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Evander N. McPhail has not attained to the position which he occupies as a merchant and property owner of wealth and influence through any untoward circumstances, but rather by reason of his energy, enterprise and acute business good management. He is a native of Fayetteville, N. C., where he was born June 17, 1843, being a son of Alex and Jean (Campbell) McPhail, both originally from Jura, Scotland, who came to North Carolina in 1839, and to Arkansas in 1866, their death occurring in the latter State. Evander received his education at the Academy in Fayetteville, N. C., and in 1861 entered the Civil War under Gen. D. H. Hill, as a member of the First North Carolina Infantry. He was transferred to Starr’s battery in 1863, where he remained till the close of the war, having participated in the battles of Big Bethel, Bentonville, Goldsborough, Plymouth, Petersburg and Kingston. In 1866 he came to Arkansas with his parents, opened a stock of general merchandise, and is still successfully occupied in the business at Linwood. He has 425 acres of valuable land, on which he raises principally cotton and corn. He is a stanch Democrat, and has been a Mason seventeen years, and is enterprising both in public and private affairs. In 1866 Mr. McPhail married Miss Annie Puryear, of Virginia. In 1884 he was again married, Miss Maria Jackson, of Jefferson County, Ark., becoming his wife. They have two children, Jean, aged two and one-half years, and Marion, aged one and one-half years.