Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 49

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

USA > Arkansas > Centennial history of Arkansas > Part 49

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Roy R. Gean attended the public schools of VanBuren and later prepared for his professional career as a student in the law department of the La Salle University through its extension course. He con- tinued his reading until he had thoroughly qualified for practice and then, having passed the required examination for admission to the bar, he opened a law office in Fort Smith. Advancement in the profession is proverbially slow, yet he made steady progress and after a time entered into partnership with James A. Gallaher. His professional activity. however, was interrupted by his service in the World war. On the 26th of April, 1917, he volunteered for the army and went to the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Logan H. Roots. There he was honorably discharged. Later he was drafted into the service on the 26th of August, 1918, and remained a member of the Fourth Company of the Fourth Battalion, I. C. O. T. S., until mustered out the following December.

Mr. Gean was united in marriage in 1919 to Miss Nan Fisher Baker of Oklahoma City, and they have become parents of a daughter, Francis Virginia. Mr. Gean is identified with the Masonic fraternity and also has membership with the Woodmen of the World and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He finds pleasurable associations in these orders and is loyal to their teachings and purposes. The major part of his attention, however, is given to his professional interests and earnest effort, close applica- tion and the exercise of his native talents have won him constant advancement as a representative of the bar. By reason of what he has already accomplished it seems that his future career will be well worth watching. He is now assistant prosecuting attorney of the twelfth judicial district.

WILLIAM G. MAURICE.

William G. Maurice is a man who has attained success by following out high ideals of service to his fellowmen. If he had to sacrifice the opportunity for either one, it would be the former; but in making his life of benefit to his fellows he has also attained prosperity and the most envious cannot grudge him his success, so honorably has it been won and so worthily used. Not to know William G. Maurice in Hot Springs is to argue one's self unknown. He is the possessor of the most beautiful home of the city, the owner of the finest and most perfect baths. At the same time he is a prominent figure in banking circles, being vice president of the Arkansas Trust Company, and until recently he was president of the De Soto Mineral Spring Company, owner of a magnificent drinking pavilion. He is likewise the president of the Manitou Baths at Manitou, Colorado.

William G. Maurice is a son of Charles E. Maurice, who was one of the original lessees at Hot Springs when the district was taken over by the government as a per- manent reservation, through act of congress in 1877. From early youth, therefore, William G. Maurice became familiar with questions relative to the development of the bath interests of the city and since that time he has cherished high ideals which have found their expression in the building and conduct of the Maurice Bathis.

Mr. Maurice is a supporter of all public enterprises of worth and is very generous of his means and his time toward all commendable causes. No man has done more for

307

CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS

the city than he, for he makes immediate response to any call for service in the field of benefit for Hot Springs. The poor and needy, too, find in him a friend and champion and his interest in helping others is manifest in his service as president of the Hot Springs Associated Charities. He is a Mystic Shriner and his life has always been an exemplification of the spirit and object of the Masonic fraternity, which recognizes the brotherhood of man and the obligations thereby imposed. It is said that no one knows more of the great men of the country than does W. G. Maurice, and his appreciation of high friendship was shown in the establishment of a memorial room to Elbert Hubbard, representing the highest Roycroft ideals.

JULIUS S. MOORE, M. D.

Dr. Julius S. Moore, an eminent representative of the medical profession, who has attained wide reputation in surgical practice in Arkadelphia, was born at Three Creeks, Union county, Arkansas, September 4, 1882, a son of George W. and Isakatera (Godley) Moore, who were natives of this state and of Louisiana, respectively, but were married in Arkansas. The father has for many years been engaged in mercantile pursuits at Three Creeks and is one of the leading business men of that locality.

