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mentality and marked pragmatic ability, and he has well merited the large and definite success which he has gained. He has been loyal to all the duties of citizenship, taking a lively interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city, and his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party. Both he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Catholic church.
John H. Tuohey was about two years of age at the time of the family removal to Little Rock, which has represented his home during the inter- vening years. He gained his early education in the parochial and public schools, and finally determined to enter the legal profession. For this pur- pose he was matriculated in the law department of the University of Ar- kansas, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar and engaged in the active work of his profession in Little Rock. He was successful both as an advocate and counsellor and built up an excellent practice, but after devoting about five years to pro- fessional work he had such serions trouble with his eyes that he found it practically imperative to abandon his practice, which involved close applica- tion to study and other sedentary work. Under these conditions he became associated with his father's business, as junior partner of the firm of James Tuohey & Son, and he has proved an able coadjutor in the conducting of the successful grocery business of which he now has the active manage- ment.
In politics Mr. Tuohey has ever been aligned as a staunch and effective advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and he has been active in the work of its local contingent. In 1897 he was elected to represent Pulaski county in the state legislature, in which he served for two terms and in which he proved an active and effective worker in the deliberations of the floor and the committee room. He has been a member of the city council of Little Rock since 1904, as representative of the Second ward, and in 1909 he was elected to this office for the fourth consecutive term. He has exemplified a broad-minded, liberal and progressive policy as a city official and has been influential in furthering wise and effective ad- ministration of the municipal government. In the council he is at the present time chairman of the police committee and he has given effective service on other important committees, including those on finance, ordi- nances and railroads. He has also been acting mayor and he has been a potent factor in the general administration of the city's affairs during its period of most notable growth and expansion.
Mr. Tuohey is prominently identified with the Knights of Columbus and also with the Catholic Laymen's Association of Arkansas, which was organized in May, 1910, under the direction of Rt. Rev. John B. Morris, bishop of the diocese, and of this association Mr. Tuohey was elected the first president, an office of which he is now the valued incumbent. He and his wife are earnest and active communicants of the Catholic church and hold membership in the parish of St. Andrews.
In the city of Little Rock, on the 25th of June, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Tuohey to Miss Matilda Duttlinge, who was born and reared in this city, and the two children of this union are James F. and Rosemary.
ALEXANDER MCDONALD BARROW is one of the most important of the planters of eastern Arkansas and he is generally known over a wide section of the state. He can look with pride over eight hundred acres of the fair bosom of Arkansas which are his and his development of the agricultural resources entrusted to him has been of the most enlightened and successful
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character. He is very loyal to the state, firmly convinced that it is entering upon a great future, and, a man of enterprise and public spirit, he is among the leaders in all movements for the advancement of the best interests of the general public. Though not a practical politician he has definite views on all public questions and in a quiet way wields a recognized political influence.
Mr. Barrow is a native son of the South, born at Baton Rouge, Louisi- ana. IIe is the scion of a family of great honor and distinction in its sec- tion, and his father, Hon. Alexander Barrow, of Baton Rouge, was one of the leading Southern politicians of his day, having served for two terms as United States senator from Louisiana. His mother was Miss Effie Cock- rell, of Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Barrow passed the roseate days of youth in the Pelican state, receiving his earlier education from private tutors and subsequently entering the Louisiana State University, from which he was graduated in 1873, when he was only eighteen years of age. His identifica- tion with Pine Bluff and its vicinity dates from the following year, when the young man came to Jefferson county to take charge of a plantation be- longing to his maternal grandfather, Colonel Cockrill, of Pine Bluff. This property, containing about eight hundred acres and located near the city limits of Pine Bluff, and a beautiful plantation on Noble Lake, later passed into the proprietorship of Mr. Barrow. Its situation and nearness to trans- portation facilities, together with its intrinsic merit, makes it a property of great value and Mr. Barrow has demonstrated remarkable executive capacity, enterprise and sound judgment in its management. He gives heart and hand to the policies and principles of the Democratic party.
Mr. Barrow has a cultured, delightful family. He married Miss An- nie Armstrong, of Pine Bluff, and this union has been blessed by the birth of six children, five sons and one daughter, the latter being the wife of Harry Edgar Trulock.
