Biography of James F. Quaile, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

James F. Quaile, retired merchant, and president of the Arkansas
Valley Bank, was born in France October 28, 1818, and is a son of
George and Catherine (Quaile) Quaile, also natives of France, where
the mother died. The father immigrated to the United States about
1824, and until his death lived in Louisville, Ky. James F. was reared
in that city, and in 1833 accompanied Justin Beneaux to Crawford
County, Ark., where he clerked for Mr. Beneaux six years. Returning to
Louisville in 1839, he remained there two years, but in 1841 returned
to Arkansas, and established a grocery business at Ozark when there
were but two or three business houses in the place. After dealing in
groceries two years he added merchandise to his stock, and for over
twenty years enjoyed a large business, handling a great portion of the
cotton trade of Franklin County. During the war his store was burned,
but in 1865 he rebuilt the same, and continued in business thereafter
until 1881, when he retired from commercial life. Upon the
organization of the Arkansas Valley Bank in July, 1887, he became a
stockholder, and was elected president of that organization. Mr.
Quaile is one of the prominent business men of Ozark, and has been of
great assistance in the up-building of Franklin County and the city of
Ozark. October 22, 1845, he married Miss Frank A. Quesenberry, a
native of Tennessee, but reared in this county, and a daughter of
William M. Quesenberry. Mr. Quesenberry was formerly from North
Carolina, and from there went to Tennessee, after which he came to
Arkansas in an early day, and was one of the prominent farmers of
Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs. Quaile have reared a family of eight
children, viz.: Elizabeth, wife of Hon. James H. Berry [see sketch];
Regina, widow of Dr. Blackburn; George Ann, wife of Henry C. Carter,
of Ozark; William, married, and residing at Roseville; John W.,
single; James M., married, and living at Coal Hill, Ark.; Susan W.,
deceased, formerly the wife of C. S. McKinney, and Ada, wife of Dr.
Bourland, of Van Buren. Mr. and Mrs. Quaile are active members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Quaile is an elder.