Dr. Moore completed his more specifically literary education by graduation from Ouachita College of Arkadelphia with the A. B. degree, as a member of the class of 1905. He then took up the study of pharmacy and completed a course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, with the class of 1904. When he had finished his studies in the east he returned to Arkadelphia and continued as a student in Ouachita College of this city. Later he entered upon preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery, matriculating as a student in the University of Virginia as a member of the class of 1909. When his course there was completed he removed to Bienville, Louisiana, where he remained in active practice for a period of four years. Later he spent two years as an interne in Grace Hospital at Detroit, Michigan, and gained that hroad and valuable experience which is never acquired as quickly in any other way as in hospital practice. He likewise became an interne in Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, where he continued for a year and subsequently he spent one year in the Charity Hospital at Shreveport, Louisiana.

In May, 1918, Dr. Moore enlisted for service in the Medical Corps of the United States army and was stationed for four months at the Base Hospital at Camp Beauregard. Louisiana. He was then sent overseas with the Evacuation Hospital and saw service at the front for about a year. He was commissioned a captain and was honorably dis- charged in August, 1919. With his return to Arkansas, Dr. Moore opened an office in Arkadelphia, where he is associated with Dr. Charles Wallace in conducting the Moore & Wallace Sanitarium. He specializes in surgery and his marked capability in this field of professional lahor has gained him prominence and fame.

On the 10th of August, 1920, Dr. Moore was married to Miss Maud S. Talbot of Bernice, Louisiana. Mrs. Moore is a lady of liberal culture and refinement and they are numbered with the consistent and helpful members of the Baptist church. Dr. Moore has membership in Arkadelphia Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; in Albert Pike Consistory, A. & A. S. R .; and Al-Amin Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is likewise identified with Arkadelphia Lodge, B. P. O. E., while along strictly professional lines he has membership with the Clark County Medical Society, the Arkansas State Medical Society and the Southern Medical Association. Through the proceedings of these bodies he keeps informed con- cerning the advance work of the profession and is familiar with each forward step that has been taken in finding solution for the difficult problems which have to do with the laws of life.

FRED O. COLLMAN.

Fred O. Collman, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the United Oil Mills of Hope, now the Temple Cotton Oil Company, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, January 15, 1887. His parents were Fred A. and Anna (Bonnie) Collman and the father, a native of Germany, came to the United States in his youth, settling in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he remained until he obtained his naturalization papers. He then joined the United States army and served under his uncle for twenty years. He saw much service on the frontier, fighting the Indians, and went through many interesting and sometimes dangerous experiences while connected with the military forces of the country. Immediately after receiving his discharge he was married in Indiana to Miss Anna Bonnie, who was born and reared in that state. A year or two later they removed to

308

CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS

Arkansas, being among the early settlers of Little Rock, where Mr. Collman became a publie accountant. After a time he was identified with the accounting department of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and remained in the employ of that corporation for many years. He died in 1897. His wife still survives, making her home in the capital city.

Fred O. Collman was educated in the schools of Little Rock until graduated from the high school, with the class of 1904. He afterward entered the law department of the University of Arkansas, from which he received his law degree as a member of the class of 1909. However, he did not take up the active practice of the profession. The year prior to his graduation he had become identified with the oil mill business as an employe of the Arkansas Cotton Oil Company, now the American Cotton Oil Company, beginning with the firm in a clerical capacity. He worked steadily upward through the various positions of cashier and auditor to the important post of manager of the business and remained with the company until 1915, when he came to Hope to accept the position of auditor of the United Oil Mills at this place. In 1916 he was made manager of the local plant and in 1917 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the company, while in 1921 he became general manager and now has charge of the company's business at this place with three oil mill plants in the state of Arkansas and one in Oklahoma, together with thirty cotton gins in southwestern Arkansas. The concern is now the Temple Cotton Oil Company. The business is one of large and substantial proportions and is steadily growing under the wise direction and capable management of Mr. Collman.

