Entries - Entry Category: Boone Leaders

Brice Benjamin (B. B.) Hudgins served three terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives, acting as Speaker of the House during his last term. He was elected the circuit court judge for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit three times, was a prominent attorney in Harrison (Boone County) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, served as the chairman of the Arkansas Railroad Commission, and was a delegate-at-large for the 1912 Democratic National Convention. B. B. Hudgins was born on August 15, 1854, in Taney County, Missouri, to Dr. John W. Hudgins and Malinda Byrne Hudgins. In 1848, he moved with his family to what is now Boone County (at that time Carroll County) and lived on land south of Harrison. …

Elbridge Gerry Mitchell Jr. served two terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives, was twice elected as the circuit court judge for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, was a prominent criminal attorney in Harrison (Boone County) during the early twentieth century, and served as a Democratic Party delegate for the Third Congressional District to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1917–1918. E. G. Mitchell was born on December 23, 1863, in Bellefonte (Boone County). He was raised by his mother, Nancy J. Ewing Mitchell. His father, Elbridge Gerry Mitchell Sr., was an attorney in Marshall (Searcy County) before becoming a Carroll County candidate to the Secession Convention in 1861, although he was not elected as a delegate. He served as a Confederate captain …

William Fletcher (W. F.) Pace was an officer in the Civil War, Boone County Clerk, and a prominent attorney in Harrison (Boone County) during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. W. F. Pace was born on July 1, 1840, in Temple, Texas, to William Pace and Hester Armitage Pace. After his father died, Pace moved to Missouri with his mother when he was around age two. He grew up in Dent County, Missouri. Pace was a Confederate in the Civil War. He began service in Dent County, Missouri, as a first lieutenant in Henry Pace’s Company, Fourth Cavalry Regiment, Seventh Division, Missouri State Guard. Henry Pace was Pace’s older brother. On June 14, 1861, Pace enlisted in Company A, First …