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JeffersonOonnty, and a prominent citizen of Pine Mason for over thirty years-Royal Arch, m d also
Bluff, was born at Dayton, Montgomery Connty, belongs to the Knights Te~npIar. He isone of the
Ohio, October 25, 1832, and is a son of Joseph most substantial and enterprising citizens of Pine
and Eleanor (Ewing) Dodds, the former born near Bluff, and aman of great popularity and influence.
Philadelphia, Peon., and the mother a native of His wealth has aecnmnlated by his own individual
Kentucky. The elder Dodds was reared on a farm efforts. bnsiness tact and judicioue management,
and educated in the city of Philadelphia. After although he has severni times lost a fortulle in

his marriage he removed with his wife to Ohio, in mercantile life. While in business at Memphis
which State they passed the remainder of their his shipments were among the largest coming to
days, the father dying in Dayton and the mother that city, one shipment alone from Cincinnati to

in Shelbyville. Seven children were born to their Memphis amoui~tingto $75,000. He is a promi-

marriage, of whom three are yet living: Matthew nent figure in tbe affairs of Jefferson County, ,I
Y.,Joseph B., and Jennie (wifeof Dr. John 0. Slo- especially those tending to ita advancement and
cum). J. B. Dodds, the principal in this sketch, was progress, hut as a rule prefers the quiet of his corn-
reared and educated in his native State, attending fortable home and family to the excitement of

the public schools. He remained with his father, social pleasures.

looking after the managsme~o~ftthe farm, until the H. N. Dunn. Among the representative farm-

year 1855, when he moved to Paris, Ill., and ' ers of this county, none are more worthy of men-

embarked in meroantile life with his brother and I tion than Mr. Dunn, who was horn in Shelby

brother-in law, remaining in that city for seven c County, Tenn., in 1850. At the age of nine
years. At the close of the war he, in company years he came to Arkansas with his parents, W.
with his brother and a Mr. Wolf, went to Memphis. D. and Anna (Henry) Duun, settling on the place

Tenn., and established a wholesale grocery busi- on which their aon now lives, where .the mother

ness. which they carried on successfully until the still survives, the father having been killed in 1880,

latter part of 1867. Mr. Wolf then withdrew at the age of sixtydive years, by a runaway team
from the firm,and the brother moved to Pine Bluff, ! attached to a mowing machine. He served in the
*here he again started in business, J. B. joining ; commissary department dwiug the war. H. N.

him later. They carried on the busine~suntil Dunn, the subject of this sketch, is the eldest of

1877, when the latter retired from the firm and ' eight children, four of whom are now living, and
turned hie attention to planting, which calling he ' three in Memphis, Tenn. He has lived the greater
has followed ever nince. Mr. Dodds now owns ' part of his life in this State, though during the
260acree of very fertile land, with about 150 ~ C W S: war he was a resident of Tennessee, at theclose of

1under cultivation, and has rented for the past five ' whioh struggle he returned to Arkansas. Mr.

years over 1,200 acres, which he has placed in cot- Dunn has not yet joined the ranks of the bene-

ton every year. Added to this, he owns a bnsiness I diets, but devote8 his time to the cultivation of his

block in Pine Bluff, from which the rentals form a I 200-acre farm, which is planted to cotton, and

Iconsiderable income alone, and, together with his is one of the best places on the river. This ispro-

plantation interests, make him one of the solid tected by a levee erected by himself. He is a

men, financially, of Jefferson Connty. Mr. Dodds progressive farmer and much interested in enter-

was married in 1859 to Miss Fonnie Molton, an prises tending to the advancement of his adopted
1adopted daughter of 8. W. Molton, by whom he home.
has had five children: Charles N., George, Gamer. Frank LL F a g u s (deceased) w u a prominent

Samuel, and Mamie. Mr. and Mrs. Dodds are planter of Jefferson County, and a man whose i+

1members of the Presbyterian Church, and liberal I memory is cherished by the citizens of this emtion

in their aid to all religious and educational mat- as one of its influential, respected residents. He
ters. I n secret societies Mr. Dodds has been a I was born in Cun~berlandCounty, Ky., in the year

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