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Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery
The Oakland–Fraternal Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Barber Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It actually consists of six originally separate cemeteries, and lies adjacent to the Little Rock National Cemetery, of which it was once a part. Portions of the cemetery are dedicated to Confederate States of America, Confederate war dead, and its grounds include two separate Jewish cemeteries, and the Fraternal Cemetery. The Fraternal side, established by the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, was a burying ground for African Americans. The combined cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, continues in active use. Notable burials * Author Bernie Babcock (1868–1962) * Civil War Union officer Henry Clay Caldwell, Henry C. Caldwell (1832–1915) * Arkansas Governor James Paul Clarke, James P. Clarke (1854–1916) * Freeman W. Compton (1824-1893), lawyer and state supreme court judge * Author and temperance reformer Mary A. Cornelius (1829-1918) * Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Arkansas, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 as of the 2020 census. The six-county Central Arkansas, Little Rock metropolitan area is the Metropolitan statistical area, 81st-most populous in the United States with 748,031 residents according to the 2020 census. As the county seat of Pulaski County, Arkansas, Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center in Central Arkansas. The city derived its name from a rock formation along the river, named The Little Rock, the "Little Rock" by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post, Arkansas, Arkansas Post in 1821. Little Rock is a cultural, economic, government, and transportation center within A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Frolich
Jacob Frolich (November 15, 1837 – April 25, 1890) was a Bavarian-born, American politician who served as Arkansas Secretary of State from 1879 to 1885. He served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was the founder and publisher of the ''White County Record'', a Democratic Party–affiliated newspaper that took a strong stance against Radical Republicans and Reconstruction efforts in Arkansas after the Civil War. He was a leader in the White County, Arkansas, branch of the Ku Klux Klan and was indicted for the murder of an agent of the Arkansas Governor Powell Clayton who was investigating Klan activity in White County. He fled to Canada to avoid arrest but returned a year later to face trial and was acquitted of the crime. He served as assistant secretary of the Arkansas Senate in 1874 and chief secretary in 1878. He served as Adjutant general in the Arkansas militia from 1877 to 1879. He worked in the Grover Cleveland administrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures Completed In 1863
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Little Rock, Arkansas
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. There are 369 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Pulaski County, Arkansas, Pulaski County, including 5 National Historic Landmarks, and 23 properties that were once listed but have been removed. The city of Little Rock includes 279 of these properties and districts, of which four are National Historic Landmarks, and 21 of the delisted properties. They are listed here, while the remainder are National Register of Historic Places listings in Pulaski County, Arkansas, listed separately. Current listings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Zinn
James Edward Zinn (January 21, 1895 – February 26, 1991) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Athletics (1919), Pittsburgh Pirates (1920–22), and Cleveland Indians (1929). In five seasons he had a 13–16 win–loss record, 66 games pitched, 108 strikeouts, and a 4.30 ERA. After five seasons in the minor leagues, Zinn made his MLB debut on September 4, 1919 with the Philadelphia Athletics. He pitched for them in five games, then was sent to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the offseason. He spent parts of 1920 and 1922 in both the minors and with the Pirates, and spent all of 1921 on the major league roster. Zinn then spent six more years in the minor leagues before pitching in 18 games for the Cleveland Indians in 1929. Zinn was an above average hitting pitcher in the majors, posting a .283 batting average (34-for-120) with 17 runs, 2 home runs and 15 RBIs. He was used as a pinch hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Holt Roots
Logan Holt Roots (March 26, 1841 – May 30, 1893) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1868 to 1871. He was a member of the Republican Party. He is the namesake of Fort Logan H. Roots. Early life and education Roots was born in Perry County, Illinois. He completed preparatory studies and graduated in 1862 from Illinois State Normal University. He assisted in recruiting the 81st Illinois Infantry, in which he served until the close of the Civil War. Commissioned a first lieutenant, by the time of his discharge in 1865, he was breveted a lieutenant colonel. After the war, Roots settled in Arkansas to engage in planting and business. Political career Upon the readmission of Arkansas to the Union, Roots served as an internal revenue collector for the first district of Arkansas. Roots was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served from June 22, 1868, to March 3, 1871. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Seldon Roane
