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Mr. Redman assumed the dignity and responsibility of a married man the year of his return to Searcy county, his union with Miss Mary A. Sanders, a daughter of A. C. Sanders, taking place August 11. 1887. The Sanders family was originally of Tennessee. The children of this union are: Mima, wife of Oscar Stevens and mother of two children, named Redinan and Theresa: Mamie, wife of Ben Basham and mother of a son named Harry; Roy; Una ; Ury : Urskine; and John. Mr. Redman was a
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Whither at twenty, a grandfather at thirty-eight and at forty-two had three grandchildren.
In Masonry Mr. Redman belongs to the Blue Lodge and Chapter at Marshall; and is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a Woodman of the World. His political faith is Democratic, but his interest in partisan matters is a dormant quantity. The twenty-four years of his identification with the county have been eminently satisfactory and his loyalty to its interests is one of the sincerest emotions of his being.
CHARLES F. ADAMS, B. Agr., A. M., M. D., is dean of the college of agriculture, director of the agricultural experiment station and fills the chair of entomology in the University of Arkansas. He was born at Atherton, Jackson county, Missouri, on the 4th of April, 1877, and is a son of Wil- liam C. and Sarah (Herd) Adams, of Independence, Missouri. The family is one of the oldest of Jackson county and was founded in the state of Mis- souri by Lynchburg Adams, grandfather of hini whose name initiates this review. Lynchburg Adams was a native Virginian, being named in honor of Lynchburg, that state, near which place he was born and reared. The Adams family is of English descent and the original progenitor in Amer- ica came to this country in the early Colonial epoch, settling in the Old Dominion commonwealth, where he and his posterity were largely iden- tified with agricultural pursuits. Lynchburg Adams and his father, Ben- jamin Adams, early followed the westward tide of immigration and were pioneer settlers in Jackson county, Missouri, before the first house had been erected in Kansas City. Lynchburg Adams' old farm, the one which he homesteaded as a young man, was swallowed up by the Missouri river many years ago and the spot marking his labors upon the frontier of Missouri is therefore obliterated. He was a slave-owner and his son, William C., was a gallant soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the states. Lynch- burg Adams was a man of standing among his fellow citizens and he at- tained to the venerable age of seventy years.
William C. Adams was born in 1836 and has passed his entire life thus far in Jackson county, where he was born and reared. He married Sarah Herd, a daughter of William Herd, likewise a native Virginian. Mrs. Adams was summoned to the life eternal in 1882, after having become the mother of the following children : Edward L., of Independence, Missouri ; Mrs. T. C. Horan, of Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Frank Hall, of Kansas City, Missouri; and Dr. Charles F., of this review. For his second wife Mr. William C. Adams married Mrs. Fannie (Samples) Jepson, and to them were born the following named children: Mrs. Everett Hall, of Grain Val- ley, Missouri : George W., Helen, John, Ruth and Carroll. Mr. Adams is engaged in farming, and he is a man of prominence and influence in Jack- son county, Missouri.
Charles F. Adams, the immediate subject of this review, received his preliminary educational training in the public schools of Independence and Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and subsequently he attended the Uni- versity of Missouri, in which he was matriculated in 1893. He was gradu- ated in the agricultural college of that institution in the class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture. Thereafter he passed some time in his old home and in 1899 he entered the Kansas City Medical College at assistant in histology. At the beginning of his second year with the last-mentioned institution he was given the chair of bacteriology in the dental department, which position he held until June, 1904. In the mean- time he had carried on his medical work and had been graduated in the Kansas City Medical College as a member of the class of 1902. with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Having become especially interested in
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entomology he was induced by Dr. Williston, of the University of Kansas, to enter that institution, on a research scholarship, where he studied the subject under Dr. Snow, widely famed as an entomologist of note, whom he accompanied on several expeditions in the southwest. While a student in the University of Kansas he made many contributions to science along entomological lines, winning himself a Sigma Xi. He took his degree of Master of Arts there in 1903, and pursued graduate studies a year further. In 1904 he accepted an assistantship in the department of zoology in the University of Chicago, and during the year spent in the western metropolis he was a student in the graduate school, for which that institution is famous, and there wrote several contributions to entomology. His writings have given him an international reputation.
