Mississippi : comprising sketches of towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form Vol. III, Part 3

Author: Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Atlanta, Southern Historical Publishing Association
Number of Pages: 938

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writing (1906) ; and two who died in early childhood. Mrs. Apple- white was summoned into the life eternal in 1880, and in 1882 the doctor wedded Nancy McLaurin. They have six children, namely : Mary, Grace, Alice, Gordon, Earl and Rufus R., Jr.

Anderson, Joseph R., M. D., representa- tive physician and surgeon of Lamar county, is engaged in the practice of his profession in Sumerall, where he is asso- ciated with Dr. Joseph M. Clark, under the firm name of Anderson & Clark, and where he is also engaged in the drug busi- ness, being associated with Jno. H. Nutt. Dr. Anderson was born in Perry county, Miss., and is a son of Daniel A. and Hen- rietta (Stafford) Anderson, the former of whom was likewise born in Perry county, scion of one of the honored pioneer fam- ilies of Mississippi, while the latter was born in Georgia, whence her parents re- moved to Mississippi when she was a child. Dr. Anderson passed his boyhood days on the homestead place in Perry county and was accorded excellent educational advantages in the public schools. He was matriculated in the Memphis Hospital medical college, at Memphis, Tenn., where he completed the prescribed courses of study and work in medicine and surgery and was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, receiving his degree of Doctor of Med- icine from this well equipped institution, which has not only the best of instructors and accessories, but also specially fine clinical advantages. Shortly after his graduation Dr. Anderson located in Lamar county, where he has met with gratifying reception both personally and professionally, being one of the successful physicians and surgeons of the county and also one of the representative busi- ness men of the new and rapidly growing little city of Sumerall, in which he is associated with Dr. Clark in the ownership and con- ducting of the only drug store. He is local surgeon for the Missis- sippi Central railroad and is identified with the county medical society, as well as that of the State; is a Democrat in his political allegiance, taking a loyal interest in public affairs of a local order ; is a member of the Baptist church, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Ashley, William F., a popular and successful physician of Shaw, was born in Holmes county, Miss., in January, 1866, his parents, William F. and Elizabeth (Grace) Ashley, both being natives of that county. The son was educated in the common schools of his native county, and in 1889 graduated in the literary department of the University of Mississippi. In 1891 he entered the medical de- partment of Tulane university at New Orleans, La., and after a course of lectures there served as interne in the Mississippi State charity hospital at Vicksburg for one year. He then took the ex- amination prescribed by the State board of medical examiners and

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secured a license to practice. He located at Sidon, Leflore county, on the Yazoo river, where he practiced until 1899. In the fall of that year he reentered the medical department of Tulane university and graduated on May 1, 1901, standing high in his class and re- ceiving the compliments of the faculty on his graduating thesis, which was upon the subject of "Malarial Hematuria." In 1902 he went to Naples, Tex., on account of failing health, and practiced there for about a year, locating at Shaw in the fall of 1903. Here he has been in constant practice since and has built up a successful business, many of the best people of the locality being among his patients. Dr. Ashley is a close student of current medical litera- ture and keeps in touch with all the recent discoveries and remedies of the medical profession. It is no disparagement to his brother physicians to say that none are more progressive in their ideas, or more earnest and conscientious in the discharge of their professional duties than he. Although an ardent Democrat in his political opinions he has never sought or held office, with the exception that he was appointed by the board of aldermen of Shaw as city health officer, and this came to him unsolicited. He is a member of the Boli- var county medical society and Mississippi State medical association, and is the examiner for a half dozen or more of the leading life insurance companies. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. On Feb. 27, 1897, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Jones, both of whom are natives of Holmes county, Miss. Two daughters have been born to this union, Lucile and Marie Elizabeth, both at home with their parents. Mrs. Ashley is a member of the Baptist church.