John Selden Roane (January 8, 1817April 7, 1867) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth Governor of Arkansas from 1849 to 1852. Prior to this he commanded the Arkansas Mounted Infantry Regiment following the death of Colonel Archibald Yell at the Battle of Buena Vista. Roane also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. Early life and career John Selden Roane was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, and educated at Cumberland College, which at the time was located in Princeton, Kentucky. He migrated to the new state of Arkansas in 1837, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He was Prosecuting Attorney for the 2nd Judicial District of Arkansas from 1840 to 1842, a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1842 to 1844, and the fourth Governor of Arkansas from 1849 to 1852. Mexican War At the outbreak of the Mexican War, Roane was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmon L
__NOTOC__ Harmon may refer to: Places Canada * Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, also known as Harmon, a former United States military installation * Harmon Links, a golf course in Stephenville, Newfoundland United States * Harmon, Illinois * Harmon township, Sumner County, Kansas * Harmon, Louisiana * Harmon, Oklahoma * Harmon, Wisconsin, a ghost town * Harmon Air Force Base, former United States Air Forces base in Guam * Harmon County, Oklahoma * Harmon Industrial Park, an area of Tamuning, Guam * Croton-Harmon (Metro-North station), in New York People * Harmon (name), people named Harmon Arts, entertainment, and media * '' HarmonQuest'', an animated series by Dan Harmon * '' Harmontown'', a weekly comedy show and podcast by Dan Harmon * Harmon, a brand of trumpet mute * Harmon, a fictional town in the film ''Accepted (film)'' * Beth Harmon, protagonist of novel, and Netflix miniseries adaptation '' The Queen's Gambit'' Aviation * Harmon Der Donnerschlag, an American homeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chester Reid
Charles Chester Reid (June 15, 1868 – May 20, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1901 to 1911. Early life and career Born in Clarksville, Arkansas, Reid attended the public schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1883–1885. He was graduated from the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1887. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Morrilton, Arkansas. He served as prosecuting attorney of Conway County from 1894 to 1898. In 1898 he voluntarily retired from office and resumed the practice of law. Congress Reid was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1911). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress. Later career and death He again engaged in the practice of his profession in Little Rock, Arkansas Little Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kennedy (Medal Of Honor)
John Kennedy (May 14, 1834 – September 28, 1910) was born a British subject in Ireland, and became an American citizen and a private in the Union Army. He received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Battle of Trevilian Station in the American Civil War. Biography He was born May 14, 1834, and at the Battle of Trevilian Station in Virginia on June 11, 1864, he and four other soldiers were assigned to a twelve-pound-capacity brass artillery piece under direct command of Lt. William Egan, as part of the battery commanded by Lt. Alexander Pennington, within Gen. George Armstrong Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade. A squadron of cavalry led by Confederate Capt. Daniel A. Grimsley attacked their position, and a retreat was ordered. Kennedy and Pvt. Charles O'Neil remained at the cannon to cover the retreat of the rest of their unit, at some point becoming cut off from retreating themselves. They exhausted firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medal Of Honor
The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces, military decoration and is awarded to recognize American United States Army, soldiers, United States Navy, sailors, United States Marine Corps, marines, United States Air Force, airmen, United States Space Force, guardians, and United States Coast Guard, coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. The medal is normally awarded by the president of the United States (the commander in chief of the armed forces) and is presented "in the name of the United States Congress." It is often referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor, though the official name of the award is simply "Medal of Honor." There are three distinct variants of the medal: one for the United States Department of the Army, Department of the Army, awarded to soldiers; one for branches of the United States Department of the Navy, Department of the Navy, awarded to sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh
William Marmaduke Kavanaugh (March 3, 1866February 21, 1915) was a Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. Biography William Marmaduke Kavanaugh was born near Eutaw, Alabama on March 3, 1866. Kavanaugh attended public schools in Kentucky and graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute at Farmdale, Kentucky in 1885. Kavanaugh moved to Little Rock, Arkansas where he worked as a newspaper reporter and later as editor and manager of the ''Arkansas Gazette''. Kavanaugh then entered politics and was elected sheriff and tax collector of Pulaski County, Arkansas where he served from 1896 to 1900. He then served as a county and probate judge from 1900 to 1904. He then turned his attention to business and began a varied career in banking, street railway, and gas supply. From 1912 to 1915 he served as a member of the Democratic National Committee. Kavanaugh was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jeff Davis. He ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
