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

JULIUS S. ALPHIN.
    Possessing those qualities which have made him a dynamic force in business
circles, Julius S. Alphin has long been identified with a number of the more
important commercial and financial interests of El Dorado. It is a well known
fact that power grows through the exercise of effort and from early manhood Mr.
Alphin has labored diligently and persistently, finding in the faithful
performance of each day's duties the strength and courage for the labors of the
succeeding day. Arkansas numbers him among her native sons, his birth having
occurred on a farm about five miles south of El Dorado, in Union county, January
25, 1866, his father being Julius Alphin, Sr., who came from Alabama to this
state at an early day, settling here prior to the Civil war. He married Miss
Martha Phelan, who died when her son, Julius S., was but eight years of age. The
father's death occurred in 1896.

    Julius S. Alphin was born and reared on the old homestead farm, early
becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the
crops, although his school training was limited. He came to El Dorado in 1886
with a cash capital of hut two dollars and a half and started out in business
circles here as a clerk in the store of D. E. Armstrong, with whom he continued
for a few months. Step by step lie has advanced, owing to the wise use he has
made of every chance and opportunity that has come his way, and for a long
period he has been accounted one of the most active and enterprising business
men of El Dorado. He is today one of the largest stockholders in the First
National Bank, also a stockholder in the Ritchie Grocer Company, in the Carson
Dry Goods Company, in the Taylor-Miles Drug Company, in the El Dorado Oil Mills
& Fertilizer Company, in the Warren oil mills, in the First National Bank at
Huttig and in other business enterprises. The gradual expansion of his
commercial activities has not only constituted a source of individual wealth but
has also been a contributing factor to the upbuilding and prosperity of the
community. In addition to his other interests he is the owner of ten thousand
acres of land in Union county, scattered in every township of the county. Owing
to the development of the oil industry he bids fair to become one of the very
wealthy men of the state. He also has large property holdings in El Dorado and
in the vicinity of the city and his business activities have at all times
claimed his entire attention. He owns oil interests in and near El Dorado and
the outlook for oil development in Arkansas is so favorable that undoubtedly he
will win large results through that channel.

    Mr. Alphin was married first to Miss Amy Pinson and they became parents of a
son, Hendrick J. For his second wife Mr. Alphin chose Mary Armstrong and they
have two children: Samuel David, who is four and a half years of age; and Jim
Armstrong, a little lad of two summers.

    Mr. Alphin and his family are widely known and their circle of friends is
almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. Mr. Alphin has always
been too busy with his various commercial and financial interests to take active
part in politics, but his cooperation in support of public welfare in his home
town is never sought in vain.


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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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