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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

WILLIAM FRANK NORRELL.
    William Frank Norrell, one of Arkansas' native sons, is devoting his
attention to the practice of law and is recognized as one of the rising young
attorneys of Monticello, being a member of the firm of Wilson & Norrell,
accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage. He was born in
Milo, Ashley county, August 29, 1896, his parents being Frank and Sarah Elvie
(Richardson) Norrell, the former a native of Alabama and the latter born in Drew
county, Arkansas, where their marriage occurred. The father followed the
occupation of farming and also conducted a general store in Milo for many years,
being numbered among the enterprising merchants of the town. He died in 1898.  
 The mother is still a resident of Milo.

    In the acquirement of an education William F. Norrell attended the public
schools of Milo, the Fourth District State Agricultural School and the College
of the Ozarks at Clarksville, in which he completed his course in 1918. He then
entered the Arkansas Law School at Little Rock, from which he was graduated with
the class of 1919, and in May, 1920, he was admitted to the bar. In June of that
year he began his professional career at Monticello, becoming a partner of R. W.
Wilson, at that time assistant United States district attorney, and this
relationship has since been maintained. Their interests are conducted under the
firm style of Wilson & Norrell and they are numbered among the most successful
attorneys in southeastern Arkansas. They have built up a large clientele in
Monticello and have been retained as counsel by many large corporations, among
which may be mentioned the United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company, the
Hankins Hardware Company, the Bailey Production Oil Company and the American
Surety Company.

    Studious by nature, Mr. Norrell has closely applied himself to the mastery
of legal principles and his ability is manifest in the clearness of bis
reasoning and the logic of his deductions. High ideals guide him in every
relation of life and he adheres to the strictest ethics in his professional
work. He is an alert and enterprising young man, who is actuated by laudable
ambition to progress and in his practice he displays a conscientious zeal and
energy that are carrying him steadily forward. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, belonging to Eureka Lodge, No. 40, F. & A. M.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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