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Dr. Shinn married Elizabeth Sanders, a daughter of Peter S. Sanders, a native of New Jersey, who removed to Douglass county, Missouri, and thence to Arkansas. Their sons and daughters were James M., of this review ; Thomas J., Jr., of Waggoner. Oklahoma, a graduate of the medi- cal department of the University of Arkansas and a practicing physician ; Sanders, of Western Grove, Arkansas; Ernest (., of Yardell, Arkansas, engaged in the mercantile business; Jennie, wife of Robert Johnson, of Western Grove, Arkansas; Maude, who married Allen Thompson and re- sides at the same point ; and Claude, wife of John B. Gray, also of Western Grove.
James M. Shinn was reared in the vicinity of his birthplace and re- ceived his education in the rural schools, and also in those of Mountain Home, Baxter county, Arkansas. While still quite young he chose the law as a profession and began preparation for it in the office of Judge Spear, of Jasper. He began its practice before he was twenty years old, in the inferior courts, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1893. 1Ie was ad- mitted to the Federal court and became a member of the law firm of Brisco & Shinn at Jasper immediately upon his admission. He remained in this association until his election as prosecuting attorney of the Fourteenth judicial district of Arkansas in 1899 and two years later he located at Har- rison. He was returned twice to the same office at as many elections and served six years as the state's representative in all criminal prosecutions of the district. His term of office covered a period of much activity among the criminal class, all sorts of crimes against the peace and dignity of the state coming under his jurisdiction for settlement, and, while many were atrocious. none exceeded the murder of George Miller by John Blair. In spite of the fact that "self-defense" was pleaded and there were no wit- nesses to the killing, Mr. Shinn secured a verdiet of guilty and Blair received a twelve-year sentence.
Since the expiration of his office as prosecuting attorney Mr. Shinn has been engaged in practice at Harrison. He was a candidate for cireuit
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judge before the primary of 1906, when Judge Hudgins was nominated, taking part in a triangular race. He has frequently attended Democratic state conventions as a delegate and was present at the Democratic national convention of 1908.
On October 23, 1893, Mr. Shinn was married to Miss Victoria Phil- lips, daughter of Captain A. C. Phillips, once receiver of the United States land office at Harrison and one of its former merchants. Captain Phillips, who is a veteran of the Union army, is at present a resident of Jasper, Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Shinn have two children-Darrell and Martha.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Shinn is a Master Mason and a member of the Chapter and Commandery. He rejoices in several Masonic dignities, being past master, past high priest, and past eminent commander. In the matter of church faith he is a member of the South Methodist Episcopal.
GEORGE H. COTTON, who is in the real estate and title business at Harrison, is also a large land-owner in Boone county, and a fine ex- ample of the value of forethought, as well as of thoroughness. in the American citizen of today. He has been identified with that locality since 1873, when, as a boy of twelve he accompanied his parents hither from Dodge county, Wisconsin, where his birth occurred December 6, 1860. The Cotton family is of that famous English stoek whose de- scendants became so noted in the religions and civie history of New England, but the particular braneh to which George H. is related is of Laneashire origin. In 1836, the year after the birth of his father (George G. Cotton). the family left England and settled in Dodge eounty. This was during the early territorial times of Wisconsin, when all the country bordering on the Mississippi was considered as the far frontier of the United States.
In this western mining and agricultural region on the Mississippi George G. Cotton outgrew his babyhood and boyhood, attended the pioneer school of the place and time, married Mary F. Franek, and in 1873 brought his wife and family to Boone county. where he engaged in farming until his death, at Harrison in 1891, at the age of fifty-six years. His widow, who survives him at the age of seventy-three years, is the mother of Kate, who married 1). W. Brandt, of Worcester, Ohio, and George H., of this sketch.