Arnold, W. H., M. D., is engaged in the practice of his profession in Eupora, Web- ster county, and is one of the representa- tive physicians and surgeons of this section. He was born in Bellefontaine, that county, which was then a portion of Choctaw county, March 20, 1873, and is a son of Dr. F. N. and Mary J. (Thomas) Arnold, who resided in Eupora, Web- ster county, where the father had been for many years engaged in the practice of medicine, being one of the leading phy- sicians of this section of the State. F. N. Arnold died Feb. 27, 1907, his wife hav- ing preceded him to the life eternal Nov. 15, 1881. He was a member of the Fifteenth Mississippi regiment of infantry in the Confederate service during the Civil war, having served as surgeon during the greater portion of the time. Dr. W. H. Arnold completed a course of study in the Walthall normal school, in his home city, and he then entered the Memphis Hospital medical college, in Memphis, Tenn., where he was graduated in 1893, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, while later he took

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a special clinical course in the same finely equipped institution. He began the practice of his profession in Walthall, in 1894, and there remained associated with his father until 1899, when he removed to Eupora, where he has since resided and where he has a practice of wide scope and representative order. He is health officer of Webster county, and is identified with the Mississippi State medi- cal association and the medical society of Montgomery county, which adjoins Webster county and into which his practice extends. His political adherency is with the Democratic party, and he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. On May 30, 1894, Dr. Arnold was married to Miss Alma M. Bays, daughter of Dr. A. H. and Mary (Phelps) Bays, of Eupora, and they have two sons- Thomas Kimbrough Arnold and William Hale Arnold, Jr.

Allen, Ira George, the able and popular superintendent of public education in Tate county, was born in Carthage, Leake county, Miss., Oct. 17, 1862, and bears the full name of his father, Ira George Allen, who was born in Virginia and who was a successful planter in Leake county, Miss., at the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted in the Confederate service, becoming a member of the Fortieth regiment of Mississippi infantry, and taking part in a number of important battles, including the siege of Vicksburg, and much of the Atlanta campaign, while he was fatally wounded while in command of his company in the battle of Franklin, Tenn., in November, 1864, dying eleven days later. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary E. Presley, was born in Chester, S. C., and survived him by only a few years, her death occurring in 1820. Of the two children of this union the subject of this sketch was the elder, and his sister, Mary, who became the wife of Alexander M. Rich, a railroad contractor, died in 1901. Ira G. Allen was doubly orphaned when but eight years of age, having come with his mother to Coldwater, Tate county, in 1867, and after her death, three years later, he was cared for in the home of R. W. Presley, his grand- father, who died .in 1879. He completed a course in the Senatobia high school, where he prepared himself for admission to the Uni- versity of Mississippi, at Oxford, and in the latter institution he took special courses in several branches of study. He has been identified with the pedagogic profession for more than a score of years, having taught in the public schools of Tate county for twenty years, while he has conducted teachers' institutes in many different counties in the State, gaining a high reputation in educational circles. He was elected county superintendent of education in 1903 and has given an admirable administration, solidifying and systematizing the work in his jurisdiction and gaining the most loyal co-operation of the parents and teachers and the general public. He is an effective advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, as is also Mrs. Allen, and he is identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Woodmen of the World. On Dec. 5, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Allen to Miss Lou Toombs, daughter of A. H. and Ann (Bradley) Toombs, of Sena-

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tobia. Her father was a leading contractor and builder, and was practically the founder of the town of Senatobia. He died in Arka- butla, November, 1900, as the result of injuries received during his service in the ranks of the Confederate army. He was wounded seven times, and never recovered from the results of his arduous service and severe injuries. He was of the same family line as was Robert Toombs, of Georgia, who was attorney-general of the Con- federacy. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have had four children, of whom three are living-Louise, Ira and Margaret. The second in order of birth was Anna, who died at the age of seven.

Armstrong, M. Cannon, M. D., is engaged in the active practice of his profession in the thriving town of Silver Creek, Lawrence county, and is one of the representative young physicians and surgeons of this section of the State, while he is also vice-president of the Silver Creek Drug Company. Dr. Armstrong has not been deflected from familiar scenes in choosing his field of endeavor, since he is a native of Lawrence county, having been born on the homestead plantation, Aug. 17, 1882, and being a son of W. J. and Fannie (Cannon) Armstrong, the former of whom was born in Harrison county and the latter in Lawrence county, Miss., in which State they have passed their entire lives, while the father went forth to do honor to his native commonwealth as a soldier in the Confed- erate ranks during the great Civil war, when the South battled so strenuously for its inherent rights and privileges. Dr. Armstrong found in the public schools the vehicle of his early educational train- ing, and after leaving the same he entered Mississippi college, at Clinton. Later he entered the medical department of Tulane uni- versity, in the city of New Orleans, La., where he secured his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine, having been graduated as a member of the class of 1904. He forthwith located in Silver Creek and here he is meeting with gratifying success in the active work of the profession for whose practice, both as a physician and surgeon, he has so well qualified and fortified himself. He was one of the organizers of the Silver Creek Drug Company, of which he is vice-president, and the concern is doing a prosperous business, having its own building, which is well equipped, while the enter- prise is carefully conducted and has secured a representative sup- port. Dr. Armstrong is a loyal and ardent supporter of the prin- ciples of the Democratic party, is a member of the Baptist church, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Woodmen of the World. He is one of the most popular citizens of Silver Creek, having the high regard of all who know him, while he is attaining to distinctive precedence in his profession.

