Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Robert M. Littlejohn

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Robert M. Littlejohn, freight agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco 
Railway, at Van Buren, since July, 1886, is a native of Louisiana, and 
was born in 1840. His parents, William and Jane J. (McAlpin) 
Littlejohn, were born in North Carolina and Mississippi, respectively. 
The father was a merchant, notary public and a member of the 
Presbyterian Church. He died in Louisiana in 1849, having lived there 
about fifteen years. The mother was a Methodist, and coming to Little 
Rock, Ark., about 1869, died at that place in 1879. William 
Littlejohn, the grandfather, came to America from Scotland in 1760, 
and settled in Edenton, N. C., where he died in 1817, aged seventy-
seven. For forty years he was engaged as a shipping merchant. In 1771 
he married Sarah Blount, daughter of Joseph Blount, who went to North 
Carolina before 1760, settling in Perquimans County, on the oldest 
land grant in North Carolina, made by the Yeophin Indians to George 
Durant in 1662. Robert M. Littlejohn is the oldest of a family of two 
sons and two daughters, and was educated at the S. P. Helen Institute 
at Shreveport, La. In April, 1861, he joined Capt. Flournoy's company, 
Second Louisiana Regiment, serving until after the Seven Days [p.1166] 
fight in front of Richmond, when he was transferred to Reef's cavalry, 
under Col. Monroe, of Arkansas, soon after being made quartermaster, 
which office he held until discharged at Shreveport, La., in July, 
1865. He was married at Van Buren. in 1863, to Helen J., daughter of 
William F. and Mary A. England, natives of South Carolina and 
Virginia. respectively. Mr. England was a furniture maker, and in an 
early day came to Crawford County, where he died His wife is still 
living. After the war Mr. Littlejohn was engaged as a bookkeeper in 
Van Buren a short time, and then farmed for ten years about ten miles 
below Van Buren. Returning to town, he then secured a position with 
the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, and afterward became clerk with 
the freight agent at Little Rock. He then worked two years in Van 
Buren with the same company. and since that time has been with the San 
Francisco line. In politics he is a Democrat, although reared a Whig. 
He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and his wife belongs to the 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Littlejohn have four daughters, one 
married and living in Florida. one in Little Rock and two at home. 

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