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Frank Nady is another example of that energy, industry and perseverance, when intelligently applied, have accomplished for those of foreign birth who have seen fit to locate within the limits of this county. He possesses advanced ideas and progressive principles regarding agricultural life, and the estate which he now owns embraces 1,000 acres of fine bottom land, about 250 acres of which are in a high state of cultivation, well adapted to the raising of corn, cotton and grasses. His steam cotton-gin is valued at from $1,500 to $2,000, and has a capacity of 3,500 pounds of lint cotton per day. He is also considerably interested in the raising of horses, cattle and other stock, and in every enterprise to which he has given his attention his efforts have met with flattering success, and when the fact is known that all his property has been acquired since the war, it will be seen that his time has not been uselessly or idly spent. He is a Frenchman by birth, having been born in that republic May 6, 1833, being a son of Frank Nady, who was also born in France and removed from his native land to the New World in 1844, settling in Arkansas County, Ark. He was a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte for nine years prior to leaving France, was at the battle of Waterloo, and was in all the engagements of that famous campaign. He died the year following his arrival in Arkansas, having been a devout member of the Catholic Church for many years prior to his death. His wife died within two or three months after the death of her husband. Three of their eight children are now living: Lucile (widow of a Mr. Sweeney, is now residing in Arkansas County), Constance (the widow of a Mr. Wallace, also resides in Arkansas County) and Frank. Those dead are Eugene, Jasette, Angelique, Charlotte and Charles. Eugene was in the French army for seven years prior to his removal to America, Angelique died in New Orleans, and the rest died in Arkansas County. Frank Nady was about ten years of age when brought to the United States, and therefore the most of his education was received in this State, but it must be acknowledged that it was of a rather meager description. Owing to the early death of his parents, he began life for himself as a farm laborer at the early age of fourteen years, and this occupation has received his attention ever since with the above-mentioned results. When the Civil War broke out he was overseer on a large Arkansas River plantation, but this work he abandoned to take up the Confederate cause in May, 1862, becoming a member of West’s battalion, and was in the artillery service during the war, taking part in the battles of Prairie Grove, Pleasant Hill and many smaller engagements. He returned home in June, 1865, and was here married, May 8, 1871, to Mrs. Emily J. McCan, a native of London, England, born on Oxford Street June 14, 1830, a daughter of John and Amelia Elizabeth (Smith) Storr, both of whom are now dead, the former’s demise occurring in New Orleans in 1846, and the latter’s in New York in 1852. They emigrated to the United States in 1834, and up to the time of the father’s death resided in New Orleans, after which his widow married William Reeves, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Nady have had one child born to them, Robert Lee, who died February 9, 1889, at the age of seventeen years and nine months. Mr. Nady is a Catholic in his belief, and his wife is an Episcopalian, having been christened in the Church of England. He is a Democrat in his politics, although not a strict partisan, and is a Master Mason.