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John T. Champlin, cashier of the Citizens Bank, Eureka Springs, Ark., is a native of the county, born on May 8, 1857, and is the second of a family of four children of Stoddard and Margaret M. (McDonald) Champlin, natives of Overton County, Tenn. The father was a miller by trade, but after coming to Arkansas he was engaged in farming for about thirty-four years. He was killed at his home by “bushwhackers” in 1862. The mother died in 1886. John T. Champlin was reared on his parents’ farm, and secured his education in his native county. He remained with his mother until he was twenty-two years of age, when he began life on his own account as a farmer. After cultivating the soil for one year, he engaged in the dry goods business, which he has continued. He is now a member of the firm of W. W. Davis & Co., dealers in dry goods and groceries, also of A. N. Matthews & Co., hardware merchants, and J. W. Freeman, Gray & Co., commission merchants. Mr. Champlin still owns a farm of 200 acres, the old homestead where he was born, and is a director in the bank of which he is cashier. On February 3, 1881, he was married to Martha A. Davis, a daughter of W. W. Davis, and to them have been born three children, namely: Alta, Pearl A. and John T. Champlin, Jr. Mr. Champlin is an influential citizen of the county, and is a Republican in politics. He is a Knight Templar and Mason.