In June, 1905, Dr. Adams went to Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, where he studied at the Marine Biological Laboratory, coming thence to the Uni- versity of Arkansas in September. He here took up work with the univer- sity as entomologist to the experiment station. In 1908 he was made acting director of the station and in 1909 was chosen dean of the agricultural col- lege, having charge of all the work of the latter department relating to the subject of agriculture. The staff comprises some twenty-five assistants, trained in the work, teaching, experimenting and demonstrating along agricultural lines, the same including live-stock inspection. This depart- ment of the University of Arkansas is the scientific arm of the state and is doing more for the commonwealth in the way of developing the natural resources than is any other institution. Dr. Adams is an advisory mem- ber of the boards of the four secondary schools of agriculture of the state, these institutions having been established under his regime. They are located at Russellville, Jonesboro, Monticello and Magnolia.
Dr. Adams is a member of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, the Association of Economic Entomologists, the En- tomological Society of America, Honorary Society of Sigma Xi, the State Horticultural Society and the Farmers' Union. Dr. Adams is a man of brilliant mind and extraordinary ability. His entire life has been devoted to his science to the exclusion of all else. He does not shun society, yet he has not sought its portals nor paid court to any of its devotees. Politically he is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Democratic party, and while he has never held public office of any description he has ever been on the alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all measures projected for the good of the state and country. Religiously he is identified with the South- ern Methodist church.
WILLIAM W. FENDLEY. One of the most faithful and efficient of the Arkansas assistants of Uncle Sam is William W. Fendley, postmaster of Marshall. He is also engaged in mercantile business and his fine service as one-time sheriff of Searcy county has by no means been forgotten. He is a good citizen and a man of versatile ability, having for a time been an able and successful exponent of the great basic industry of agriculture.
Mr. Fendley is a native of Searcy county, his birth having occurred near Marshall January 21, 1868, and he is one of those who have paid this favored portion of the Bear state the supreme compliment of remaining here throughout almost the entire course of his life, although familiar with other scenes. His father, John H. Fendley, resides at Camphell, Arkan- sas, but was born near Birmingham, Alabama, in October, 1840, and came to Arkansas in 1858, when a youth within several years of his majority. IIe engaged in farm work for the few years intervening until the outbreak of the Civil war and then enlisted in the Union army, with whose cause he was in sympathy. He was a member of the Third Arkansas Cavalry and Vol. III-11
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served in the Western department, operating against Price and other Con- federate forces while his regiment was in the field.
The elder Mr. Fendley was married in Searcy county to Nancy E. Wilson, a daughter of John Wilson, who settled here an immigrant from his son-in-law's own native state-Alabama. Mr. Wilson was a farmer and a soldier and met his death during the progress of the Civil war. Mrs. Fendley was born in Arkansas and she became the mother of Margaret, who died as the wife of E. O. Makin; Louisa, wife of Thomas Smith, of Leslie, Arkansas; William W., of this review; James F., of Campbell, Arkansas; Arkie, who married Green Sutterfield and resides in Leslie, Arkansas; Thomas and C. B., resident at Campbell, Arkansas; and E. (., who makes his home at the same place.
Mr. Fendley, the immediate subject of this review, lived during that part of his boyhood included between the years 1875 and 1881 in the state of Oregon, whence his parents had removed in the former year. The charms and advantages of their former residence ever remained vivid with them and they returned in the year last mentioned. His educational discip- line was thus obtained in both the public schools of Oregon and of Arkan- sas, and when he reached years of discretion and independence he engaged in farming. He followed this vocation for more than a decade, or until 1902. in which year he received the appointment of deputy sheriff and col- lector of Searcy county and for four years served under Sheriff Bromley, his vigilence and indefatigability becoming renowned. In 1906 he was elected on the Republican ticket as the successor of Mr. Bromley and filled the superior office for two years. In February, 1909, he was appointed postmaster of Marshall, which, in addition to his partnership in the mer- cantile firm of J. N. Bromley & Company, constitutes his business and official connection with the affairs of the county seat. He is very well known and exceptionally popular, and doubtless many years of usefulness in his chosen field lie before him.
Mr. Fendley laid the foundation of a household of his own when, January 19, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss Georgiana Sutter- field, a daughter of Nathaniel Sutterfield. Mr. Sutterfield is a farmer and came when young from Tennessee to this state. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Fendley have been born a trio of young citizens, namely, Albert, Willie and Dainy.
