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Hiram Dudley Glass was married while living at Ripley, Tennessee, to Miss Jennie Palmer, the date of the solemnization of their union being October 8, 1872. Mrs. Glass is the daughter of William and Mary (Davie) Palmer, the former an ante-bellum planter and slave owner, whose original home was Virginia. Mrs. Glass was born in Tennessee in 1851. The children who have blessed this union are as follows: Mary, wife of Rev. J. D. Cunningham, of Holly Springs, Mississippi; Laura, wife of Frank Greene, cashier of the Citizens' Bank, of Harrison, Arkansas; P. T. Glass, assistant cashier of the Layton Bank of Yellville, Arkansas; Hiram D., Jr., a veteran of the Spanish-American war, now residing in the state of Washington; Frank, who married Miss Josie Crump and died in 1904 when just entering his career, and who is survived by the following: Ada Sue, who married Max Williams, of Ripley, Tennessee; and William P., who is with the United States Express Company in St. Lonis. The Glass home is the center of a refined and attractive hospitality and both the subject and his wife are prominent in the many-sided life of the com- munity. Mr. Glass is a member of the Baptist church and he is ac- counted one of its pillars, attending its assembly meetings and serving in an official capacity in the Harrison congregation. He gives sympathy and support to all good measures likely to result in the popular welfare and fulfills admirably the highest duty of mankind as a good citizen.
IVAN M. DAVIS. As one who has contributed in due measure to the development and substantial upbuilding of Mena, Polk county, during recent years, Mr. Davis, manager of the Kizer Telephone Company, is well entitled to recognition in this volume, destined to chroniele the lives and achievements of representative citizens of Arkansas. Although his identification with the city dates from the year 1903, in his short resi- dence here he has had time to demonstrate many essential qualities of good citizenship and stands ready to give heart and hand to all measures likely to result in progress and general benefit. At the last city election he was elected alderman to represent the Second Ward.
Ivan M. Davis was born at Decatur, Illinois, on the 3d day of October 1863. His parents are H. W. and Martha (Stiekel) Davis, natives of Illinois. In Decatur Mr. Davis was reared and educated, but eventually came farther south and for about twelve years previous to taking up his residence in this place he made his home at Texarkana, Bowie county, Texas, where he was engaged in the lumber business. His connection with the telephone business is now of about the duration of a decade. Since 1902, when he came to Mena, he has held the position of manager for the Kizer Telephone Company, which owns and operates the local and rural telephone lines in Mena and Polk county, with adequate long-dis- tance connections. This has proved a most fertile field, over five hun- dred telephones having been placed in operation in Mena and close vicinity. The management has proved itself of the highest class and excel- lent service has been afforded to satisfied patrons. Mr. Davis has won the confidence and regard of all those with whom he has come into contact and he is recognized as a very real factor in the general growth and development.
On the 10th day of October, 1891, Mr. Davis laid the foundation
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of a happy home and an ideally congenial life companionship by his marriage to Miss Edith Harrington, their union being celebrated in Little Rock, the home city of the bride. Mrs. Davis is a daughter of Chester A. and Sarah (Williams) Harrington, and Humphrey, Arkansas, was her birthplace. A quartet of young citizens are growing up beneath their roof-tree, namely: Harry I., Chester, Skee and Lois.
Fraternally Mr. Davis belongs to the time-honored Masonic order, and he is Democratic in political conviction.
HENRY PACE, M. D. The medical profession of Carroll county, Ar- kansas, is honored by the presence of the name of Dr. Henry Pace, of Eureka Springs, upon its rolls. He is a native son of Arkansas and was born in Harrison, Boone county, October 9, 1837. He was reared in Harrison, the family home, and received his education in the public schools and in the University of Arkansas, which he attended to his junior year. His first adventures as a wage earner in the great world of affairs were obtained as a clerk in a shoe store in Ft. Smith, this position being assumed soon after he left the university. In fact he spent four years in this capacity before he took up the serions work of preparing for the medical profession. Having fully arrived at the determination to become a physician he entered the Washington University at St. Louis and finished his medical course there in May, 1893. The concluding step of his prepa- ration was as interne in the City Hospital and a further service of like nature was given as senior interne in the Female Hospital of the city, and upon concluding this work he returned to Arkansas, fully equipped, and established himself at Eureka Springs. He has proved his quality in most satisfactory manner and is highly esteemed by both laity and profession. It is his constant aim to keep abreast of all the advancement in his particular line and he holds secure place in the regard of his fellow practitioners as a result of his close adherence to the unwritten code
of professional ethics. Iin 1910 Dr. Pace took a course in the Post Graduate School of Medicine in New York City, and he holds member- ship in the County, State and American Associations, being secretary of the Carroll County Society.
