Biography of JAMES H. FORT, 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

	JAMES H. FORT, planter, Paris, Ark. Located in the midst
of one of the finest agricultural portions of Logan County, the
farm which Mr. Fort owns and occupies is conceded to be among the
best in this vicinity, and this is saying not a little, for on
every hand may be seen superior places, whose ownership indicates
thrift and prosperity. He was born three and a half miles west of
Paris, Ark., in 1857, and was the fourth in a family of ten children
born to William H. and Nancy A. (Sewell) Fort, the father a native
of Missouri and the mother of Mississippi. The father came to Arkansas
in 1828, has since resided in this county, and now resides at Paris,
where he has made his home for about fifty years. It fell to the lot
of James H. Fort to grow up with a farm experience, and he was
educated at Quitman and Magazine, this county, Ozark and Charleston
in Franklin County and Dardanelle in Yell County. He remained at
home until nineteen years of age, when he began farming for himself,
investing in 805 acres southwest of Paris in Short Mountain Creek,
with fifteen acres cleared. He began making improvements, and resided
here for about eight years. He is now the owner of about 900 acres in
various tracts lying near Paris, has 500 acres under cultivation and
400 acres of which is creek bottom. The remainder is among the best
uplands of the county. He has good buildings on his place and is one
of the thrifty and successful planters of this region. Mr. Fort has
recently removed to Paris, where he expects soon to erect a tasty
residence. He was married in 1876 to Miss Rosa Anna Huckaby of this
county. The family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
and Mr. Fort is soon to enter the ministry. He is a member of the
Farmers' Alliance, is progressive in all things, and is practically
a self-made man.