the alert and enterprising citizens of Magnolia is Bonnie Davis, who was born in Havnesville. Louisiana, on the 11th of November, 1876, a son of Alexander and Cassie T. (Green) Davis. On the paternal side the family is of Scotch-English descent and members of the family emigrated to this country at an early day, first locating in North Carolina. Alexander Davis came to this state from Mississippi in 1856 and was one of the early settlers in southern Arkansas. He engaged in farming near Emerson. His death occurred on the home place in 1913, at the age of sixty-five years. In 1874 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Cassie T. Green, a native of Louisiana, the ceremony heing performed at Haynesville, that state. To their union six children were born, three boys and three girls, Bonnie D. being the second in order of birth. All of the children are living with the exception of two sons. Mrs. Davis died on the home farm in 1911, at the age of fifty-nine years. The three daughters are Lula May, who married Luther McDonald of Shongaloo, Louisiana; Lillie, the wife of E. W. Warner of Emerson: and Amelia, who is now Mrs. B. T. Gallaher and resides in Trout, Louisiana.

In the acquirement of an education Bonnie Davis attended the country schools of

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Columbia county and later entered Ouachita Baptist College at Arkadelphia, where he took a literary course, withdrawing at the end of two and one-half years. In 1899 he began teaching and was thus engaged in the public schools of Louisiana and in Columbia county, this state, for a period of fifteen years. He is now secretary and treasurer of the Columbia County Farm Bureau and conducts an abstract business. He owus con- siderable valuable real estate in Columbia county. Mr. Davis has not only become prominently known in educational and business circles but has served his fellowmen in the state legislature, having been elected to that body for the first time in 1909 and again in 1911, 1913 and 1917.

Fraternally Mr. Davis is identified with the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, having membership in Emerson Lodge, and he is likewise affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, belonging to Lodge, No. 336, of Bristol, this state. He is one of the foremost citizens of Magnolia, is a man who takes an enthusiastic interest in every progressive public movement, and champions every cause that he feels will advance the welfare of the municipality either morally, intellectually, socially or financially.

GEORGE A. HENRY, M. D.

Dr. George A. Henry, who has successfully devoted his attention to the practice of medicine and surgery in Horatio during the past quarter of a century, was born in Haynesville, Louisiana, on the 13th of March, 1866. Practically his entire life, however, has been spent in Arkansas, for he was brought to Magnolia, this state, when but two years of age. He attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education and received his professional training in the medical department of the University of Louis- ville at Louisville, Kentucky, being graduated from that institution with the class of 1888. He first located for practice at Mars Hill and thence removed to Lewisville, Lafayette county, Arkansas, where he followed his profession until 1896, which year witnessed his arrival in Horatio. Here he has remained throughout the intervening period of twenty-five years and has been accorded a constantly growing practice that is indicative of his marked skill and ability in his chosen field. He owns two hundred acres of river bottom land and derives therefrom a gratifying annual income.

Dr. Henry has been twice married. He first wedded Mary T. Rudd and they had a daughter, Lessie, who is now the wife of B. L. Daniel. For his second wife the Doctor chose Miss Annie M. Mathews, hy whom he has two children, Helen and George A., Jr.

Fraternally Dr. Henry is identified with the Masonic order, being a past master of his lodge, while bis religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Baptist church. He has ever conformed his practice to the highest standards and ethics and enjoys in unusual degree the confidence and respect of his professional colleagues. Brought to Arkansas when but two years of age, he has witnessed the growth and development of the commonwealth during the past half century and has been an active factor in all movements which have contributed to the welfare and upbuilding of his home community.

WILLIAM FRANK NORRELL.

William Frank Norrell, one of Arkansas' native sons, is devoting his attention to the practice of law and is recognized as one of the rising young attorneys of Monticello, being a member of the firm of Wilson & Norrell, accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage. He was born in Milo, Ashley county, August 29, 1896, lis parents being Frank and Sarah Elvie (Richardson) Norrell, the former a native of Alabama and the latter born in Drew county, Arkansas, where their marriage occurred. The father followed the occupation of farming and also conducted a general store in Milo for many years, being numbered among the enterprising merchants of the town. He died in 1898. The mother is still a resident of Milo.

In the acquirement of an education William F. Norrell attended the public schools of Milo, the Fourth District State Agricultural School and the College of the Ozarks at Clarksville, in which he completed his course in 1918. He then entered the Arkansas Law School at Little Rock, from which he was graduated with the class of 1919, and in May, 1920, he was admitted to the bar. In June of that year he began his professional career at Monticello, becoming a partner of R. W. Wilson, at that time assistant United States district attorney, and this relationship has since been maintained. Their interests are conducted under the firm style of Wilson & Norrell and they are numbered among the most successful attorneys in southeastern Arkansas. They have built up a large clientele in Monticello and have been retained as counsel by many large corporations,

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among which may be mentioned the United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company, the Hankins Hardware Company, the Bailey Production Oil Company and the American Surety Company.

