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E. E. Hudspeth is the present efficient postmaster of Nashville, Ark. He was born in Harris County, Ga., in 1860, being the only child living of F. P. Hudspeth and Elizabeth J. Blackman, also Georgians, the former a successful merchant of West Point, for a number of years. He removed to Arkansas in 1880, settling at Hope, and from there came to Howard County in 1886, his present home being near the town of Nashville. E. E. Hudspeth spent his youth at West Point, Ga., and there he obtained a good common and high school education and was also an attendant at the West Point Male Institute. At the age of eighteen years he left home and went to Western Texas, and after being engaged in the milling business there for two years, he came to Arkansas, and in 1882 settled in Hempstead County, where he was married in 1886 to Miss Nettie A. Robins, a daughter of W. H. Robins, one of the early pioneers of Hempstead County. Mr. Hudspeth followed the occupation of teaching for two years before his marriage, then moved to Nashville and engaged with Black & Bro., remaining one year, after which he started a mercantile establishment of his own. At the at end of one year he closed out his stock and accepted a position as manager for the Ozan Store Company, but after remaining with this establishment for one year, he, on September 4, 1889, received the appointment of postmaster of Nashville, which office does a distributing business for two counties and a part of four more. Since his arrival in Hempstead County, he has taken an active interest in the welfare of the Republican party, and at an early day became a leading spirit in the Wheel movement, being among its organizers in this as well as Sevier County. In 1889 he was one of three committeemen in charge of the Republican canvass of the Third Congressional District, and had charge of the work in Howard and Sevier Counties. He is an active citizen, and takes an active interest in public improvement. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and he and wife have two children: Dora and Eula.