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

CHARLES STEVENS YARBROUGH.
    Charles Stevens Yarbrough, now well known as an oil operator in the El
Dorado fields, deserves much credit for what he has accomplished. He started out
in life with limited educational opportunities and few advantages of any kind.
Since then he has made the best possible use of his time and talents and has
steadily advanced, progressing step by step until the onward march has brought
him to a place of prominence in business circles. He was born in Texas, October
13. 1882, and is a son of Charles Yarbrough, a native of Ouachita county,
Arkansas, who in 1880 removed to Texas. After four years he returned to Ouachita
county in 1884 and is now living on the old home farm where he was born. He is a
son of George Yarbrough, a native of South Carolina, who was one of the first
settlers of this section of the state. He bought a farm upon which his son,
Charles Yarbrough, now resides and there he developed his land with the aid of
the slaves whom he owned. He was a very strong southern sympathizer during the
Civil war and after the close of hostilities his wife papered a room with
Confederate money. On the old homestead Charles Yarbrough, father of C. S.
Yarbrough, was reared and throughout the greater part of his life his attention
has successfully been given to general agricultural pursuits. He married Georgia
Smith, who was born in Pike county, Arkansas, and they became parents of five
children, two sons and three daughters. The wife and mother died in 1911, while
the father is still living at the age of sixty-five years.

    Charles S. Yarbrough was only two years of age when his father returned to
Arkansas and upon the old homestead he was reared, while his early education was
acquired in the common schools. Through vacation periods and during the long
summer months he assisted his father in the work of the fields and continued to
aid in cultivating the farm until twenty-one years of age. He then went into the
logging camps of Louisiana, where he made some money, and with his earnings he
paid his tuition while attending the University of Arkansas for two years. He
afterward taught school for an equal period and later he resumed farming, to
which he devoted his attention for five years. When that period had elapsed he
began the operation of sawmills and was busily engaged in cutting lumber until
November, 1920. At that date he removed to El Dorado, where he is now interested
in the Prairie Gas & Oil Company. The largest well owned by this company is a
thirty-thousand-barrel well, and altogether they have six oil wells and two gas
wells. In addition to the properties of the oil company, of which Mr. Yarbrough
is one of the stockholders, he owns forty acres in his home place and also has
other property in the oil fields. He is likewise a stockholder in the De Soto
Spring Company of Hot Springs.

    Mr. Yarbrough was married to Miss Lula Murphy, a daughter of M. J. Murphy,
and they have become parents of five children, of whom two are deceased. Those
living are: Robert, eleven years of age; Loraine, six; and Lucille, who is in
her second year.

    Mr. Yarborough is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
loyally follows the teachings and purposes of that society. His ability in
business has long been demonstrated in the excellent results which have come to
him. Diligence, enterprise and the wise use of opportunity have brought him to
the front and he became well known in connection with the lumber industry, while
at the present time he is figuring prominently as a representative of the oil
interests of the El Dorado district.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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