Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 76

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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CAPTAIN JOEL M. MCCLINTOCK

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William, now a resident of Gardner, Kansas; Mrs. Anna Riley, living at Mineral, Illi- nois; Ralph and Joel Monroe. One of those who has departed this life was Margaret McClintock.

Joel Monroe Mcclintock pursued his education in the common schools of Pennsyl- vania and also in St. Charles county, Missouri, and in Illinois. He was twenty-one years of age when he enlisted for service in the Union army, joining the Thirty-third Illinois Infantry under Colonel Hovey, who had previously been principal of a semi- nary in Illinois. Mr. McClintock was on duty west of the Mississippi river and par- ticipated in the battle of Big River. He was captured but later was paroled and returned home, after which he attended Lombard University at Galesburg, Illinois. Subsequently he reentered the army under General Steele. In 1862 he marched to Helena, Arkansas, and while there became a victim of typhoid fever. After a time he was removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he continued until he was transferred to the Mississippi Marine Brigade and was on duty up and down the Misssisippi river. In August, 1863, he was commissioned a captain and was assigned to Helena, Arkansas, while later he was transferred to De Valls Bluff and in 1863 was sent on military duty to Little Rock.

In the spring of 1864 Captain Mcclintock resigned from the army and came to De Valls Bluff, where he entered business in connection with Charles McDowell. Here. he remained until 1866 and then went to Gum Pond, where he engaged in farming, but in that business venture lost heavily. In 1867 he was appointed military registrar of Woodruff county and in the following year he was appointed to the office of sheriff of Prairie county, a position which he filled for five years. He also took charge of the bili which was introduced in the legislature to establish Lonoke county, having been petitioned by the citizens of this district to undertake the task. The bill passed the general assembly and he was commissioned by the governor as the first sheriff of Lonoke county, being the popular choice as well for that office. The following spring he removed to Prairie county and served as county judge. During the period of his in- cumhency in the office of sheriff of Prairie county the reconstruction work was begun and with it came the evils of carpetbag government. Although a northern soldier Mr. McClintock espoused the manifest human rights of the southern people of this neighbor- hood and protested strongly against the quartering of militia in this vicinity. In this trying period he adjusted affairs equitably in his administrative offices and did much to bring about improved conditions. He endeared himself to the people of this region and has lived here continuously since as a highly esteemed citizen, enjoying the con- fidence and warm regard of all with whom he has been brought in contact. Not only has he made an excellent record in public office but has become a prominent figure in connec- tion with business affairs and the material development of the community.

Captain Mcclintock today owns twenty-five hundred acres of land in this vicinity and from his agricultural interests derives a most gratifying income. Moreover, he is numbered among the early pioneers, being here at a day when Isaac Gates conducted a store here. Mr. Gates was for many years manager for his brother, who held extensive interests here for a long period and his nephews, Victor and Jacob Gates, are now con- ducting a store at Lonoke. Among the other pioneer merchants were George F. Love- joy and O. H. Platt. In 1870 Sam Lovejoy, a brother of George F. Lovejoy, was also in business in this county and still other merchants were Sam Peoples and Abe Boyd. Mr. McClintock is today the only survivor among these pioneer figures of De Valls Bluff. He relates in a most interesting manner many incidents concerning the early days and the progress that has since been wrought, bringing about a marked transfor- marion in this section of the state.

Captain Mcclintock was united in marriage to. Miss Sallie Crosson, a daughter of Greene Crosson, who located at Arkansas Post in 1859 and afterward removed to De Witt, while later he took up his abode at De Valls Bluff. He came to this state from Lawrence county, Illinois, and his wife bore the maiden name of Rebekah Buchanan. For his second wife Captain Mcclintock chose Sarah Carroll Brown, who resided at De Valls Bluff with her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Dinsdale, whose husband was an Englishman by birth and served in the Federal army during the Civil war. He afterward owned a store at De Valls Bluff, where he departed this life. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mulherron, was married again, becoming the wife of Dr. Cooper of Brownsville, Tennessee, who is also now deceased, while Mrs. Cooper still makes her home at De Valls Bluff. In 1910 Captain and Mrs. McClintock made a trip to Europe, visiting many points of interest in the countries of the old world.

