My Genealogy Hound

Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

* * * *

James M. Butler is the efficient editor of the Spirit of Hope, one of the newsiest journals in this portion of the State. He was born in Little Rock, Ark., in 1850, a son of John M. Butler, and the education which he now has was self-acquired. He has made his own living ever since he was seven years of age, and at the age of nine he began learning the printer’s trade in Little Rock in the office of the Old Line Democrat, which was edited and published by J. D. Butler, under whom he has worked the most of his subsequent career. In 1880 he began publishing the Arkansas Union, and acted as manager in general of that paper, it being owned by a stock company. He has filled the position of compositor on various papers throughout Arkansas, and is now successfully publishing one of the brightest little papers in the State, its first issue being sent forth in 1888. Mr. Butler is a wide-awake and intelligent man, a Democrat in his political views, his paper being published in the interests of that party, and he is one of the worthy members of the Printer’s Union. His wife is a daughter of P. S. Drown, a prominent literary man of St. Louis.

* * * *

This family biography is one of 131 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas published in 1890. For the complete description, click here: Hempstead County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

To view additional Hempstead County, Arkansas family biographies, click here

Use the links at the top right of this page to search or browse thousands of other family biographies.