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

B. W. COYLE.
    B. W. Coyle, a planter of De Valls Bluff, where he is acting as manager of
the Gates estate, was born in Mississippi, in 1864, a son of A. I. and Julia
(Moore) Coyle. The father was a native of Lexington, Kentucky, while the
mother's birth occurred in Tennessee. Mr. Coyle removed with his family to
Arkansas, settling near Hickory Plains, in Prairie county, in 1870, and there B.
W. Coyle attended school, his training fitting him for life's practical and
responsible duties. He started out in the business world as clerk in a store and
from that point has steadily worked his way upward, wisely utilizing his time,
talents and opportunities as the years have passed by. Removing to De Valls
Bluff in 1893, he secured employment in the Gates store and through years of
active association with Mr. Gates familiarized himself with all of the details
connected with the Gates holdings, including thousands of acres of land. Upon
the death of Mr. Gates, Mr. Coyle was entrusted with the management and
development of this land, exceeding ten thousand acres, and thus he has become
one of the foremost planters of Arkansas. He has managed this vast property
prudently and profitably and as the years have passed has introduced most
progressive methods in the care of the soil and the development of the place,
much of which is devoted to rice culture. His unfaltering energy, his broad
vision and his keen sagacity have been vital forces in the attainment of success
and he ranks today as one of the most prominent representatives of agricultural
life in Arkansas.

    Mr. Coyle was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Espich, a daughter of Henry
Espich, who removed from Indiana to Arkansas. Mr. Coyle and his wife are keenly
interested in all those forces which make for public progress and improvement,
and his own labors have constituted a valuable contributing force to the
upbuilding of the state. Especially have his labors been of great worth in
demonstrating what can be accomplished in the way of rice production in the
Prairie lands of Arkansas, hitherto regarded as of little value.


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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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