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

LESLIE GOODLOE.
    Leslie Goodloe, as well known figure in insurance circles in Arkadelphia,
where close application and undaunted enterprise, have enabled him to develop a
business of substantial and gratifying proportions, was born in Clarksville,
Tennessee, December 16. 1878. He is a son of Albert Theodore and Sarah Louise
(Cockrill) Goodloe, the former a native of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, while the
latter was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where their marriage was celebrated in
1855. Immediately afterward they came to Arkansas, settling in St Francis county
and the town of Caldwell was later built upon the plantation which Mr. Goodloe
purchased. He acquired two thousand acres of laud there and owned a large number
of slaves. He was a man of liberal education, having graduated from the
University of Virginia and also from the Richmond Medical College of Richmond,
Virginia. For years he engaged in the practice of medicine in St. Francis county
and in addition managed his large estate, being a man of splendid business
ability and executive force. Both he and his wife were but children when their
respective parents died and both were left estates of considerable consequence.
Like her husband, Mrs. Goodloe had splendid educational opportunities, being a
student at Dr. Price's Select School in Nashville, one of the leading
educational institutions of the city at that time. Soon after the Civil war
Albert T. Goodloe returned to Tennessee, where he had retained his summer
home—Millhrook Farm—which adjoined The Hermitage, the home of General Andrew
Jackson, near Nashville. In subsequent years he entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, and gave his life to the holy calling until
his labors were ended. He served in the Confederate army during the entire
period of the Civil war and preached to the soldiers while with the army. He
died February 22, 1912, having for a few years survived his wife, whose death
occurred March 31, 1908.

    Leslie Goodloe pursued his education in the Henderson-Brown College of
Arkadelphia, which conferred upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree at his
graduation with the class of 1898. His brother, Granville Goodloe, was a member
of the faculty of the college for several years. On the completion of his course
there Leslie Goodloe spent one year as a student in the Randolph-Macon College
at Ashland, Virginia, and then entered upon a law course at the University of
Virginia, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1902.

    Having thus qualified for the practice of the profession Leslie Goodloe
located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he opened a law office but at the end of
the year turned his attention to financial interests by organizing a bank in
Hoxie, Arkansas, of which he served as cashier for four years. In the fall of
1906 he came to Arkadelphia as assistant cashier of the Citizens National Bank,
in which capacity he served for six years. While an employe of the bank he built
up an extensive insurance business and in 1912 he resigned his position with the
bank and organized the United Insurance Agency, of which he was made general
manager. Through the intervening period his attention has been given to
insurance interests and he has gained a most extensive clientage for the agency
which he represents, being recognized today as one of the prominent insurance
men of his section of the state.

    On the 28th of November, 1906, Mr. Goodloe was married to Miss Frances
Louise Sims of Brunswick county, Virginia, and they have become parents of two
children: Frances Ida and Albert Theodore. Mr. Goodloe is a member of
Arkadelphia Lodge, No. 381, A. F. & A. M., and also of Arkadelphia Lodge, No.
1149, B. P. 0. E., of which he is a charter member, while for two terms he
served as exalted ruler. He is serving on the board of trustees of the
Henderson-Brown College and is acting as secretary of the board. He is also the
president of the Rotary Club and is in hearty sympathy with the high ideals and
purposes of that organization, which is actuated not only by a desire to develop
business relations in the city, but also to uphold the highest civic standards
and the most advanced ideals of American citizenship. He was chairman of the
exemption board during the period of the World war and religiously he is
connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, South, while his wife also holds
membership therein.


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


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