Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Wilborn Augustus Speir

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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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Wilborn Augustus Speir was born August 16, 1860, and is a son of John 
and Sarah A. (McWharton) Speir. The father was born in Tennessee, and 
when young went to Alabama and then to Georgia, and before leaving 
that State assisted in gathering the Cherokee Indians into one 
section, prior to their removal to the Indian Territory. He was 
married in Georgia, where his common-school education was acquired, 
and in 1869 came to Arkansas. The mother was born, reared and married 
in Georgia, and to her and Mr. Speir twelve children were born, all 
save two now living: William L. S., Elenore S., Seaborns S., Wilborn 
A., John L. S., Sarah M., Temperus U. and Thomas U. (twins), Mary C. 
and Charles W. Those deceased are Melvin C. and Franklin D. Our 
subject, Wilborn Speir, was born in Walker County, Ga., and since the 
death of his father, in 1883, has cared for his mother and sisters. He 
received but a limited education during his youth, and until nineteen 
years of age worked upon the home farm with his father, then working 
on the farm for himself three years. He then went to Uniontown, and, 
in partnership with two brothers, operated a grist-mill and cotton-gin 
for three years, when the mill was destroyed by fire. In 1885 he 
returned and purchased his present mill. He now owns 120 acres of 
land, forty-five of which he cultivates, and in connection with his 
milling has a blacksmith shop, and is engaged in the mercantile 
business with his brother. Politically Mr. Speir sympathizes with the 
Democrats, and he is a member of the Masonic fraternity. 

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