Biography of LARKEN B. GAMBLE, 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

	LARKEN B. GAMBLE, business manager of the Tribune and a
farmer of advanced and progressive ideas, owes his nativity to
Tennessee, his birth occurring in that State in 1839. His parents,
Josiah and Elizabeth Gamble, were natives also of the Big Bend State.
Larken B. Gamble was reared in his native State, and there received
a limited education, although he has improved this very materially
by observation and study. He started out in business for himself in
1865, and from that date until 1876 he was engaged in railroading
and steamboating. In 1883 he moved to Logan County, Ark., and here,
in connection with other enterprises, he has been engaged in farming
and merchandising. He is at present proprietor and business manager
of the Tribune, a Republican paper, published at Paris, and which is
a welcome visitor in the numerous homes it enters. Mr. Gamble has ever
been an earnest advocate of all public enterprises calculated to
benefit Logan County, and through the columns of this paper has
wielded no slight influence in directing the proper steps to be
taken for a worthy movement. At the breaking out of the Civil War,
or in July, 1861, Mr. Gamble enlisted in the Third Tennessee
Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A., for service, and was in active duty
all of the time up to February 23, 1865. He was wounded in the
left hand and arm, the left knee and the right ankle. By the
explosion of a shell his eyes and ears were very much affected,
and so continue at the present time. On December 14, 1876, his
marriage with Miss Annie M. Shafe, daughter of John and Mary A.
Shafe, was solemnized in Benton County, Ark. Mr. Gamble is a
strong Republican from principle, and he and Mrs. Gamble are
worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He believes
that mans' first duty is to his family, if he has one, and next
to the flag of his country, the stars and stripes, and in the
discharge of these duties God's blessings will assuredly follow.