There are few who are so intimately associated with the history of Prairie county and this section of the state as Captain Mcclintock has been. He has the distinction of having fired the gun carried by Davy Crockett. This gun, which was silver mounted, was given to Davy Crockett by the young men of Philadelphia and was inherited by the late Colonel Robert Crockett, at whose home Captain Mcclintock was visiting when

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the privilege was accorded him of loading and firing this old relic, now in the possession of Mrs. John W. Crockett of Little Rock. Fraternally Captain Mcclintock is a Mason and he belongs as well to the Grand Army of the Republic and to the Loyal Legion. The interests and activities of his life have been broad and varied, and his experiences have been many as he has lived in various sections of the country and at different times has engaged in various lines of business. He has now passed the eighty-third milestone on life's journey and in the evening of his days receives the respect and honor which should ever be accorded one of advanced years whose life has been well spent.

J. A. SIPE.

J. A. S.pe is widely known in the commercial circles of Fort Smith and of west- ern Arkansas as the president of the Fort Smith Paper Company, with which business he has been associated since 1905. His entire course has been characterized by a progressiveness that has enabled him to overcome obstacles and difficulties and push his way steadily forward to the goal of success. His early life was spent in the east, his birth having occurred at Harrisonville, Pennsylvania, in 1870. He obtained his education in the public schools and continued a resident of the Keystone state for thirty- six years. His connection with Fort Smith dates from 1906. The previous year he was instrumental in organizing the Fort Smith Paper Company in partnership with Mr. Fletcher. While the beginning was comparatively small the business was soon placed upon a substantial basis and in 1907 was incorporated with J. A. Sipe as the president, E. D. Hill as secretary and I. H. Nakdimen treasurer. Their original investment was but five thousand dollars and something of the continuous and substantial growth of the business is indicated in the fact that the company is today capitalized for sixty-five thousand, five hundred dollars. They conduct a large business in school supplies, also handle paper of all kinds and all kinds of notions. They do printing of every character, make rubber stamps and seals and in the conduct of the business utilize a building three stories in height and in dimensions sixty-eight by one hundred and thirty-seven feet. In the factory are employed fourteen people, while the business is represented upon the road by five traveling salesmen. Steadily their patronage has grown and they have found that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement. Before engaging in business on his own account Mr. Sipe was connected with the internal revenue service and made an excellent record in that connection, but his ambition to make his labors prove of greatest personal benefit led him to turn his attention in the direction of the paper trade, and in this field he has so directed his efforts that substantial results have accrued and the business has contributed to the material development and upbuilding of Fort Smith.

Mr. Sipe was united in marriage to Miss Frances Fletcher and their children are three in number: Ethel, Paul and Mildred. Mr. Sipe is a member of the Business Men's Club and he also belongs to the Lions Club, while fraternally he is connected with the Masons and the Odd Fellows. He is loyal to every cause which he espouses and any project for the benefit and welfare of community or country receives his strong endorse- ment and support. His life record is that of a self-made man, indicating what can be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do. Utilizing opportunities that others have passed heedlessly by, he has steadily advanced until he stands in the front rank among the leading business men of his adopted city.

HARVEY THOMAS HARRISON.

Harvey Thomas Harrison of Little Rock was born January 6, 1884, in Lockesburg. Sevier county, Arkansas, and is a son of the Rev. William Ringgold and Alice Virginia (Grady) Harrison. The father was born December 22, 1853, on a farm in Itawamha county, Mississippi, while the mother's birth occurred on a farm in Sevier county, Ar- kansas, December 25, 1864. They were married at Lockesburg, Arkansas, on the 4th of October, 1882, and through the intervening years Rev. Mr. Harrison has devoted his life to the work of the ministry, laboring earnestly at various places to which he has been called. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party. To him and his wife have been born five sons and four daughters, of whom two daughters died in infancy.