Mr. Fendley has several fraternal affiliations, in all of which he takes great pleasure. He is a past master of the Marshall Blue Lodge of Ma- sons, and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Woodmen of the World. In politics he gives his allegiance to the "Grand Old Party," as it is termed by its friends and admirers.
SHEM E. HOLLABAUGH is one of the leading merchants of Marshall; has been conspicuously identified with the political, industrial and com- mercial affairs of Searcy county for many years; is one of the stanchest Republicans in the state; and his service as an Arkansas legislator has placed him well on the road toward a broader leadership in public affairs. He is a native of that county, being born near Leslie, August 20, 1869, to Emanuel F. and Frances (Hatchett) Hollabaugh. The family is of Ger- man lineage, although George Ilollabaugh, the grandfather, was an emi- grant from Tennessee who settled in Wiley's Cove as early as 1840: it is said that his immediate American ancestors were Pennsylvanians. He mar- ried a Miss DePriest, who bore him the following: Catherine, who married J. E. Shipman ; John A., who served in the Confederate army and now lives in Oklahoma ; Emanuel F. (father of Mr. Hollabaugh), who still re- sides near Leslie; Jane, wife of James Thomas, a Texan; Thomas, who
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was killed in the Confederate ranks during Price's famous raid; and Rosanna, who married a Mr. Griffin, of Leslie, Arkansas.
Emanuel F. Hollabaugh acquired the elements of an education and has made the best of his opportunities through life; by persistent reading and thinking he has kept abreast of events and, in bis person, built up an intelligent and sincere type of citizenship worthy of the highest commenda- tion. Although his people were in sympathy with the cause of the Con- federacy, he supported the Union cause and joined the Federal army as a member of the Third Arkansas Cavalry. Before the war concluded, he had been twice wounded and once taken prisoner, and never turned aside to avoid a fight in defense of the cause which he believed to be right. With the re-establishment of peace the father resumed the work of the farm, and has since spent an industrious and contented life in the vicinity of Wiley's Cove, where he settled with his good father more than seventy years ago. It may be stated that his wife (nee Frances Hatchett) was the daughter of King Hatchett, who was a southern man and was connected by blood and marriage with numerous relatives who were prominent in the South. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel F. Hollabaugh : Fount G., of Leslic; Shem E., of this notice; Alice, widow of a Mr. Stephenson, of Wiley's Cove; Charles M., of Marshall, a school teacher; Dr. Andrew N., a member of the faculty of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennes- see : Nellie; Myrtle, wife of John Bryant, of Wiley's Cove; Dr. C. B., of Leslie, and Essie, a student of the University of Arkansas.
While coming to manhood Shem E. Hollabaugh acquired a thorough education in the common schools, the Marshall High School and Valley Springs Academy. His active independent life was begun as a teacher in Searcy county and he was engaged in that line for six years, four of which he served as county examiner. In that capacity he had virtual charge of the educational work of the county, making reports of the progress of the schools, encouraging the grading of schools wherever found possible, and inspiring a higher and broader spirit among the teachers than is evinced by the mere cashing of monthly vouchers and "keeping school."
When Mr. Hollabaugh left the educational field he became deputy under Sheriff Bromley and spent a year in that office, after which he en- tered commercial affairs in Marshall as a member of the firm of Sooter & Hollabaugh. Although he has been variously identified with enterprises and firms he has since remained true to the world of business and its auxiliaries. He erected and owns the store in which he transacts his busi- ness and has other good property in Marshall; is also a stockholder and director in the Marshall Bank and is interested in fruit-growing and farm- ing.
