Washington Co., AR - Biographies - John Quincy Benbrook

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John Quincy Benbrook, merchant druggist, was born in St. Charles 
County, Mo., July 17, 1833, and moved with his parents, Nathan and 
Sarah (Maguire) Benbrook, to Arkansas a few years later. He received a 
good practical education in the schools of his locality, and later 
engaged in school-teaching, but abandoned this and engaged as clerk in 
the dry goods store of Boone & Reagor, at Boone's Grove, where he 
remained two years. He then left the store and completed his 
education. In 1856 Miss Mary J. Campbell, daughter of J. M. Campbell 
(deceased), became his wife. After his marriage Mr. Benbrook engaged 
in agricultural pursuits, but in 1858 removed to Texas, and spent a 
year in that State, where he still followed farming. He then returned 
to Arkansas, where he engaged in merchandising in 1863, and has 
continued this occupation ever since. To this marriage were born three 
sons and three daughters: E. L., a tinsmith by occupation, and a 
resident of Phœnix, Arizona; Alice C., wife of T. J. Conner, a 
resident of Fayetteville; Minerva, Catherine; W. L., a druggist with 
his father; J. C., a student at the A. I. U., and Agnes May. August 
25, 1882, Mrs. Benbrook passed away in full communion with the faith 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she had been an active 
worker. Mr. Benbrook has served on the school board of Fayetteville at 
different times, and was clerk of the circuit court at this place from 
1870 to 1872. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is an Odd 
Fellow, a Knight of Honor, and belongs to the Baptist Church. His 
parents were natives of Simpson County, Ky., and his paternal 
grandfather rendered active and honorable services in the War of 
Independence. Owen Maguire, his maternal grandfather, was a farmer and 
carried on this occupation all his life.