Biography of Albert Quesenbury, 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.

Albert Quesenbury, a prominent and successful merchant of Mulberry,
Ark., is a native of Arkansas, born in 1848, and is a son of Richard
and Eliza J. (Maxey) Quesenbury. His father is a native of Franklin
County, Tenn. His mother is a native of Kentucky, and of Scotch-Irish
descent. The father is one of the pioneers of Franklin County, Ark.,
and is an honored and much respected citizen of the same. He is still
living, and a resident of the county. He was reared on a farm, and
followed agricultural pursuits all his life. His son, Albert
Quesenbury, grew to manhood on his father's farm, and followed the
[p.1273] occupation of farming until twenty-two years of age, when he
went to work as a salesman in Ozark, Ark., for Quaile & Moore,
merchants, remaining with them three years, then went in business for
himself; remained two years in Ozark merchandising, then moved to
Pleasant Hill, Ark., and remained there two years; moved to Mulberry,
Ark., in 1876, and has remained there ever since engaged in
merchandising. Mr. Quesenbury was married in 1872 to Miss C. J.
Alston, of Ozark, Ark., and married again in 1880 to Miss Sallie
Beneux, of Mulberry, Ark. He is father of four children, two by his
first wife, Sadie and Reynolds, and two by his second wife, Bonnie
Dean and Paul Beneux. Mr. Quesenbury is a partner in the large drug
house of Quesenbury & Counts, of Mulberry, Ark. He owns a good bottom
farm near Mulberry. He is a wideawake, thorough-going business man. He
is a Democrat in polities, and a good citizen.