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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard 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.

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Asa J. Forgy is a druggist at Centre Point, Ark., and is one of the editors of the Howard County Press. He is a native of the town in which he is now living, his birth having occurred here on August 11, 1861, and although he has a very extended acquaintance throughout this region, he has many warm personal friends, and few, if any, enemies. His parents, J. O. and Mary B. (Propps) Forgy, were born in South Carolina and Arkansas, respectively, and in 1855 the former came to Arkansas and settled at Centre Point, where he was married in November, 1857, and where they continued to reside. They became the parents of eight children, seven of whom are living, and all reside in this county. Mr. Forgy is engaged in tilling the soil, has a good farm of 280 acres, and is in every instance a public-spirited and enterprising citizen. Asa J. Forgy was reared on his father's farm, and was educated in the common school and Bells High School, of Bells, Tex., but at the age of twenty-one years he began farming on his own responsibility, but has since followed various occupations, being at one time deputy sheriff of the county for twenty-eight months. He is at present associated in the drug business, with R. S. Morgan, their establishment being called the City Drug Store, and is co-editor with him of the Howard County Press, and has been so since the year 1889. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since 1874; is a Democrat in his political views, and takes an active part in the political affairs of the county, as well as in all worthy public enterprises. He is a wide-awake and enterprising young man, and being intelligent, industrious and honest besides, he is sure to make a success of his life.

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This family biography is one of 116 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Howard County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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