Studious by nature, Mr. Norrell has closely applied himself to the mastery of legal principles and his ability is manifest in the clearness of his reasoning and the logic of his deductions. High ideals guide him in every relation of life and he adheres to the strictest ethics in his professional work. He is an alert and enterprising young man, who is actuated by laudable ambition to progress and in his practice he displays a conscientious zeal and energy that are carrying him steadily forward. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Eureka Lodge, No. 40, F. & A. M.

JUDGE C. W. NOLAN.

Judge C. W. Nolan, serving for the second time on the bench of the Miller county court and highly esteemed as a resident of Texarkana, was born in Henry connty, Georgia, January 7, 1847. He was seven years of age when his parents removed to Cass connty, Texas, where he resided until 1870. He acquired a common school education and was reared upon a farm, early becoming thoroughly acquainted with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. The year 1870 witnessed bis arrival in Arkansas, at which time he took up his abode in what was then Lafayette county but is now Miller county. Here he began farming and later he extended the scope of his business activities to include the operation of sawmills. He was thus engaged for about fifteen years and also handled timber, continuing in the business until 1909. In the meantime, or in 1900, he had removed to Texarkana and in 1910 he assumed the duties of county tax collector, to which office he had been chosen at the previous election. He continued to fill the position for four years and then in 1914 was elected police judge. He served upon the bench of the police court for about twenty months, when he resigned the position, having in the meantime been elected to the office of judge of the county court. He served during the years 1917 and 1918 and was then defeated for reelection, but at the end of another term he was once more chosen county judge at the election in 1920 and is again upon the bench. His decisions are strictly fair and impartial, being based upon the law and the evidence in the case, and the fact that he was again called to the position after an interim of two years indicates the confidence which the public has in him as a man and as a jurist.

On the 24th of November, 1873, Judge Nolan was married to Miss Louisa J. Mays and they became the parents of two children, but both died in infancy. Judge Nolan is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They are highly esteemed people and deserve classification with the representative residents of Arkansas. His life has long been the expression of high ideals in business and in public office and he still remains a factor in the world's work, although he has passed the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten, being now in his seventy-fifth year.

HON. ALLAN KENNEDY.

Hon. Allan Kennedy, who in business circles is well known by reason of the extensive insurance agency which he has built up and who is leaving the impress of his individuality and ability upon the political history of the state, now represents his district in the general assembly. Fort Smith classes him with her valued citizens, for his labors have brought about splendid results in connection with the upbuilding and progress of the city. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, a son of Milton F. and Julia M. (Williams) Kennedy. The father was a son of John Kennedy, who removed from Richmond, Kentucky, to Farmington, Missouri, in the year 1820, taking his negro slaves with him. He was a nephew of General Thomas Kennedy, the noted Indian fighter and one of the distinguished Kentucky pioneers. The grandfather of Allan Kennedy in the maternal line was Duke Williams of Nashville, Tennessee, and his wife was a grand- daughter of Colonel Nicholas Long, one of the Revolutionary war leaders of Halifax, North Carolina. Her name was, prior to her marriage, Mary Long.

Milton F. Kennedy, father of Allan Kennedy, was educated at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, and after residing for a number of years in Farmington, Missouri, he removed to Memphis, Tennessee, in the year 1865, there becoming a cotton broker, in which business he attained a notable measure of success. He continued his residence there until 1881 and then removed to Fort Smith, where he again engaged in the cotton

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trade and became one of the prominent cotton brokers of the southwest. He is now interested in oil development in Franklin and Logan counties of Arkansas. Moreover, he has been very prominent in the public life of Fort Smith, his activities being a direct and beneficial force in bringing about the present-day welfare and prosperity of the city. To him and his wife have been born three sons and a daughter: Owen, who died in Denver, Colorado, in October, 1921; Allan, of this review; John J., who is located in New Orleans; and Lucy W, the wife of Harry K. Alhers.

Allan Kennedy was educated in the public schools of Fort Smith and following the completion of his school days he secured a situation as teller in the Merchants Bank, there remaining for three years. On the expiration of that period he turned his atten- tion to the insurance business, some years later organizing the firm of Kennedy & Albers, his associate in the undertaking being Harry K. Albers. For a number of years he represented as Special Agent for Arkansas the Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. They now represent twenty-three different insurance companies, handling fire, life and accident insurance. They have developed an agency of notable proportions and Mr. Kennedy ranks among the best known and most prominent insurance men of the southwest.