The youth and early manhood of George H. Cotton were spent in the country adjacent to Harrison, and the rural schools of the neigh- borhood suffieed to give him a smattering of book learning. But the serious business of those years was "doing chores" around the farm, eutting cord-wood (at $1.50 per cord) and at a later period, farming in a general and a scientific way. Some years after attaining his ma- jority he abandoned agricultural pursuits and engaged in the real es- tate business at Harrison, dealing in both country and eity property. For years a large proportion of the agricultural and mineral lands which have changed hands in Boone county have been handled by him. Perhaps the prime reason for his unusual success in this regard is that he has had the forethought and the perseverance to perfeet the only comparatively perfeet set of abstraets to land titles in the county. Some years ago he began the heavy task of compiling this invaluable record from the county books and documents, and fortunately had finished his work before the destruetive fire of 1908 played such havoe with all the original sources of such information. In the course of his real es- tate dealings he has also acquired several tracts of promising mineral lands, as well as large areas of farm property, with the result that he has beeome an extensive owner of real estate and not alone dealer in it.
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In April, 1884, Mr. Cotton married at Harrison, Miss Sallie Curd, daughter of Edward S. Curd, who came hither from Somerville, Ar- kansas. The offspring of their union are Ida L .. now the wife of Riley B. Cecill, of Harrison : George E., associated with his father, the latter particularly as an abstractor: Frederick William, a bookkeeper resid ing at Stigler, Oklahoma: Walter, Henry, Kate and Frank.
Aside from his personal affairs, Mr. Cotton is deeply interested in Odd Fellowship. He is a student of the subject; has served his lodge in various capacities, including representative to the Grand Lodge, and has been district deputy grand master of Boone county for some years. He is far removed from activity in politics, aspiring to no distinction at the hands of voters and to no honor save that which is due him as a worthy citizen and man.
CHARLES M. GREENE. In according recognition to those who have contributed to the upbuilding of Harrison, Arkansas, there is special consistency in offering record concerning the life and labors of this well-known and honored citizen, who holds a position of distinctive pre- cedence as president of the Citizens' Bank of Harrison. He is a veteran of the Civil war and he has been a factor in the affairs of the state. and particularly in those of Harrison and Washington counties, for nearly forty years. Mr. Greene belongs to Illionis by birth and to Arkansas by choice, his birth having taken place in Crawford county of the former state. July 14, 1842, and his identification with Arkansas dates from the year 1872. His boyhood and youth were passed in the vicinity of Elgin, Illinois, where his parents located a little subsequent to his birth and his early life was passed amid the wholesome delights of country life. He seeured his education in the common schools of the neighborhood, and finished in those of Geneva, Illinois. Shortly after he bade farewell to his desk in the school room the Civil war changed the course of life for the majority of the young men of the nation and he enlisted in the Federal army. His first enlistment was in April, 1861. for the three months' service. and he spent the most of this period in Chicago. In the July following he enlisted in Company H, of the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, which was under command of Colonel Stew- art. and he was soon put on detail in the bodyguard of General Curtis, and later did similar service for General Halleck. He was a part of the escort for General Steele's army in Arkansas and it was his portion to participate in many of the great events of the immortal struggle. He was with General Sherman's army when it made its first attack on Vicksburg, in December. 1862, and he was present at the engagements at Cotton Plant. Arkansas Post. and the siege of Little Rock in the month of September, 1863. Following that affair he was promoted to a lieutenaney and was assigned to outpost duty around Lewisburg. where he was mustered out June 30. 1865. when in eonfliet with the army of General Price in the fall of 1864 he had the misfor- tune to receive a wound which caused him great inconvenience and disabled him for some time.
After the close of the war Mr. Greene returned to his native state and there remained a year, the greater part of this time being devoted to an effort at entire recuperation. He then decided upon a change of scene and went to Humansville, Polk eonnty, Missouri, where for a few years he engaged in various pursuits, and in 1871 took up contracting and building. The next year he came to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and there engaged in the same line of endeavor as at Humansville, but only for a short time. for he eventually entered the internal revenue service
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of the government as a deputy collector. He served with great usefulness in this capacity until 1885, when Grover Cleveland entered upon his first administration and he was relieved. It was when looking about him for a new field of occupation that he then became identified with banking interests and his first position in the new line of endeavor was in the Mellroy Bank of Fayetteville, of which he became assistant cashier, and remained in this association until 1889, when he was ap- pointed register of the United States land offiee, which appointment took him to Harrison. He continued in this government position until President Cleveland a second time became chief executive and room was made for his successor. His past faithfulness and efficiency in public trust had so recommended him that he was appointed receiver of the land office by President Theodore Roosevelt, and he held this import- ant post for four years.
