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Source: See Full Citation Below Biography
Author: S. J. Clarke

H. L. TOLAND.
    H. L. Toland of Ashdown, where he is engaged in the real estate, insurance,
farm loans and bonds business, is a native son of Arkansas, his birth having
occurred near Nashville en the 6th of February. 1871. There he was reared, the
public schools according him his educational privileges, while later he enjoyed
the benefit of a business course in Arkadelphia. He started out in the business
world as bookkeeper, having studied along that line while in commercial college,
and later he spent a year in that connection with the Saginaw Lumber Company. He
afterward acted as bookkeeper for Bascom & Ward for a year and then established
business on his own account by opening a drug store and general merchandise
establishment at Mineral Springs, where he remained until January 1, 1903. At
that date he came to Ashdown, where he opened a general store, erecting the
first brick business block in Little River county. He continued actively in
merchandising from 1903 until 1912 and then retired from commercial lines to
establish his real estate, loan and insurance business. In this connection he
Ins gained a large clientage and has built up an extensive business in the sale
of timber and farm lands. He also handles bonds and insurance, and in these
departments his business, too, has reached a gratifying figure. He is likewise a
director in the First National Bank of Ashdown and is regarded as a
representative and resourceful business man, alert and enterprising and ready
for any emergency.

    In November, 1894, Mr. Toland was married to Miss Fannie E. Martin and they
have become parents of five children: Thomas E., Joe B., Kathleen, Mary Martin
and Marguerite. The two sons were soldiers of the World war, both volunteering
in the infantry, and Thomas E., who went overseas, was in the Officers' Training
Camp.

    Mr. Toland took an active interest in everything that furthered the war and
its consequent victory, acting as chairman of the Red Cross in Little River
county throughout the entire period. He is a consistent and faithful member of
the Baptist church and is a thirty second degree Mason and Shriner. At all times
he is loyal to any cause which he espouses and his fidelity is counted as a
valuable asset in any organization with which he becomes allied.



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



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