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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

COY M. NIXON.
    Coy M. Nixon, a well known and successful attorney of Pine Bluff, was born
In Conway, Arkansas, in 1887, and is a son of W. H. and Mary C. (Townsend)
Nixon. The father was a soldier of the Confederate army during the Civil war and
in days of peace he devoted his attention to farming.

    Coy M. Nixon is indebted to the public schools of Jacksonville, this state,
for the early educational opportunities which he enjoyed and which qualified him
for his collegiate work, which he pursued in the University of Arkansas. When at
the end of four years he had completed the more specifically literary course he
entered the law department of that institution, from which he received the
degree of LL. B. He holds membership in Sigma Phi Epsilon, a college fraternity
of the university. He located for practice at Pine Bluff in 1916 and through the
intervening period has followed his profession here. Advancement at the bar is
proverbially slow, yet he has made steady and gratifying progress and has been
connected with much important litigation of a representative character. The only
interruption to his professional service came during the period of the World
war, when he entered the first Officers' Training School at Fort Logan H. Roots.

    Mr. Nixon married Miss Willie Belle Mason of Little Rock, a daughter of L.
W. and Sarah (McKinnis) Mason. They have a wide circle of friends in Pine Bluff,
occupying an enviable social position, and the hospitality of their own home is
greatly enjoyed by those who know them. Mrs. Nixon is a member of the Christian
church, while Mr. Nixon belongs to the Presbyterian church and is also
identified with the Masonic fraternity—associations which indicate much
concerning the nature of his interests and the rules which govern his conduct,
making him a man whom to know is to esteem and honor.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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