Sinee retiring from the public service, Mr. Greene has been identi- fied with banking in Harrison, and in truth, the Citizens' Bank owes its existence to him, for it was established by him in 1897, and for some time he served as its cashier. This substantial and conservative insti- tution has a capital of $25,000; is a state bank; and enjoys an ever- growing patronage. Mr. Greene is president, while the other officers are R. T. Knight, vice-president ; and Frank R. Greene, cashier.
It is but natural that Mr. Greene should become interested in state and national polities, for he is patriotie, public-spirited and deeply in- terested in the issues of the day. His identifieation with political matters is almost eo-incident with his first arrival in Arkansas. He had aided in the preservation of the Union and he had been a stanch supporter of the governmental policies of the Republican party from his first vote to his last, so that it was but consistent that he should do all in his power to assist in the supremaey of the organization which had proved itself the savior of his country according to his eonvietion. Known as one of the stalwarts in the eamp of Republieanism, he served as delegate to many of the Republican state conventions and he had the distinetion of being a delegate to the Republican National Conven- tion of 1888 that nominated General Harrison for the presidency. In 1896 he was a delegate to the convention at St. Louis which named Ma- jor MeKinley for the Republican standard-bearer and in 1900 at Phila- delphia, where he was again nominated, and in 1908, known to be an original Taft man, Arkansas sent him to the national convention at Chieago with her other delegates to name Mr. Taft for chief exeeu- tive of the United States.
Mr. Greene is a son of John Greene, a native of New York. John Greene married in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, Eliza Alsdorf, daughter of Jacob Alsdorf, and a native of Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, beeoming his wife. The elder Mr. Greene, who was a farmer, died in St. Clair county, Missouri, in 1888, and his wife passed away in Summer, lowa, in 1889. The issue of their union were as follows : Ellen, who became the wife of A. Gage and died in Humansville, Missouri; Olive, who married Thomas Lawrence and passed away at Elgin, Illi- nois; Charles M., of Harrison, Arkansas; Mary, who married Sylvester Pease and is a resident of Summer, Iowa; Alma, wife of Simon Frazier, of Hiawatha, Kansas: Elizabeth is the wife of John Pease and resides in Summer, Iowa; and Effie, of Humansville, Missouri.
Charles M. Greene laid the foundation of an ideally happy married life while a resident of Humansville, Missouri, the lady to become his wife and the mistress of his household being Miss Nannie E. Rousseau, a daughter of J. H. Rousseau and of French descent, as is indicated by
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the name. The children of this union are three, all sons, -Fred W., of the United States land office of Harrison; Frank R., and Charles M., Jr Mr. Greene is an enthusiastic lodge man, being a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the St. Louis Commandery of the Loyal Legion.
JAMES W. SLOVER, one of Harrison's well-known and highly re- spected citizens, is postmaster of the city and stands as one of the most efficient of the servants of Unele Sam in this part of the Bear state. He is a native son of Arkansas, his birth having occurred near Everton. in Boone county, January 28, 1868. His father, Benjamin H. Slover, died at Everton, October 19. 1908, after a mercantile eareer of many years at that point. He was born in Madison county, Arkansas, in 1848, and received but a limited edueation, but despite any deficiencies in this line he enjoyed success and was a man of wide information. Although not regularly enlisted, he served the Union eause as team- ster and cook in the Federal army and he was a stanch Republican in his politieal convictions. As postmaster his son is but following in the paternal footsteps. for he served in such eapaeity at several points, -- at Harrison, at Dugger, at Rally Hill and at Everton, and at all times proved faithful and efficient. The subjeet's paternal grandfather was James Slover, the elder, a native of the state of Illinois, who founded the family in this state nearly a century ago or about the year of 1818. He was a farmer, and after following this peaceful voeation for a great many years he was seized with the spirit of unrest and went to Cali- fornia in search of gold with the other Forty-Niners. He was lost on the Pacific Ocean when about to make his return. He was the son of Isaae Slover, who also died in the state of California, but who was a native of the Old Dominion. Ile left Arkansas about middle life and drifted out to the Paeifie coast, where he married a Spanish woman. His son, James Slover, was a son of his first marriage, and his children were Elbert, Wesley. John, Benjamin H., and Louisa, the latter of whom married John Jackson and resides in Greer county, Oklahoma.