In 1906 Mr. Collman was married to Miss Katherine Long Wright of Lonoke, Arkansas, and they have become parents of a son and a daughter: Fred Albert and Edith Louise. Mr. Collman belongs to the Episcopal church, while his wife is a member of the Baptist church and their children have membership in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Collman belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being connected with Magnolia Lodge, No. 60, A. F. & A. M .; and Albert Pike Consistory, No. 1. A. & A. S. R. He has likewise crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of Al-Amin Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and he belongs to Hope Lodge, No. 1109, B. P. O. E., and the Rotary Club, He is likewise a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is serving on its board of directors. He has also been its president and has filled the presidency of the Rotary Club. He ranks with the foremost citizens of Hope and is untiring in his efforts to advance the public welfare and promote progress along lines of civic advancement and improvement. His life record illustrates what can be accomplished through determined efforts. He had no special advantages at the outset of his career but by the employment of industry, perseverance and diligence he has accomplished much, progressing step by step until public opinion accords him leadership in business circles and classes him with the fore- most representatives of his section of the state.

R. H. WHITLOW.

R. H. Whitlow, secretary and manager of the Mutual Aid Union, with offices at Rogers, is a self-educated and self-made man who owes nothing to the adventitious aids that ordinarily push men forward, but has worked his way steadily upward, placing his dependence upon the substantial qualities of industry, perseverance and integrity. He is a native of Mississippi, his birth having occurred in Corinth on the 3d of June, 1868. His parents were Moses and Lucy (Byrne) Whitlow, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Mississippi, in which state their marriage occurred. The father was born in 1836 and in 1850 he made his way to Mississippi, where he continued to make his home throughout the remainder of his life, conducting mercantile interests. He was also a large slaveholder and a most successful business man up to the period of the Civil war, which ruined him financially. His father was likewise a planter and slaveholder, maintaining his residence in North Carolina. Moses Whitlow gave his political allegiance to the democratic party and fraternally he was identified with the Masons. He died in 1881, at the age of forty-five years, and his wife's demise occurred in 1871. She was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. To their union were born nine children, of whom five are living.

R. H. Whitlow, the seventh in order of birth in the family, has never been accorded educational opportunities, but in the school of experience he has learned many valuable lessons and through wide reading, study and close observation has become a well in- formed man. When twelve years of age he was obliged to seek his own livelihood and obtained work as a farm hand. receiving a salary of six dollars per month. He was next employed in a gin mill and later in a grist mill and when he had reached the age of twenty he became a clerk in a store. In 1905 he came to Arkansas, first locating' at Heber Springs, and in July, 1907, he came with his bride to Rogers, his total cash capital amounting to sixty-two dollars. Here he established the Mutual Aid Union, which

309

CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS

has since enjoyed a prosperous existence, and is the oldest man connected with the institution. He was made vice president and general manager of the business but is now serving in the capacity of secretary and manager. This is one of the most sub- stantial organizations of the kind in the state, its splendid development being due to the close application and able management of Mr. Whitlow, who during a period of fourteen years has put almost eighty million dollars worth of insurance in force for the Mutual Aid Union, which now stands as a monument to his enterprise and business ability.

At Heber Springs, Arkansas, in February, 1907, Mr. Whitlow was united in marriage to Miss Eva Peeler, who was born near Hiram, this state, a daughter of Micklin Peeler, a veteran of the Civil war and a large planter of Arkansas, of which he was one of the pioneer settlers. He has departed this life but the mother survives, making her home at Pangburn, Arkansas. In their family were five children, of whom two are living: Mrs. Whitlow; and Dr. C. M. Peeler, a well known physician and druggist of Pangburn. Mr. and Mrs. Whitlow have become the parents of two children: Francis, twelve years of age; and Horace, aged nine. Both are attending school.

Mrs. Whitlow is a Christian Scientist in religious faith and prominent in the work of the church, acting as reader. Mr. Whitlow gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a past exalted ruler, and he is also connected with the Masons. He has fought life's battles unaided and has come off a victor in the strife. His fellow townsmen attest his sterling worth and he has gained a wide circle of friends during the period of his residence in Rogers.

