Miller County ArArchives Biographies.....Eason, Henry Fincher 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

CAPTAIN HENRY FINCHER EASON.
    Captain Henry Fincher Eason, prominently identified with educational
interests and an honored resident of Texarkana whose aid and influence have ever
been on the side of progress, reform and improvement, is a native of Miller
county, his birth having occurred near the Louisiana line, in Sulphur township,
on the 21st of October, 1883. He is a son of Sidney S. Eason, a native of
Georgia, who came to Arkansas in 1860 in company with his father, Abraham Eason.
The grandfather was a well-to-do planter and served in the Confederate army
during the Civil war as a member of Colonel Kelly's company but did not believe
in the separation of the states. Haying arrived at years of maturity, Sidney S.
Eason was married to Miss Luella L. Hemperley, a daughter of Dr. E. T. Hemperley
and also a native of Georgia. Sidney S. Eason still resides on the old
homestead, farm, at the age of seventy-three years, but his wife died July 19,
1896. Captain Eason is one of a family of fifteen children, nine sons and six
daughters, all of whom are yet living, six of the children having been born of
the father's second marriage.

    Captain Eason spent his boyhood and youth upon the old home farm on which he
was born and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil
and caring for the crops. He attended the ccmmon schools to some extent but is
largely self-educated, and realizing the value of intellectual training, he
attended, after attaining his majority, the Louisiana State Normal School for a
time and also continued his studies at Alexandria, Louisiana. When twenty-two
years of age he began teaching in the country schools and taught for eleven
years—twelve months in the year. In 1916 he was elected to the office of county
clerk of Miller county and filled the position for two terms, or four years. In
1920 he was chosen county collector and has since occupied the position. He was
also county statistician for the agricultural department of the United States
government and was instrumental in promoting the investigation of the soils of
Arkansas. From early manhood he has been identified with educational interests
as a director, as teacher, as principal and as superintendent of schools and has
been a very prominent figure in educational circles. He has also constantly
broadened his knowledge hy reading, study and experience and is today a highly
educated man, thoroughly versed in the natural resources and the possibilities
for development in Arkansas. During the World war he had charge of the
registration boards of Miller county and at the close of the war was acting as
chairman of the board. He was also the first food administrator of the county.

    Captain Eason was likewise instrumental in raising Company C of the Fourth
Arkansas Infantry of the state militia. He enlisted as a private and was
advanced to the rank of first lieutenant in 1917, while in 1918 he was promoted
to the captaincy of the company and is now on the reserve list of military
officers of the United States army, in the Arkansas National Guard.

    On the 23d of December, 1908, Captain Eason was united in marriage to Miss
Ollie Minnie Walton and they have become the parents of six children, of whom
two died in infancy, while those still living are Henry Fincher, Sidney S.,
William B. and Eveline M.

    Captain Eason is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic
Shrine and he has served as senior deacon in the lodge. He also belongs to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the
World, and he has membership in the Baptist church. His entire life has been
actuated by high and honorable principles and in every relation with his
fellowmen he has commanded the confidence, goodwill and high regard of those
with whom he has been brought in contact. His life work has constituted a
valuable contribution to progress and improvement in the section of the state in
which he has always lived and at the time of world crisis he proved himself one
hundred per cent American.


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


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