The subject's mother was Margaret A. Dugger, a daughter of William Dugger, of Tennessee. Mr. Dugger engaged first in agrieul- ture and then in merchandising, pursuing the latter in Dugger, Arkan- sas, which community was christened with his name. Through the Duggers Mr. Slover is connected with one of the state's foremost fami- lies, William Dugger, for instance, being sent as a Republican to the state senate of Arkansas from this distriet. It was his distinetion to be one of the seventeen Republieans who eleeted General Powell Clayton to the United States Senate. Mrs. Slover died in 1894, the mother of -James W., of this review; John R., of Pindall, Arkansas; Maude, wife of W. S. Jones, resident in Seattle, Washington: Walter B., of Pindall, Arkansas; Stella, wife of George F. MeCalpin, of Everton ; and Edgar W., of Harrison.
James W. Slover received his elementary education in the publie schools and subsequently matrienlated in Peabody College at Nashville, Tennessee, graduating from this well-esteemed institution in 1893. For a deeade after returning to his native Boone county he gave most valua- ble service to the community in the eapaeity of a well-informed in- struetor of the publie sehools, and directed the young idea in the most enlightened and satisfactory manner. It was to the great regret of the citizens that he abandoned pedagogy and thereafter devoted his ener- gies to other pursuits. He entered the government serviee and was store keeper and gauger for the United States for the ensuing ten years,
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being stationed at various points in the state. His present incumbency dates from February 16, 1910, when he succeeded A. B. Andrews to the postmastership, taking the oath of office March 15, 1910. The office has already experienced a wholesome growth and the citizens have found his service faithful and intelligent. He is one of Harrison's eminently public spirited citizens and may be relied upon to give his right hand to all causes he believes will contribute to the advancement of the whole social body. His fraternal association is limited to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is both prominent and popular.
On June 24, 1900, Postmaster Slover formed a happy and congenial companionship by his marriage with America MeCalpin, a daughter of Samuel N. McCalpin, of Valley Springs, Arkansas. Two sons and a daughter are being reared beneath their roof-tree, namely; Rex Mc- Kinley, Mildred, and Benjamin H., named for his paternal grandfather.
HON. JOHN BARROW was born near Hampton, Calhoun county, Ar- kansas, November 28, 1868, the son of Judge J. C. Barrow and Martha Jean (Strong) Barrow. At the age of two years he removed with his family to Monticello, Drew county, Arkansas, where he attended the school of Professor W. E. Thompson and Colonel Preston until the re- moval of the family to Little Rock in 1883, when he entered the public schools, being graduated from the high school in 1887. Mr. Barrow then entered Bethel College at Russellville, Kentucky, and in 1888 he received his appointment to a West Point cadetship from Congressman John H. Rogers, after a competitive examination. He remained at West Point for one year and subsequently entered the law school of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws on June 26, 1890, having previously been ad- mitted to practice in the supreme court of Michigan. Immediately on his return to Little Rock in July, 1890, he began the practice of law and has now been in the profession for more than twenty years in the same location, at Markham and Spring streets.
In the fall of 1898 Mr. Barrow was elected to the Arkansas Legis- lature as a representative of Pulaski county in the Thirty-Second Gen- eral Assembly. His record in this body was a most brilliant and useful one. He favored all progressive legislation, such as encouraging the building of factories, new lines of railroads, good public roads and high- ways, diversified agriculture and the bringing into the state of foreign capital for investment. Mr. Barrow was the friend of the Fellow- Servant bill and many other measures in the interest of the laboring classes, and he was active in securing the passage of the first law for the building of the new state house.
In connection with his law practice Mr. Barrow has become greatly interested in the development and improvement of Little Rock real estate. In 1907 he platted the largest addition to Little Rock, called John Bar- row's addition and located on the Nineteenth street pike, which has two hundred and twenty-four blocks of twelve lots each, in all two thousand, six hundred and eighty-eight lots. This addition is now being settled and built up, most of the lots having been sold. Mr. Barrow also has large real estate holdings in Argenta and Little Rock.
