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

JUDGE C. W. NOLAN.
    Judge C. W. Nolan, serving for the second time on the bench of the Miller
county court and highly esteemed as a resident of Texarkana, was born in Henry
county, Georgia, January 7, 1847. He was seven years of age when his parents
removed to Cass county, Texas, where be resided until 1870. He acquired a common
school education and was reared upon a farm, early becoming thoroughly
acquainted with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops.
The year 1870 witnessed his arrival in Arkansas, at which time he took up his
abode in what was then Lafayette county but is now Miller county. Here he began
farming and later he extended the scope of his business activities to include
the operation of sawmills. He was thus engaged for about fifteen years and also
handled timber, continuing in the business until 1909. In the meantime, or in
1900, he had removed to Texarkana and in 1910 he assumed the duties of county
tax collector, to which office he had been chosen at the previous election. He
continued to fill the position for four years and then in 1914 was elected
police judge. He served upon the bench of the police court for about twenty
months, when he resigned the position, having in the meantime been elected to
the office of judge of the county court. He served during the years 1917 and
1918 and was then defeated for reelection, but at the end of another term he was
once more chosen county judge at the election in 1920 and is again upon the
bench. His decisions are strictly fair and impartial, being based upon the law
and the evidence in the case, and the fact that he was again called to the
position after an interim of two years indicates the confidence which the public
has in him as a man and as a jurist.

    On the 24th of November, 1873, Judge Nolan was married to Miss Louisa J.
Mays and they became the parents of two children, but both died in infancy.
Judge Nolan is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and he and
his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They are highly esteemed
people and deserve classification with the representative residents of Arkansas.
His life has long been the expression of high ideals in business and in public
office and he still remains a factor in the world's work, although he has passed
the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten, being now in his
seventy-fifth year.


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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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