Anderson, Chapman L., one of the leading lawyers at the Attala county bar, and who has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession for nearly forty years in the city of Kosciusko, was born in Noxubee county, Miss., March 15, 1845. His parents, Thomas Salmond and Flora E. (Levy) Anderson, were both natives of Camden, S. C., where the former was born on Dec. 2, 1819, and the latter on April 15, 1823. Some of Mr. Anderson's ancestors

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have been engaged in all the principal wars in which the United States took part. Col. Richard Anderson-born in 1752 and died in 1835-was of the famous "Maryland line" in the Revolution. Col. Chapman Levy was captain of a company of riflemen that was raised in Kershaw and Lancaster counties, S. C., in 1812 and served about Charleston from that time until the close of the war in 1815. After the War of 1812 he practiced law at Camden for many years and capably represented his county in the State legislature, as well as in other official capacities. Edward Henry Anderson, oldest brother of Chapman L., entered the Confederate army as a soldier from Mississippi at the age of seventeen years, and fell at Manassas, Va., July 21, 1861. Chapman L. Anderson enlisted on March 5, 1862, as a private in Company I, Thirty-ninth Mississippi infantry, and was in the bombardment of Vicksburg in June, 1862, the battle of Corinth, the siege of Port Hudson, and the various engagements of the Atlanta campaign. He was promoted through the different grades of non-commissioned officers from fourth corporal to third sergeant, and on July 14, 1864, was made second lieutenant in Brad- ford's cavalry battalion. He was mustered out at Jackson, Miss., under parole, at the close of the contest. He then attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford, took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar, and on Feb. 14, 1868, opened his office at Kos- ciusko, where he has ever since been actively engaged in the prac- tice of his profession, except during his service as a member of the United States congress. Mr. Anderson is an unswerving Democrat in his political affiliations and has for years been a prominent figure in the councils of his party in Mississippi. During the years 1874-5 he served as mayor of Kosciusko, and it is no disparagement to other mayors to say that he gave the city one of the best adminis- trations in its history. In 1880 he was elected a representative in the State legislature, where his work was of a character that recom- mended him to his constituents for further political honors. Conse- quently, in 1886, he was elected to represent his district in the national house of representatives, and was reelected two years later,. serving through the Fiftieth and Fifty-first congresses in a manner that evoked the approval of those whom he was called to represent. Since then Mr. Anderson has declined further honors, unless they were in line with the work of his profession. During the years 1896-7 he served as United States district attorney for the northern district of Mississippi, retiring from that office to devote his time to his large and important clientage. In church matters Mr. Ander- son is an Episcopalian. On Dec. 22, 1870, he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Cunningham Johnson, daughter of Robert Brown and Jane (Cunningham) Johnson, of Kirkwood, Madison county, Miss. Two daughters and a son have been born to this union, viz .: Jennie Flora, Chapman Levy and Mary Ellen. His son died Sept. 25, 1883 ; his daughter Mary Ellen was married to James A. Teat, a rising young attorney of the Kosciusko bar, June 22, 1904.

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Anderson, James McCulloch, one of the representative young business men of Greenville, Washington county, is a member of the firm of Whitley & Anderson, who conduct a large and prosperous business as cotton brokers. Mr. Anderson was born at Kirkwood, Madison county, Miss., May 20, 1868, and is a son of Dr. Edward H. and Sarah (McCulloch) Anderson, native respectively of Mary- land and South Carolina. Dr. Anderson received his medical edu- cation in the city of Philadelphia and came to Mississippi about 1840. He located in Kirkwood and for many years was one of the leading physicians and surgeons of that part of the State. He is now living retired in Canton, Madison county, being in his ninetieth year (1906). His wife died in 1896. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in his native town and in 1885 he left Kirkwood and took up his residence in Rosedale, Bolivar county, where he was engaged in the general merchandise business for a few years, after which he became traveling salesman for a Memphis wholesale concern. In 1896 he located in Greenville, and in 1903 he became a member of the firm of Whitley & Anderson, having in the interim continued as a commercial salesman for the Memphis concern. He enjoys marked popularity in both business and social circles of Greenville and has built up a successful business in the buying and shipping of cotton.