Mr. Hollabaugh's public services commenced as a member of the city council of Marshall when he resided within the corporate limits, were con- tinued on the school board when the special district was established and the new brick building was erected for the city, and were still further enhanced in value as postmaster and representative in the lower house of the legisla- ture. His sturdy Republicanism was recognized by the administration when President Mckinley appointed him to the postmastership of Marshall, and in 1906 he resigned the office to make the race for state representative. He was elected and participated in the session of 1907. He was secretary of the good roads committee and ably agitated the subject of systematic improvement in the thoroughfares of the state as an aid to the business and happiness of the rural populace, as well as to travelers in general. He also urged the appropriation of additional funds for educational purposes, and introduced a bill in the interest of pure drugs and foods, but some of the measures which he advocated seemed to be in advance of public senti-
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ment and did not become laws. In early life Mr. Hollabaugh became a Ma- son, and has taken all the degrees of the York rite; has also long served in the Grand Lodge of the state and for seven years as deputy grand master. As it should be, his life has been rounded by a happy marriage and satis- fying domesticity. His union with Miss Allie Sanders, daughter of M. A. Sanders, on the 20th of August, 1896, has borne fruit in a bright family of children-Gladys, Ernest, Ralph (deceased), Bessie, Zif, Wilber and Evert.
GEORGE B. MALLORY. The life record of George B. Mallory is an- other proof of the fact that in America the way to public honor is over the road of public usefulness and activity. With no special advantages in his youth, he entered upon his business career empty-handed, and by sheer force of character, unfaltering perseverance and capability worked his way up- ward, long maintaining a creditable and responsible position as a repre- sentative of business interests in Forrest City, St. Francis county, Arkan- sas. It was his known reliability of character combined with his loyalty and progressiveness in citizenship that won him the office of sheriff, to which he was elected in 1910.
Mr. Mallory was born in Shelby county, near the city of Memphis, Tennessee, on the 25th of February, 1849, and he is a son of Edward and Elizabeth (Chambless) Mallory, both of whom were born and reared in the state of Virginia, where their respective families had long figured promi- nently in public affairs. The father was born near Petersburg, Virginia, and he immigrated to Shelby county, Tennessee, about the year 1846. In 1850 Edward Mallory removed with his family to St. Francis county, Ar- kansas, locating at Mount Vernon, which was then the county seat but which has long since passed out of existence even as a town. He was a successful planter, slave-owner, merchant and lawyer and was a mau of extensive influence in the days prior to and after the Civil war. In the Confederate army he was a gallant soldier in the Fifth Arkansas Regiment, of which he became major. Subsequently he returned home and organized a company and as a soldier he gained distinctive renown for unusual brav- ery and faithfulness. Ile served two terms as judge of St. Francis county and was also a member of the state legislature. All his resources were practically wiped out by the depression of the war period, and although he did a great deal toward recuperating his broken fortunes he was sum- moned from the scene of his mortal endeavors before he had been able to accomplish very much in that direction. His death occurred in 1868 and his loss was regarded as a cause for grief throughout the section in which he had long resided. Mrs. Mallory was summoned to the life eternal in 1862.
George B. Mallory was thrown upon his own resources at a very early age ; he provided for the dependent members of his family after his father's death and he made a brave and commendable start in life in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties. There was very little money in circu- lation and most of the markets were closed in the period following on the heels of the war ; in fact, there was but little to offer as a reward for earnest thrift and industry. These adverse circumstances also prevented him from obtaining a fair education, but having a fine natural intelligence he has ably supplemented his early discipline through reading and association with men of affairs. He now owns a fine plantation one mile north of Forrest City, where he reared his family and where he resided up to 1897, since which time he has maintained his home in Forrest City. He has had a long and eminently successful career as a county official. In 1896 he was elected clerk of St. Francis county, serving in that capacity for twelve
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years in succession. In 1910 he was further honored by his fellow citizens in that he was then elected sheriff of the county. He is a very popular man, commanding a high place in the esteem of the community and in poli- tics he is aligned as a strong supporter of the principles of the Democratic party. He has always manifested an ardent interest in matters touching the general welfare and his conduct has ever been such as to redound to his credit.
In the year 1873 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Mallory to Miss Cornelia Langhinghouse, who was born and reared in Alabama. To this union were born thirteen children, but of the number only three are now living, namely : Mrs. Claudia Buford, Mrs. Mary Taylor and Bert Mallory. Mr. and Mrs. Mallory are zealous members of the Methodist church and they are active workers in religious and charitable affairs.
GEORGE H. LYMAN. Descended from fine old New England ancestry, George H. Lyman is decidedly a man of influence at Fort Smith, Sebastian county, Arkansas, where he has resided since 1884 and where he is an official in the Lyman Real Estate Company and in the Lyman Abstract Company, besides which he is. also interested in many other business con- cerns of broad scope and importance.
