Biography of J.C. CATNER, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	J.C. CATNER, farmer and merchant, Chismville, Ark. Owing to
the fertility of the soil in Logan County, Ark., and by energy,
industry and economy Mr. Catner has become one of the wealthy
citizens of the county. He was born in Hot Springs County, Ark.,
on April 22, 1846, and is the son of Morrison and Malinda (McCoal)
Catner, natives of Illinois. The parents were married in Hot Springs
County, and to their union were born eight children - six sons and
two daughters - who are named in the order of their birth as follows:
William, Joseph, Morrison, J.C., Malinda, Grant, and the other two
died in infancy. The parents removed from Hot Springs to Logan
County, Ark., in 1848, and there they reside at the present time.
Of the above-mentioned children J.C. Catner is the eldest now living.
In 1864 he enlisted in the United States Army, Company I, Second
Arkansas Cavalry as a private, and served until peace was declared.
He then returned to his home in Logan County, engaged in tilling the
soil, and was married in 1868 to Miss M.E. Stanley, daughter of G.W.C.
and Adaline (Hudson) Stanley. Their eight children are named as
follows: Georgian, Antonia, Mary, Sallie B. and Sydney B. (twins),
James Maret and Maset (twins). Georgian married V.L. Estes, a
merchant of Greenwood, Sebastian County. Mr. Catner is the owner
of 1,300 acres of land in Logan County, and has about 400 acres
under cultivation. He has also been occupied in merchandising at
Chismville, where has a stock of general merchandise worth $6,000,
and he has a store at Greenwood. He does an annual business of about
$30,000 at the first mentioned place, and he is also doing an immense
business at Greenwood. He is one of Logan County's most successful
business men and highly respected citizens. He is one among the
heaviest dealers in the county. Socially he is a member of the
Masonic fraternity. He lost his wife in January, 1884, and in 1889
was married to Miss Laura Baker, daughter of James Baker.