Washington Co., AR - Biographies - Julius Linn Duke

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Julius Linn Duke, jeweler at Fayetteville, Ark., was born in Pike 
County, Mo., August 5, 1843, and is a son of Courtney M. and Catherine 
(Jackson) Duke. natives of Virginia and Missouri, respectively. The 
father was a merchant by occupation. and a descendant of a long line 
of ancestors of the Old Dominion. In 1854 he immigrated to 
Fayetteville, Washington Co., Ark., and here died in 1876, after a 
long and useful life. He was buried with the honors of the Odd Fellows 
society. His wife, Catherine (Jackson) Duke, was the daughter of 
Cornelius Jackson, a native of Pennsylvania, who made a settlement in 
Missouri at a very early date, and was a farmer and trader by 
occupation. Julius L. Duke attained his growth in Washington County, 
Ark., and here learned the jeweler's trade. He entered the ranks of 
the Confederate army, Third Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, State 
Militia, and was at the battle of Wilson's Creek. Upon the 
organization of the Confederate regular service, he enlisted in 
Company H, Thirty-fourth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and participated 
in the battles of Prairie Grove, Helena, Jenkins' Ferry, and numerous 
other minor engagements. He remained in the service until the close of 
the war, and then returned home and engaged in the jewelry business, 
and has been prominently identified with it ever since. He was married 
in Fayetteville, in 1868, to Miss Helen M. Gaines, daughter of Judge 
B. J. H. Gaines, of Sebastian County, Ark. They have one daughter, 
Annie G. Mr. Duke has served in the courts of the city, also the 
school board, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the K. of P., the 
K. of H., and he and wife and daughter are members of the Christian 
Church.