Crawford-Sebastian County ArArchives Biographies.....Faber, Henry Conrad ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 July 20, 2009, 11:41 pm Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922) HENRY CONRAD FABER. Henry Conrad Faber is one of the most active and energetic business men in Crawford county, and closely watching every opportunity for the attainment of legitimate success, he has made constant progress since starting out in the business world on his own account. For twenty-five years he has conducted the Faber Store in Van Buren and he is readily conceded to be a representative citizen of the community. Henry Conrad Faber was born in Sebastian county, Arkansas, on his grandfather's farm in 1868, and this farm is still in possession of the family. His parents were William L. and Georgie L. (Knox) Faber. The paternal grandfather, Conrad William Faber, was for many years a prominent business man in New York city and a personal friend of John Jacob Astor. Mr. Astor and Mr. Faber were then on a par in the business world. Mr. Faber, however, met with financial disaster when, after shipping a large consignment of turpentine, tar and pitch to an English concern, that concern failed and the shipment was seized. Grandfather Faber's demise occurred in 1852 in Brooklyn, New York, and he is buried in Greenwood Cemetery there. Our subject's paternal grandmother was Annie Bolton Booth Faber, and her death occurred when her son, William L., was born. William L. was cared for by his grandmother Booth until he was seven years old. He was then sent to Germany and was there reared by Mrs. Harnickell, an aunt, and educated at Heidelberg. A brother of Annie Bolton Booth, Prof. James Curtis Booth, was for forty years identified with the mints in Philadelphia and was a highly esteemed and representative citizen. William L. Faber, the father of our subject, was highly educated and was an accomplished musician. He was one of the first chemists and mining engineers in this country and at the time of his demise in Salt Lake City in 1873, he was in the employ of a large mining company there. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served on General Van Dorn's staff in the Confederate army. Mrs. Faber's death occurred May 27, 1920. She was a daughter of George W. and Eudora (Rose) Knox, and both her mother and grandmother were natives of Arkansas. A diary was recently found by Mr. Faber which was written by his grandfather Knox, in which he describes a boat trip from Arkansas to New York in 1842, and speaks of St. Louis, Chicago and other large cities, as thriving little towns. In the acquirement of an education H. C. Faber attended the schools of Little Rock. In 1S92, after putting his textbooks aside, he came to Van Buren. and because of serious eye trouble at this time, engaged in raising strawberries. For four years he was thus actively engaged, achieving substantial success, and at the termination of that time he determined to enter the business world and subsequently opened an establishment in Van Buren. For twenty-five years now he has been one of the leading merchants in Crawford county and he is perhaps the only retailer in the country who is a stockholder in the Reynolds-Davis Grocery Company of Fort Smith, wholesale grocers. Mr. Faber is a stockholder in the Oklahoma Auto Manufacturing Company of Muskogee and the Coca-Cola Manufacturing business in Fort Smith. He likewise operates the old home farm of five hundred acres. On June 6, 1918, Mr. Faber was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Sadler, a daughter of W. P. Sadler of Van Buren, who is clerk of the state supreme court in Little Rock. Mr. Faber takes the interest of an intelligent and wide-awake citizen in public affairs, and in selection of competent men for public office. In his business life he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive powers, and added to a progressive spirit, ruled by more than ordinary intelligence and good judgment, there has been a native justice which has expressed itself in correct principle and practice. Additional Comments: Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/crawford/bios/faber290bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb