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W. P. Van Hoozer, liveryman and planter, Paris, Ark. This prominent business man and planter owes his nativity to Missouri, his birth occurring in 1856, and was the only child born to the union of John and Caroline (Montgomery) Van Hoozer, both natives of the Old Dominion. The parents moved to Missouri soon after marriage, and the father died when our subject was but four years of age. The latter then came with his mother to Arkansas, and they resided in Washington County until the death of the latter in 1883. W. P. Van Hoozer was reared principally on a farm in Washington County, but later entered a drug store as clerk in Fayetteville. He came to Logan County in 1878, engaged as clerk in Roseville until 1880 and then, with Mr. Bennett, embarked in business for himself under the firm title of A. T. Bennett & Co., the same continuing for one year. Mr. Van Hoozer then bought out a drug store carried this on for a few years, and then was steamboat agent, in which capacity he did a good business. Subsequently he was railroad agent at Roseville, and ran a transfer line until 1889, when he came to Paris. Here he started a livery stable, contracted for the mail route from Paris to Altus, and ran a hack between those points. He has about twenty-four head of stock in his stable, hacks, buggies and a four-horse coach, etc., being well equipped. He is also agent for the Water Pierce Oil Company, and supplies all the oil of this section. His farming interest consists of 480 acres of river bottom land with 320 acres under cultivation, one of the best tracts of land in the State and very productive. He has a store on the farm and it is conducted under the name of Van Hoozer & Parker. They do a good cash business. Mr. Van Hoozer’s marriage to Miss Ada G. Titsworth, a native of Logan County, Ark., was consummated in November, 1880, and they have one child, Nellie. Mrs. Van Hoozer’s father, Randolph Titsworth, resides on a fine piece of property on the river below Roseville, which his father, John Titsworth, settled on in early times, and which is still in the possession of the family. Mr. Van Hoozer is the owner of a fine residence in Paris, and is one of the substantial men of the county. His wife is a member of the Catholic Church.