Biography of C. C. Straughan - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 111

C. C. Straughan, a notary public, and part owner of the Morrilton,
Solgohachia and Cleveland Telephone line, is a resident of Morrilton.
He is also engaged in the mercantile business at Cleveland, under the
firm name of Straughan Bros.

Mr. Straughan is a native of Marion County, in what is now West
Virginia, and was born in 1850, being the eldest of a family of four
sons and six daughters. Was raised to manhood on a farm, and since 9
years old has lived in Conway County, receiving his education at Old
Lewisburg, under the tutorage of the Rev. I. L. Burrow.

After completing his education he taught school for about one year,
after which he spent about three years as a clerk for A. C. Wells. He
was then engaged in the mercantile pursuit at Lewisburg for a few
years, the firm being Straughan & McClung. Mr. Straughan then followed
farming until 1882, when he removed to Morrilton, where he again
engaged in the mercantile business, which he continued with success
till June, 1889, when he retired from business at that place, but in
February prior had engaged in other business with his brother at
Cleveland.

Mr. Straughan now owns and operates a good farm of 200 acres, six
miles north of Morrilton. He also owns a good residence in the suburbs
of Morrilton, where, he now resides, and other good residence
property, and an interest in one of the finest business blocks in
town, erected by Straughan & Brooke, in 1889. He is a Democrat in
politics, and holds membership in the orders of I. O. O. F., A. F. and
A. M, and of the K. of H., the latter Morning Star Lodge, No. 2197. He
is at present, and for several years has been Secretary of the
Lewisburg Lodge of Masonry, No. 105

His marriage occurred in 1874 to Miss Mary Barley, a daughter of
George and Sarah Barley, who were early settlers of Pope County, where
Mrs. Barley died when Mrs. Straughan was quite small. Mr. Barley is a
German, and is still a resident of Atkins Pope County, a planter by
occupation. Mrs. Straughan was born in Pope County, and is the mother
of three sons and three daughters.

Mr. Straughan's father, Peter C. Straughan, was born in Northumberland
County, Virginia, in 1824, and married in what is now West Virginia,
to Mary M. Tucker, a native of Ohio. After their marriage they removed
to Cincinnati, Ohio, and from there to Kentucky (Campbell County),
where they lived till 1859, when they immigrated to Conway County,
Arkansas, and settled a few miles north of the present site of
Morrilton, where Mr. Straughan died in 1883. He was a successful
farmer during his life.

He fought bravely nearly all through the campaign of Tennessee. During
the civil war was with Gen. Van Dorn, till the latter's death, after
which he fought under Gen. Longstreet. At the last Nashville fight
Mr. Straughan received a severe wound, which left him a cripple for
life. His father was of Scotch descent, and died when Peter C. was a
boy.