THOMAS C. McRAE. A native son of Arkansas who has attained to prominence not only in connection with business affairs of wide scope and importance, but who has also distinguished himself through effective service in public offices of high trust, including that of member of con- gress, is Hon. Thomas C. McRae, one of the most honored and influen- tial citizens of Prescott, the judicial center of Nevada county. He is a prominent member of the bar of the state and has long been a dominating factor in public affairs in Arkansas, which state he has the distinction of having represented in congress for a longer consecutive period than any other citizen ever elected to this office.
Mr. McRae is a scion of staunch Scottish ancestry in the agnatic line, and was born at Mount Holly, Union county, Arkansas, on the 21st of December, 1851. He is a son of Duncan L. and Mary Ann McRae, natives respectively of North Carolina and Georgia. The father was a planter and one of the pioneers of Arkansas, and here became a citizen of prominence and influence, in the meanwhile contributing his due quota to the material and social development and upbuilding of this favored commonwealth of the Union. He and his wife were residents of Colum- bia county, Arkansas, at the time of their death, and of their children two sons and one daughter are now living.
Thomas C. McRae gained his early education principally in well conducted private schools at Shady Grove, Mt. Holly and Falcon, and after having been employed for one year in a general store at Shreveport, Louisiana, he went to the city of New Orleans, where he completed a course in the Soule Business College. He was then employed for one year in a store at Falcon, Arkansas. In preparation for the work of his chosen
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profession he was matriculated in the law department of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, in 1871, from which celebrated institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1872, and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In January, 1873, at Rosston, which was then the county seat of Nevada county, Arkansas, he was admitted to the bar, and there he commenced the practice of his profession. In 1876 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state, and in 1886 to the supreme court of the United States. In 1847 Mr. McRae was an active and influential factor in the movement that resulted in changing the county seat of Nevada county from Rosston to Prescott, and in July of the same year he established his permanent home in the latter place, where he has since continued in the practice of his profession, and where he has achieved distinction as one of the able and versatile members of the bar of his native state. In 1876 he was elected representative of Nevada county in the lower house of the state legisla- ture, and in 1879 he became a member of the city council of Prescott. He has from his youth to the present time been a stalwart and effective advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, and he has long been a dominating force in the maneu- vering of political forces in Arkansas. In 1880 he was presidential elector on the ticket of his party; in 1884 he served as chairman of the Demo- cratic state central committee of Arkansas, as well as delegate to the national convention of the party. The next year brought to him more distinguished honors, in that he was elected representative of the Third congressional district of Arkansas in the United States congress. By successive re-elections he continued incumbent of this office for eighteen consecutive years-a record, as already stated, that has not been equaled by that of any other congressman from this state. Popular appreciation of his services was thus shown in an unequivocal way, and as a diligent, conscientious and able member of the national legislature his record be- came an integral part of the history of that body during the long period of his active and effective service therein. As a representative of the interests of his native state there has been none to offer more earnest and productive service to this commonwealth in congress, and his achieve- ments in this connection have given him enduring prestige as one of the loval and public spirited citizens and distinguished statesmen of Arkansas.
In addition to his large and important law practice Mr. McRae has varied and extensive business interests in his home town and county. He is president of the Bank of Prescott, one of the staunch and popular financial institutions of this part of the state, and is the owner of some valuable realty in Prescott as well as in other parts of the county. In the Masonic fraternity he is a Knight Templar and has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He is an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias and is also identified with other social organizations. Both he and his wife are Presbyterians, and he is an elder in his church.
On the 17th of December, 1874, Mr. McRae was united in marriage to Miss Amelia A. White, daughter of Captain William R. White, who at that time was serving as clerk of Nevada county and who is one of the honored citizens of that county. Mr. and Mrs. McRae have five chil- dren, concerning whom the following brief data are given: Ethel is the wife of Horace Bemis, of Prescott, Arkansas; Mary is the wife of Carlton McRae and they reside in El Paso, Texas; Thomas C., Jr .. is cashier of the Bank of Prescott, at Prescott, Arkansas; Duncan L. is an attorney and a member of the firm of McRae & Tompkins; and Mildred is the wife of John D. Barlow, of Hope, Arkansas.
