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Author: S. J. Clarke

EULEN GREEN SHOFFNER.
    Little Rock has always been distinguished for the high rank of her bench and
bar. She has claimed many members capable of crossing swords in forensic combat
with the ablest lawyers of the country. The present generation has furnished a
full quota to the legal profession and among those whose record has at all times
been creditable and an honor to the calling, is numbered Eulen Green Shoffner.
Born on a farm in Carroll county, Tennessee, in 1878, he was the fourth child in
a family of seven, whose parents were Midian Davis and Julia Belle (Gate)
Shoffner, who were likewise natives of Carroll county, Tennessee, where the
father was born in 1836 and the mother on the 28th of December, 1858. The father
lived for many years in Cabot, Lonoke county, Arkansas, where he took up his
abode in 1881 and there followed the carpenter's trade. His political allegiance
was given to the democratic party, which at all times he supported. His military
record covers service as a private in the Twenty-second Tennessee Infantry of
the Confederate army and he was on duty from the beginning of hostilities until
1864. when he was invalided home. He continued to reside in Tennessee for a
period of seventeen years thereafter and then came to Arkansas, living for some
time at Cabot. On the 10th of August, 1918, he died in Little Rock, where his
widow still resides. Their family numbered five sons and two daughters, who are
all living.

    The youthful experiences of Eulen Green Shoffner were those of the farm bred
boy. He was reared in Lonoke couuty, Arkansas, and in the acquirement of his
education attended the public schools of Cabot, passing through consecutive
grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1896. Through
his life he has been a close and attentive observer of men and measures and in
the school of experience has learned many valuable lessons. His professional
training was received in the law department of the University of Arkansas, from
which he was graduated in 1915, with the LL. B. degree. Through the intervening
period of six years he has continued in the practice of his profession, spending
all of this period in Little Rock, where he is now well known as an able lawyer.
In no instance has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the
questions at issue: it has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and
provided not alone for the expected, but for the unexpected, which happens in
the courts quite as frequently as out of them. His logical grasp of facts and
principles of the law applicable to them has been another potent element in his
growing success.

    On the 7th of September, 1904, Mr. Shoffner was married to Miss Rosa Blanche
Rice, who was born in Little Rock, December 9, 1878, and is a graduate of the
high school of this city. Her parents were Edmund Samuel and Blanche (Macarte)
Rice, both of whom were natives of England. The father came to the United States
about 1875 and died April 23, 1916. The mother survives and still makes her home
in Little Rock.

     Since attaining his majority Mr. Shoffner has voted with the democratic
party and has firm faith in the efficacy of its principles as factors in good
government. He served as a representative from Pulaski county in the 1915
general assembly and was one of the active members of that body. He Belongs to
the Second Presbyterian church, in which he is serving as a deacon, and he takes
deep and helpful interest in all that has to do with the betterment and welfare
of the community, casting his aid and influence at all times on the side of
progress, reform and improvement.


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



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