Washington Co., AR - Biographies - W. H. Whitlow *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** W. H. Whitlow, a leading druggist of Fayetteville, member of the Pharmaceutical Association of Arkansas, was born in Hickory County, Mo., July 14, 1851, and is the son of Henry and Ella (Culbertson) Whitlow, natives of Kentucky, who married in Marion County, Mo., at Palmyra. After marriage they moved to Hickory County. Mo., and from there to Cooper County, Mo., where their son, W. H., grew to manhood, and where he received a good education, but finished the same after moving to Washington County, in 1869, at the Ozark Institute. In 1870 he engaged as clerk in the drug store of Dr. P. M. Cox, of Fayetteville, and in 1875 he engaged in business for himself, and has since been identified with that industry in Fayetteville. He was married, at Fort Smith, to Miss Annie Birnie, daughter of Charles Birnie, of Fort Smith, and is now the father of two living children: Annie May and Charles Birnie. They buried their eldest child, Ethel, at Fort Smith. Mr. Whitlow is a Royal Arch Mason, and he and family worship at the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. He is a good citizen, and has the respect of all who know him.