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J. A. THOMAS. Energetic and progressive, with a large experience in journalistic fields, J. A. Thomas, of Stamps, has acquired a fine reputa- tion for ability in newspaper circles and is widely and favorably known as editor and proprietor of the Lafayette County Democrat, which he founded in 1905. A native of Indiana, he was born July 8, 1874, in Princeton, Gibson county, where he was educated.
Beginning to learn the printer's trade in 1890, Mr. Thomas after- ward worked for a while on a Prohibition paper in Princeton, a paper edited by James McCormick and Sam Small, the noted evangelist, con- tinuing there until 1896. Embarking in business then for himself, he established at Hazelton, Indiana, the Hazelton Herald, which lie con- ducted successfully for nine years. Coming to Stamps, Arkansas, in 1905, Mr. Thomas established the Lafayette County Democrat, the very first paper which has had a successful existence in this place. The appreciation of the publie in the venture of Mr. Thomas has been shown in a most gratifying manner, its circulation having increased most rapidly, the names on its regular subscription list now numbering seven hundred. In 1908 Mr. Thomas established the Waldo News, which he conducted until selling out, in 1910, to Mr. Charles A. Taylor.
Fraternally Mr. Thomas is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Woodmen of the World and of the Modern Woodmen of America. Religiously he is a member of the Methodist church. Although not a politician in any sense implied by the term, he, while in Hazelton, Indiana, served one or more terms as city clerk and was mayor of the city, ex-officio.
Mr. Thomas married June 22. 1897. Lottie Elsie Briner, daughter of James H. Briner, of IJazelton, Indiana, and they have four children, Mildred, Francis, Walter and Louise.
HENRY MOORE. A prominent corporation lawyer and an able and well fortified counselor. Henry Moore has maintained his home in Texar- kana, Arkansas, for fully a quarter of a century. He was born at Syl- vania, Lonoke county, Arkansas, on the 4th of December, 1844, and is a son of Rev. James and Elizabeth Guild (Green) Moore. Rev. Moore was a noted Presbyterian minister of the pioneer days, having come to Arkan- sas in 1828, in the territorial days, and having established the first Pres- byterian church in this section of the Union. He laid the foundation of the work of that denomination in Arkansas and he devoted his entire life to the elevation of his fellow men, having been closely and actively iden- tified with church work in this state until his death, in 1873. He resided for a long number of years in Little Rock, and was ever promi- nent in all affairs tending to advance the good of humanity. He was a man of extensive learning and broad human sympathy, a man who ever did the right as he interpreted it. He lived a life of usefulness such as few men know. God-fearing, law-abiding, progressive, his life was as truly that of a Christian gentleman as any man's can well be. Sincerity and faithfulness to duty characterize his every act, and he was hon- orable and fair in all the relations of life, holding the highest possible place in the confidence and regard of his fellow men. He married Eliza- beth Guild Green, of Trenton, New Jersey, and they became the parents of eight children, three of whom are now living.
Henry Moore was educated in Sylvania Academy, of which his father was the founder and principal. He prosecuted his legal studies in the law department of the University of Virginia, in which he was gradnated as a member of the class of 1868, duly receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Prior to completing his education he served throughont the Civil
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war as a soldier in the Confederate army, having been a member of Com- pany I, Colonel Asa Morgan's regiment. Trans-Mississippi Department. Immediately after graduating in law he entered upon the practice of that profession at Lewisville, Lafayette county, Arkansas. In 1873 he was elected clerk of that county, and through successive re-elections con- tinued in tenure of that office until 1880. In 1884 he removed to Tex- arkana, where he has built up a large and lucrative law practice and where his success has been on a parity with his well directed efforts. For some years he was associated in practice with his brother, Major C. B. Moore, of Texarkana, Arkansas. Henry Moore is a lawyer of high standing and has gained prestige as an able and versatile trial lawyer and as an ex- perienced practitioner. He is general attorney for the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad Company, for which company he drew up the original charter. He is also legal representative of a number of important lum- ber corporations. In politics he as aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and though he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office, he has ever given most freely of his aid and influence in support of all meas- ures and enterprises advanced for the general welfare of the community. He is affiliated with various representative fraternal and social organiza- tion, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church, in the different departments of whose work they have been most zealous factors.
