Time marches on and not many of the men and women of the pioneer
eighties are with us today. Among those who are native born or who came
in their youth when the town was a booming spa are: Mrs. Annie House,
Jim Bradley, Mrs. Fred West, Mrs. Wilma Jarrett Ellis, Mrs. C. A.
Fuller, Mrs. Louis Haneke, Mrs. May S. Miller, Mrs. Chrystal Lyle,
Wallace McQuerry, Otis McGinnis, Joe Hoskins, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Porch,
Sam Riley, E. A. Jordan, Tom Walker, Walter Burris, T. L. Hawley, Mrs.
Claude Pike, Charlie Perry, Mrs. Maud Woodruff, Frank Pickard, Mrs.
Alice Campbell, Mrs. Lida Mae Roberts, and perhaps a few others. Most of
these older residents now live in retirement, but a few are active in
business.
Early in the twentieth century we find F. O. Butt on the stage of action
as a practicing attorney. Mr. Butt served his district as senator in the
state legislature, was mayor of Eureka Springs for two terms and
newspaper editor for a number of years. He is still on the job as a
practicing attorney.
R. R. (Dick) Thompson came to Eureka Springs in 1908 as a teacher in
Crescent College and later became president of the institution. In the
middle twenties he established his Lake Lucerne Resort and the Ozarka
Water Company and now devotes his time to the management of these two
concerns.
Claude A. Fuller began practicing law in 1898 and has been closely
connected with the business interests of the town since that date. Mrs.
Annie House, “the oldest newspaper woman in Arkansas,” came to Eureka
Springs as a child in 1880. Sam A. Leath, our guide and historian, has
had an active part in civic affairs since 1898. He has been connected
with the Chamber of Commerce for many years. Jim Bradley, Joe Porch and
Tom Walker are all old-timers who continue in business.
It would take many pages to list all the men and women, now dead or
moved away, who contributed to the building of the town. I name only a
few whom I have special reason to remember—Charley Stehm, Major J. W.
True, Claude Pike, Harvey Fuller, Floyd Walker, W. N. Duncan, Dr. C. E.
Davis, B. J. Rosewater, Dr. C. F. Ellis, Prof. C. S. Barnett, W. O.
Perkins, Col. C. D. James, Mrs. Adelaide Wayland, Albert G. Ingalls, A.
Q. Burns, William Kappen, H. T. Pendergrass, Dr. J. S. Porch, A. L.
Hess, Major W. E. Penn, Earl Newport, Louie Webber, Louie Haneke, Eaton
Cole, Dr. J. F. John, Dr. J. H. Webb, Dr. Charles Bergstresser, Dr.
Pearl Tateman, Arch Kimberling, George Hardy, Harry Wickham, Lucien
Gray, B. L. Rosser, Miss Nellie Mills, Mrs. Ida Wilhelm, A. J. Fortner,
Mr. and Mrs. George Hurt, Dr. J. H. Huntington, Herman and Hugo Seidel,
L. E. Lines, John Jennings, Dr. R. G. Floyd and M. M. Chandler. This
list is very inadequate but, as stated above, it includes only those
that I have special reason to remember. In the books written on Eureka
Springs by Nellie Mills and Cora Pinkley Call will be found more
complete lists of the old residents.
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