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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

E. L. CRANDALL.
    With the development of the rice fields in this section of the state there
has grown up an important industry, for the cultivation of rice is naturally
followed by the establishment and operation of rice mills and the promotion of
commercial activity having to do with the handling of the product. To this field
of labor E. L. Crandall directed his attention and is now manager of the rice
mills at Carlisle. His birth occurred in Minnesota in the year 1876, his parents
being N. C. and Elizabeth Crandall. He pursued his education in his native city
while spending his youthful days under the parental roof and leaving the north
he made his way to Louisiana, where he became connected with the rice business.
He attained a first hand knowledge of rice culture, being schooled in the
practical end of the business first as a well driller for rice irrigation wells
and later as a rice grower and rice buyer for the Louisiana mills. In fact, he
acquainted himself with every phase of the business and broad experience well
qualified him for the onerous duties which he assumed on coming to Carlisle,
taking charge of the extensive rice mills at this place as secretary and
manager. In 1909 this mill was built by the Carlisle Rice Milling Company. The
officials of the present organization were formerly: M. B. Moore, J. H. Sims, D.
B. Perkins, H. I. Buechtley, and E. B. Roy. In 1916 the Arkansas State Rice
Milling Company took over the mills, which have an output of twenty-five hundred
barrels per day and furnish employment to fifty men. They handle the rice grown
on fifteen thousand acres in this vicinity and the business has become one of
the mammoth industries of this section of the state, constituting an important
source of revenue to the district.

    Mr. Crandall was united in marriage in 1905 to Rosa Tanigan, who died in
1912. Mr. Crandall was again married in 1915, this time to Miss Frances Sanders
of Texarkana, and they have become the parents of two daughters: Margaret and
Virginia. Mr. Crandall was the government representative at Carlisle during the
World war period, serving as a member of the food conservation committee, having
to do with the conservation of rough rice. He is interested in all that has to
do with the general welfare and is indeed a public-spirited citizen, one who has
the good of the community at heart, and while holding to high ideals employs the
most, practical methods in their attainment. As a business man be is thorough
and progressive, discriminating readily between the essential and the
non-essential in all business affairs and possessing a considerable measure of
initiative that enables him wisely to direct the interests of the corporation
which he represents, his activities having constituted an important element in
the company's success.


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


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