Anderson, John E., has attained to prominence and success as one of the leading business men and influential citizens of his native" county, being president of the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Holly Springs and having other large and important capitalistic interests in this city where he has long been engaged in the general merchandise business. He was born in Holly Springs, and is a son of the late John H. Anderson, who was a native of Tennessee and who became one of the leading members of the bar of Marshall county, Miss., having been for many years engaged in the practice of his profession at Holly Springs. The subject of this review was af- forded the advantages of the schools of his native town and as a youth he found employment as clerk in a local mercantile establish- ment. In 1878 he engaged in the mercantile business on his own responsibility and he has ever since been identified with this line of enterprise, in which he has built up a large and prosperous trade, extending throughout the thriving section of country normally trib- utary to Holly Springs, and since 1901 he has been president of the Farmers' and Merchants' bank. He is also president of the Holly Springs Stoneware Company and of the North Mississippi Oil Mills, representing another important local industry. He is a director of the Holly Springs Building and Loan association, was formerly a trustee of the Mississippi Synodical college, at Holly Springs, and is vice-president of the board of directors of Rust college, of the same place. For a number of years past he has been a deacon in the Presbyterian church. On Nov. 17, 1875, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Annie Sailer, daughter of Isaac and Laura (Selby) Sailer, of Holly Springs, whither they came from Tennessee. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the

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children of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson: Dr. W. S., who is engaged in the practice of his profession in Memphis, Tenn., was graduated in the Southwestern Presbyterian university, at Clarksville, that State, and completed his technical course in the medical department of Tulane university, in New Orleans, being graduated with honors in each of these institutions; Maude is the wife of Dr. John A. Dupre ; Laura is the wife of John T. Walton, of Memphis, Tenn .; Percy H. was educated in the University of Mississippi and is now associated in the conducting of his father's mercantile establish- ment; and Mary Jane, Elizabeth and Raymond remain at the parental home.

Andrews, S. H., a successful merchant of Enterprise, Clarke county, has worked his way to a position of definite independence and prosperity through his own efforts, while he has so directed his endeavors as to entitle him to the unequivocal confidence and respect of those with whom he has come in contact. He has a well stocked general store and his trade is of a representative character. Mr. Andrews was born in Enterprise, Clarke county, Miss., Jan. 7, 1864, and is a son of James G. Andrews, who was born and reared in Georgia, whence he came to Mississippi about 1860, having been a carpenter by trade and vocation. He died in Enterprise, in 1891. S. H. Andrews was enabled to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the public schools of Enterprise, and his youth was passed under the influences of the "reconstruction period" after the Civil war. In his younger days he worked with his father at the carpenter trade, becoming a skillful artisan in this line, and he later was employed for six months in the railroad shops in Meridian, this being after the death of his father. He provided for the main- tenance of his younger brother and sister during this time and in addition to this demand was enabled, by the strictest economy, to save from his wages the sum of one hundred dollars. This modest capital was the basis of his success as an independent business man. He invested the money in a small stock of groceries and opened a modest store in Enterprise. Energetic, enterprising and courteous, he soon gained to his establishment a good patronage, and from the small nucleus noted, has been built up the fine general merchandise business which he controls at the present time, his establishment being one of the best in the town, attractive in its appointments and having a stock whose average valuation is more than $8,000. Mr. Andrews is held in high regard in the business circle of the pleasant little city in which he was born and his success has been well earned and is gratifying to contemplate. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Enterprise, is identified with the Knights of Honor and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church of Enterprise. In May, 1893, Mr. Andrews was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Voss, daughter of S. R. Voss, a prominent citizen of Vosburg, Jasper county, and they have four children-Ethel, Es- telle, James and S. H., Jr.