Dr. Pace is a son of the far-famed lawyer and pioneer of the Arkansas bar, William Fletcher Pacc, of Harrison, whose identification with the legal fraternity of northern Arkansas is of forty years' duration. Only a decade before, the courts of the state had extended their influence over this section and many of the old "wheel-horses" who drove the pioneer stakes in the law business were still in the vigor of professional activity. Among the most conspicuous figures in that earlier period was Colonel Dotson, of Yellville, a coloncl in the Confederate army, an advocate and man of personal force. There was James A. Wilson, of Boone county, a strong man and one well known over a wide territory, who possessed many quali- ties to commend him to the favor of those seeking legal counsel. W. W. Watkins was an ante-bellum attorney and a familiar figure at court when its sittings were held at Carrollton, and he followed the court in its pere- grinations until within a comparatively late period, also serving several terms in the Arkansas Senate. Judge Pittman was elevated to the bench from among a coterie of pioneer attorneys and for a number of years dispensed justice over a large number of counties in the northwestern part of the state. Judge David Walker had a judicial career before the war and is remembered as a man of force and talent. Judge Peel, who also rejoiced in the title of Colonel, was one of the most valuable and en- lightened of the members of the Arkansas bar. He had begun his career some time before the first guns were fired at Fort Sumter and he was
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destined for an honorable and brilliant career. He grew to young man- hood without education, but with purpose and ambition, and no one could have been better entitled to the description-self-made. Few have so impressed their individuality upon the court and its environment and his fame at the bar won him election to Congress, but when he retired from the United States Assembly he engaged in business in preference to re- suming the law. He held many offices and enjoyed many distinctions, being prosecuting attorney of the district prior to the conflict between the states ; a member of the Supreme court of the state during the period of reconstruction ; and after his retirement from that body he still had many years of active connection with the Northwestern Arkansas bar.
Captain Pace, for so it is that this noted lawyer is best known to his friends and admirers, was born some six miles south of Temple, Texas, July 1, 1840. The Lone Star State was then midway in its brief career as an independent republic, and the father, William Pace, had migrated to this section of troublous history from Calloway county, Mis- souri. The senior Mr. Pace engaged in the live stock business in what was then Milam county and is now Bell county, and was there summoned to his reward in 1841. He was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1793, received a limited education, and was a son of William Pace, a Revolutionary patriot. John Pace, father of the foregoing, founded the family in Virginia, and was the great-great-grandfather of the young man whose name stands at the head of this review.
William Pace, his grandfather, came to Calloway county, Missouri, about the time the state entered the American union and was there married to Hester Armitage, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Following the deatlı of her husband Ifester Pace took her children back to Missouri and estab- lished herself in Dent county. The offspring of William and Hester Pace were Henry, who died, leaving a family in Dent county, Missouri ; William F., of Harrison, Arkansas ; and Mrs. Mary Wolf, of St. Louis, Missouri. Both sons subsequently entered the Confederate service and Henry was killed during the war and is buried in the Confederate cemetery at Spring- field, Missouri.
William Fletcher Pace in his earlier youth received a modest and for the most part self-inflicted education. The pioneer school was an institu- tion in which there was a great deal to be desired and it was impossible to become unduly erudite within its rude walls. The professions of law and medicine were both represented in his family, and he had a predilection for both and a badly divided heart when the question of chosing one of them for his own confronted him. In fact, previous to the war he had done a good deal of reading in both branches, and after that conflict his general education, although it had been obtained in a rather desultory manner, served him in good stead, for he prefaced his career as a bread- winner in the manner of so many Americans, as a country pedagogue.