HENRY CONRAD FABER.

Henry Conrad Faber is one of the most active and energetic business men in Crawford county, and closely watching every opportunity for the attainment of legitimate success, he has made constant progress since starting out in the business world on his own account. For twenty-five years he has conducted the Faber Store in Van Buren and he is readily conceded to be a representative citizen of the community.

Henry Conrad Faber was born in Sebastian county, Arkansas, on his grandfather's farm in 1868, and this farm is still in possession of the family. His parents were William L. and Georgie L. (Knox) Faber. The paternal grandfather, Conrad William Faber, was for many years a prominent business man in New York city and a personal friend of John Jacob Astor. Mr. Astor and Mr. Faber were then on a par in the business world. Mr. Faber, however, met with financial disaster when, after shipping a large consignment of turpentine, tar and pitch to an English concern, that concern failed and the shipment was seized. Grandfather Faber's demise occurred in 1852 in Brooklyn, New York, and he is buried in Greenwood Cemetery there. Our subject's paternal grand- mother was Annie Bolton Booth Faber, and her death occurred when her son, William L.

was born. William L. was cared for by his grandmother Booth until he was seven years old. He was then sent to Germany and was there reared by Mrs. Harnickell, an aunt, and educated at Heidelberg. A brother of Annie Bolton Booth, Prof. James Curtis Booth, was for forty years identified with the mints in Philadelphia and was a highly esteemed and representative citizen. William L. Faber, the father of our subject, was highly educated and was an accomplished musician. He was one of the first chemists and mining engineers in this country and at the time of his demise in Salt Lake City in 1873, he was in the employ of a large mining company there. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served on General Van Dorn's staff in the Confederate army. Mrs. Faber's death occurred May 27, 1920. She was a daughter of George W. and Eudora (Rose) Knox, and both her mother and grandmother were natives of Arkansas. A diary was recently found by Mr. Faber which was written by his grandfather Knox, in which he describes a boat trip from Arkansas to New York in 1842, and speaks of St. Louis, Chicago and other large cities, as thriving little towns.

In the acquirement of an education H. C. Faber attended the schools of Little Rock. In 1892, after putting his textbooks aside, he came to Van Buren, and because of serious eye trouble at this time, engaged in raising strawberries. For four years he was thus actively engaged, achieving substantial success, and at the termination of that time he determined to enter the business world and subsequently opened an establishment in Van Buren. For twenty-five years now he has been one of the leading merchants in Crawford county and he is perhaps the only retailer in the country who is a stockholder in the Reynolds-Davis Grocery Company of Fort Smith, wholesale grocers. Mr. Faher is a stockholder in the Oklahoma Auto Manufacturing Company of Muskogee and the

310

CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS

Coca-Cola Manufacturing business in Fort Smith. He likewise operates the old home farm of five hundred acres.

On June 6, 1918, Mr. Faber was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Sadler, a daughter of W. P. Sadler of Van Buren, who is clerk of the state supreme court in Little Rock. Mr. Faber takes the interest of an intelligent and wide-awake citizen in public affairs, and in selection of competent men for public office. In his business life he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive powers, and added to a progressive spirit, ruled by more than ordinary intelligence and good judgment, there has been a native justice which has expressed itself in correct principle and practice.

HARRY HOWARD FOSTER.

