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

FRED ARTHUR ISGRIG.
    Fred Arthur Isgrig, who has devoted his attention to the practice of law
since completing a course in the law department of the University of Arkansas in
1910, and who throughout this period has remained in Little Rock, was born
October 5, 1884, on a farm in Perry county. Arkansas. His father, William A.
Isgrig, came to this state from Indiana, his birth having occurred on the 16th
of October, 1862, in Campbellsburg, Indiana, thence his parents removed to
Kansas in 1869, when he was a lad of but seven years. After a residence there
covering a decade they established their home in Perry county, Arkansas, in
1879, and William A. Isgrig, then a youth of seventeen years, soon afterward
began farming in that county and devoted many years of his life to agricultural
pursuits. In 1911 he removed to Little Rock, where he and his wife now reside,
and where he is manager of a cotton oil mill. His political endorsement is given
to the democratic party. In early manhood he wedded Nancy Jane Noah, who was
born in Albia, Iowa, in September, 1863. Their marriage was celebrated in Perry
county, Arkansas, February 27, 1882, and they have become the parents of six
sons and four daughters, of whom one son and one daughter died in infancy.

    Fred A. Isgrig, who was the second in order of birth in the family, pursued
his early education in the country schools of his native county and afterward
had the benefit of three years' instruction in Hendrix College at Conway,
Arkansas. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he later entered
the University of Arkansas and when he had finished the regular course he was
graduated with the class of 1910, the degree of. LL. B. being at that time
conferred upon him. Through the intervening years he has continued in practice
and has made steady progress in his chosen calling. The zeal with which he has
devoted his energy to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the
interests of his clients and an assiduous and unflagging attention to all the
details of his cases, have brought him a large business and made him very
successful in its conduct. His arguments have elicited warm commendation not
only from his associates at the bar, but from the bench.

    In November, 1908, Mr. Isgrig was united in marriage to Miss Mittie J.
Jones, who was born in Lonoke county, Arkansas, August 25, 18SS, a daughter of
Julius K. and Mary J. (Chandler) Jones, both of whom were natives of Tennessee.
The father served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil war, being a
member of Forrest's Cavalry, and though he participated in a number of hotly
contested engagements, he never was wounded nor was he captured. He has now
departed this life, while his widow yet makes her home in Little Rock. Mr. and
Mrs. Isgrig have become the parents of one daughter, Nancy Jane.

    In his political views Mr. Isgrig has been a democrat since age conferred
upon him the right of franchise. He has filled several local offices, serving as
police judge of Little Rock from 1913 until 1915, while at the present time he
is alderman of the city from the eighth ward. Fraternally he is connected with
the Woodmen of the World and his religious faith is manifest in his membership
in the First Methodist Episcopal church, South.


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


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