The first year of the Civil war found Captain Pace a soldier in the Missouri State Guard of the division of General McBride, of the Con- federate army. While in the state troops he took part in the battles of Pea Ridge and Wilson's Creck, being wounded in the former engagement. When he was mustered into the Confederate service he was in Colonel Mitchell's Regiment, of General Frost's Brigade, and took part in much of the marching, skirmishing and fighting of this department during the remainder of the war. The battle of Jenkins' Ferry on Saline River was the chief engagement in which he participated under his regular enlist- ment. Captain Pace, with his comrades-at-arms, closed his military career with the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department and accepted the
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situation as the final solution of the great question of slavery, which had disturbed the politics of the country for years.
His mother had died during the war and his sister had married, and Captain Pace, knowing the home in Missouri to be broken up, did not return to the state after the end of the war. Instead he located in Wood- ruff county, Arkansas, and eked out an existence there until 1868, when with his newly married wife he came out to the new county of Boone in an ox wagon and domiciled himself in a one-room log cabin, his first perma- nent home in Boone county. He lost no time in taking arms against the many herculean tasks which awaited him in the new home near Harrison, the valley around which he had viewed from the top of the Boston Moun- tains while doing duty as a soldier. It was at this juncture that he kept the wolf from the door for two years as a teacher in the schools, and in the meantime he prepared himself for admission to the bar. He became a full-fledged lawyer in 1871, before Reconstruction Judge Fitzpatrick, and at once assumed his role as a factor in the making of legal history in northwestern Arkansas. First on horseback and then in buggies the law- vers of that time followed the judge over the counties of Benton, Carroll, Boone, Marion, Fulton, Washington, Madison, Newton, Searcy and Izard, and not until ten years ago did modern facilities for travel enable the legal machinery of this portion of the state to reach the majority of the court towns. Captain Pace traversed these regions for thirty years and felt the journeys no real hardship until the advent of the railroad made past conditions seem grim in contrast.
There was a time when the mode of travel above described was not more primitive and rude than court procedure and paraphernalia. Law books were scarce and the court recognized no procedure save its own. Attor- neys followed their own sweet will in trying cases and the judge "guessed" whose interpretation was the best law. The criminal cases were tried first, then the civil, but there was no docket and the cases that were ready were the ones which received the attention of the court. Political matters were of similar primitiveness. In this sphere Captain Pace also became one whose counsel was of worth and weight. He espoused the cause of the Democratic party and represented it in delegate conventions of county and state, connseling and campaigning and sowing seed which germinated in after years. In the early "Os he was urged to take the circuit clerkship of the county, a partial recompense for the time he had spent in saving the county seat for Harrison and he filled the office two years. He has given stalwart service and support to many of Arkansas' noted men, among them the Fletchers for governor; Dan Jones and Jeff Davis for the same office ; and Colonel Sam Peel for Congress. In this support he has never failed to go to the limit of his ability to win sentiment in favor of his favorite, as all who know the loval Captain and his idiosyncrasies can freely testify.
On August 22, 1866, Captain Pace took as his wife Miss Sarah J., daughter of Josephus Howell, originally of Tennessee. The issue of their union are as follows: Ida, wife of Professor A. Homer Perdue, who holds the chair of geology in the University of Arkansas; Frank, of the firm of Davis & Pace, of Little Rock, leading lawyers of the state; Dr. Henry Pace, of Eureka Springs; Miss Ada, of Harrison; Kate, wife of H. E. Cantrell. of Harrison ; and Troy Pace, junior member of the firm of Pace & Pace.
Dr. Henry Pace, as will be seen, is the third child of his parents and in his vocation reflects one of the professional tendencies of his family. Politics is a field in which he does not tread and the honors and emolu-
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ments of office exercise no irresistable attraction for him. His fraternal affiliation extends alone to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Ile has not yet become a recruit to the ranks of the Benedicts.