In 1843 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Moore to Miss Kate Fleming, a daughter of James T. Fleming, of Lexington, Missouri. To this union have been born seven children, of whom three survive-Henry, Jr., who is his father's law partner at Texarkana; Mrs. Mildred Carter, of Nashville, Tennessee: and Charles B., who graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1903 and who is now detailed at the academy as an instructor.
N. HOWARD WILLIAMSON. Conspicuous among the foremost men of Miller county is N. Howard Williamson, of Texarkana, who is devoting his energies to the management of his extensive and valuable landed and planting interests in this section of Arkansas. Coming of distinguished ancestry, he was born at Como, Panola county, Mississippi, and was there brought up.
Dr. Lea Williamson, his father, was born April 6, 1837, in York District, South Carolina, and nine years later, in 1846, was taken by his parents to Panola county, Mississippi, where his boyhood days were spent. He received his classical education in the University of Virginia, and while in that institution attended medical lectures. Subsequently going to New York city, he continued his studies at the Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College, and in 1859 was graduated from the Jefferson Medical Col- lege, in Philadelphia, with the degree of M. D. Dr. Williamson imme- diately began the practice of medicine at Como, Mississippi, but at the outbreak of the Civil war abandoned his profession to enlist as a private in Bartlett's regiment, of which he was soon made assistant surgeon, being attached to General Alcorn's brigade. A year later the Doctor joined the Fourteenth Mississippi Artillery Battalion, in which he served as surgeon until the close of the war, winning a fine record both as a soldier and as a physician. Resuming then his practice at Como, Missis- sippi, Dr. Williamson met with unvarying success in his profession, which he continued until his death, in 1900. He was a citizen of prominence and influence, and was actively associated with affairs of importance.
Dr. Williamson married, in 1868, Helen Howard, who was born in
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Mississippi, and is now living in Texarkana with her son, N. Howard Williamson. Her father, Colonel Nathaniel Howard, was born in 1805, in Winthrop, Maine, and at an early age settled in Mississippi. He had the distinction of building the first frame house erected in Grenada, Mississippi, and was afterward one of the strong men of that part of the state, assisting in the larger affairs of his community, helping to build the first railroads, and in numerous other ways promoting the prosperity of the growing community in which he located.
After leaving the public schools, N. Howard Williamson first at- tended the Webb Brothers' School, at Bellbuckle, Tennessee, and later continued his studies at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, which he left in 1891 to accept a position in Memphis, Tennessee, with the firm of Ralli Brothers, cotton brokers. From that time, and for many years thereafter, Mr. Williamson was one of the more prominent cotton men of the South. Locating in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1900, as representa- tive of the great cotton firm of George H. McFaden & Brother, he be- came thoroughly identified with the commercial affairs of that city, and in 1907 was elected president of the Little Rock Board of Trade. In 1908 Mr. Williamson came to Texarkana, and for two years was junior member of the grocery firm of Ball & Williamson. Retiring from that position in 1910, he has since devoted himself to the superintendence of his landed interests in Miller county. He is secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Miller County Levee District, No. 2, and was instru- mental in having enacted by the State Legislature the necessary law for the formation of this district.
Mr. Williamson married in Memphis, Tennessee, Miss Corinne Boyle, of that city, and they are the parents of three children, namely : Corinne, Howard and Frances,
COLONEL THOMAS J. HUNT is an honored citizen of Fayetteville, whose life has been passed within the limits of Washington county. Ar- kansas, and whose personal forces have been directed along public as well as private lines. His citizenship has been of that character which has tended to eement and unify the civil forces entering into a harmonious social fabric and has sprung from a nature burning with patriotic im- pulses and with a warm regard for the welfare of his fellow man.