Born in Sangamon county, near Springfield, Illinois, on the 4th of October, 1850, Mr. Lyman is a son of Henry Pratt and Mercy (Sanders) Lyman, both of whom are now deceased. Henry Pratt Lyman was a rep- resentative of the well known family of that name, which produced so many prominent figures in New England history. He was born at Willis- ton, Vermont, as was also his wife, and they came thence to Sangamon county, Illinois, in the year 1833, location being made on a farm. Mr. Lyman was a substantial and prosperous citizen in Illinois until his death which occurred in 1882. He was a stanch Union man during the strenuous period of the Civil war and was a close friend and associate of President Lincoln, who was his counsel in all legal matters. Henry P. Lyman was a son of Dr. John Lyman, who, when very young, removed from his birth place, Lebanon, New Hampshire, to Williston, Vermont. Dr. Lyman was a son of Abel Lyman, a native of New Hampshire and a lieutenant in the Continental army in the War of the Revolution. Abel Lyman was a direct descendant of Richard Lyman, of England, who coming to Amer- ica in 1631 on the good ship "Lion" with the celebrated Indian apostle Eliot and the Winthropes settled at Hartford, Connecticut, and became one of the founders of Hartford and his name is inscribed on a stone column in the rear of Centre Church, Hartford, erected in memory of the settlers of the city, while his will is the first on record. Thus was founded the Lyman family in this country. The genealogical history of the family shows a long and creditable record in England prior to the establishment of the American branch. Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Lyman became the parents of six children, two dying in infancy, and of the number George H. was the sixth in order of birth. The mother passed to her reward in the year 1887.
To the public schools of Sangamon county, Illinois, Mr. Lyman, of this review, is indebted for his early educational discipline, which was later effectively supplemented by a course of study in the University of Illinois, at Champaign, in the civil engineering department of which ex- cellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1872. For twelve years after his graduation he was actively engaged in the work of his profession, principally in connection with the engineering depart- ment of various railroads-the Illinois Central, the old Cairo & Vincennes Railroad, the old Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and others. He first came
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to Arkansas in 1882, locating in the city of Little Rock. In 1884 he dis- continued active work as an engineer and in that year located at Fort Smith, in Sebastian county, which place has since represented his home. He was the founder of the first abstract company in this city, in connec- tion with the affairs of which prosperous concern he has since been actively identified. This corporation is known as the Lyman Abstract Company, in which he is incumbent of the offices of secretary and treasurer. He was the first president of Arkansas Land Title Association. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Lyman Real Estate Company, another of the most prominent and successful business enterprises in Fort Smith. He is also secretary of the Home Mutual Building and Loan Association of Fort Smith, which is one of the soundest financial institutions of the South. These three companies have played an important part in the growth and development of Sebastian county and in the business world their high standing is of unexcelled order. Mr. Lyman is a man of re- markable initiative ability, which, as combined with unusual foresight and indefatigable energy, is the secret of his rapid rise to a foremost position in large financial affairs.
At Champaign, Illinois, on the 16th of January, 1873, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Lyman to Miss Emily Stewart, also a student at the University of Illinois, who was born at Frankfort, Ohio, and who was a daughter of Samuel Gillespie Stewart and Jane Robinson Evans. Mrs. Lyman belongs to families of great intellectual ability being a great grand- daughter of Lieut. Samuel Gillespie of Ulster county, New York, of revolutionary fame, and Esther Rainey. She has also a revolutionary rec- ord in her great grandfather. Hugh Archibald Stewart, who married in the Roxburghe-Smith family. both of Philadelphia, while her grand- father. Col. Robert Stewart of the State Guards, who married Esther Gillespie, of New York, was a diplomat and landowner in Ohio, platting Washington Court House in 1811. He was an intimate friend of Salmon P. Chase during the troublous times of anti-war period. Mrs. Lyman blending the courage and enthusiasm of her Scotch ancestry, is an earn- est toiler in all social service effort of her adopted town. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman have two children, Henry Pratt Lyman, a student of the University of Illinois and who is now associated with his father in business at Fort Smith ; and Georgina, a graduate of the Leland Stanford University of California in 1907. and now the wife of Paul Carroll Edwards, of Dallas, Texas.
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