Harvey T. Harrison, who was the eldest in his father's family, obtained his educa- tion in various towns of Arkansas as his father went from place to place, according to the itinerant custom of the Methodist ministry in that day. At length he became a

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student in Hendrix College at Conway, Arkansas, and there won his Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of 1906. Thus he laid broad and deep in his literary training the foundation upon which has been reared the superstructure of his professional kuowledge. He afterward took up the study of law and was admitted to the Arkansas bar in June, 1911. Since that time he has steadily engaged in practice. He became assistant attorney for the Rock Island Railway Company for Arkansas on the 15th of March, 1915, and on the 1st of January, 1916, he became a partner in the law firm of Buzbee, Pugh & Harrison, a connection that has since been maintained. Mr. Buzbee is the attorney for the Rock Island in Arkansas and Louisiana and the two other members of the firm are acting as assistant attorneys. They also enjoy an exten- sive private practice and the clientage of the firm has connected them with much im- portant litigations heard in the courts of the southwest.

On the 14th of December, 1911, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Nellie Evans McCaughey, who was born in Camden, Arkansas, August 30, 1887. She attended Galloway College of Arkansas and afterward continued her education in Belmont College in Tennessee. By her marriage she has become the mother of one son, John McCaughey, who was born October 27, 1912.

Mr. Harrison is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, South, of Little Rock and his political allegiance is given to the democratic party. He belongs to the Country Club, to the Spring Lake Club and to the Dilly Club and is much interested in these organizations. His genial, social nature makes for popularity wherever he is known and his friends in Little Rock and the state are legion.

PRESTON CASTLEBERRY.

Preston Castleberry, an optometrist of Pine Bluff, was born at Castleberry, Ala- bama, in 1878, the town having been named in honor of the family. His parents were Solomon and Mary ( Branch) Castleberry, who were also natives of that place, and the father was a Confederate veteran of the Civil war. The sons of the family have entered professional circles, one brother of Preston Castleberry being C. E. Castleberry of Little Rock, who is well known as an optometrist of that city, while another brother is Dr. F. L. Castleberry, the well known eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of Paragould, Arkansas.

Preston Castleberry was educated in his native village and in the schools of Kansas City, Missouri, and Little Rock. Having received thorough training along the line of his chosen profession, with the passing years he has become an expert optometrist and has developed a high degree of efficiency in connection with the mechanical end of the business, in the grinding of lenses and other such work. For a time he was associated in practice with his brother in Little Rock before removing to Pine Bluff. Since coming to this city he has gained a splendid patronage and his success is growing year by year.

Mr. Castleberry was united in marriage to Miss Leila Ricks of Atlanta, Georgia, a daughter of Dr. Ricks. Mr. and Mrs. Castleberry have become parents of one child. Mary M. Mr. Castleberry is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mrs. Castleberry is a Presbyterian. Both are interested in all those forces which make for right, justice, truth and progress. Their friends are many and the hospitality of a large number of the best homes in Pine Bluff is freely accorded them, for during the period of their residence here they have become firmly established in those social circles where intelligence and true worth are accepted as the passports to good society.

JOHN F. CLIFFORD.

Almost every state in the Union has sent its quota of citizens into Arkansas, and among those who have gone from Michigan is John F. Clifford, now a well known attorney of Little Rock. He was born in Lapeer, Lapeer county, Michigan, August 7, 1883. His father, John Allen Clifford, was a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, and after residing for a number of years in the middle west removed to Little Rock in 1890. He had come to the United States in 1861 and the last twenty-four years of his life were spent in Arkansas capital, where he died in May, 1914.

John F. Clifford was but seven years of age when brought to this state, so that his education was acquired in the public schools of Little Rock and then he deter- mined upon the practice of law as a life work, so that he became a law student in the University of Arkansas, from which he was graduated in 1908. In the intervening period of thirteen years he has made steady advancement at the bar. He has served as city

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attorney of Little Rock, but otherwise has given his attention solely to the interests of his private practice. His devotion to the interests of his clients is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. His capability in his chosen profession is widely recognized. He throws himself easily and naturally into the argument, with a self-possession and a deliberation that indicate no straining after effect. On the contrary there is a precision and clearness in his statements, an acuteness and strength in his arguments, which speak a mind trained in the severest school of investigation and to which the closest reasoning is habitual.

