Biography of Henry V. Crowell - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 62

Henry V. Crowell, a young but enterprising farmer of Washington Township, this
county, is a native of Alabama, born December 22, 1856, is the son of M. and
Mary A. Crowell; father is a retired practitioner in the profession of medicine,
and at present is engaged in commercial business at Solgohachia (see sketch).
Our subject received his education in this State at the schools of Springfield,
and Quitman College. Arriving at his majority, he began merchandising, a
business he followed till 1884. He then went to the Indian Territory and was
engaged in the cattle business for several years. Retiring from that occupation
he returned and engaged as clerk, and occupation he followed for two years. On
August 20, 1886, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Coleman, who was born in
the State of Mississippi, December 20, 1869. They are now the parents of two
children, Adrian, born November 23, 1887, and an infant unnamed. He is a
successful farmer, and his farm of 107 acres, purchased several years ago, is
being greatly improved by his industry and good management. He has eighty acres
under cultivation and all is well-stocked and fenced. Mr. C. is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, Hebron Lodge, No. 256, in which he has held various offices.
He and wife are also members of the M. E. Church, South.