Biography of Christopher Case, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 649

Christopher Case, farmer, Batesville. No name is justly entitled to a more
enviable place in the history of Independence County than the one which heads
this sketch, for it is borne by a man who, though young in years, has yet been
honorably identified not only with the agricultural interests of this county,
but with its advancement in every worthy particular. He was born in the city of
Batesville, Ark., on the 4th of December, 1851, received his education, and
passed his youth in that city. He learned the harness-maker's trade, and
followed this in Batesville until his marriage, after which he engaged in
agricultural pursuits. In 1883 he moved to where he now resides, and has since
been engaged in tilling the soil and stock dealing quite extensively. He owns
over 268 acres of good land, with 200 under cultivation. He deals principally
in cattle, is at present engaged in the dairy business, and has forty head of
good milch cows. He makes two trips a day into Batesville, and is doing a good
business. He was married, in 1880, to Miss Cora Knowles, a native of Missouri,
and they are the parents of three children: Eva, Henry K. and Robert R. Mrs.
Case is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Case's parents, George
and Sarah (Ridgeway) Case, are both natives of Pennsylvania. The father
emigrated to Mausfield, Ohio, thence to Illinois, and to Independence County,
Ark., in about 1837. While in Illinois he met and married Miss Ridgeway, who
had moved with her parents to that State. After coming to Arkansas, Mr. Case
located in Batesville, where he carried on the mercantile business for some
time. He died at Hopefield, Ark, in 1864. The mother is yet living, and resides
in Batesville. They were the parents of seven children, now living: Mrs. Eliza
Joblin, Mrs. Mary Maxfield, Mrs. M. A. Joblin. Robert R., Christopher, Dr. J.
W. and George R.