On the 17th of July, 1908, Mr. Clifford was married to Miss Mabel Grace Robertson, who was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1885, her father being Alexander Robertson, who was born in Scotland and is now living in Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford have become parents of three daughters: Bess, Grace R. and Ellen.

Politically Mr. Clifford has always been a democrat, but has never sought nor desired office outside the strict path of his profession. Fraternally he is a blue lodge Mason, loyal to the teachings and purposes of the craft, and he is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, South, his membership being in the Winfield Memorial church. His cooperation and aid can at all times be counted upon to further those interests and projects which are based upon an earnest desire to promote the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the community and which at all times work for public good and advancement.

R. S. WOODARD, D. D. S.

Dr. R. S. Woodard is a native of Tennessee, his birth having occurred in Fayette- ville, in 1877, his parents being M. W. and Ida (Hatcher) Woodard. His parents were likewise natives of Tennessee and the father was a lawyer by profession. He won prominence at the bar and also served as county judge, while on various other occasions he filled public office, acting as county clerk and also as representative of his district in the state legislature. His father, R. S. Woodard, was a banker and the family was one of prominence in Tennessee, the name being closely interwoven with the history of material, intellectual and political progress there. The mother of Dr. Woodard was a daughter of B. H. Hatcher, who was a Confederate veteran of the Civil war and resided for many years in Hampshire, Tennessee. To the marriage of M. W. Woodard and Ida Hatcher three sons were born: B. H., who is now a physician practicing at Spring Hill, Tennessee; John, a member of the bar at Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Dr. R. S. Woodard of this review.

The last named pursued his education in the public schools of Fayetteville, Tennes- see, until he was ready to enter upon preparation for a professional career, at which time he matriculated in Vanderbilt University at Nashville and there won his D. D. S. degree on graduation with the class of 1901. He located for practice at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the same year, but after a brief period there spent he came to Stuttgart in 1902.

Dr. Woodard was married to Miss Lucille Chapline, a daughter of Judge J. M. Chapline, and they have one child, a daughter, who is named for her mother. Dr. and Mrs. Woodard belong to the Methodist Episcopal church and loyally assist in its work and contribute to its support. Fraternally Dr. Woodard is connected with the Elks and with the Masons.

GEORGE APPLEBY.

George Appleby, successfully and extensively engaged in fruit raising and in the conduct of a canning factory at Fayetteville, was born June 28, 1869, on a farm three miles north of the city in which he now resides, his parents being John T. and Almira (Stanfield) Appleby. The mother was born in the same house in which occurred the birth of her son George, while John T. Appleby was a native of Tennessee. His father was Hezekiah Appleby, who arrived in Washington county, Arkansas, in 1829, and here devoted his attention to farming and stock raising. He was a slave owner and during the Civil war went to Texas, his death occurring in that state. His wife, learning that her husband was ill, made the trip to Texas on horseback through the mountains, reaching him before he died. The maternal grandfather of George Appleby was Alex- ander Stanfield, who was born in Tennessee and always followed the occupation of farming as a life work. He made his way to Washington county, Arkansas, in 1830, and thus he, too, became closely identified with the pioneer development of this section of the state.

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John T. Appleby likewise followed farming as a life work and was a very successful man. He purchased a tract of land and greatly improved the property, converting it into one of the valuable farms of the district and living thereon to the time of his death. During the Civil war he was taken prisoner while at home and was sent to Springfield, Missouri. There he was paroled, but continued to remain in Springfield until after the cessation of hostilities. His political endorsement was at all times given to the democratic party, and his religious faith was that of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. To him and his wife were born five children: Mrs. Annie Sterns, now living on a farm in Washington county, Arkansas; C. W., who is in business with his brother George in Fayetteville; Mrs. Ida Freyschlag, whose husband is a Presbyterian minister at Fayetteville; George of this review; and Mrs. Bertha Cunningham, who is living upon the old homestead farm.