Colonel Hunt was born on White river, in Washington county, Ar- kansas, on the 28th of April, 1840, the year which marked the estab- lishment of the Hunt family in that vieinity. As emigrants from an Illinois river community of the state of Illinois, the family made its first home in Arkansas in the White House settlement of White river township. William Hunt was the father of Colonel Hunt and was born in the state of Virginia on the 10th of September, 1801. He died in Fayetteville, Arkansas, February 8, 1885. ITis educational training was of meager order but he possessed an active, flexible mind, stored with a fond of information that made him a valuable citizen. He was alert and positive, possessing an entertaining vein and he was capable of making a splendid public talk when the emergency arose. He was reared a Demoerat by a father who ching to the faith of Jefferson and the perpetuity of the Union. For this reason he spurned the blandish- ments of the promoters of secession and used his tongue and his musket in defense of the flag. He joined the First Arkansas Cavalry when more than sixty years old. as a private, and later, having been a stoek- man and familiar with the diseases of horses and their treatment, he was made a veterinary surgeon of the regiment. He was captured by the Confederates near Ozark, Arkansas, but was exchanged at St. Louis
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and rejoined his command for the final subjugation of the South. Having aeted with vigor in restoring the Union he could not refrain from tak- ing an active part in the political life of his county during and after the reconstruction of his state. He found solace and political content- ment in the Republican party. He was a devout member of the Chris- tian chnreh. and was a pioneer of that faith in Washington county.
William Hunt's father was also William Hunt. The latter was born in the state of Virginia and his life was passed as a slave-holding planter in Russell county, that state. His children were: Simon, who died in Bates county, Missouri; Harrison, who likewise passed away in Bates county, Missouri ; William, the father of Colonel Hunt; and Mrs. Parsons, who died in Texas, whither she had moved about the year 1840. William Hunt, Jr., married Rhoda Wilson, a daughter of Hiram Wilson. To this union were born: Henry H., who died shortly before the close of the Civil war; William, who was summoned to the life eternal in Bates county, Missouri, prior to the rebellion; John, who was a Federal soldier in the First Arkansas Cavalry, as an officer in the com- missary department of the regiment, died in Douglas county, Missouri, in 1908: Thomas J. is the immediate subject of this review; Avana be- came the wife of Samuel A. Hanna and her death occurred in Coryell county, Texas; Giney married Abram Lemaster and resides in Dallas, Texas; Rhoda became the wife of Alexander White and they reside in Washington county, this state; and Louisa died unmarried.
Colonel Thomas J. Hunt, of this review, acquired in his youth what might be called a high, school education. He grew up among frontier environment along White river and was just prepared for the duties of citizenship when the "long roll" of the nation summoned patriots to arms to stamp ont rebellion at home. He entered the Union army as a volunteer at Springfield, Missouri, and was there elected captain of Company B, of the First Arkansas Cavalry, commanded by Colonel M. LaRne Harrison. A few months later he was promoted to the rank of major of the second battalion of the regiment. He served as such until the latter part of 1864, when he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of his regiment, in which capacity he closed his service at the end of the war. He took part in the fight at Prairie Grove, following which his force was ordered back to Springfield, and from there he was placed in charge of the military post at Cassville. He remained at the latter place until the Army of the Sonthwest was ordered sonth, when he com- plied with orders to move out to Pea Ridge, where he joined other troops and went into camp at Fayetteville. When General Price made his raid into southern Missouri the First Arkansas was ordered to follow him, but failed to reach a position of advantage before the pressure of the Union forces turned "Pap" from his purpose and sent him hurrying south again. The First Arkansas then took up its position at Fayette- ville and was bombarded by the guns of Price's army from a position on Mount Nord and a position, also, on the hills on the west, command- ing the town, thus keeping the Federals locked up, while Price's strag- glers-those without arms-were safely scattered through the country and the main army of the Confederates passed around the hill to the south of the town and escaped across the Arkansas into friendly terri- tory. When General Price advanced on Fayetteville with a brigade, composed of cavalry and horse artillery, he was repulsed by the First Arkansas Cavalry, Colonel Hunt's regiment, and driven sonth. One of the last expeditions of the war in which the First Arkansas took part was the chase after General Jo Shelby, who invaded Arkansas from Missouri. The regiment was ordered out by General MeNiel, command-
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