Harry Howard Foster, who was long a contributing factor to the growth and devel- opment of Little Rock and the state, manifested throughout the period of his residence in Arkansas the utmost loyalty to the commonwealth and its best interests. By reason of this quality and his winning personality he made friends of all with whom he came into contact and the news of his death carried with it a sense of bereavement into hun- dreds of homes throughout Arkansas. Mr. Foster was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, March 15, 1857, a son of Edward Augustus Foster. He came of a family devoted to the lumber industry and when he attained his majority he turned to the same line of business. His ancestors, even back to Revolutionary war days, have been identified with the lumber trade and he early received his training in that connection from his father. Soon after the birth of Harry Howard his parents removed to Oconto, Wiscon- sin, and in 1865 went to Muskegon, Michigan, while in 1869 they became residents of Ludington, Michigan. These various districts offered excellent opportunity for Inm- bering and from his earliest childhood Mr. Foster was familiar with the business and as he grew in years he gained practical knowledge thereof. He spent two years as a student in Olivet College at Olivet. Michigan, following the completion of his public school course and then left school to become the active assistant of his father, with whom he entered into partnership under the firm name of E. A. Foster & Company. They established a new lumber business at Ludington in the early '80s and in 1883, after disposing of their interests at Ludington, they bought into the firm of A. R. Gray & Company of Chicago. In 1884 Harry H. Foster retired from the firm in which his father was interested and removed to the Wisconsin valley, where he hecame identified with the McDonald Lumber Company, but sold out in 1885. The following year he went to Racine, Wisconsin, where he hecame one of the incorporators of the West Shore Lum- ber Company, which is still in existence. He severed his connection with that concern in 1887, at which time he went as manager of the Merrill Lumher Company at Merrill, Wisconsin, a company of which his father was president and had been one of the organ- izers in the previous year. Mr. Foster occupied that position until 1901, when he accepted the presidency of the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company at Malvern, Arkansas, and on the 1st of December of that year, he assumed his duties as the chief executive of the corporation. From that time until his death, which occurred on the 11th of March, 1915, he made his home in Little Rock. He constantly extended the scope of his activities and at his demise was president not only of the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company, but also of the Arkansas Land & Lumber Company, like- wise a Malvern concern, and president of the Malvern & Freeo Valley Railroad. He was one of the first of the governing board of the Southern Pine Association and a director of the Union Trust Company. He assisted in organizing the Thief River Falls Lumber Company of Thief River, Minnesota, and was one of the founders of the Wausau & Everett Lumber Company and the Arkansas Land & Lumber Company, of which he was president, and at one time he was president of the Southern Yellow Pine Associa- tion. He became one of the well known lumbermen of the country by reason of his activities in Wisconsin, Michigan, Chicago and Arkansas. He at all times displayed remarkable resourcefulness and forcefulness in the conduct of business affairs and was a dynamic force in the industrial, commercial and financial development of the state.

It was on the 15th of June, 1886, that Mr. Foster was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Wallin of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and they became the parents of a son, Wallin, and two daughters, Marion, who is now Mrs. S. A. Cochran of Little Rock; and Dorothy May, now the wife of Ross McCain of Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Foster was well known in fraternal circles, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and was also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His social nature found expression in his membership in the Country Club and the Quapaw Club, while his interest in the moral progress of the community was manifest

HARRY HOWARD FOSTER

313

CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS

in his active and efficient service as a director of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion and in his membership in the Second Presbyterian church. His marked traits of character were such as commended him to the confidence and high regard of all. His business interests were extensive and in his passing the community in which he lived sustained an irreparable loss. He was ever mindful of his civic duties and oppor- tunities and at all times put forth earnest effort to advance high standards in citizen- ship and promote the welfare of city and state. He played well his part in every relation of life and when he died one of the papers of Malvern, where he had large business interests, wrote of him as follows: "H. H. Foster was one of the men brought to Arkansas by good resources awaiting capital and energy and ability. But this captain of industry did not treat Arkansas merely as a place for his business activities. With his home established in Little Rock he made himself a part of the community. Our work was his work, our burdens his burdens, and he did his share and more in good and deserving causes.

"It is only a just tribute to say that this man from the north, who won for him- self so many warm and true friends, exemplified in his life in Arkansas that this nation" is one nation and its people one people. His sudden death called forth universal expres- sions of regret that he should have been taken away at the height of his usefulness, for the passing of his type of man from a community means that it has sustained a grievous and irreparable loss.

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 49

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