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Author: S. J. Clarke

EARNEST ERVIN.
    Earnest Ervin, conducting an abstract business in Booneville, was born in
1882, near the city in which he still resides, and is a son of J. C. and Eliza
(McCaskill) Ervin. The father, a native of Tennessee, is still living at the age
of sixty eight years, but the mother, who was born in South Carolina in 1858,
died on the 13th of May, 1916. The former was a son of Jonathan Ervin, who was
born in Tennessee, but became a resident of Arkansas and during the period of
the Civil war served as county jailer in Polk county. The mother was a daughter
of W. K. McCaskill, a native of North Carolina, who arrived in Arkansas when
Logan county was still largely an undeveloped district and here spent his
remaining days. The marriage of J. C. Ervin and Eliza McCaskill was celebrated
near Booneville and they became parents of five children: Ollie, who is the
widow of W. M. Burgess and resides in Cowlington, Oklahoma; J. K., a farmer of
Booneville; Earnest, of this review; Lafayette, who is city salesman for the
Western Grain Company at Fort Smith, Arkansas; and Ways, a jeweler and
watchmaker by trade, now living at Tulia, Texas. The father is a member of the
Baptist church, to which Mrs. Ervin also belongs. He likewise has membership
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he gives his political allegiance
to the democratic party. For many years he followed farming, making that
occupation his life work, but is now living retired, making his home with his
daughter in Oklahoma.

    Earnest Ervin, having attended the public schools of Logan county, afterward
pursued a course in bookkeeping at Arkadelphia. He started out to provide for
his own support as a farmer and continued to give his attention to agricultural
interests until twenty-four years of age, when he turned to commercial pursuits,
becoming a shipping clerk in a wholesale grocery house at Fort Smith. There he
continued for three years and later spent a similar period upon the road as a
traveling salesman. He next engaged in the grocery business at Booneville for
twelve months and later obtained a position in the office of the circuit clerk,
there remaining for two years. In 1912 he was appointed deputy county clerk and
has been associated with the office in this connection continuously since. He
likewise conducts an abstract business under the name of the Booneville
Abstracting Company and has gained many clients, so that his business is now a
substantial one.

    In 1904 Mr. Ervin was married to Miss Addie Westmoreland, who was born in
Mississippi, a daughter of H. M. Westmoreland, who came to Logan county,
Arkansas, about 1888, and is now living on a farm near Booneville. Mr. and Mrs.
Ervin are the parents of three children, Edward, Virginia and Elizabeth, all in
school. Politically Mr. Ervin is a democrat. He is interested in all those
forces which make for public progress and civic betterment and his cooperation
can at all times be counted upon to further any movement for the general good.
He has a wide acquaintance in Logan county, where his entire life has been
passed, the sterling traits of his character gaining for him the respect,
confidence and good will of all with whom he has been associated.


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



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