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

LEON A. WILLIAMS.
    Leon A. Williams, numbered among Arkansas' capitalists, makes his home at
Fort Smith and owns and controls important farming and live stock interests. His
land holdings are, indeed, extensive and he employs the most progressive and
scientific methods in the care of his fields and in the breeding of his stock.

    Mr. Williams is a native of Kansas, born in 1881. He was but fourteen years
of age when he took up his abode in Arkansas and settled in Fort Smith and here
he started out in the business world by trading horses and mules. Young though
he was, he displayed excellent judgment in recognizing the value of the animals
and. prospering in his undertakings, he acquired after a time a barn of moderate
size. Gradually he expanded and developed his business interests and in this
connection erected one of the largest barns of the kind in Arkansas. He rented
his first barn at ten dollars per month and from that modest beginning he
steadily worked upward until he has become one of the wealthy and influential
men of the state. While only forty years of age, he is the owner of eight
thousand acres of laud and has also made investment in some of the best business
property of Fort Smith, with an estimated value of three hundred thousand
dollars. Whenever he has seen opportunity for judicious investment he has added
to his property holdings and he is today one of the foremost agriculturists of
the southwest, employing the most scientific and improved methods in caring for
his fields and in the development of his herds.

    Mr. Williams has ever recognized the fact that play is second in importance
only to work and that a man's recreations make or break him as surely as do his
business habits. He has largely found his diversion in fox hunting, keeping a
kennel of fine hounds which are the best bred of any to be seen in this section
of the state. In business he has ever recognized the fact that application is
what counts and that every man has it in him to work if he wants to.
Indifference is the principal cause of failure and a lack of real interest in
the business keeps most men from financial success. Mr. Williams, however, has
always found pleasure in his work and has steadily improved and developed his
opportunities until prosperity has followed all his undertakings.


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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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