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

HERMAN PEAY MADDOX.
    Herman Peay Maddox, who ranks high among the prominent lawyers of Arkansas,
has engaged in practice in Harrisburg since 1912, and his constantly increasing
ability has brought him continuous recognition in a large and distinctively
representative clientage. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry on hoth paternal and
maternal sides. His ancestors came to this country at an early day and became
prominent figures in the public life of the communities in which they resided.
Herman P. Maddox was born in Rockport, Ohio county, Kentucky, on the 14th of
June, 1884, a son of James E. and Verda (Gentry) Maddox. His father, who is
living in Harrisburg at the age of sixty-seven years, is active in the milling
business and is achieving more than substantial success in that connection. For
many years the father was engaged in farming in Ohio county, Kentucky, the
county of his birth. He was married in Ohio county in 1880, to Miss Verda
Gentry, who is also living at the age of sixty-seven years. She was born and
reared in that county, her family having been among the pioneer settlers there.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Maddox ten children were born, seven boys and three
girls. Five sons and the three daughters are living. Two sons died in infancy.
Herman P., whose name initiates this review, was the second in order of birth.

    Herman P. Maddox received his early education in the common schools of Ohio
county, Kentucky, and after graduating from the high school at Beaver Dam, that
state, entered the Bryant & Stratton Business College at. Louisville. After
completing his course there he started out in the business world as assistant
cashier of the Rockport Deposit Bank at Rockport, a position he held for two
years, 1905-07. At the end of that time he came to Arkansas and located in
Cherry Valley, where he was employed as cashier with the Bank of Cherry Valley,
and this position he held for five years. During his spare time he took up the
study of law and in 1910 was admitted to practice in the circuit and chancery
courts. He remained with the bank, however, until January, 1912, when he went to
Wynne, Arkansas, and began the active practice of law, which he continued there
until October, 1912. He then removed to Harrisburg, established his office and
began practice independently. He soon built up a distinctively representative
clientage. He has concentrated his time, energies and attention upon his
professional duties and the work that he has done as advocate and counselor
indicates clearly his familiarity with the principles of jurisprudence and an
analytical power that enables him correctly to apply those principles to the
question under consideration. On April 5, 1915, Mr. Maddox was admitted to
practice before the state supreme court and on October 5th, following, he was
admitted to the federal court. In 1916 he was elected deputy prosecuting
attorney of Poinsett county and was active in that office for two years. He is
now a member of the local city council. Although the greater part of Mr.
Maddox's time is devoted to his professional interests, he is well known in
financial circles as a stockholder in the Bank of Cherry Valley, at Cherry
Valley, this state.

    On the 21st of February, 1909, occurred the marriage of Mr. Maddox to Miss
Ruth Halk, a daughter of George and Anna Halk, well known residents of Cherry
Valley. To their union four children were born: Edward Stacey, twelve years of
age; Maurine, ten ye-rs of age; Vivian, aged six; and Herman Peay, Jr., aged
five. Mrs. Maddox's demise occurred on the 19th of October, 1918, at Harrisburg,
and came as a severe blow to her family and many friends.

    The religious faith of the family is that of the Baptist church, to the
support of which Mr. Maddox is a generous contributor. Fraternally he is a
Scottish Rite Mason; a member of Poinsett Lodge, No. 184, A. F. & A. M., of
Harrisburg; Arkansas Consistory, No. 1, Little Rock; and Sahara Temple of the
Mystic Shrine at Pine Bluff. He is likewise affiliated with Lodge No. 1080,
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Paragould and Cherry Valley Lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Along strictly professional lines he is
identified with the Arkansas State Bar Association. During the World war Mr.
Maddox was chairman of the legal advisory hoard and a Four-Minute man, making
many speeches throughout the county in behalf of various war activities. He is
readily conceded to be a public-spirited citizen of Harrisburg and is recognized
as a man of well-rounded character, whose interests are varied and who at all
times keeps in close touch with the trend of modern thought and progress.


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


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