Biography of William F Lovejoy, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 155

William F. Lovejoy is foreman of the Leonard plantation in Greene County, Ark., which
is one of the finest in the State, containing 2,000 acres under wire fence, with 600
acres in cultivation. On this farm is a good general store, belonging to Mr. Lovejoy,
and a saw and grist-mill and a cotton-gin belonging to Mr. Leonard. They are largely
interested in raising blooded stock, the plantation being admirably adapted to this
industry, and a specialty is made of raising Poland China and Berkshire hogs.
Nineteen dwelling houses are on the place, and the barn, which is 100×85 feet, is one
of the best in the State. From 250 to 300 acres of land are annually devoted to the
culture of cotton, which receives the most of Mr. Lovejoy's attention. He was born in
DeKalb County, Ga., in 1843, and was the second in a family of five children born to
Samuel and Paulina (Scaife) Lovejoy, who were also Georgians, the father a planter
and merchant by occupation. In 1848 they moved to Alabama and resided on a plantation
in that State, and here the mother died, in 1850. The father remained there until
1870, when he moved to Phillips County, Ark., in which State he resided until his
death, in 1883. William F. Lovejoy was reared on a plantation and received his
education in the schools of Alabama. While living in that State he was married, in
1864, to Frances Carrington, and at the time of his father's removal to Arkansas he
and wife came also and engaged in farming and merchandising. He owns a good farm in
St. Francis County, but since 1883 he has resided in Greene County, and since 1886
has had charge of Mr. Leonard's farm, which he is conducting in a highly satisfactory
manner. Besides his property in St. Francis County he has 160 acres, with forty under
cultivation, near Mr. Leonard's farm. He has never been very active in politics, but
votes the Democratic ticket. In 1862, while in Alabama, he joined M. M. Slaughter's
Company, Bell's Battalion, Tenth Regiment, Confederate States Army, but became
afflicted with chronic diarrhœa and was honorably discharged. He is a member of the
A. F. & A. M., Brinkley Lodge No. 295. He has seen a great change for the better in
Greene County since locating here, and has witnessed the full growth of Rector, and
has been the means of opening up more land than any man in Blue Cane Township. He has
also done much to increase the wealth of the same, and has expended over $10,000 in
clearing the large plantation of which he is manager, and which is now one of the
most valuable pieces of property in the State. He and wife became the parents of two
children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other, Mary Pauline, is the wife of
Mr. Bradford, merchant and express agent at Brinkley, Ark.; she is the mother of one
child, William Monroe.