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Anderson, George, merits recognition in this work as one of the representative legists and jurists of the State, being en- gaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Vicksburg and being ex-judge of the circuit court of this district. Judge Anderson was born near Vaiden, Carroll county, Miss., Sept. 10, 1856, and is a son of David and Sarah E. (Mitchie) Ander- son, both of whom were likewise native of Mississippi, the former being of Scotch- Irish and the latter of Scotch lineage. The respective families were founded in Virginia in an early day and from the Old Dominion came the original repre- sentatives in Mississippi. David Anderson served throughout the war between the States as a gallant soldier of the Confederacy, having been a private in the Twenty-eighth Mississippi cavalry ; his three brothers likewise were enrolled in the ranks of the loyal sons of the Confederacy. David Anderson was a life- long adherent of the Democratic party and was a successful planter of Carroll county at the time of his death, which occurred in Novem- ber, 1888; his widow still resides on the old homestead plantation, near Vaiden. Judge Anderson completed his more purely academic studies in Mississippi college, at Clinton, but before entering that institution he was matriculated in the law department of Cumber- land university, Lebanon, Tenn., where he completed the pre- scribed course and received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. On Jan. 1, 1879, he entered upon the active practice of his profession at Vaiden, where he was associated in practice with Hon. Monroe McClurg. On Nov. 17, 1885, he removed to Vicksburg, where he has built up a large and representative legal business and established the highest reputation as a practitioner well fortified in the learn- ing of the law and as one sure and facile in the practical applica- tion of its principles. On Feb. 25, 1901, he was appointed circuit judge, by Governor Longino, and he presided on the bench until Feb. 1, 1905, when he resigned the office to give his undivided attention to his private practice. In politics he gives unswerving allegiance to the Democratic party, of whose principles he is an effective exponent. In 1896 he was elected to represent Warren county in the State legislature and was re-elected in 1900, being made chairman of the judiciary committee. He resigned his posi- tion in the house to accept the appointment to the circuit bench. While in the legislature he was a valued member of the house committee which reported and urged to enactment the bill pro- viding for the erection of the new State capitol. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On Nov. 17, 1880, Judge Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Mayselle Wells, daughter of James Madison Wells, of Vaiden, and she was sum-

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moned to the life eternal March 21, 1902, leaving no children. After the death of his first wife Judge Anderson married Miss Bertha Clausman, of Vicksburg, and they have one child, Dorothy, who was born Sept. 13, 1903.

Anderson, William Albert, who is now incumbent of the office of city clerk of Holly Springs, was for forty years en- gaged in educational work in that city and attained to high prestige in the peda- gogic profession. He is well known and highly honored in that section of the State and it was his privilege also to go forth as one of the gallant sons of Mississippi who did yeoman service in defense of the cause of the Confederacy in the war be- tween the States. Mr. Anderson was born at Hudsonville, Marshall county, Miss., Dec. 2, 1842, and is a son of John H. and Lee Ann R. (Haggard) Anderson, both native of Sparta, Tenn., where the former was born Nov. 17, 1806, and the latter Nov. 24, 1811. His father, John Harmon Ander- son, was of Scotch lineage and his ancestors settled in Maryland, whence representatives later immigrated to Tennessee, where he was reared and educated. He became one of the representative members of the bar of his native county and town, and there his marriage to Miss Lee Ann Ridley Haggard was solemnized. In 1836 they removed thence to Marshall county, Miss., from which section the Indians had but a short time previously been removed to the western reservation, and Mr. Anderson was successfully en- gaged in the practice of his profession at Holly Springs until 1860, having been one of the leaders at the bar of Marshall county and having been an honored and influential citizen. He died Oct. 30, 1861, and his widow passed to the life eternal in 1880. Both were devout members of the Presbyterian church. The subject of this sketch was afforded the advantages of Chalmers institute and Eumenean Hall, in Holly Springs, and in preparing for the work of his chosen profession he supplemented this discipline by a course of study in the National normal university, at Lebanon, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated. He gave the best years of his life to the noble work of instructing the young, and his record in the educational field is one which will remain an integral part of the history of education in Mississippi. The angle of the influence which he brought to bear in his profession is ever widening, com- . prehending as it does the labors of those whom he has aided and who have likewise gone forth to play well their parts in the drama of practical and useful life. He was principal of Chalmers institute for ten years and thereafter was for fifteen years principal of the public schools of Holly Springs. He began teaching in that place in 1866 and continued his work in the line there until 1906-a period of forty consecutive years-retiring to accept his present office of

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Mississippi : comprising sketches of towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form Vol. III, Part 3

Author: Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Atlanta, Southern Historical Publishing Association Number of Pages: 938

Author: Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Atlanta, Southern Historical Publishing Association
Number of Pages: 938