Moreover, he has figured very prominently in public affairs and in 1918 was elected a member of the state legislature, He has promoted and fostered progressive legislation, being the author of a bill which was passed creating a municipal court at Fort Smith, also the bill for the improvement of roads leading to Fort Smith, a project involving the expenditure of eight hundred thousand dollars. He is also the author of a bill to improve and convert the old state capitol into a permanent war museum, that it may be used as a meeting place for patriotic societies. Mr. Kennedy was chairman of the house committee that was appointed to visit the State University, a visit that resulted in raising the tax levy for the university from four-ninths of a mill to one mill and thus greatly promoted the facilities and work of the institution. It was Mr. Kennedy who proposed a joint resolution in the two houses advocating a change in the United States constitution, enabling all treaties to be ratified hy a majority of congress. He also introduced into the general assembly a workmen's compensation bill and proposed a measure for resnbmittal of the new constitution. He likewise introduced a bill creating a city manager for larger cities and was the author of an act creating a new insurance code and stipulating certain qualifications for agents that the standards of insurance work might be maintained. His legislative work was of a most practical character, looking to the benefit and upbuilding of the commonwealth, and his labors brought excellent results.

Mr. Kennedy served for several years as inspector general of the State Guard with rank of brigadier, having previously acted as captain of a local militia company. He was the first president and organizer of the Arkansas Association of Local Fire In- surance Agents. He is a member of various local civic bodies and also of the Sons of the American Revolution. There is no good work instituted for the benefit of com- munity, commonwealth or country that does not receive his endorsement and his labors have been an effective force for Arkansas development. In Fort Smith he ranks not only as a capitalist hut as one of the most honored and valued citizens. He has prospered in his undertakings and aside from his insurance business is today the owner of the Kennedy building, a modern office building erected in 1907. It is one of the attractive and substantial structures of Fort Smith and stands as a monument to the enterprise and business ability of the builder.

During the war with Germany Mr. Kennedy was appointed by Herbert Hoover, & member of the state executive committee of the Food Administration, and served under Federal Food Administrator Hamp Williams as food administrator for Sebastian county. It was be who initiated the movement for the saving and return of flour hy the peonle of the state, resulting in shipping the starving Belgians one hundred and twenty-nine straight carloads, given up as a patriotic sacrifice from the pantries of the people of Arkansas.

LOUIS BAUERLEIN.

Louis Banerlein, cashier of the Valley Bank of Camden, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, April 24, 1864, and is a son of John and Barbara (Frederitzi) Bauerlein, the former a native of Bavaria, while the latter was born in the United States. The father came to the new world in his boyhood, the family living for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whence they came to the west, taking up their abode in what is now Kansas City. There John Bauerlein attained his majority, was married and engaged in merchandising, being prominently identified with that line of business to the time of his death, which occurred in 1909.

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Louis Bauerlein attended the Washington School of Kansas City until his thirteenth year, at which time he became a wage earner, serving as driver of a bakery wagon. Later he entered upon an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade but after three years abandoned work of that character and found employment with Whipple Brothers, real estate dealers. Later he worked in the private bank of Whipple, Cowherd & Company, which was his initial training in connection with the banking business. Subsequently this firm organized the Citizens National Bank of Kansas City and with this new banking institution Mr. Bauerlein worked his way upward from the humble position of porter to that of receiving teller. He continued with the bank until 1888, when he resigned to accept a position with the Bank of Camden in Camden, Arkansas. Two years later, or in 1891, he became identified with the Ouachita Valley Bank, with which he has remained, covering a period of thirty years. Throughout this time he has had much to do with formulating the banking policy and to him much credit is due for the wonderful growth and good name of the institution. When entering into active connec- tion with the Ouachita Valley Bank, Mr. Bauerlein was made bookkeeper and subsequently was advanced to the post of assistant cashier, while about 1915 he was made cashier of the bank. About 1909 he became one of the principal organizers of the Carson Dry Goods Company of Camden and was chosen secretary and treasurer, since which time he has served in that official capacity. His judgment is sound, his sagacity keen and his industry unfaltering and the sterling traits which he has displayed in all business connections have constituted important sources of success for the enterprises which he thus represents.

On the 29th of February, 1890, Mr. Banerlein was married to Miss Cora Holmes of Camden, and they are parents of two living children: Beatrix, the wife of Hon. Lamar B. Smead, ex-state senator and a prominent attorney of Camden; and Ida Louise, at home. The wife and mother departed this life April 19, 1921, her death being deeply regretted by many friends as well as by her immediate family.

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Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 27

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