Eli Cornish, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

Eli Cornish is another prominent and successful farmer of Calhoun County, Summerville post office, Jackson Township, and
was born in Drew County, Arkansas, on December 26, 1847. He was the fourth child born to Calvin and Elizabeth Cornish,
who moved to Arkansas from Alabama, settling in Drew County, where our subject was raised and schooled. As he was
growing up in war times, he received a very limited education, and began doing for himself at the age of fourteen years. His
principal occupation has been farming, but he is also engaged in the saw-mill and ginning business, both sawing and ginning for
the public. He owns a fine farm of 160 acres, with about seventy-five acres under an excellent state of cultivation. He erected
his mill and gin in 1888, and has successfully run both since. Mr. Cornish was married in 1872, selecting as his companion for
life, Miss Sara J. Benton, a native of Arkansas, and has six children living, two being dead, viz: Edward, Joseph, Calvin, Ruthie
L., Erner, Eli, Effie and Robert. Joseph and Erner are dead. Mr. Cornish served in the late war, enlisting in the Confederate
army in an independent company , under Capt. Robert Kidd, in 1862, and continued to serve as private until the close of the
war, engaging in several skirmishes, but in no active battles. Mr. Cornish is a member of the Jackson Wheel (one of Calhoun
County's subordinate wheels). He votes with the Democratic party, but does not take an active interest in politics. He is one of
the substantial farmers of this section, and is a liberal subscriber to all worthy public enterprises.