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Author: S. J. Clarke

J. W. SEARAN.
    J. W. Searan, a man of executive ability and keen sagacity in business
affairs, is now the secretary and manager of the Arkansas Grain Company,
operating at Stuttgart. He is numbered among the substantial citizens the
Buckeye state has furnished to Arkansas, his birth having occurred in
Springfield, Ohio, in 1861, his parents being Thomas and Mahala (Souder) Searan.
The grandfather, Michael Searan, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and
at the outbreak of hostilities between the north and the south he joined the
Union army and followed the stars and stripes to southern battle fields. The
grandfather in the maternal line removed from Ohio to Pettis county, Missouri,
and it was in that county that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Searan resided for many years
after leaving Ohio.

    J. W. Searan pursued his education in the schools of Pettis county and then
removed to eastern Kansas, where he lived until 18S5. At that date he became a
resident of Harper county, Kansas, and eventually settled in Wichita county of
the same state. There he drove a mail coach from Garden City to Fort Wallace. In
1888 he went to Fairfield, Iowa, where he was married and in the same year he
took up his abode in Arkansas, settling at Stuttgart, when there were only three
or four buildings in the town. Here he turned his attention to the grocery
business and eventually established a wholesale grocery house. After continuing
in that line for a time he went on the road as a traveling salesman for the
Hammett Grocery Company of Pine Bluff, which he thus represented for ten years.
In 1904 he removed to Little Rock, there resided until 1912 and then returned to
Stuttgart, where he established a grain business, organizing the Arkansas Grain
Company, which operates a grain elevator at this place. The officers of the
company are: C. C. Hayes, James Thomas, Floyd Searan and J. W. Searan, the last
named heing secretary of the company and the active manager of the husiness,
which under his control has developed rapidly and substantially.

    J. W. Searan wedded Kate E. Chander of Fairfield, Iowa, and they are parents
of two sons: Floyd and Carl, the former having married Lillian Kinnikin. In his
fraternal relations J. W. Searan is connected with the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and with the Masons, while his religious faith is that of the Methodist
church. His life has ever been the expression of straightforward principles and
all who have had business or social relations with him have come to respect and
esteem him for the sterling worth of his character. He has always been imbued
with the spirit of western enterprise and progress which has been a dominant
factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country and step by step he has
advanced until his steady progression has made him one of the forceful figures
in the grain trade circles of this part of the state.


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



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