Mr. Barrow's ancestry is of the best, his maternal grandfather, Elijah Frink Strong, having been a graduate of Yale University, and his maternal great-grandfather, Christopher Crouch, having been a sergeant in a Connecticut regiment during the Revolutionary war. The Strong
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family, of which Mr. Barrow's mother was a member. is descended from John Strong, who came over from England in 1630; founded Dorehester, Massachusetts, and helped to found fonr other towns. On his father's side Mr. Barrow is descended from the Barrows and Willies, early set- tlers of North Carolina. Mr. Barrow is identified with many of the best interests of the city and has been a member of the Second Baptist church of Little Rock for more than twenty years. Fraternally he is a member of the Robert C. Newton Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
On the 7th of December, 1898, in Christ Episcopal church, Little Rock, Mr. Barrow was married to Miss Katherine Braddock. a daughter of Colonel John S. Braddock and Margaret (Burson) Braddock. Two sons were born of this union, but the elder, born October 8. 1899, died in infaney ; the younger, John Council Barrow, Jr., was born December 5, 1900.
Mrs. Katherine (Braddock) Barrow is one of the most brilliant, enltured and charming of the women of Little Rock and she has ever been prominent in the social life of the city. She has been regent of the Little Rock Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and she now holds the distinguished office of state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Arkansas. She is a member of the national society of the Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America by virtue of descent from Joseph Burson, a Quaker who founded Qnaker- town, Pennsylvania, and also from Ensign John Burson. Mrs. Barrow organized the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812 in Arkansas, the chapter in Little Rock being named for her great- grandfather, Nicholas Headington. She has been state president of the Daughters of 1812 since its inception and was recently eleeted at the national convention of the order Historian National for a period of four years. Mrs. Barrow has represented Arkansas at the Continental Con- gress of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C., for the last five years annually, and in 1910 represented Arkansas at the national convention of the Daughters of 1812. Mrs. Barrow is a graduate of the Mount Vernon (Ohio) high school and also of the H. Thane Miller School of Cineinnati, Ohio. She has studied art extensively at the Cincinnati Art Academy and at Mrs. Frackelton's studio in Mil- waukee, as also with private instructors. She is of versatile attain- ments and her musical ability is sneh that she sang in the May Festival of 1896 in Cincinnati. Mrs. Barrow is an enthusiastic worker in Christ Episcopal church, being a member of the Daughters of the King and a former member of the ehoir. In addition to her other important affilia- tions she is a member of the Aesthetic Club and former president of the Tuesday Musical Club and she has often represented these organizations at the state Federation of Women's Clubs. Of great strength of intellect and character and charm of personality, Mrs. Barrow is a natural leader and is known and admired far and wide.
Mr. and Mrs. Barrow are counted among the substantial residents of Little Rock, having lived continuously in their own home at 1309 Arch street, and having aceumnlated considerable property, both real and personal. Their home is one of the most delightful and hospitable of the abodes of the city.
JOHN R. NEWMAN. Some men are blessed with the happy tem- perament of being equipoised. mentally and physically; their bodily energies are equal to any intellectual strain put upon them, and their mentality is never exhausted by physical lassitude. They constitute the material out of which reformers are made: from which come the
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practical leaders of the active and typieal American life, which is both clear-thinking and strong-acting. These counterbalancing traits of man- hood, especially evident in the men of the west and the southwest, who have impressed their communities with their vital personalities, are «learly to be noted in the careers of Thomas Newman, the well-educated Englishman and fiery "Freesoiler" of the late fifties, who stubbornly and bravely fought for his principles with his newspaper and his musket, and his son of to-day, Captain John R. Newman, editor and proprietor of the Harrison Times, the oldest paper in Boone county : ex-president of the Arkansas Press Association ; a "hustler" for troops in the Spanish-American war; ex-mayor of Harrison and long chairman of its school board: a talented musician; and a leader in the work of the Methodist church, Sonth. The father was one of the founders of the State Press Assaciation, also mayor of Harrison, and there are many points of resemblance in the sturdy and alert characters of the elder and the younger man which will be evident in the record of their eareers.
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