Biography of W. F. Kirkland - 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 80

W. F. Kirkland. a merchant of Solgohachia, was born in Marshall
County, Mississippi, September 3, 1858. His parents, Mulkie S. and
Marinda (Ragsdale) Kirkland, were natives of Alabama, and are the
parents of four children, William F. (subject of this sketch), Calvin
C. Lee A., and David O. Mr. Kirkland, Sr., is a planter by occupation,
and for a long time has been a minister in the Missionary Baptist
Church. He emigrated from Alabama to Mississippi in 1857, and in 1888
came to Arkansas, and settled in Conway County, where he now resides.
He is an active member of the Masonic fraternity, is a Royal Arch
Mason, and has held all the principal offices in the lodge. Our
subject was mainly reared and educated in Mississippi. At the age of
twenty-two years he began farming for himself on rented land, which he
continued for several years. On the 29th of November, 1888, he married
Miss G. Shackelford, a native of Mississippi, who was born December
30, 1866. In February, 1889, Mr. K. began merchandising in
?olgohachia, where he is building up a fair and increasing trade,
doing an annual cash business of $3500. He and wife are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church.