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Joseph S. Lofland, farmer, Gravelly Hill, Ark. Mr. Lofland is possessed of those advanced ideas and progressive principles regarding agricultural life, which seem to be among the chief characteristics of those of Arkansas nativity. He was born in Yell County, Bluffton Township, February 6, 1854, and here he was reared to mature years. He received but a limited education in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-three years he began working for himself as a tiller of the soil. He first bought eighty acres of land which he improved and cultivated, but later he moved to Gravelly Hill Township, settling where he now resides. He has in his homestead 170 acres of land, all improved, and has a good residence, substantial barns and other buildings. He is progressive in his ideas, and is possessed of those sterling qualities which make a true man and a valuable citizen. In 1887 he bought 420 acres of good bottom land, lying in Bluffton Township, has about eighty-five acres of this under cultivation, and rents it out. While an agriculturist of advanced ideas, he does not lose sight of the stock-raising industry, and raises horses, mules, cattle, sheep and hogs. He has a good orchard and plenty of fruit for family use. His principal crops are corn, cotton and oats. This year he has forty acres in cotton and thirty acres in corn, all promising a good crop. In February, 1878, Mr. Lofland was married to Miss T. J. Crawley, of Gravelly Hill Township, and they have three children: Wilburn, Walker and Battis. In politics Mr. Lofland is a Democrat. He is a member of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, and is liberal in his support of all public enterprises.