CHARLES EDWARD TAYLOR. The office of mavor in a great city such as Little Rock is one invested with an incalculable power for good or evil, and fortunate indeed is the municipality which secures as its chief executive a man of the calibre of Charles Edward Taylor, the present mayor of Arkansas' capital city. He is a native son of the South, his birth hav- ing occurred at Austin, Tunica county, Mississippi, September 15, 1868, his parents being William Arbuckle and Mary (Perkins) Taylor. William A. Taylor was a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and lived for many years in Mississippi. In 1874 he removed with his family to eastern Arkansas, and his death occurred soon after this change of residence, the subject being a small lad at the time he was deprived of his natural protector. At the time of the war between the states the father had served the cause he believed to be just as a soldier in the Confederate army. Mayor Taylor's mother, who resides with him in Little Rock, was born in the old town of Kaskaskia, Illinois.
When Mr. Taylor was twelve years of age he came with his widowed mother to Little Rock, and here he secured his education at the old Sherman (now the Kramer school), subsequently finishing in the Scott street high school. His experience in the thrilling game of making a livelihood began early, for even as a school-boy he contributed appreciably to the general income by selling the Gazette and the Democrat upon the streets of Little Rock. Being of an enterprising spirit, later he branched out, having carrier routes and selling magazines and outside newspapers. When he grew out of this business he entered the employ of Fones Broth- ers in their retail hardware store on Main street in the capacity of a sales- man, and he remained with them for the next seven years, gaining a general commercial experience. Following this he became a general traveling sales- man, and for another seven years he was on the road, representing the W. W. Dickinson Hardware Company. In 1901 he made a radical change by accepting the position of secretary and treasurer of the Arkansas Brick & Manufacturing Company, which position he held until he resigned to devote his entire time to the duties of mayor of Little Rock in 1911.
The municipal campaign which resulted in the nomination and elec- tion of Mr. Taylor for mayor was one of the most spectacular and hotly contested in the political history of Little Rock. This contest was for the Democratic nomination for this office in the primaries held in January, 1911. In this primary election Mr. Taylor was defeated by a very few votes by Mr. John H. Tuohey. Claiming irregularities, however, Mr. Taylor insisted upon another primary to decide the contest between him- self and Mr. Tuohey, and this primary was held in February and resulted in Mr. Taylor's election by over two hundred votes. The regular election, in which Mr. Taylor had no opponent, took place carly in April and he was inaugurated mayor of Little Rock on Monday night, April 10. In the regular primary and in the subsequent contest Mr. Taylor was enthusiastic- ally and personally supported by as devoted a crowd of friends and ad- mirers as one ever sees in modern political life, and on the night of the second primary, when his election was announced, he was carried on the shoulders of friends in the midst of a great throng of people to a jollifi- cation meeting, where in an address he reiterated his determination, ex- pressed during his campaign, to devote the best efforts of his life to the office of mayor of Little Rock, to insist upon law enforcement and the carrying out of needed reforms and improvements in the city. He became
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mayor under the most auspicious circumstances and with every promise of a wise, efficient and successful administration.
It should be said that Mr. Taylor's acceptance of the mayor's office was at considerable sacrifice financially, as he has for many years earned much more in his business than the salary of the mayor's office. However, after once deciding, upon the solicitation of his friends, to enter the race, he entered it with his accustomed energy and vigor, and with an undaunted courage that was highly commendable ne carried the contest successfully through a second primary.
Mr. Taylor inaugurated an ideally happy life companionship when on the 15th day of October, 1895, he was united in marriage to Miss Belle Blackwood, daughter of Judge and Mrs. W. F. Blackwood, of Little Rock. They have four children, Charles, Austin, Merrill and Rosemary. The Taylor home is one of the popular and delightful abodes of the city, its hospitality and culture being renowned. Mr. Taylor is a prominent mem- ber of the Second Baptist church and has been superintendent of its Sun- day-school since 1895. He has one sister living in Little Rock-Mrs. Nel- lie Fletcher, widow of the late Colonel James H. Fletcher.
THOMAS J. PRICHARD. A native son of Garland county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families, Mr. Prichard is numbered among the representative business men and highly esteemed citizens of Hot Springs, and is a young man who manifests that vital progressiveness that is causing the state of Arkansas to forge so rapidly forward along the line of civic and industrial advancement.
