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

EDWARD LEVENS GAUNT.
    Edward Levens Gaunt, of the firm of Chase, Wallin & Gaunt, public
accountants of Little Rock, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, August 21, 1895. He
was one of a family of four sons and three daughters, of whom three sons and
three daughters are living. The parents are Jesse Stebbins and Annette Mary
(Puthoff) Gaunt. The father was born in Booneville, Missouri, in 1862, and the
mother's birth occurred in St. Louis in 1865. They were married in that city in
1884 and they now reside in Benton, Arkansas, where the father conducts business
as a lumberman. He votes with the democratic party.

    In early boyhood Edward L. Gaunt became a pupil in the public schools of St.
Louis and afterward continued his education in the public schools of Pekin,
Illinois, and of Corning, Arkansas. He next became a high school pupil at
Benton, Arkansas, and was there graduated with the class of 1911. He completed a
course in a business college in Little Rock and likewise attended a commercial
school in Chicago. His training was thus thorough and comprehensive and well
qualified him for the responsible duties that have devolved upon him in later
years. He came to Little Rock on the 9th of September, 1912, and was with the
Foster Hardware Company for a period of five and a half years. He then entered
the ordnance department as a civilian accountant and was so engaged until
January, 1919. At that date he went to Chicago, where he was employed by a firm
of public accountants for a period of eight months, after which he returned to
Little Rock. On the 12th of August, 1919, the firm of Chase, Wallin & Gaunt was
organized in the capital city. Their clientele, however, is not limited to
Little Rock for their work calls them to all sections of the state. The three
partners are men of acknowledged ability in their profession and their business
is now a substantial and growing one.

    On the 11th of September, 1920, Mr. Gaunt was married to Miss Charlotte
Marie Betten, who was born September 29, 1896, in Orange City, Iowa, and is a
daughter of Dirk and Mary (Noteboom) Betten, the former a native of Pella, Iowa,
while the latter was born in Salem, Oregon. Mrs. Gaunt was educated in Ames
College of Iowa and is a lady of liberal culture. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gaunt are
held in high esteem in social circles and they are well known as members of the
Presbyterian church. At the time of the World war Mr. Gaunt enlisted for service
in May, 1917, but was rejected on account of physical disability. It was then
that he entered the ordnance department as a civilian accountant in the
department at Rochester, New York, serving there for eight months. His political
allegiance has always been given to the democratic party and he is a firm
believer in its principles. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He likewise belongs to the
Kiwanis Club and to the Cooperative Club and of the latter he is treasurer.


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


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