Benton Co., AR - Biographies - J. K. P. Stringfield

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J. K. P. Stringfield may be mentioned as one of the successful 
merchants and millers of Benton County, Ark., and holds the position 
of postmaster at War Eagle. He is a native of Benton County, born in 
1845, and is a son of Nathaniel and Fidella (Stivers) Stringfield, who 
were born in Kentucky and Illinois, respectively. They were married in 
the latter State, and came to Arkansas about 1837, where they spent 
the remainder of their days, living to a good old age. J. K. P. 
Stringfield is the eighth of their twelve children, and his youthful 
days were spent in assisting his father on the farm and in attending 
the common schools. At the age of sixteen years he joined the 
Confederate army, and at the end of eight months returned home and 
began working at 70 cents per day, and afterward engaged in the saw-
mill business as agent for P. Van Winkle, serving in this capacity for 
several years. In 1881 he engaged in general merchandising at War 
Eagle, and also became owner of the grist-mill at that place, which 
property he purchased from Mr. Blackburn. He has a large and well-
selected stock of general merchandise, and also owns a branch store at 
Van Winkle Saw-mills. The water power which runs his grist-mill is the 
finest in Northwestern Arkansas, and the mill is very commodious and 
does a thriving business. Mr. Stringfield was married, in 1869, to 
Miss Emma Van Winkle, who was born in Benton County in 1852, and by 
her is the father of seven children: Luella (wife of W. T. Blackburn), 
Peter N., Alice, Mollie, Bertie, Lillie and James Berry. Mr. 
Stringfield is a Democrat, and is a Chapter Mason and a member of the 
I. O. O. F.