Mr. Prichard was born on the homestead farm of his father, about nine miles distant from Hot Springs, the capital city of Garland county, on the 12th of January, 1882, and is a son of Judge James E. and Mary E. (Kirk) Prichard, the former of whom was born in Indiana and the latter in Alabama. Judge Prichard was reared and educated in his native state and in 1858 he came to Arkansas and numbered himself among the pioneers of Garland county, which was at that time an integral part of Hot Spring county. He became one of the best known and most influential citizens of this section of the state and held the office of county judge in the early days, when the old town of Rock- port was the county seat. His homestead farm was in the section segregated from Hot Spring county for the erection of Garland county. He developed a productive and valuable farm and had much influence in connection with the advancement of the agricultural interests of this favored section of the state. His homestead, the place of birth of the subject of this review, is located nine miles southwest of Hot Springs. Judge Prichard was summoned to the life eternal in 1892, secure in the high regard of all who knew him, and his name merits enduring place on the roster of the honored pioneers of the state. He was twice married, and Thomas J., of this sketch, was one of the seven children of the second marriage. Mrs. Prichard still survives her honored husband and now resides in Hot Springs. Of the children of the first marriage one son is living, and of the second union there survive four sons and one daughter. Judge Prichard was a stanch adherent of the Republican party and his religious faith was that of the Christian church, of which his widow also has long been a zealous member.
The scenes and incidents that compassed the boyhood and youth of Thomas J. Prichard were those of the home farm, and in connection with its operations he gained his initial experience in the practical duties and responsibilities of life. In the meanwhile he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of the locality, the major part of
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such discipline having been secured in the Rush Fork school of distriet No. 32. When seventeen years of age Mr. Prichard left the parental home and entered upon an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, in the city of Hot Springs, where in due time he perfected himself in technical and practical knowledge and became a skilled artisan. He worked for some time as a journeyman at his trade, but since 1905 he has been successfully established in independent business as a contractor and builder. He has brought to bear marked energy and ability in this important field of enterprise and in the same has gained definite prestige and prosperity. He has erected a large number of buildings in Hot Springs and other parts of his native county, and one of his first im- portant contracts was for the building of the fine residence of Dr. J. C. Gebhart, on Whittington avenue. A large number of high grade residences and business structures that have been erected since the great fire that swept the city in 1905 stand as permanent evidences of his skill and indicate that his correct business methods have gained to him popular confidence and esteem. His career has been one of sig- nificant activity and progressiveness, and large and definite accom- plishment stands to his credit. He has controlled a large business as a dealer in real estate in Hot Springs, and he is also one of the inter- ested principals in the retail hardware business conducted by the firm of Prichard Brothers & Company, of which he is president, and in which he is associated with his brother Edgar H. The well equipped estab- lishment of this firm is located at 843-5 Central avenue and the trade controlled is of representative order. His half-brother. Colonel George W. Prichard, was formerly a prominent citizen of Arkansas but since 1880 he has resided in New Mexico, where he has been specially in- fluenced in both public and business affairs.
In polities Mr. Prichard is found arrayed as a stalwart in the local camp of the Republican party, and he is one of the prominent repre- sentatives in Garland county. He was the candidate of his party for the office of county sheriff both in 1908 and 1910, and while he made an exceptionally strong contest on each occasion he was unable to over- come the large and normal Democratic majority. He is a director of the Arkansas State Fair Association and a member of its finance com- mittee. He takes deep interest in the affairs of this organization, through the efforts of which much has been done to further the development and upbuilding of the state through the proper exploiting of its manifold resources. Mr. Prichard has also been a prominent figure in leading fraternal organizations, in which he has passed various official chairs. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has attained to the thirty- second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which connec- tion he is identified with Albert Pike Consistory. at Little Rock, where he also holds membership in the Al Amin Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His maximum York Rite affiliation is with Hot Springs Commandery, No. 5. Knights Templars, at Hot Springs. He is past chancellor of the Hot Springs lodge of Knights of Pythias ; he has passed the various chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is past noble grand and past chief patriarch, and which he has represented in the Grand Encampment of the order in his state, and he is at the present time marshal of Mystic Shrine Temple in the capital city of Arkansas.
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