George Appleby supplemented his early education, acquired in the country schools, by study in the University of Arkansas, which he attended for two years. In young manhood he went to Dakota, where he remained for three and a half years. He was employed in various ways during the three years and a half of his residence in the north, after which he returned to Arkansas and for two years was a student in the university at Fayetteville. He also attended a business college at Sedalia, Missouri, and then went upon his father's farm, at which time he hegan raising strawberries, planting about ten acres, which was then considered a very large patch of berries. In 1917 he and his brother purchased a fruit farm, which they began to develop and improve. In 1907 they established a canning factory, and although they met with financial re- verses that year which caused them to give up everything but their canning factory, they have since won a very substantial measure of prosperity. They today own eleven hundred acres of valuable land in addition to the canning factory at Fayetteville, and still others at West Fork and at Hiwasse, Arkansas. They have one hundred and ninety acres in orchard and extensive patches of strawberries. All that Mr. Appleby has today he has made since 1912. His energy and enterprise have been dominant factors in the attainment of very gratifying success. He has followed the most modern and scientific methods in the care and development of his orchards and the production of small fruit, and in the management of the canning factories is systematic, thorough and progressive.

In 1896 Mr. Appleby was united in marriage to Miss Myrtle McCarty, who was born in Fayetteville and died in 1902. In 1906 Mr. Appleby wedded Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, a native of Washington county, Arkansas. They have become parents of five children: John T., who is now a high school pupil; and Mildred, Marion, Annis and Helen Virginia, all in school.

Mr. and Mrs. Applehy are members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Appleby belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and he has figured very prominently in its local ranks. He served as county clerk from 1912 until 1916, was county judge for two years and in other positions of public honor and trust has proven himself thoroughly competent and faithful. Business, however, has claimed the major part of his time and attention, and the fact that he has regarded obstacles and difficulties in his path as an impetus for renewed effort on his part has brought him eventually to the goal of prosperity, where he is now found.

JOHN R. LINDER.

John R. Linder, attorney at law of Beebe, has spent his life in Arkansas, his birth having occurred in White county, January 6, 1870, his parents being Jefferson P. and Lucy J. (Shelton) Linder. The family has long been represented on American soil. The paternal grandfather, Abraham Linder, was a native of the Spartanburg district of South Carolina and was a well educated man, who devoted his life to teaching in his native state for a number of years and then made an overland trip with ox team and wagon to Arkansas, crossing the rivers on ferries. This was in 1858 and after reaching this state he continued in the teaching profession, being connected largely with private schools. He married a Miss Templeman, a native of South Carolina, who died about the year 1864, while his death occurred in 1874, when he was seventy years of age.

Their son, Jefferson P. Linder, came with his parents to what was then Conway county, Arkansas, in 1858. He was there married to Miss Lucy J. Shelton, who was born in Shelby county, Tennessee, and who went from Memphis to Des Arc, making the boat trip in order to visit her sister, but owing to hostilities between the north and the south she could not return. She became acquainted with Jefferson P. Linder and they were married in what is now Faulkner county. Subsequently they removed to White

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county, where Mr. Linder purchased wooded land, which he cleared and developed, carrying on general farming and stock raising. During the last ten years of his life he also preached to a considerable extent throughout the community, he and his wife being members of the Missionary Baptist church. His political endorsement was given to the democratic party. He died July 27, 1903, at the age of sixty-four years, while his wife departed this life August 11, 1910, at the age of sixty-three years. They had a family of twelve children, five of whom are living: Laura, the wife of S. M. Trotter, a farmer of Lamar, Arkansas; John R .; Charles, who is farming in White county; Oscar B., a barber of California; and Albert, also farming in White county. Those who have departed this life are: Thomas J., who died in Monroe county, Arkansas, in 1889, at the age of twenty-one years; Maggie, who was the wife of J. W. Acree and died in 1919, at the age of forty-seven; two who died in infancy; Myrtle and Belmer, who died at the age of two years; and Berley, who died when sixteen years of age.

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Centennial history of Arkansas, Part 76

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