YELL COUNTY, AR - WILL A. F. MAY - Bio

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. 
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

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Will A. F. May, known to the bench and bar of Yell County as one of 
the most promising young lawyers and ever popular register of the 
United States Land Office, was born in Chicago, November 5, 1864, 
and is the only child of Judge William N. [p.170] and Mary A. E. 
(Hust) May. (See sketch of father.) William May, Jr., was reared and 
educated in his adopted town, where his educational advantages were 
very good, he being a student and graduate from the high school of 
the place. At the age of eighteen, preparatory to entering the law 
department of the Ann Arbor University of Michigan, he began reading 
law under his father. Graduating from this university with the 
degree of LL. B., July 1, 1886, he formed a partnership with his 
father and were known as William N. May & Son. He continued as a 
member of this firm till August 3, 1889, when he received his 
present governmental appointment. 

Like the majority of residents of Yell County, he owns his home, a 
neat cottage, six town lots, and manages a 200-acre tract of fine 
river bottom land, 160 acres being thoroughly cultivated, and is the 
happy possessor of a cottage on beautiful Mount Nebo, where he and 
family sojourn for their summer's outing. 

His marriage with Miss Lillie B. Mepham, of St. Louis, took place in 
that city, October 13, 1886; she is a daughter of William G. Mepham, 
a large paint manufacturer of St. Louis. This marriage has been 
blessed with one child, Arthur Ruport. Mrs. May is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church South. Our subject politically votes with 
the Republican party, and is in every way worthy the respect and 
esteem conferred upon him by his fellow-citizens.