Biography of John Christopher Stroud, 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 717 

Hon. John Christopher Stroud, present representative of Independence
County in the State legislature, resides on a farm about one mile west of
Graham postoffice. He was born in Independence County, October 3, 1854, and is
the eldest child and only son of the five children born to Andrew J. and Mary
Ann (Winkle) Stroud. Andrew J. Stroud was born near Knoxville, Tenn., March 3,
1826, his parents having settled in Tennessee at an early day. When a young man
he went to Kentucky and for four years was a resident of Paducah, McCracken
County, where he was married. In 1854 he removed to Independence County, Ark.,
where he died in 1881, having always been a farmer by occupation. His wife was
born in North Carolina, in 1829, and is still [p.717] living. Andrew J. was a
son of Christopher Stroud, a native of North Carolina, whose father was born in
Ireland. John C. received his early education in the free schools of his native
county and completed his studies in the Washington High School of his home
township. At the age of nineteen he began teaching school, which profession he
successfully followed until 1886. In the latter year he was elected to
represent the county in the State legislature, and two years later was again
chosen to fill the same position, serving his constituents honorably. He takes
an active interest in politics and was formerly a Democrat, but now is an
Independent. He also takes an active part as a member of the I. O. O. F., and
has several times represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. Mr. Stroud owns 290
acres of fine creek bottom land, about seventy-five acres of which he has under
cultivation. December 3, 1879, he married Miss Adelia Barnes, who was born in
Independence County, January 19, 1860, and is a daughter of George W. and
Martha J. Barnes. Mr. and Mrs, Stroud have four children, Emma A., Estella,
William A. and Martha J. Our subject is one of the most popular young men of
the community, and is deserving of the public favor bestowed on him. He is
well-to-do and is highly esteemed by all who know him.