Biography of W L Euper, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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W. L. Euper, assessor of Sebastian County, was born at Fort Smith August 2,
1852, and is a son of Melchior and  Eva (Herold) Euper, natives of Witten burg,
Germany, and Vienna, Austria, respectively. The father was a  glove-maker, and
was married in Vienna. In 1849, with his wife and two sons and two daughters,
he immigrated  to America, landing at New Orleans the same year. [p.1312] In
1850 the family came to Fort Smith, where Mr.  and Mrs. Euper are now enjoying
their old age. In this county our subject passed his youth, and after attending
Cane Hill College, engaged in mercantile pursuits, in 1878 going into business
for himself. In 1882 he was  elected justice of Hartford Township, and in 1886
was elected county assessor, to which office he has since  been re-elected
consecutively. Mr. Euper married Miss Lena Refald, foster daughter and niece of
the Hon. W.  D. Carroll, and a native of Pine Bluff, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Euper
are regular communicants at the Church of the  Immaculate Conception, and have
a family of three children: Clayton, John Henry and Edna White. Mr. Euper  is a
Catholic Knight.