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William H. Scarboro. It is an undeniable truth that the life of any man is of great benefit to the community in which he resides, when all his efforts are directed toward advancing its interests, and who lives according to the highest principles of what he conceives to be right, helping others, and caring for those who are unable to do for themselves. Mr. Scarboro is one of these men. He was born in Tennessee in 1856, being the third of eight children of Calvin R. and Mary J. (Hodges) Scarboro, who were also Tennesseeans, where the father carried on the business of a saddler and farmer. He is still residing in that State, his home being at Mifflin. William H. Scarboro received the advantages of the common schools in his youth, and was an intelligent and studious pupil. Although he was reared a farmer’s boy, he has never given that occupation his attention until within the last year, since which time he has entered upon that calling with a perseverance that cannot fail of favorable results. At the age of twenty-one he secured the United States mail contracts in Henderson County, of which he was deputy sheriff and constable for five years, and was married there September 30, 1879, to Miss Ada A. Clay, a native of that State. In 1882, under the impression that he could better his fortunes, he came to Arkansas, settling at Blythesville, where he engaged as a clerk for Richardson & Triplett, with whom he remained until 1884, when he embarked in business on his own responsibility, and successfully conducted a general mercantile establishment for two years. The two following years were spent at carpentering, in the “Lone Star State,” but in the winter of 1888 he returned to Mississippi County, Ark., where he purchased a farm embracing 280 acres of land, and since that time has attended to his adopted profession with care and perseverance, and is now in possession of a competence which has more than realized his most sanguine expectations. He is one of the representative young men of the county, and will, without doubt, be among the foremost men of his times. He and wife became the parents of four children: Nellie Lorance, Ellie Lee (deceased), Willie Harris and Mary Ethel.