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April 23, 1873

Clarke’s Academy in Berryville (Carroll County) was destroyed by fire. In 1867, Isaac A. Clarke, innovative educator and professor, began the academy, which flourished for more than five years before being destroyed. On the following Monday after the fire, Clarke opened the academy in a building in town and operated there until the new schoolhouse, the one now standing, was available. For thirty-eight years, until 1905, Clarke sustained Clarke’s Academy, educating men and women from throughout the United States.

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Logan Roots

After the Civil War, Union veteran Logan Holt Roots settled in Arkansas, engaging in planting and trading from a plantation he acquired near DeValls Bluff (Prairie County). He was actively involved in politics as a Republican and campaigned for the state constitution of 1868. In 1868, he was elected to the U.S. Congress for the First Congressional District. After leaving Congress in 1871, he served as president of the First National Bank of Little Rock (Pulaski County) until his death in 1893.

 

After the Civil War, Union veteran Logan Holt Roots settled in Arkansas, engaging in planting and trading from a plantation he acquired near DeValls Bluff (Prairie County). He was actively involved in politics as a Republican and campaigned for the state constitution of 1868. In 1868, he was elected to the U.S. Congress for the First Congressional District. After leaving Congress in 1871, he served as president of the First National Bank of Little Rock (Pulaski County) until his death in 1893.

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