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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

CHARLES R. HAM.
    Charles R. Ham, local manager for Fairbanks Morse & Company of Stuttgart and
thus prominently identified with business interests in this part of the state,
was born at Verona, in southwestern Missouri, in 1888, his parents being W. J.
and Flora (Talhert) Ham. He is descended in the paternal line from an old
Kentucky family, his grandfather having been a native of the Blue Grass state,
whence he removed to Henry county, Missouri, and while there enlisted for
service as a Confederate soldier in the Civil war. The Talhert family was from
Shelbyville, Indiana.

    Charles R. Ham, having completed his education in the high school at Verona,
Missouri, became associated with his father in the hardware and sheet metal
manufacturing business. When twenty-one years of age he entered the employ of
Fairbanks Morse & Company, with which firm he has since been identified, his
long association therewith being incontrovertible proof of his capability,
efficiency and fidelity. He was first employed in the practical construction
department at St. Louis and came to Stuttgart as assistant manager, acting in
that capacity until 1913, when he was advanced to the position of local manager
of the Fairbanks Morse agency at this place. His territory covers Monroe,
Prairie, Lonoke and Arkansas counties. The company makes a specialty of building
irrigation engines for irrigating the rice fields and in this connection Mr. Ham
has developed a business of extensive proportions and is one of the efficient
and capable representatives of the company. In addition to his connection with
Fairbanks Morse & Company, Mr. Ham is a director of the First National Bank.

    In 1910 Mr. Ham was married to Miss Mabel Titterington, a daughter of Dr. J.
Titterington of Marionville, Missouri, and their children are, Betty Jane and
Charles. Fraternally Mr. Ham is a Knights Templar Mason and also a member of the
Mystic Shrine. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church, in which he
is serving as one of the stewards. He is keenly interested in all that makes for
moral as well as material progress in the community in which he lives and he
gives his influence at all times on the side of right, reform and improvement.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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