Biography of Burk Mann, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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The name Burk Mann will always occupy a prominent and secure place in the annals
of St. Francis County and the State of Arkansas for its distinguished owner has
made a deep and lasting impression upon the professional and business life of
the state as a noted attorney and one of the foremost financiers of his time in
Arkansas. As a member of the Mann & McCulloch law firm of Forrest City, his
consummated some of the largest financial transactions in the state. Mr. Mann
was born in Forrest City on Jan. 19, 1889, son of the late William Berkley and
Anna Pearl (Parham) Mann, prominent citizens of the city. He received his early
education in Forrest City Public Schools before attending Webb School at Bell
Buckle, Tenn.. He later attended the University of Arkansas and received his L.
L. B. Degree from University of Michigan Law School in 1911. He joined a firm in
Marianna with F. M. Burke, a local attorney. The partnership was dissolved in
1913, when he formed a partnership with Richard McCulloch Sr., also of Marianna.
They stayed there for sixteen years, and then the firm moved to Forrest City.
From 1928 to 1931, Mr. Mann lived in Little Rock and worked with Rogers Caldwell
& Co. of Nashville, Tenn. in the purchase of banks and insurance companies. In
1931, he returned to his home town to become a law partner with his uncle, the
late Samuel H. Mann, prominent local attorney. On April 10, 1912, he married
Miss Lucille Fussell, daughter of the late Captain James Fussell and Lucille
(Galloway) Fussell of Forrest City. Her father was one of the most distinguished
business and civic leaders in Eastern Arkansas, and her grandfather, Col. M. C.
Galloway, was one of the most prominent of Tennessee's distinguished newspaper
editors and statesmen. The couple are members of Graham Memorial Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Mann is a member of St. Francis Co. Bar Assoc., Chamber of Commerce,
Forrest City Country Club, Memphis Country Club, and Old River Club.


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

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