Biography of R. Duke Callaway, St Francis County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Paul V Isbell Date: 19 Nov 2008 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Upon the recommendation of friends, R. Duke Callaway, a native of Mississippi, came to Forrest City eight years ago to open an accountant and tax service office-and in those few years has established himself as a most competent, self- reliant and worthy citizen with a high sense of duty. Mr. Callaway was born at Horn Lake, Miss., the son of G. E. and the late Belle (Duke) Callaway. He was graduated at the Oakland Miss. High School and then attended Mississippi State College. During World War I, he served from 1917 to 1918 in the U. S. Army Infantry. For the next twenty-five years he received training and experience, which was to move invaluable to him in his chosen profession. He first worked at several banks, and from 1923 to 1943 as an auditor for the National Bank of Commerce in Memphis. On July 1, 1945, he left a practice in Tutwiler, Miss. and opened an office in the Mallory building in Forrest City. Mr. Callaway is a member of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, a Shriner, and a member of the Lions Club, Masonic Lodge, and the King-Beazley American Legion Post. On Oct. 27, 1937 he married Miss Helen Steidley, daughter of L. R. and Lucy A. Steidley of Heth, and to that union has been born a son and a daughter. SOURCE: HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher -Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas