YELL COUNTY, AR - WILLIAM T. NOLAN - Bio

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

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William T. Nolan, a blacksmith and wagon-maker by trade, being 
attracted by the rich forests of oak and hickory, which grew in and 
about Yell County, came to Bellville in 1882 for the purpose of 
engaging in business. After prospecting and looking around he 
connected himself with Mr. May, and is now known as the senior 
member of the firm of Noland & May, wagon-makers, cabinetmakers and 
blacksmiths, and also owners of the extensive planing-mill plant, 
which was added to their immense business in 1888, and is fully 
supplied with machinery for cutting out spokes and felloes, and 
making a greater part of the wood. work of the wagons manufactured 
in his shops, the material being supplied from the native timber. 

He was born in 1855, in the State of Mississippi, to Javid and Emma 
P. (Reese) Nolan, also of Mississippi, and who followed farming as 
an occupation. After the father's death, January 15, 1870, our 
subject left school with a very limited education, and assumed the 
care of his widowed mother [p.174] and an infant sister, who, having 
grown to maturity, has since married and resides in this county, his 
mother remaining with him till her death, August 3, 1890, being 
fifty-two years old. 

He was married November 10, 1878, to Tennessee Payne, who was born 
December 21, 1860, and was a daughter of Marcus and Nancy Payne, of 
Arkansas and Mississippi nativity. To this union were born seven 
children: Idella Vincent, Jessie, Cleveland and Mary Annie (living); 
Buffing, Ada and Javid (deceased). He and family are worthy members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and socially he has been 
initiated into the Christian Lodge No. 394, of the A. F. & A. M., 
and politically votes with the Democratic party. As a citizen he is 
active and enterprising, doing everything in his power to aid and 
promote the interests of his county.