Biography of E T "Jack" Ferguson, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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With a confidence born of success in other fields, E. T. (Jack) Ferguson, Jr.,
eleven years ago opened the Ferguson Drug Store in Forrest City, his first
retail drug experience. With a registered pharmacy, he has Mr. J. M. Mathews on
call. Mr. Ferguson is ably assisted by his brother Leon, who has been with him
for eight years along with Mrs. Leonard Gray and Mrs. Ollie Mayfield. In 1923,
Mr. Ferguson entered the drug business as delivery boy for Logan Drug Co., at
the same location as his present store. He also worked at the Elite Caf‚, then
Gregory Furniture, and later the old Bowers Store. He bought the Haven
restaurant in July of 1928, from the late Sweet Haven. In 1942, he tired of the
restaurant business, and tired, and sold out. Meanwhile he and Mrs. Ethel
Bridgeforth had formed the Bridgeforth-Ferguson Insurance Agency. Then when the
chance came to buy the Williams Drug Store from the late Gladys Williams, he
sold his interest in the agency in August 1943, and went into the drug business.
Mr. Ferguson has been active in civic duties, as Alderman for 12 years from Ward
1, and other council committees. He was chosen to be the Chairman of the Civil
Service Commission. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic
Lodge, Young Business Men's Club, and the First Christian Church. He and his
wife, the former Octavia Pruett of Paragould, have two lovely daughters,. The
Ferguson farm, six miles south of Forrest City, where Mr. Ferguson was reared,
has been enjoyed by three generations of the Ferguson family. Mr. Ferguson, Sr.,
still lives there.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas