Judge Carrigan A Long Record Of Service In Arkansas History
The article recalls Judge Carrigan, an 1856 Whig who backed the No Nothing movement, later elected to the Arkansas State Senate, served as Hempstead County Judge, and fought in the Civil War as Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th Arkansas Infantry. He helped shape Hempstead County, owned a farm used as a poor farm, and later moved to Hope. Now aged and frail, he remains perceptive, sharing memories with longtime friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
Kentucky
State Senate
20H Ark. Infantry
Neath
Hempstead
C. A. Bridewell
Arkansas
Washington
Hope
Wall
New Orleans
Malton
Red River
Camden
Ouachita River
Adige
Judge Carrigan
Wi. M
John M
Oak Hills
Robert A
James B
Lovejoy Station
Jonesboro
Early newspapers in Hope Arkansas and their movers
A compact history recounts Hope's first papers The Star of Hope started by Col Anson W Hobson and edited by Bob Whyte The Star later moved to Magnolia while Claude McCorkle revived it as the Hempstead County Record The Hope City Times founded by Jim Story and Charley Blackburn boosted Hope with a broad market reach and a four year run The town later saw The Hope News The Telegraph and The Hope Mercury before becoming The Hope Gazette under various owners including James H Betts J J Tullis Col W W Folsom and current publishers Parkins & Gites The piece highlights contributions from McCorkle Hobson Story Blackburn and others and urges stronger local support for these historic newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
Claude McCorkle
Hope
Star of
Hop
Anson W. Hobson
Camden
Ark
Hone
R. L. Whyte
Bob
Hazel St
Cal
Hobson
Sam Bracy
Front Street
Front Row
A. Kyle
Eli Street
Battle & Crosner
Col. Hobson
Col
A. W. Hobson
3Rd Arkasas Cavalry
8Th Texas Cavalry
Star of Hope
Court House
Arkansas
Washington
Ed Givens
Charlie Adamaan
Magnolia
Charde McCorkle
Jim Ton Story
Charley Blackburn
Texarkana
Homer
Col. Story
Beard
Iron Mountain Track
Williams
S. P. Arundidge
Col. Blackburn
R. O. Bridewell
Hope City Times
Newt Litfle
John Moses
Jim Tom Story
Cal. Story
United States
Hicks & Thompson
J. R. Giles
Jake Powell
George Taylor
McNeal
Beadsley
Black Lands
Blackburn
Record
Cave Hill
Eakin Boys
Julian and
Percy Eakin
Pine Torch
Fred J. Dean
B. Kennedy
B. F. Kennedy
Lyda Rainey
Pollard
Lowry Brothers
John
James
Hope News
Barlow Hotel
Withers and Johnson
H.R. Withers
Methodist Church
Hope Church
Lowry
C. A. Bridewell
St. Louis Type Foundry
McCorkle
Hope Mercury
James H. Betts
The
Hope Gazette
City of Hope
Tullis
Gazette
Hempstead
Col. W. W. Folsom
Col. Folsom
the Gazette
Parkins & Gites
Arkans Evening Herald
Ayis Dine
Men on Hope's Cotton Row as They Looked 3 Years Ago
Hope's religious and education evolution unfolds as St. Mark's Episcopal Church sells Lot 3 in Block 22 for 1000 to Bishop Edward Fitzgerald of Little Rock. The narrative traces prior property deeds, new church locations, School of the Sisters of Mercy, and St. Rose Academy turnover to the Sisters of Mercy of Little Rock, with a notable 1916 sanitarium era and regional migration for schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Protestant Episcopal Church
Allen and
Marquard
Judson T. West
S. A. Knighton
Moses H. Barlow
Geo. R. Ruffin
Robert E. Ryan
St. Mark's Church
Edward Fitzgerald
Little Rock
Ark
Band Park
Patrick Donnelly
J. P. Hervey
Katherin Forney
Elm
South Third Street
Episcopal Church
Frances M. Black
School of the Sisters of Mercy
Blachwood Addition
L. A. Foster
Eliza Foster
East Third Ave
Annie Mark's Society
Sister Thomason
Thomason
C. P. Bridewell
Leila Bricewell
Brookwood
Vesse N. Riley
Eleanor Kearney
St. Rose Academy
Sisters of Mercy of the Female
Irishman Donnelly Rebuilds Hope Church After Storm
Patrick Donnelly, section boss with Cairo and Fulton railroad, claimed land in Hope and donated a church. After a May 1892 cyclone destroyed the building, he had it rebuilt and restored, largely from his own means, with services still held during reconstruction.
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Patrick Dunnelly
Hope
Cairo and Fulton Railroad
Prairie DeRoan
Dunnelly
Camden
Township
A. L. Betts
Woot
Elm Street
Patrick Donnelly
Connnelly
Hope Ark
Pat Dunnell
Stephenson File Reveals 1830s Hope Records and Notices
A collection belonging to Roy Stephenson of Hope includes the 1838 bill of sale for Martha Bradley’s estate listing seven enslaved people with prices from 20 to 1600 dollars. It also contains an 1839 letter from overseer E M Lowe to Governor James Conway, notes on estate sales dated 1832, a debt action case, and a 1873 copy of Borden’s Monthly Register alongside old advertisements and listings for doctors and lawyers plus the Debonair Reading Club led by Miss Jennie Capron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Stephenson
Hope
Martha Bradley
E. M. Lowe
James 5. Conway
James S. Conway
Little Rock
Ark
Eliza Bradley
John 5
Borden
James H. Cantley
Racoe
Plutarel
Hiram Smith
Alexander
Walker
James Gibson
Ringa
Canadian-born Father McGrath Leads Local Church
A young pastor from Canada named Father McGrath, P. P., shepherds the church, delivering regular services in accord with their church government and maintaining a pleasant, energetic demeanor.
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Canada
Father McGrath
P. P
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Browning
Whittier
South Walnut Street
A. Foster
B.C. Brown
K.P. Juffington
Johnny Lane
Southern Ice CO
Inc
Stephenson
Shippers
the Union Compress & Ware
Plete Compress
State of
Compress and Warehouse Company
H. O. Kyler
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